Breathtaking interiors and décor from Amsterdam to Xi An The first volume of Angelika Taschen\'s new series on contemporary interiors features the world\'s most amazing, exquisite, and interesting apartments and houses – from Antwerp to Zurich, via Chiang Mai, Copenhagen, Mumbai, Moscow, Tokyo, and Shanghai. With an inspirational richness and diversity of styles, here are homes, residences, hideaways, and studios to astound and astonish, no matter what your taste. Whatever your preference – flea market romance or space age bachelor pad, minimalism or neo-baroque – you\'ll find hundreds of fresh and provocative ideas. Highlights include French Vogue creative director and tastemaker Fabien Baron\'s minimal Swedish countryhouse by John Pawson; a penthouse miniature of Mies van der Rohe\'s Nationalgalerie atop a war bunker in Berlin, owned by art collector Christian Boros; the Chiang Mai retreat of Thai artist Rirkrit Tiravanija; Roberto Cavalli\'s Milanese apartment, a perfect reflection of his flamboyant personality; and a fantasy home created by a Dutch stylist and photographer in ...

   Moderna a architektúra... Thanks to Julius Shulman\'s abandoned files, an unknown side of American mid-century architecture is now coming to light. The buildings burned in our memories, which to us represent the spirit of fifties and sixties architectural design, were those whose pictures were widely published in magazines and books; but what about those that got lost in the process, hardly or never appearing in publication? The exchange of visual information is crucial to the development, evolution, and promotion of architectural movements. If a building is not widely seen, its photograph rarely or never published, it simply does not enter into architectural discourse. Many buildings photographed by Julius Shulman suffered this fate, their images falling into oblivion. With this book, TASCHEN brings them to light, paying homage to California Modernism in all its forms. The abandoned files of Julius Shulman show us another side of Modernism that has stayed quiet for so many years. Bringing together nearly 300 forgotten masterpieces, Modernism Rediscovered pays tribute to these lesser known yet outstanding contributions to the modern architectural movement. It\'s like sneaking into a private history, into homes that have rarely been seen and hardly appreciated as of ...

Príbeh slovenskej architektúry 20. storočia spracovaný v tejto dvojjazyčnej publikácii vypovedá veľa aj o dejinách krajiny ako takej. Ich výsledkom je, že vedľa seba, popri sebe, niekedy aj proti sebe, stoja rozličné koncepcie architektúry, ale aj rozličné predstavy o spoločnosti a jej smerovaní. Na Slovensku je to tradičné, aj nezvyčajné. Po mnohých peripetiách, ktorými musela prejsť slovenská spoločnosť v uplynulom storočí, je však dnes konečne nádej na dosiahnutie normálneho, rovnovážneho stavu. Z obsahu: Zdravica - Rudolf Schuster Slovenské 20. storočie - Dušan Kováč Architektúra Slovenska? - Alena Kubová Viedeň - Bratislava a späť; Kontakty s Viedňou a širším okolím v oblasti architektúry - Adolph Stiller Impulzy a reflexie; Architektúra 20. storočia na Slovensku 1900 - 1918 - Dana Bořutová Modernizácia - hlavný trend; Slovenská architektúra v dvadsiatych a tridsiatych rokoch 20. storočia - Henrieta Moravčíková Ľahká mimobežnosť moderny a tradície; Zvláštne (či) obyčajné polstoročie architektúry na Slovensku: 1939 - 1989 - Matúš Dulla Návraty k architektúre; Súčasná architektúra Slovenska od roku 1989 do 2003 - Marian ...