"Wallpaper City Guides" not only suggest where to stay, eat, and drink, but what the tourist passionate about design might want to see, whether he/she has a week or 24 hours in the city. Featured are up and coming areas, landmark buildings in an 'Architour', design centres, and the best shops to buy items unique to that city. "Wallpaper City Guides" present travellers with a fast-track ticket to the chosen location. The edited guides offer the ...

The City Guides are being published as "Wallpaper" magazine celebrates its tenth anniversary. For the past decade, "Wallpaper*" has been the first to uncover and enticingly present the best in new design and urban travel spots across the globe. Includes color-coded city maps, rate and currency cards, and an easy navigational tool.
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- A week-to-view hardback diary featuring images by Elliott Erwitt (b. 1928)
- More than 50 images taken from the best of Erwitt's work are combined here with elegant typography and a practical layout in this exclusive hardback diary
- Contains details of major public holidays and space for listing appointments and rendezvous, or notes and musings
- Atmospheric witty, whimsical, and funny, Erwitt's images will consistently delight and ...

Examines the life and work of possibly the celebrated religious painter of the Italian Early Renaissance, Fra Giovanni da Fiesole, known as Fra Angelico. From the delicate altarpieces to the serene frescos in the monastery of San Marco in Florence, this book discusses the context of the time and places in which his works were created. ...

Presents a survey of 100 iconic, significant and beautiful gardens in England, from the sixteenth century onwards. This book includes a range of gardens by designers, makers, patrons, artists, architects and literary figures. It is suitable for both the general reader and practicing gardeners. ...

In this seventh volume of his collected essays, Professor Gombrich pays tribute to a variety of illustrious figures to whom we owe the ideas and values which are woven into the fabric of our intellectual life. His bicentennial address on the humanities delivered at the American Academy of Arts and Science is followed by studies of G E Lessing, G F Hegel, Lord Leverhulme, Sigmund Freud, Aby Warburg and Otto Kurz, amongst others. The author ...

This glass-walled pavilion is an architectural and technological tour de force. The east facade is entirely glazed and cooled by a continuous cascade of water; the west forms the bulk, providing heat and stability. ...

The Collection of Old Master drawings at Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, home of the Dukes of Devonshire, ranks with the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle as the finest privately owned group of such drawings in Britain and as one of the great princely collections of Europe. It contains outstanding sheets by the great masters from every artistic school. The four volumes devoted to the Italian drawings have detailed entries for nearly 1,000 works ...

Stirling's strong personal style first emerged in this extraordinary building. Its slender tower rises above the projecting forms of its auditoria. Juxtaposed with the industrial toughness of the engineering workshops, it creates a powerful, contradictory geometry. ...

First published in 1953, this book remains a classic of the literature on Michelangelo. It continues to be the only volume that contains illustrations of all his paintings, sculpture and architecture. The book is designed to serve both the student and the art lover: the fine quality reproductions emphatically illustrate Michelangelo's genius, while the text surveys the opinions of the leading Michelangelo scholars and provides a commentary with ...