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Gaetano Pesce: The Complete Incoherence Glenn Adamson

Tue, 20 May 2025 10:11:28 GMT

Gaetano Pesce: The Complete Incoherence Glenn Adamson
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Gaetano Pesce: The Complete Incoherence

Glenn Adamson

The definitive volume on Gaetano Pesce’s incomparable life and career, as told in the artist-designer’s own words

In a category all his own, Gaetano Pesce is widely considered one of the most important, and elusive, creative figures of the last half century. Bridging numerous key art and design movements, while never belonging to any of them, Pesce’s singular practice has remained steadfastly provocative, defying convention, utility, and good taste.

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Midcentury Houses Today

Fri, 15 Nov 2024 09:09:02 GMT

Midcentury Houses Today
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This expanded and updated edition of the 2014 classic focuses on the concentration of midcentury houses in New Canaan, Connecticut, built by noted architects including Marcel Breuer, Eliot Noyes, Philip Johnson, John Black Lee, and Edward Durell Stone. This new edition addresses the issue of preservation and adaptive reuse as a sustainable architectural strategy.

A representative group of 17 houses reveals an evolving legacy, now adapting to contemporary life. Each is examined in detail, with plans, timelines, and both archival and new photography, capturing the clean, minimalist look of the initial construction and re-imagining by significant architects of our time. Today preservation and renovation of older buildings has new visibility as a sustainable approach. As the National Trust for Historic Preservation has said, “The greenest building is the one that is already built.

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The Glass House Coloring Book

Fri, 19 Nov 2021 15:23:53 GMT

The Glass House Coloring Book
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Experience The Glass House—Philip Johnson’s modernist home in New Canaan, Connecticut—in a fun new way with The Glass House Coloring Book. This adult-oriented yet kid-friendly coloring book contains 96 pages of perforated line drawings, photographs, and historical information on The Glass House. Cover art by Vik Muniz. Foreword by Paul Goldberger.

Three dozen black-and-white illustrations capture the architectural highlights of Johnson’s visionary mid-century glass-and-steel pavilion, which ushered the International Style into residential American architecture. Each illustration is accompanied by the photograph that inspired it, along with caption information detailing its historical and aesthetic significance. Landscape and design elements include furniture by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the chain link Ghost House, and the skylit Sculpture Gallery. Fascinating to read and relaxing to color, the book makes a wonderful keepsake and gift idea for architecture enthusiasts and colorists of all ages.

96 Pages / 8.5” X 11”

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Philip Johnson: A Visual Biography

Tue, 1 Dec 2020 07:25:19 GMT

Philip Johnson: A Visual Biography
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A spectacular visual biography of one of the most celebrated architects and cultural icons of the twentieth century

With his elegant suits and trademark round black glasses, Philip Johnson - a witty, wealthy, and well-connected architect - was for many years the most powerful figure in the society and politics of his profession. This impressively illustrated book traces his seven decades of larger-than-life influence, innovation, and controversy in the realm of architecture and beyond. Hundreds of images and documents, many published here for the first time, trace the remarkable life and career of a true legend.

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The Iconic House

Thu, 8 Jun 2017 11:08:00 GMT

The Iconic House
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Dominic Bradbury and Richard Powers

An essential book on modern architecture: one hundred of the most significant houses of the past hundred years.
From the first stirrings of modernity in the early twentieth century to the present, the house has served as a test bed of design experimentation, the place where architects have sought to create new forms and to offer new domestic lifestyles. Alvar Aalto, Buckminster Fuller, Rudolph Schindler, Frank Lloyd Wright, Frank Gehry, Eileen Gray, Charles and Ray Eames, Charles Gwathmey, Carlo Scarpa, Herzog & de Meuron: most great architects of the past hundred years have begun or catalyzed their careers with an iconic house.

Dominic Bradbury is a design writer.

Richard Powers is an architectural and interiors photographer.

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Mid-Century Modern Icons of Design

Tue, 18 Oct 2016 11:46:00 GMT

Mid-Century Modern Icons of Design
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Four concertina books, collected in a stylish slipcase, unfold accordion-style to feature quirky graphic representations of iconic mid-centry furniture and products, accompanied on the flip side by concise, insightful text exploring the designer’s influences and the product’s place in design history. Illustrations of iconic mid century designs, from Eames chairs to Poul Henningsen lamps and George Nelson clocks, Each volume focuses on a different area. Together they comprise the perfect guide to mid-century design.

4.8 in x 6.7 in x 1.9 in

Text By: Frances Ambler

Frances Ambler is a London-based writer and editor.

Illustrated By: Here Design

Here Design is a multi-disciplinary design studio based in London.

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An Architect in the Garden

Tue, 8 Mar 2016 09:49:00 GMT

An Architect in the Garden
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Written by Maureen Cassidy-Geiger, foreword by Charles A. Birnbaum, photographed by Peter Aaron.

The first authoritative book on the history of the Glass House property - Philip Johnson's fifty year project of iconic modernist design, encompassing the buildings of the Glass House core, landscape and follies.

Published April 2016

Hardcover

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Fujiko Nakaya: Fog

Thu, 4 Sep 2014 06:57:00 GMT

Fujiko Nakaya: Fog
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Sculpting fog is a decidedly unusual art. Fujiko Nakaya is its pioneer. This first comprehensive monograph presents more than fifty of her Fog Works created for public spaces all over the world, as well as her video works and paintings. The artist's texts and drawings, archive items, videos and previously unpublished essays by French and Japanese authors, document this exceptional art approach, which reinvents the meeting between art, science and technology. A DVD-ROM and a DVD Video include some rare videos by the artist, as well as a substantial filmed documentation about her Fog Sculptures, from the famous Pepsi Pavilion in 1970 to the most recent ones in 2011.

*This item requires an additional shipping time of 2 months.

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Over the Water: Fujiko Nakaya

Wed, 3 Sep 2014 13:08:00 GMT

Over the Water: Fujiko Nakaya
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Tokyo-based artist Fujiko Nakaya's Fog Bridge #72494 inaugurates the Exploratorium's new Over the Water program at Pier 15 on San Francisco's downtown waterfront. In this catalogue essays by Exploratorium curator Marina McDougall; art wrtier Leigh Markopoulos; and architecture/design curator Henry Urbach, further illuminate the fascianting word of the world's first artist to create sculpture using the ephemeral medium of fog.

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Pass the Peas and Can Studys

Thu, 21 Aug 2014 11:41:00 GMT

Pass the Peas and Can Studys
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AUTHOR: AL TAYLOR AND KLAUS KERTESS, 2014

This publication focuses on two bodies of work by Al Taylor,Pass the Peas and Can Studys. Although distinctly individual, both of theseseries examine Taylor's ongoing explorations of the circle. Instigated bycuriosity, the artist studies the inside and outside of circular shapes andinvestigates their multi-dimensional possibilities. Taylor playfully exploresthese permutations in his Pass the Peas series from 1991-92. In addition tocompleting an array of drawings, he used tubular materials such as hula-hoops,garden hose, and plastic-coated cable to create three-dimensional spirals andcoils, interlocking loops, and dissected circles that were mounted on the wall,left freestanding, or hung by wires from the ceiling to activate changingperspectives. The artist's investigations into the infinite possibilities of acircle were further pursued during 1993 in his Can Studys series, when heexpanded his "research" by exploring the play of light that wouldtheoretically be reflected off of the exterior--or projected out of theinterior of cylindrical forms.

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