MERRELL HOLBERTON

For the serious collector and connoisseur of the field of American art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this series of essays will be invaluable. Twenty-eight writers, each of them ...

Alvar Aalto (1898-1976) is universally recognized as one of the masters of Modernist architecture. While the remarkable buildings he designed have been much studied, the story of how a young ...

The Stirling Prize is one of the world's most prestigious architectural awards and is given to the architects of the building that has made the most significant contribution in the ...

The designer Neisha Crosland sees pattern wherever she goes. Her extraordinary eye seeks out symmetry, order and structure in artefacts, buildings, paintings and, above all, in nature. A visual feast ...

Sir John Soane (1753-1837) was one of the most inventive and original architects of his time. His works include the remodelling of the Bank of England (from 1788), and Dulwich ...

ADAM Architecture has a worldwide reputation for traditional Western design. Although the practice is based in the UK, it has built award-winning projects of all types around the world, and ...

At the time of his death in 1820, Benjamin West was the most famous artist in the English-speaking world, and much admired throughout Europe. From humble beginnings in Pennsylvania, he ...

Since 1997 Luciano Giubbilei has been creating serenely beautiful gardens in locations on three continents. Giubbilei is known for the understated elegance of his designs, but is constantly evolving his ...

Published in association with the Architecture Foundation, NEW ARCHITECTS 3 showcases the wealth of emerging architectural talent in the UK. It provides a unique guide to over 85 of the ...

What distinguishes an impressive building from a truly remarkable one? In Cult Buildings, architecture critic Kenneth Powell looks beyond the famous and the grand to identify those buildings that have ...

Modernism, referring to the period dating roughly from the late 19th century through 1970, is regarded as a crucial moment in the history of American art. Although Modernist artists adopted ...

The last 25 years or so have witnessed redevelopment in the City of London on an unprecedented scale, following the deregulation of the financial markets, the so-called #147;Big Bang,' in ...

The magnificent costume of the Herero of Namibia, southern Africa, is a stark reminder of the countrys tumultuous past. In the late 19th century, the influence of missionaries and traders ...

The conventional history of art is one of great men making great paintings, and displaying their works to a predominantly male audience in male-run institutions. Women, however, have had a ...

Even before the advent of haute couture, Paris was a great centre of fashion. During the second half of the nineteenth century, when the capital was transformed by an ambitious ...

Showcasing new projects of ah types worldwide by both established and emerging practices, Architecture /0 is esseniial reading for anyone interested in recent developments n contemporary architecture.This authoritative book is ...

Since 1 997 Luciano Giubbilei has been creating serenely beautiful gardens in locations on three continents. Giubbilei is known for the understated elegance of bis designs, but is constantly evolving ...

This book presents a selection ofthe most exciting building projects in London since the year 2000.The first decade ofthe twenty-first century has marked out London as arguably the pre-eminent international ...

Future Beauty is the first comprehensive survey of Japanese avant-garde fashion of the last 30 years. Such designers as Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto and Rei Kawakubo made an enormous impact ...

The perfect companion to Merrell's bestselling Dream Gardens (Sunday Times Gardening Book of the Year), Dream Gardens of England is a beautifully designed sourcebook of 100 gardens of all styles ...