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Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Art deco and moderne originated in Europe and were marked by stylized ornamental detailing. We will visit homes that stand as works of art, featuring mosaics, detailed metalworks magnificent stained glass. Only a few homes in Canada including Ottawa's French embassy were built during the styles' short life before World War II.
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Learn to re-create a gorgeous postcard from the Art Deco era, with Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign.
Our Type Project series takes you through typographic history, providing step-by-step directions to re-create historical type designs from scratch. Here designer Nigel French shows how to create a gorgeous postcard from the Art Deco era: one of the most influential and enduring design styles of the twentieth century. The technique combines a hand-traced...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A delightful look at Art Deco architecture--Miami Beach style! Colorful photographs and catchy rhymes take children--and adults--through a tropical paradise of bold and beautiful historic buildings. Along the way, readers learn architectural terms for features that define the Art Deco style."--Amazon.com.
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Discover the history of design with this gorgeous visual celebration of key pieces, movements, and designers, from the Arts and Craft movement to the digital age. Arranged chronologically, Design traces the evolution of design from its roots to the present, from early chairs, pottery, and homewares to cars, graphic design and product design. It introduces all the key designers, manufacturers, and objects, illustrating how and why different styles...
Author
Series
Publisher
Enslow Pub
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"Step-by-step instructions illustrated with full-color photos show readers how to make fun origami pieces, such as blinking eyes, kissing lips, and a nodding dog, to impress their friends and family. By including a brief history of origami, a gallery of masterpieces, a glossary, and Further Reading, the book also informs as well as entertains"--Provided by the publisher.
Author
Publisher
Abrams
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"This visual survey of graphic design styles through the ages is an essential resource for designers, art and design students, and art lovers. With more than 700 illustrations, it is the only wide-ranging history of graphic design to be completely visual, and many readers treasure it for its amazing trove of images. This new edition has been brought up to date with a new section that encompasses trends from the last decade."--
Author
Series
Publisher
Prestel
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The story of modern art begins with a revolution--when the realists started rejecting romanticism in favor of depicting life as it really was. Since that movement began in the mid-19th century, painters have been rebelling, rethinking, deconstructing, and challenging notions of what art is. Filled with stunning reproductions of some of the world's greatest masterpieces, this reference book offers a chronological journey through artistic revolutions....
Series
Publisher
Lonely Planet Global Limited
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Showcasing 50 of the Americas' greatest road trips across North and South America as well as the Caribbean, you'll discover classic drives including the Pacific Coast Highway, Gaspesie Loop in Canada and the Hana Highway in Hawaii, plus lesser-known routes. We cover a huge variety of themes and experiences across drives that range from a few hours to a week or more.
Author
Publisher
Turtle Point Press
Pub. Date
[2017].
Language
English
Description
Havana without Makeup is the ultimate insider�s view of Havana, a wide-ranging exploration of its complex facets as seen by few. Its aim is to capture the soul of a city and a society that have evolved on their own terms at the moment before they face inevitable transformations.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Iggy is delighted when Ada Twist's Aunt Bernice inherits a mansion featuring his favorite architectural periods, but unless the Questioneers can find its missing antiques, the house may be lost forever. Includes information about Art Deco and Art Nouveau, facts about unusual cats, a recipe for ice cream, and a biographical note on Ida B. Wells.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The Helena is an art deco apartment building that has witnessed the changing face of South Miami Beach for seventy years, observing the lives housed within. Among those who have called apartment 2B home across the decades are a Cuban concert pianist who performs in a nursing home; the widow of an intelligence officer raising her young daughter alone; a man waiting on a green card marriage to run its course so that he can divorce his wife and marry...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Helmreich provides a fascinating, detailed overview of the borough, highlighting major attractions like Yankee Stadium and the Bronx Museum of the Arts as well as architectural places of interest, like the Art Deco building at 888 Grand Concourse and the Concourse Plaza Hotel, once a luxury hotel in the Bronx that is now a senior citizens' residence. The Bronx Nobody Knows, like the previous guidebooks, is organized by neighborhood, and Helmreich...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Architects are drawing people back to city centres by creating high-density residential space on previously industrial land. 1. Architect James Cheng's Denia combines apartment living with town-homes, retail and green space to create a community for its residents in downtown Vancouver. 2. Architect Peter Clewes's Tip Top Lofts stayed true to its art deco heritage. The old downtown Toronto factory was reinvented as high-density residential lofts. 3....
Publisher
Videofashion
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In this issue of Videofashion Collections, Rio Uribe presents his androgynous Fall 2016 collection for Gypsy Sport, inspired by different skin tones. Qiaoran Huang and Joshua Hupper deconstruct and piece back together some of their previous designs for Baby Ghost’s Fall collection, inspired by the Asian technique of gluing back together broken porcelain objects. Mara Hoffman utilized 70’s prints and sensual silhouettes for her exotic and eclectic...
Publisher
Videofashion
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In this issue of Videofashion Collections, Prabal Gurung imagines a woman exploring a forest and discovering herself in solitude for his autumn/winter 2016 collection, playing with textures and prints inspired by tree trunks, bark, and feathers. Naeem Khan draws inspiration from the architecture of New York City, in particular architecture of the Art Deco style. Plus, Christian Siriano takes inspiration from knit artist Sheila Hicks for his Fall collection,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In this issue of Videofashion Collections, inspired by Luchino Visconti's brooding films and the Art Deco period, Aquilano.Rimondi interplays tough masculine fabrics and silhouettes with delicately feminine details. Alessandro Dell'Acqua dresses up the tomboy in his quirky collection for No. 21. At MSGM, Gerhard Richter's color-infused paintings and the eccentric musician Bjork spark inspiration in designer Massimo Giorgetti, as he brings the youth...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In this issue of Videofashion Collections, we feature marvelous runway moments from Milan Fashion Week! Donatella Versace sends a mesmerizing mix down the runway of bandage strapped dresses adorned with silver body chains, rock band t-shirts and slinky metallic mesh draped eveningwear for her glamorous woman. At Gucci, Frida Giannini gives sportswear the luxe effect for Spring 2014, shown in sexy mesh fabrications and diaphanous techno fabrics in...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
This film was produced on the occasion of an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. It provides a useful overview to the work of Roy Lichtenstein, a seminal Pop artist, and gets behind the sometimes-impenetrably-slick surfaces of Lichtenstein's canvases and prints, to show how such works have their genesis. Lichtenstein starts out by drawing freehand, and the film shows many examples of sketches which he later refines into finished paintings....
19) The Conformist
Publisher
Kino Lorber Edu
Pub. Date
1970.
Language
English
Description
In Mussolini's Italy, repressed Jean-Louis Trintignant, trying to purge memories of a youthful, homosexual episode--and murder--joins the Fascists in a desperate attempt to fit in. As the reluctant Judas motors to his personal Gethsemane (the assassination of his leftist mentor), he flashes back to a dance party for the blind; an insane asylum in a stadium; and wife Stefania Sandrelli and lover Dominique Sanda dancing the tango in a working class...
Series
Publisher
Lonely Planet Global Limited
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Lonely Planet Miami & the Keys is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Explore the art-deco streets of South Beach, spot alligators amongst the Everglades' mangroves, or party all night in Key West; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Miami & the Keys and begin your journey now!
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