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Blooming the Perfect Weekend 🌼

Blooming the perfect weekend into existence with some fun, floral titles – #Flower and #TheGarden

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The Origins of Cooking

An in-depth exploration of the birth of cooking, as charted by leading authority Ferran Adrià's elBullifoundation. This essential volume examines the foundations of cuisine, starting with its earliest sources and tracing every element of the produce, implements, and skills involved in food preparation. Packed with intriguing text and illuminating elBullifoundation diagrams and images, it's a must-have for every cook's library.

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Own It: The Secret to Life

Internationally renowned fashion designer and philanthropist Diane von Furstenberg shares her accessible, empowering manifesto. In an easy-to-navigate A-Z format, Own It is her blueprint for enjoying both personal and professional growth at any age. 'The secret of life is one thing: own it. Own our imperfections. Own our vulnerability; it becomes our strength. Whatever the challenge is, own it. Owning it is the first step to everything.'

Flower Color Theory

The follow-up to Darroch and Michael Putnam's acclaimed bestselling debut, Flower Color Theory is the only guide that uses color theory as inspiration for flower arrangements. The book features 175 arrangements that show myriad ways to combine flowers of different hues, all built around color schemes including analogous, complementary, monochromatic, triadic, transitional, and accent colors. A guide to creating lush, romantic, and effortlessly elegant creations of your own.

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Architectural Practice

Rhyme And Reason

Art Books

Website Inspiration

Radical Architecture of the Future

Architectural practice today goes far beyond the design and construction of buildings — the most exciting, forward-thinking architecture is also found in digital landscapes, art, apps, films, installations, and virtual reality. This remarkable book features projects — surprising, beautiful, outrageous, and sometimes even frightening — that break rules and shatter boundaries.

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Tom Friedman

Coffee Table Book Design

Vitamin D3: Today's Best in Contemporary Drawing

Over the past 50 years, drawing has been elevated from a supporting role to a primary medium, ranking alongside painting as a central art form. Since the publication of Vitamin D (2005) and D2 (2013), contemporary artists have continued to explore drawing's possibilities - from intimate to large-scale works, in a diversity of mark-making processes and materials. Vitamin D3 showcases more than 100 such artists, nominated by more than 70 international art experts.

Reading Between The Lines

Today's Special

The international dining scene is a vast, ever-shifting landscape, and Today's Special is perfectly positioned to help readers navigate it. Twenty of the globe's leading chef-curators — 10 men and 10 women — have each selected five emerging chefs from around the world, showcasing a variety of styles of food, restaurants, and personalities.

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Flower: Exploring the World in Blooms

A comprehensive and sumptuous survey that celebrates the beauty and appeal of flowers throughout art, history, and culture Flower takes readers on a journey across continents and cultures to discover the endless ways artists and image-makers have employed floral motifs throughout history. Showcasing the diversity of blooms from all over the world, Flower spans a wide range of styles and media — from art, botanical illustrations, and sculptures to floral arrangements, film stills, and textiles.

A timely celebration of British design legend Sir Paul Smith and his one-of-a-kind creativity This new monograph captures the unique spirit of British fashion icon Sir Paul Smith through 50 objects chosen by Sir Paul himself for the inspiration they have provided him over the years — from a wax plate of spaghetti and a Dieter Rams radio to a Mario Bellini Cab chair and a bicycle seat. Paul Smith Aesthetic, Smith Aesthetic, Plate Of Spaghetti, Glamorous Aesthetic, Fabric Freshener, Mario Bellini, British Humor, Sir Paul, Dieter Rams

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A timely celebration of British design legend Sir Paul Smith and his one-of-a-kind creativity This new monograph captures the unique spirit of British fashion icon Sir Paul Smith through 50 objects chosen by Sir Paul himself for the inspiration they have provided him over the years — from a wax plate of spaghetti and a Dieter Rams radio to a Mario Bellini Cab chair and a bicycle seat.

Open Studio: Do-It-Yourself Art Projects by Contemporary Artists

Open Studio invites you into the private studios of seventeen of the most celebrated contemporary artists as they draw, paint, sculpt, or design an original project for readers to recreate at home. Join George Condo as he creates a paint-by-numbers portrait, William Wegman as he watercolors whimsical scenes of his beloved Weimaraners, and Mickalene Thomas as she makes an artist's book out of collage. Open Studio demystifies the studio practice through fun, accessible, D.I.Y. projects.

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Iconic Fashion Moments

Rihanna: Queen Size by Rihanna

All hail Rihanna: Queen Size The statement volume for Rihanna fans, this luxury, queen-size edition is limited to 500 copies worldwide. An homage for fashion, music, and photography lovers and collectors, Rihanna: Queen Size is presented in a format worthy of the global legend herself. From her Barbados beginnings to her worldwide tours, from iconic fashion moments to private time with friends and family.

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Visual Biography

Merce Cunningham

Black Mountain College

Anni & Josef Albers by Nicholas Fox Weber

A spectacular and unprecedented visual biography of the leading pioneers and protagonists of modern art and design Josef – painter, designer, and teacher – and Anni Albers – textile artist and printmaker – are among the twentieth century's most important abstract artists, and this is the first monograph to celebrate the rich creative output and beguiling relationship of these two masters in one elegant volume. It presents their life and work as never before.

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Nike: Better is Temporary by Sam Grawe

Nike: Better is Temporary is a landmark publication that charts Nike's transformation from rebellious upstart to global phenomenon. This immersive visual survey offers an unprecedented, behind-the-scenes exploration into Nike's ethos-driven design formula, placing industry-defining innovations and globally recognized products alongside previously unpublished designs, prototypes, insider stories, and more.

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Fäviken: 4015 Days, Beginning to End Magnus Nilsson

Witty, candid, and insightful: a chef's ode to his extraordinary restaurant, and a fascinating commentary on food culture In 2019, Magnus Nilsson closed Fäviken, his one-of-a-kind restaurant in remote Sweden — a difficult decision, as it was close to his heart and at the height of its success. Here is the Fäviken story: how it became a world-class destination, how the industry it was a part of has changed, and why Magnus eventually elected to pursue new projects.

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Creative Interior Design

Life Meets Art: Inside the Homes of the World's Most Creative People by Sam Lubell

Life Meets Art is an unparalleled behind-the-scenes tour of some of the most fascinating, inspirational and unique home interiors in the world. The living spaces of hundreds of the globe's most talented people in the spheres of art, design, fashion, literature, music, and film, here provide inspiration for anyone fascinated by stylish living, creative interior design and the myriad possibilities for home decor.