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Living in Provence. 40th Ed. by Barbara & René Stoeltie, TASCHEN
Category: Home Interiors | Series: 40th Edition Ser.
Nestled in the south of France, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, is a land renowned for its lavender fields, fine cuisine, golden sun, and dreamy landscapes.The region of Provence has inspired such masters as Alphonse Daudet and Vincent van Gogh. So enthralled was Paul Cézanne by the Mont Sainte-Victoir ...Show more
Living in Tuscany by Angelika Taschen (Editor); Barbara Stoeltie; Rene Stoeltie
Category: Craft
Tuscan Treasures Gorgeous homes in the Italian countryside Under the burning Tuscan sun roll marvelous hills, vineyards, and olive groves--all postcard-perfect landscapes nestling centuries-old towns, rural villas, and contadino farmhouses. We've tracked down the best examples of such havens to paint a ...Show more
Living in Tuscany by Angelika Taschen; Barbara Stoeltie
Category: Design | Series: Bibliotheca Universalis Ser.
Tuscan TreasuresGorgeous homes in the Italian countrysideUnder the burning Tuscan sun roll marvelous hills, vineyards, and olive groves--all postcard-perfect landscapes nestling centuries-old towns, rural villas, and contadino farmhouses. We've tracked down the best examples of such havens to paint a w ...Show more
Living in the Countryside by Barbara & René Stoeltie; Angelika Taschen (Editor)
Category: Design
Fresh air: Europe's most inspiring country housesSoft meadows, birdsong, the starry depths of a clear night sky: in this book, TASCHEN celebrates the pleasures of country living with a European collection of rustic retreats. Through Sweden, Ireland, England, Holland, France, Greece, Tuscany, Majorca, an ...Show more
M.C. Escher. The Graphic Work by TASCHEN
Category: Art
Twisted mind: The graphic pattern genius of M. C. Escher. From impossible staircases to tesselated birds, Dutch artist M. C. Escher (1898 1972) crafted a unique graphic language of patterns, puzzles, and mathematics. Dense, complex, and structured by intricate principles, his work is at the same time ...Show more
Magritte by Taschen
Category: Art
This is not a book: Everyday enigma from Belgium's leading Surrealist From men in bowler hats, floating in the sky, to a painting of a pipe above the caption "this is not a pipe,"Rene Magritte (1898 1967)created an echo-chamber of object and image, name and thing, reality and representation.Like other S ...Show more
Massimo Listri - The Worlds Most Beautiful Libraries XXL by Elisabeth Sladek; Georg Ruppelt; Benedikt Taschen (Editor)
Category: Design
Temples of Knowledge Exceptional access to the world's finest libraries From the mighty halls of ancient Alexandria to a camel bookmobile on the Kenyan-Somali border, human beings have had a long, enraptured relationship with libraries. Like no other concept and like no other space, the collection of kn ...Show more
Midcentury Memories - The Anonymous Project by TASCHEN
Category: Photography
50 years ago, people used 35 mm cameras like we use smartphones in the age of Instagram. They photographed what they ate, their holidays, and family reunions. Imagining what prompted a stranger to press the shutter decades ago is the purpose behind Lee Shulman's Anonymous Project, which curates 300 anon ...Show more
Modern Architecture A-Z by Taschen
Category: Architecture | Series: Bibliotheca Universalis Ser.
Space shapers: An encyclopedia of modern architecture The architecture encyclopedia that puts the architects themselves in the spotlight. With more than 270 entries, this indispensable overview, now in our popular Klotz format, covers key players from the 19th to 21st century. Each architect entry featu ...Show more
Modern Architecture A–Z by Taschen
Category: Design
With more than 270 entries, this architectural A-Z offers an indispensable overview of the key players in the creation of modern space. From the period spanning the 19th to the 21st century, pioneering architects are featured with a portrait, concise biography, as well as a description of her or his imp ...Show more
Modern Art. A History from Impressionism to Today by TASCHEN
Category: Art
Most art historians agree that the modern art adventure first developed in the 1860s in Paris. A circle of painters, whom we now know as Impressionists, began painting pictures with rapid, loose brushwork. They turned to everyday street life for subjects, instead of overblown heroic scenes, and they esc ...Show more
Movies of the 2000s by TASCHEN
Category: Performing Arts
2000s: A cinematic odysseyThe films that defined the noughtiesOur Movies series enters the 21st century with this definitive line-up of 99 of the most important films made during the 2000s, an age of evergreen franchises, historical epics, and comic-book superheroes, as well as fast-evolving CGI aesthet ...Show more