Published by Brand: Vendome Pr, 1994
ISBN 10: 0865659524 ISBN 13: 9780865659520
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Gleaming color photos and explanatory essays and captions document Prague's architectural crowning glory, the Prague Castle, or Hradcany, and its art treasures. Enclosed within the Castle's mighty walls are a large number of exceptional buildings, including the Royal Palace, St George's Basilica (dating from 1142), St. Vitus's Cathedral (begun in 1344 and completed in 1929), and the National Gallery which houses paintings and sculpture collected by the Czech rulers and nobility. Translated into English from the original 1992 publication (Motovun [Switzerland] Co-Publishing Co. Ltd.). Distributed by Rizzoli. 10.5x13" Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Published by Brand: Vendome Press, 1995
ISBN 10: 0865659613 ISBN 13: 9780865659612
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Increasingly used for working, listening to music, watching TV, and consuming intimate meals, the bedroom has become as much a design challenge as larger, more public rooms. Highton has selected the most interesting and varied bedroom designs from North American and international editions of House & Garden to show just how wonderful this room can be. 280 color illustrations.
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Published by Brand: Vendome Press, 2004
ISBN 10: 0865652376 ISBN 13: 9780865652378
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Book Club edition. A in-depth portrait of the Byzantine Empress Theodora profiles one of the most important female figures in Western history, who was born the daughter of a bear-keeper and rose to become the wife and partner of the Emperor Justinian, leading a fascinating life depicted here in meticulously researched detail.
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Published by Brand: Vendome Press, 1981
ISBN 10: 0865650152 ISBN 13: 9780865650152
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Photographs reveal the lifestyles and activities of Europe's monarchs and aristocracy in the era preceding World War I.
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Published by Brand: Vendome Press, 2006
ISBN 10: 0865652023 ISBN 13: 9780865652026
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Describes members of the British court, including the Queen's champion, Yeomen of the Guard, Herb Strewer, and Lord High Chancellor.
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Published by Brand: Vendome Press, 1997
ISBN 10: 0865659931 ISBN 13: 9780865659933
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Hardcover. Condition: used. Hardcover Edition. Looks at the romantic French popular songs of the 1950s and 1960s, with each chapter devoted to such themes as love, Paris, joy, and nostalgia.
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Published by Brand: Vendome Press, 2003
ISBN 10: 0865659834 ISBN 13: 9780865659834
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Hardcover. Condition: used. Reprinted 1996. Bali's culture is a blend of ancient traditions and influences from the outside world, with the Balinese sense of art expressed in their art and design, architecture and music. In this book, illustrations present a view of the architecture, interiors and objects that are the essence of Bali's style. From bamboo dwellings to contemporary Bali homes, from panoramic vistas to pictures of the elaborate stonework in Hindu temples - various aspects of this distinctive culture are examined.
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Published by Brand: Vendome Press, 2006
ISBN 10: 086565168X ISBN 13: 9780865651685
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Hardcover. Condition: used. First Edition. This arresting and important volume documents seven African women working to overcome devastating problems in their communities. Through dazzling photographs and first-person accounts, their stories reveal the strength of the human spirit: A Tutsi woman brings together Hutu and Tutsi widows of Rwandas genocide. A South African teachers mentoring program keeps children in school. A Ugandan nun leads a dance troupe of AIDS orphans. A former teacher in Mozambique set up farming collectives to help peasants feed their families.The world is focused on the many crises Africa facesAngels in Africa is a positive look at how individuals can foster real change.Royalties from the sale of Angels in Africa are being donated to The Pendulum Project, which supports children who are affected by HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Published by Brand: Vendome Press, 1999
ISBN 10: 0865652082 ISBN 13: 9780865652088
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Hardcover. Condition: used. Looks at interiors of dining rooms and kitchens from around the world, and offers a selection of ideas from city apartments to country homes.
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Published by Brand: Vendome Press, 2006
ISBN 10: 0865651760 ISBN 13: 9780865651760
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Here is an unusual, charming book of toys, games, and childrens literature, written by the author of The Dictionary of Imaginary Places. More than 500 rare and beautiful toys from the renowned collection of Paris Musée des Arts Décoratifs are photographed by Michel Pintado in tableaux of childrens playrooms from 1870 to the present. These unearthly photographs amusing, moving, intriguing, and at times, terrifyingalternate with text by Alberto Manguel that mingles the real and the imaginary, truth and fiction, retelling both well-known and obscure childrens stories.
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Published by Brand: Vendome Pr, 1999
ISBN 10: 0865652015 ISBN 13: 9780865652019
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. larger hardcover with black dust jacket.
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Published by Brand: Vendome Press, 2002
ISBN 10: 0865652465 ISBN 13: 9780865652460
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Softcover. Condition: used. A stunning study of the formal gardens in the park of France's palace of Versailles describes the work of Louis XIV, gardener AndrT le N(tre, artist Hardouin-Mansart, and architect Charles Le Brun in the creation of the gardens, in a volume that features more than four hundred full-color illustrations. Simultaneous. 2220.
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Published by Brand: Vendome Press, 1992
ISBN 10: 0865651302 ISBN 13: 9780865651302
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Lord Snowdon is undoubtedly the outstanding portrait photographer of his generation. From his innovative theatrical photography of the 1950s, through the important reportage photography of the 1960s and 1970s, to the portraits of today, Snowdon's versatility and sensitivity remain unmatched.Public Appearances 1987-1991 presents not only photographs breathtaking in their apparent simplicity, but also photographs full of visual jokes - sitters occasionally in impossible positions, sometimes bearing improbable props. His subjects are drawn from a wide cross-section of the arts and public life: dancers, pop-stars, actors, writers, politicians, painters and designers.From Leningrad to Prague, from New York to Paris, Snowdon's lens has captured celebrated men and women of our time and he is rightly landed as "one of the principal visual historians of the age" (Vogue). This transatlantic chronicle is one of the most important photographic books of the year, and will be enjoyed by photography buffs as well as followers of the arts and the beautiful people.
Published by Brand: Vendome Press, 1992
ISBN 10: 0865651248 ISBN 13: 9780865651241
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. In good condition. Show some usage and shelf wear.
Published by Brand: Vendome Press, 2001
ISBN 10: 0865652481 ISBN 13: 9780865652484
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Hardcover. Condition: used. First Edition. This is a collection of thirty portraits of individuals involved in all aspects of wine productions and consumption, superbly written by one of the most respected writers on wine in the world today. It is by no means restricted to Proprietors and producers, but includes wine merchants and traders, wine writers, and a sommelier. People are attracted to wine for all sorts of reasons. Some inherit properties and perpetuate the skills and traditions handed down to them, others start form scratch creating wine estates or transforming existing properties in the wish to improve diversity; the grand and the modest, the rich and the struggling, the standard bearers of tradition and bold innovators, old men and young women. Every person has been interviewed, and as far as possible ideas are presented in the words of the individual. The parade of personalities is deliberately international. But even so it has proved impossible in a book of this limited size to include individuals from every single wine-producing region of significance. The central focus of the book remains European, and rightly so, but voices are also heard from as far away as Oregon and New Zealand. Accompanying these wonderful essays are photographs of chateaux, cellars and bottles and enchanting line drawings of the protagonist. 1900.
Published by Brand: Vendome Press, 2001
ISBN 10: 086565154X ISBN 13: 9780865651548
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Softcover. Condition: used. First Edition. The Great Houses of London is an account of extraordinary buildings, most of which no longer exist, of such great designers as Robert Adam, and if the enormously rich English aristocrats grandees who commissioned these houses. When Queen Victoria remarked to her neighbor, the Duchess of Sutherland, "I have come from my house to your palace," she was by no means exaggerating. The palaces of the nobility were second only to churches in architectural and aesthetic significance, and defied comparison with the chteaux of France or the palazzi of Venice. Filled with astonishing French and English furniture, generally equipped with a large private picture gallery to display priceless paintings bought on the Grand Tour, staffed by between 50 and 60 servants, these houses expressed the taste and aspirations of a single person, and usually one rich and powerful enough to have his own way. A distinguished designer, large rooms for entertaining formally, an imposing faade to impress passers by and visitors were the background for the endless balls and costume and garden parties, and formal dinners that made the dazzling London "Season" one of the high points for European royalty and society from June through August. This book, the only publications on a fascinating subject, covers some 40 major home and 100 lesser ones, starting in the 13th century in the walled city of London and moving on to the then suburbs of Bloomsbury, Holborn, Soho, Piccadilly and St. James, finishing in Park Lane from which the aristocrats were driven by the noises of motor traffic. This is a book that will fascinate architects, decorators, Anglophiles and social historians. 2160.
Published by Brand: Vendome Press, 2004
ISBN 10: 0865652414 ISBN 13: 9780865652415
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Paul Durand-Ruel (1831-1922) is widely credited as the dealer who "made" the professional careers of Renoir, Degas, Manet, Monet, Sisley, Pissarro, Puvis de Chavannes, and other painters of fin-de-sicle Paris. Driven by the conviction that the work of the Impressionists was an artistic revelation, he led the fight against critical opinion and brought these artists to the public. His event-filled life is the subject of this absorbing biography.Durand-Ruel risked his name, his fortune, and his family's future to become the outspoken champion of Impressionism, an art form that in France provoked only insults. By 1900 his gallery dominated the international market for Impressionism, and he had inspired a new generation of collectors, from merchant princes of Moscow to steel barons of Pittsburgh. This volume, deftly crafted from unpublished documents and letters, and illustrated with 40 black-and-white images, is an important addition to our understanding of Impressionism and collecting, as well as a dazzling tour of French and American art and cultural politics in the years before World War I. AUTHOR BIO: Pierre Assouline is one of France's leading historians and biographers. His many books include An Artful Life: A Biography of D. H. Kahnweiler.
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Published by Brand: Vendome Pr, 1982
ISBN 10: 0865650195 ISBN 13: 9780865650190
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Gathers photographs of the life of the imperial family of Russia's last ruler.
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Published by Brand: Vendome Press, 2005
ISBN 10: 0865651612 ISBN 13: 9780865651616
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Hardcover. Condition: used. First Edition. Simon Parkes paints summer in the Northeast: the sandy beaches, old frame houses, drifting boats, and rocky shores that represent the joys of summertime from Eastern Long Island up along the coast to New England. His paintings are sentimental and nostalgic-- he records houses and landscapes that might have been painted in the 19th century, or even earlier. In the pages of this evocative volume, the hot, dusty, gorgeous days of summer come alive.Memorial Day marks the first day of summer-the time to reopen shuttered houses and sweep last year's sand from the porch. In the thirteen weeks before Labor Day, it's time to visit breezy shores and mountain lakes and enjoy a classic American summer in the countryside. Extended relations convene, families balloon under the shingled roof, seaside cottage, or the cozy intimacy of an Adirondack lodge. These places have a comforting sameness to them; they change little from year to year.Summer is also the time when Simon Parkes shoulders a traveling box of oil paints and a handful of brushes and heads out on bicycle or foot to capture the evanescent summer landscapes of Eastern Long Island and New England. In just a few hours, for Parkes works quickly to take advantage of the light, he creates a view of cliffs bordering Gardiner's Bay or of the small boats skimming the coast of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard. Parkes's summer places are sentimental and nostalgic; he records houses and landscapes that might have been painted in the 19th century, or even earlier.Summer Places is a keepsake for the millions of locals and visitors who love the special vitality of traditional New England and Eastern Long Island. This quiet world, the unchanging world of summer, lies at the heart of this entrancing book. AUTHOR BIO: Simon Parkes was born Crowthorne, England. One of five children, he grew up in Wellington College, where his father was a mathematics teacher. At age 17he began a six-year apprenticeship with painting restorers in London. In 1978, he moved to the United States where in 1980 he opened his own art conservation studio in New York. Parkes started painting in the early 1990s. He has exhibited mostly at W.M. Brady & Co. in New York as well as in Long Island and Palm Beach. He has painted in Europe, North Africa, the Caribbean, Central America, and all over the United States. Parkes lives in New York and East Hampton.Angus Wilkie is a social historian and critic whose writing appears regularly in Elle D?cor, House & Gardens, The World of Interiors, Antiques, and Art & Auction, where he is a Contributing Editor. Wilkie is the author of Biedermeier) which was published in English, French, Italian, and German editions. Wilkie is the co-proprietor of Cove Landing, a shop dedicated to unusual decorative furniture and works of art, located on New York's Upper East Side. He lives in New York and Lyme, Connecticut. 2350.
Published by Brand: Vendome Press, 2007
ISBN 10: 0865651892 ISBN 13: 9780865651890
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st, First Edition, First Printing. (Book). Yesterday: The Beatles Once Upon A Time documents the Beatles and the city of their birth during the making of their first film, A Hard Day's Night , in 1964. It captures the rhythm and texture of the tough English port city where the smell of cigarettes and seawater mingled and the strains of pop music were transformed by an early 1960s music scene that gave birth to the Mersey Beat and the greatest band of all time. Before they achieved world fame, the Beatles perfected their craft in another port of call, the northern German city of Hamburg. There they met Astrid Kirchherr, a budding photographer who became close friends with the band and later was engaged to the Beatles' original bass player, Stuart Sutcliffe. Some four years later by which time the Beatles had conquered the world Kirchherr, with Max Scheler, visited the band and took the photographs that appear in this book. Kirchherr and Scheler focused on the Beatles in private and public moments, during the filming, and also on the city itself, on the streets, the music scene, the people, evoking for us today the gritty humor and passion of 1960s Liverpudlians. This book offers a moving testament to the inspirational effect of the Beatles' success on their hometown as well as an important chapter of the Beatles' almost-mythic story.
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Published by Brand: Vendome Press, 2004
ISBN 10: 0865652368 ISBN 13: 9780865652361
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Although far less famous than Vincent, Theo van Gogh played an essential role in the art and life of his brother while leading a fascinating life of his own, as shown in a detailed biography with information drawn from the work and letters of both brothers.
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Published by Brand: The Vendome Press, 1999
ISBN 10: 0865652066 ISBN 13: 9780865652064
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. This volume describes the gardens of the Alhambra, Spain's most visited monument. Started during the Islamic conquest of Spain, it contains a dazzling series of lace-like courtyards, a well as the gardens of the Generallife. Outside the fortress walls of the Alhambra, the "Gardens of the Architect" have symmetrical beds of flowering plants framed by romantic architecture and enlivened by the sound of water from myriad fountains and bubbling pools.
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Published by Brand: Vendome Press, 2006
ISBN 10: 0865651701 ISBN 13: 9780865651708
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 0. This beautiful volume explores eight European estates that, despite war, taxes, and the passage of time, have remained in the same families for centuries. The photographs are redolent in atmosphere and the text is revealing, due to the authors long friendships with the owners of these great houses. Offering an inside view of a highly refined way of life, Private Splendor reveals the secrets that kept these homes in private hands. The houses include Sevilles Casa de Pilatos, owned by Spains most illustrious grandee; Harewood House in Yorkshire, owned by a cousin of Queen Elizabeth; Germanys Schloss Regensburg, occupied by the flamboyant Princess Gloria von Thurn and Taxis; and the Palazzo Sachetti near Vatican City, whose enormous Sala dei Mapi is entirely frescoed by Francesco Salviati (15101563). This beautiful volume explores eight European estates that, despite war, taxes, and the passage of time, have remained in the same families for centuries. The photographs are redolent in atmosphere and the text is revealing, due to the authors long friendships with the owners of these great houses. Offering an inside view of a highly refined way of life, Private Splendor reveals the secrets that kept these homes in private hands. The houses include Sevilles Casa de Pilatos, owned by Spains most illustrious grandee; Harewood House in Yorkshire, owned by a cousin of Queen Elizabeth; Germanys Schloss Regensburg, occupied by the flamboyant Princess Gloria von Thurn and Taxis; and the Palazzo Sachetti near Vatican City, whose enormous Sala dei Mapi is entirely frescoed by Francesco Salviati (15101563).
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Published by Brand: Vendome Pr, 1997
ISBN 10: 0865659869 ISBN 13: 9780865659865
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Hardcover. Condition: used. First Edition. Book by Fantoni, Anna Rita.
Published by Brand: Vendome Pr, 1989
ISBN 10: 0865651159 ISBN 13: 9780865651159
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Hemingway's exotic, exciting life is captured in an illustrated biography of the writer and his world.
Published by Brand: Vendome Press, 1995
ISBN 10: 0865659648 ISBN 13: 9780865659643
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. This wonderful book takes the reader into the intimacy of the homes of twenty great international literary figures, from the simple, tropical world of Ernest Hemingway in Key West to the Connecticut Yankee house of Mark Twain in Hartford, from William Faulkner's antebellum mansion in Oxford to the aristocratic Palermo palace of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, or the effete, cluttered rooms of Jean Cocteau's house at Milly-la-Foret outside Paris. All these houses were specially photographed, often for the first time. In the accompanying text, Francesca Premoli-Droulers brilliantly links together the close ties that bind the writers, their books, and their houses.
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Published by Brand: Vendome Press, 2000
ISBN 10: 0865652155 ISBN 13: 9780865652156
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Hardcover. Condition: used. 2000 edition. Presents and analyses tribal art originating from Africa, Oceania, and Southeast Asia, and discusses the functional aspects of art on tribal cultures and the influence of tribal artists on modern Western artists.
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Published by Brand: Vendome Press, 2010
ISBN 10: 086565252X ISBN 13: 9780865652521
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. During the années folles following World War I, Paris underwent a creative fever that brought artists and intellectuals from around the world to the City of Light. The bohemian charms of Montparnasse attracted artists such as Picasso, Chagall, and Giacometti, while a vibrant café culture provided a forum for disputes between Dadaists and Surrealists and gave rise to a group of expatriate writers. The creative energy was all-encompassing, establishing Paris as the epicenter of new trends in the arts, a position it would occupy until World War II. This newest title in a celebrated series addresses such diverse topics as aesthetics, literature, the changing role of women, and the transformation of avant-garde culture.
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Published by Brand: Vendome Press, 1991
ISBN 10: 0865651256 ISBN 13: 9780865651258
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Published by Brand: Vendome Press, 2006
ISBN 10: 086565171X ISBN 13: 9780865651715
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. The worlds fascination with the Russian imperial family endures, and with this stunning book a new spotlight is added. Jewels of the Tsars, the first book to examine the familys unparalleled collection, is illustrated with extraordinary photographs taken under special conditions at the Kremlins Diamond Fund, and accompanied by 18th- and 19th-century portraits and photographs of the Tsars, their families, and their court. Prince Michael of Greece, a Romanoff descendant, writes with an insiders knowledge of his familys passion for rare and beautiful jewels, and their place in the troubled history of Imperial Russia.
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