What is worse than Nero? What is better than Nero’s Baths?’ – so wrote the poet Martial in the first century AD, demonstrating the power that buildings have on public consciousness. In ancient Rome, who built a monument and why mattered as much as its physical structure. Over centuries and under many different emperors, a small village in Italy was transformed into the crowning glory of an...

\'There comes a moment in one\'s life or career when in order to evolve, you need to draw a line and acknowledge where you come from. This book is exactly this for me. In this book, you find the soul of Versace. I could not be any more proud to share it with the world\' Donatella Versace Founded by Gianni Versace in 1978, the family-run fashion house soon grew into a symbol of high...

Embark upon a lavish visual journey through ancient Greece―its origins, its rise and fall, and its legacy that still permeates the Western world today. Spanning more than 3,000 years, Ancient Greece explores the tumultuous history of this glorious empire in vivid detail―from its Minoan and Mycenaean origins to the apogee of the warring city-states of Athens and Sparta, and...

As World War I ended, the victors were developing a powerful new generation of 'hyper-dreadnoughts' and battlecruisers. Fully illustrated, this studies the big-gun warships that never were. 1918 was a moment of great naval change. Britain still had the largest fleet in the world, but its ships were ageing, and many of them were markedly inferior to the latest American and...

Artificial architecture has developed considerably in recent years, giving studios, professionals, students, and passionate enthusiasts the tools to create striking interior and exterior scenes. The limitless ability of the human imagination, coupled with powerful AI tools, has created a possibility to conceive and visualise perfectly realised worlds of dreamy beach houses, utopian...

During the First World War, rumours of heavily-armed German raiders led to the building of the first modern heavy cruisers by the Royal Navy. Named for famous Elizabethan seamen, they were very different from the lumbering armoured cruisers of the previous generation, and were enlarged developments of the highly successful light cruisers that had been built since the mid-1910s. As such, they...

Over the past decade, China’s new generation of young female architects have proven themselves to be talented, confident, innovative and successful on the world stage. Engaging with traditions and international trends, as well as posing entirely new architectural ideas, their projects reveal China to be a place brimming with energy and creative possibility. This survey of twenty of China’s...

Mount Fuji has been a source of inspiration and awe since ancient times, and artists have been reproducing its likeness since at least the 14th century, as it became a key motif in all aspects of Japanese culture. The 19th century Ukiyo-e woodblock prints of important artists such as Hokusai and Hiroshige continued this reverence, creating series of beautiful images of landscape and society,...

Henri Rousseau (1844–1910) was a clerk in the Paris customs service who dreamed of becoming a famous artist. At the age 49, he decided to give it a try. At first, Rousseau’s bright, bold paintings of jungles and exotic flora and fauna were dismissed as childish and simplistic, but his unique and tenacious style soon won acclaim. After 1886, he exhibited regularly at Paris’s prestigious Salon...

Album, który trzymają Państwo w rękach, tworzą zdjęcia czterech różnych fotografików, których połączył zachwyt nad pięknem krajobrazu i bogactwem zabytków Dolnego Śląska. Dwaj są bliżej związani z tym regionem - Adam Hawałej mieszka i pracuje we Wrocławiu, a Andrzej Raj to Dyrektor Karkonowskiego Parku Narodowego, wybitny znawca gór, które doskonale fotografuje. Natomiast dwaj pozostali...

Album, który trzymają Państwo w rękach, tworzą zdjęcia czterech różnych fotografików, których połączył zachwyt nad pięknem krajobrazu i bogactwem zabytków Dolnego Śląska. Dwaj są bliżej związani z tym regionem - Adam Hawałej mieszka i pracuje we Wrocławiu, a Andrzej Raj to Dyrektor Karkonowskiego Parku Narodowego, wybitny znawca gór, które doskonale fotografuje. Natomiast dwaj pozostali...

Wake up to artistic inspiration every day with this popular, chunky hardback made available again in a refreshed edition containing a perpetual calendar featuring a dazzling variety of masterpieces from every era. As functional as it is beautiful, this substantial book presents some of the world’s greatest art in an elegant package that will look good at home or in the office. Every day...

WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY TIMOTHY GARTON-ASH A magisterial and acclaimed history of post-war Europe, from Germany to Poland, from Western Europe to Eastern Europe, selected as one of New York Times Ten Best Books of the Year Europe in 1945 was drained. Much of the continent was devastated by war, mass slaughter, bombing and chaos. Large areas of Eastern Europe were...

Eine frische Perspektive: Shira Gills visionäres Lifestyle- und Wohnorganisationsbuch denkt das Thema Minimalismus neu und lädt ein, den eigenen Weg zum perfekten Zuhause - und Leben - zu finden. Shira Gill definiert Minimalismus neu - warmherzig, witzig und getragen von einem großen Erfahrungsschatz als professionelle Lifestyle- und Organisationsexpertin. Kern ihrer Arbeit ist ihre...

Bogato ilustrowany album "Polska Chopina" Piotra Cieśli prezentuje miejscowości związane z wybitnym kompozytorem - Fryderykiem Chopinem. Dzięki wspaniałym fotografiom (ich układ odpowiada kolejnym etapom życia Chopina w Polsce) możemy odbyć niezwykłą podróż po miejscach, w których mieszkał i bywał pianista. Wśród nich znalazły się: Żelazowa Wola, Brochów i Warszawa, gdzie spędził lata...

Historia Żydów w Warszawie i nie tylko. Żydzi przybywali do Polski już w X wieku n.e. jako handlarze przeworzący, z państw arabskich m.in.: niewolników, tkaniny i przyprawy korzenne. Zwano ich Radanitami, od miejsca, z jakiego pochodzili, doliny Rodanu. Jednym z nich był Ibrahim ibn Jakub, autor relacji z podróży, którą w 966 roku odbył do Polski Mieszka I. Istnieje legenda,...

Album Polska, mały w twardej oprawie

Książka o Warszawie zniszczonej w czasie II wojny światowej i odbudowanej z ruin. W 1944 oku w centrum Europy przestała istnieć milionowa metropolia, stolica 33-milionowego państwa, jedno z większych miast kontynentu - Warszawa. W chwili zagłady miasto mmiało za sobą ponad sześć wieków historii, bogatej zarówno w chwile chwały i heroizmu, jak też poniżenia i upadku.

From Edouard Manet’s portrait of naturalist writer Émile Zola sitting among his Japanese art finds to Van Gogh’s meticulous copies of the Hiroshige prints he devotedly collected, 19th-century pioneers of European modernism made no secret of their love of Japanese art. In all its sensuality, freedom, and effervescence, the woodblock print is single-handedly credited with the wave of...

Graphically exuberant and endlessly inspiring - New York Times The ultimate trip planner for every month of the year: discover the best places to visit throughout the seasons. Spark your curiosity with decision-making flowcharts to inspire your next unforgettable city break, tropical beach vacation, wildlife encounter and more - all...