The illustrated story of a journey that Loro Piana goes on every year through remote, unspoiled lands to purchase an extremely precious fiber. Baby Cashmere is an extremely precious fiber exclusively
A selection of twelve undisputed masterpieces, twelve symbols of the city, from the Renaissance to the contemporary age. The city of Milan encloses some of the most important masterpieces of Italian a
A fascinating tour among the countless modern and traditional facets of Italy’s "big city." An art city and a fashion, business, and nightlife capital, as well as a testing ground for urban
One hundred portraits of celebrities by the talented and renowned Italian photographer Angela Lo Priore. Jeremy Irons, Scarlett Johansson, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Al Pacino, Charlize Theron, Oliver Ston
Critic James Wines notes, "The topic of this book, ''un-volumetric architecture'' is the search for creative alternatives to the overly volumetric ''shape making'' obsessions of international architec
The concept of history evoked through art.How do we understand art? How do we understand history? Most often these two questions are caught up in the discipline of art history or some other academic j
Designers often tend to deny the influence of changing tastes on their work. William Morris’s “joy in labour,” or the Bauhaus principle of “truth to materials,” are well- known principles of this kin
This book gives an overview and insight into the unique collection of? the Norwegian? art collector Erling Neby. Erling Neby is an owner of one of the most important and precious private collections o
The first monograph on Kata Legrady''s works presenting a collection of drawings, photographs, sculptures, and video installations. Kata Legrady belongs to that long and bountiful line of artists for
An illustrated study of traditional and figurative art of Africa that reflects the continent’s rich artistic and cultural heritage. African Art explores the continent’s marvelous artistic achievements
The representation of the female body has inspired some of the finest works in art history. This volume, which aims to offer a fascinating visual survey of the nude, features nearly fifty paintings an
The prestigious new volume by Skira devoted to international contemporary photography is focused on some of the greatest American masters of the twentieth-century. This will be the first of two books
Eleonora Abbagnato is the prima ballerina at the Opera de Paris. This original volume reveals her artistic versatility through photographs of four celebrated ballets. This is the ideal gift for aspi
This catalogue raisonne on the work of Paolo Scheggi is the most complete publication to date on the artist and is an indispensable tool to understanding and investigating his entire oeuvre. The outco
Twentieth-century American society wittily and ironically portrayed by a great artist. Norman Rockwell (1894–1978), one of the most popular American artists of the past century, has often been
Emilio Vedova''s artistic career began in Venice in the mid-1930s. He immediately felt the deep allure of grand Venetian painting and sculpture and, guided by the restless agitation and dynamic mobili
Over the last four decades, video art has undergone numerous transformations. If in the mid-1960s, video was used by artists to record performances created in an isolated studio, now with digital tech
Considered one of the leading architects in American experimental architecture, Eric Owen Moss is also one of the most interesting figures in the contemporary international debate.It is impossible, by
