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Cabin Style: Ideas and Projects for Your World

Cabin Style: Ideas and Projects for Your World In an increasingly busy, industrial world, the themes and images of the natural landscape have never been more important to our spiritual and emotional well-being. For people with the means and opportunity, getting away from it all now means retreating to a rustic, out-of-the-way cabin to recharge [...]

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Italian Lace Designs: 243 Classic Examples (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)

Italian Lace Designs: 243 Classic Examples (Dover Pictorial Archive Series) Over 240 sharply detailed photographs from rare and lavish volume depict exquisite lace designs from 16th through 18th centuries. Stunning array of needle-made and bobbin laces—reticello, lacis, Venetian point, much more—all identified as to type and date. Copyright-free inspiration for contemporary artists and designers; invaluable [...]

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500 Years of Italian Furniture: Magnificence and Design

500 Years of Italian Furniture: Magnificence and Design This exhibition catalogue shows the evolution of taste in the Italian and European courts from late mannerism through to the first decades of last century. Writing desks, tables, beds, chairs, thrones, mirrors, vases, and objects made of or decorated with precious materials, such as gold, silver, semiprecious [...]

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Spanish Houses: Rustic Mediterranean Style Reviews

Spanish Houses: Rustic Mediterranean Style Vivid colors, rustic simplicity, and the textural contrasts of wood, terra-cotta, and stucco are the hallmarks of the casual elegance of classic Spanish houses. The Spanish approach to residential style is a mixture of luxury and rusticity-wooden beams complement whitewashed ceilings, and worn leather furniture is set off against Moorish [...]

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Italia: The Art of Living Italian Style

Italia: The Art of Living Italian Style For over two thousand years, Italy has been a major source of cultural and artistic inspiration to the rest of the world. This book focuses on the most characteristic examples of the Italian genius, from lavish piazzas and magnificent fountains to Palladian villas and flamboyant Baroque churches. Within [...]

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Savoring Tuscany: Recipes and Reflections on Tuscan Cooking (The Savoring Series)

Savoring Tuscany: Recipes and Reflections on Tuscan Cooking (The Savoring Series) For centuries, Tuscany has lured travelers drawn to its artistic richness, its romantic hill towns reached by cypress-lined roads, its stunning coastline, and its unforgettable cuisine. SavoringTuscanytakes readers on a journey in search of the authentic Tuscan table. Along the way, you’ll experience Tuscan [...]

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Italian Design (MoMA Design)

Italian Design (MoMA Design) ISBN13: 9780870707384 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Engaging Italian industry and culture in a single-minded and spontaneous project of national image building, Italy’s designers have produced a complete variety of forms–fashion, graphic arts and product and set design–with a unique international resonance. This volume explores Italian [...]

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Fresco: Modern Tuscan Cooking for All Seasons

Fresco: Modern Tuscan Cooking for All Seasons This collection of 120 delectable recipes from Fresco by Scotto, a popular Tuscan-style restaurant in New York, features healthy, uncomplicated dishes using the freshest produce of each season. Forty full-color photos depict the dishes and the ingredients used to make them. Rating: (out of 2 reviews) List Price: [...]

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