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Andrew Martin Interior Design Review, Vol. 13
Andrew Martin is one of the world's best known furnishing brands, with sales in over 50 countries.
Includes entries from all over the globe, this title features 91 designers.

Hughie O'Donoghue
This title presents a significant overview of a major artist. Scheduled to mark a major donation
of the work of Hughie O'Donoghue to IMMA by the American art collector Craig Baker,
this catalogue accompanies the exhibition which focuses on significant works from the Baker
donation including "Blue Crucifixion" and "An Anatomy of Melancholy".

Catellani & Smith
Since its first collection of Flex lamps in 1989, to the Atman light in 2008,
the image of Catellani & Smith, a company operating in the lighting sector, has spread worldwide.

Family Housing
The construction of a modern house becomes a tremendously appealing
prospect for both the architect as well as the client

Interiors for Living
Interiors for Living is a book dedicated to show a graphic testimony of the
different tendencies and trends of the best worldwide interior design

Language of Equilibrium
The book of Joseph Kosuth is a volume dedicated to the conceived, realized and installed
job sull' Island of Saint Lazzaro to Venice in occasion of 52° the International
Exposure d' Biennial art of Venice of 2007.

Typographic Design
TYPOGRAPHIC DESIGN is a book about the last tendencies in the universe of fonts.

Deredia a Roma
The simbologia tied to the sphere describes to the transmutation of
the matter and the circle l' to be to the search of if same.

Food & Flowers
In Food & Flowers, Donna Brown takes simple, everyday ingredients such as
vegetables and transforms them into delicious recipes and beautiful decorations for
the table for a truly unique and joyful lifestyle.

/JULY/

Alex Katz
It would be difficult to understand painting over the last three decades
without taking into account the fundamental presence of Alex Katz.

Il Fiore di Novembre
I am not telling the facts, I am relating stories. Are dreams or memories true?
What is born among the stupor of layers of asphalt and rays of sun,
it is not a rose, it is not a tulip, it is only an echo, a distant thought.

Il Design e Gli Interni di Franco Albini
The book examines carefully and in great detail the theme of Albini's work as a designer,
highlighting the original nature of his work which is distinctive for its strict rationality,
formal reserve, geometrical order, technical perfection and the high quality of the
materials employed.

Mauro Galantino Architetto
Mauro Galantino is one of the most cultured, precise and prolific Italian architects of the
generation that followed the masters of the Neo-Rationalism movement.

Natural Wonders
Takes viewers on a spectacular journey through more than
twenty of the earth's most treasured locations.

Oggetti Sonori
The sound design has profoundly changed the way of understanding the project.

Tobia Scarpa
Tobia Scarpa's career as a designer and as an architect, producing brilliant and innovative
solutions, whether for large factories or museum interiors, is
documented through a detailed analysis of his work.

Bioclimatic Architecture
This book is an extraordinary collection of exciting and diverse architectural sustainable projects.
Monsa explores the critical line between how we built and the natural environment
with a combination of sustainable star architects and heretofore unknown practitioners.

Building Refurbishment
The concept of architectural reform has always been conceived as a
solution for the conservation of the past into the present.

Catellani & Smith
Since its first collection of Flex lamps in 1989, to the Atman light in 2008, the image of
Catellani & Smith, a company operating in the lighting sector, has spread worldwide.

Cielo Venezia 1270
Sergio Cielo, a businessman who started with nothing and now runs a 60 million euro company
talks about his adventure as a dreamer who believed firmly in his own ideas.

Flying Graphics
With over 500 full-color designs, this publication gathers twenty creators who
passionately explain what designing flyers means to them on a personal, preofessional and artistic basis.

Interior Italia
Thirty homes in which the authors illustrate that the urban style of
living from Turin to Milan, from Venice to Rome, from Naples to Bari.

"M" as Mila
Mila Schön dressed members of the international jet set such as Jacqueline Kennedy and Marella Agnelli.

Pietro Barucci Architetto
The book, written by Luigi Lenci tells the story of Petro Barucci, the Roman architect and
town planner, focusing on the most important milestones of his life's work.

Toy Land
This book offers a strikingly illustrated look at the world of the designer toy, featuring
some of the best designers and artists worldwide.

Urban Bags
Urban Bags, bag designs, introduces a wide variety of projects from different sources
of creative are and design, with the bag designs taken to be a point of reference.

Zhang Xiaogang
All the principal phases of Zhang Xiaogang's highly personal painting style
are retraced here, from the "Big Family" period to the dreamlike one and his photographic production.

Beyond the Dark
"Beyond the Dark" is the name of this exhibition of photographs by Luca Artioli: a collection of about
100 images which set out to portray the human mind, inviting us to think about depression...

CY Twombly
Cy Twombly (1928) is one of the leading figures in the generation of American
artists that comprises Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns.

De Rebus
Alda Fendi and Raffaele Curi show how simple containers like houses can be
transformed into works of art, masterpieces of design and furnishing...

Franco Albini
This slim monographic volume by the architectural historian Federico Bucci describes the
most important achievements of Franco Albini's architectural career.

Gemito
Vincenzo Gemito (1852-1929), who soon distanced himself from academic-style
sculpture to try the path of Realism, created numerous portraits which
all reflect the personality of the person concerned

Granet Tra Roma e Parigi
The exhibition devoted to Francois-Marius Granet (1775-1849) contains about 100
works (oils and water-colors) which highlight different aspects of the French painter's work...

Ignazio Gardella
The book sets out to describe the work of Ignazio Gardella in the
Milanese cultural and architectural scene.

Knit Pearl
The book describes the various aspects of the progession of the textile designer and analyzes the
various stages and methods of inventing, designing and making textiles.

L'Etica Nel Fotogiornalismo
" ethics are ethics. I don't believe in specific ethics for reporters and the ensuing sub ethics for
photo-reporters". - words spoken by Ferdinando Scianna, one of the greatest
names in Italian photography.

Raffaello e Urbino
A previously unpublished reconstruction of the child prodigy's youth in Urbino...

Vincenzo Gemito
Vincenzo Gemito (1852-1929), who soon distances himself from academic-style
sculpture to try the path of Realism, created numerous portraits which all
reflect the personality of the person concerned.

Zucchetti
This book devoted to a company that leads the field in the designer tap
sector is celebrating 80 years of operation.

Baia
Beautifully illustrated, with photographs taken specially for the book and
captivating text by Decio Carugati, this publication is perfect for anyone
interested in gaining a greater understanding of the Italian boat-building industry.

Design Sostenibile
Contemporary design must ensure the sustainability of the production
process, the product and the behavior which it results in.

Diamonds & Pearls: Dolce & Gabbana
A lavish volume dedicated to Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana's most extravagant creations
made using sequins, rhinestones, pearls, glass drops, crystal and shells. The application of all
kinds of materials to gowns, accessories, and shoes from the haute couture collections
transforms them into works of decorative art.

La Divina Commedia
Inferno, Purgatory, Paradiso is the literary equivalent of the poetic visionary Martini,
one of the many illustrators of Dante by Botticelli to Zuccari, from William Blake to Dorè.

Monumenti Effimeri
The installation is an artistic practice that is hard to pigeon-hole as it
employs a variety of methods, materials and procedures.

Osvaldo Peruzzi
This book is a complete collection of Peruzzi's work, until his death in 2004 at 97,
faithful to the end to the ideals of the futurist painters.

Serials & One-Offs
The true mission of the Triennale will be to achieve a broader concept of
design which goes beyond fashion and food facts.

Storia Moderna Delle'Arte in Italia
The history of Italian art reconstructed via a constant comparison of writings by artists, clients, critics and historians.

Triennale 2005-2008
During the period 2005-2008, the Triennale devoted particular energy to developing its
architecture section by launching a program of reflection about subjects and figures
associated with contemporary issues and consolidating a leading image in the field.

Alighiero Boetti
Portrays the attitude of this great artist, who succeeded in developing his
creativeness on a social level, using interaction with others and communication of
art in society at large as his method.

Basilicata
An extraordinary collection of photographs of the southern Italian region of Basilicata
taken from the air, portrays the splendid landscape of the region in the four seasons of the year.

Carlo Cardazzo
An exhibition dedicated to a key figure in 20th Century art, this first monographic exhibition
celebrates the museum's 60th birthday against the unique backdrop of the venetian Guggenheim Collection.

Ceal Floyer
Ceal Floyer's clarity of thought and precision in the presentation of her ideas resonate in all the areas of her art...

E' Andata Cosi
A collection of the writings and articles published by one of the best loved,
most original and unorthodox figures on the italian art scene

Ex Casa del Fascio Caserta
The photographer Luigi Spina illustrates the construction of a building designed
during the two decades of fascist rule in its tormented evolution.

Fausto Melotti
The second Stein notebook examines the sculptures and bas-reliefs of Fausto Melotti (Roverto 1902 -
Milan 1986), which were produced in two distinct periods of his bountiful career.

Futurismo 100
The catalogue on the centenary of futurism highlights its lively play of relationships with
contemporary European avant-gardes and its contacts with seemingly different worlds and cultures.

Grandi Sculture da Ercolano
An important exhibition of recently restored works from the Archaeological Museum on
view to the public for the first time. Among others, the famous statues from various digs at the Villa dei Papiri.

Santa Giulia, Brescia
The book takes an in-depth look at the history of Santa Giulia, the Brescia
museum that was enlarged and enriched by incorporating the Domus site and
describes the initial chance finds followed by organised digs, the conservation
difficulties and the final transformation of the site into a museum.

Save the Moon
Italy today seen through the eyes of the great photographer Jochen Gerz.

Untitled: Best of Galleria Cardi
Milan's illustrious Galleria Cardi played a pivotal role in promoting
contemporary art from the 1980s to 2000.

Wally
Plans of the most revolutionary construction site over the last few
years which has changed the conception of sailing boats.

Black Paintings
Explore the degree zero of painting, colour and matter, in itself and for itself;
and its great physical and conceptual density based on symbols, spiritualism and utopia.

Camere Oscure
Camere Oscure is a large-format photographic book that amasses the best of
Valerio de Berardinis' photographic production from the last 20 years.

Casabella 1928/2008
The book does much more than simply pay tribute to Casabella's long and illustrious career,
incorporating as it does hundreds of groundbreaking articles in their original format.

Esercizi Sulla Bellezza
Piero Tosi's art told through the story of his lessons at the Centro Sperimentale di
Cinematografia Acconciatura. Film make-up and costume seen
through the eyes of a master of Italian film-making.

Etruschi
An absolute must-see archaeological exhibition on the cities of southern etruria by one of italy's
leading experts on the Etruscan civilisation. A wealth of essays and a vast collection of
photographs illustrate original theories, previously unpublished finds and the
lifesize reconstruction of whole temples and tombs.

Ferzan Ozpetek
Born in Istanbul in 1959 by manufacturer father and a mother who loves art, he moved to Rome to
join the university, go to the cinema and discover the world of
shows and attended the Academy of dramatic art...

Frameworks
The book includes two critical essays and a conversation with the two architects, who
comment on the themes illustrated and interpret their work.

Genji
The incredible influence of a japanese literary classic on oriental figurative
art by one of the leading experts on japanese culture.

Il Divo Vespasiano
Written contributions by leading experts and forceful pictures, as well as the exhibition in the
Amphithater and Domus on the Palatino Hill which are named after the Flavians,
reveal the true face of the Emporers of this dynasty.

Luigi Moretti 1907-1973
An in-depth and substantiated interpretational essay provides the first comprehensive
profile of Luigi Moretti - his career as an architect and scholar and his personality, also placing his
theoretical and design production in the context of 20th-century Italian history.

Pirelli Stories of Work
Beginning in 1873, the year of inauguration of the establishment of Ponte Seveso Milan,
Pirelli began his work, bringing in the Industrial Revolution.

011 + Architetture Made in Torino
This volume is issued on the occasion of the UIA, the World Congress of
Architecture, held in Turin in June 2008.

65 Mostra Internazionale D'Arte Cinematografica
we like to picture the International Venice Film Festival as a place with a
richer range of individualities, which can be formed not by assimilation but by
comprehension, through an active gaze and through comparison.

Accademia Galleries in Venice
A quick guide to the most important collection of Venetian painting from the
fourteenth century to the eighteenth century

Alexander Calder
Enlarged and updated reissue of the fundamental monograph on the
great american artist. 450 works retrace the great sculptor's
whole artistic development.

All in Order
Having oder ina home is essential to truly enjoynig a relaxed, peaceful and balanced space.
It is a question of hygiene, getting along and aside from the amount of time which is saved when "everything has its place,"
orderliness helps quickly find the thing you are searching for
without having to turn the whole house upside down.

Antarctica
This publication has been prepared for the exhibition "Antarctica" by
Lucy and Jorge Orta at Hangar Bicocca - Space for Contemporary Art.

Architettura a Vino, 2nd edition

Aron Demetz
The art of Demetz succeeds in tackling the instability of contemporary thought...

Art without Art
Art Without Art is about the innocence and the intimacy essential to making art that
exists beyond the distractions of our consumerist society.

Attraverso Milano. Photographing Milan
One of the world´s leading landscape photographers, Bernard Plossu has moved his point of view,
leaving aside static subjects to depict the visible in a situation of continuous motion and from a
position that is different from the one usually adopted by photographers covering topical themes.

Azimut Yachts
In 1969 Paolo Vitelli, a Piedmont university student, founded Azimut, a company for
pleasure-craft hire, thus turning his love of the sea into a highly successful business.

Biennale Puglia 2008
A unique showcase providing an overview of the future trends in art in
Europe and around the Mediterranean.

Bosch

Caravaggio

Daniele Puppi
The first of a series of important projects that Daniele Puppi will
realize in 2008 at prestigious Italian and international art institutions.

Design & Italy: Ron Arad
Israeli designer II is known to the public for its experimental productions and steel furniture.

Design & Italy: Stefano Giovannoni
Handy volumes with many illustrations and acute critical texts, analyzing the 40
most important projects, with abundant information for easy reference.

Destination: Limited-Edition Design
selection of the most exclusive contemporary art galleries, exhibition spaces and
concept stores, from New York to Tokyo, from London to Cologne.

Digital Water Pavilion at Zaragoza's Milla Digital & Expo 2008
A volume dedicated to an extraordinary digital architectural project, a dream come
true, designated by Time magazine 'Best Invention of the Year', as the Digital
Water Pavilion makes its debut at the Saragozza Expo.

Enzo Eusebi: Not For
The professional development of an engineer who has worked on significant projects for 20 years.

Ernesto Neto 4
"Its how the sculptures, made of lycra and padded various materials, targeting a
direct involvement of the public in the belief that art can be an ideal
place for interaction with others..."

Ettore Sottsass
A publication that really takes an in-depth look at the Sottsass story, not just a cursory glance..

Gaetano Donizetti, Maria Stuarda, Antonio Fogliani, Teratro Alla Scala
The fifth chapter of Imago Vox multimedia project is dedicated to Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)
and Mary Stuart, the work focuses on the dramatic conflict of power (and love) between two
queens psychology multifaceted and complex protagonists of dark age, made of wars and upheavals.

Gabriel Orozco
Orozco has shown his work at distinguished venues including the Whitney Museum of American Art,
the Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the
Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Venice Biennale.

Georg Baselitz
"Over the years Baselitz became indifferent first to the motif and then to technique, with the
result that he no longer felt the need to invert the image and even took to wood carving..."

Giacomo Manzu: 1938-1965
The years of great energy of one of the major sculptors of the twentieth
century on the occasion of the centenary of the birth.

Giacomo Manzu: Grafica Autobiografica
The exhibition presents a selection of one hundred drawings and engravings by the
artist from 1937 to 1980, most of which have very rarely been exhibited to the public.

Hotel Design
Ample spaces, sensual atmospheres, the latest technology, and above all,
a stylish sense of character are showcased in these spaces by some
of the world's most prestigious architects and designers.

House of Augustus
The first, long awaited publication about one of the less known treasures of Roman painting.

Huang Yong Ping
Huang Yong Ping, an artist inconvenient for the Chinese government, decided to
settle in Paris. The first personal gallery dates back to 1990 in France...

I Love Fashion Hair!
The inventiveness and drive to be different has caused the creativity of hairstylists
to develop at astonishing speed over the past few years, whether
in step with or parallel to the evolution of society.

I Love Flyers!
I Love Flyers! is a book that takes us to a journey through the fascinating and entertaining
culture club world, graphically represented by flyers from all around the globe.
Without the flyer there's no party and without the party there's no club.

Italian Atlas 007. Landscape at Risk
The Italian Atlas project conceived by DARC periodically brings together several of the world's
best-known photographers; in this volume they are asked to capture the
processes transforming the face of Italy.

Italics
The collection of contemporary Italian art on view to the public for the first time is
illustrated by articles untangling the tensions and artistic trends which have imbued the last 40 years

Icone. 7.24 X 0.26 Gallery
In the heart of Milan, a small gallery devoted four monographic exhibitions in many Italian actresses,
icons of elegance and charm today celebrate maybe footnotes and even more abroad.

Living & Working Architecture
There's not a great deal of difference between living and working for those of us
who one day decide to make a living by creating the world, for those of us who perceive
architecture as something more thanjust work and the negative aspect associated with
this word, but rather like a window through which to see the world.

Massimo Gatti: Back Stage
The book contains the most interesting photos from photo
reports by Massimo Gatti. Next to the photo we can see its backstage.

Millennium Yacht Design Award. 2004-2008
The Millennium Yacht Design Award is recognition for creativity and the Italian design that
stands out in the world for quality, originality and propositività.

Michelangelo

Mimmo Rotella: Opere Su Carta
Rotella is an extraordinary inventor of shapes, an occasionally ironic juggler
unbridled by overly-rigid schemes or dogma.

Monet

Morricone
A tribute in images, music and words to the great master who has created unforgettable masterpieces.

Nahum Tevet
The exhibition presents two large installations of Nahum Tevet, selected as milestones
indicative of the artist in research aimed at redefining the living space through
assemblages of objects, materials and colors.

Naturale Marea: Missimiliano Alioto
After the first cycle of paintings on the theme of mountains, now the eye of the artist
looks down from the summits of the mountains into the depths of the stormy sea...

Nature
Nature, Inspiration For Art & Design reveals a diverse range of projects
from different creative art and design camps which have taken their inspiration from any of nature's elements.

Nunziante: Opere 1997-2007
he second volume devoted to the most recent works by
Antonio Nunziante, paintings which testify to his style and technical ability.

Omar Galliani - Notturno
Galliani is an established artist, and his style of portraiture combines arresting realism with
sensitive technical finesse to seamlessly blur the line between reality and supernatural mindfulness.

Paola Mattioli
This new title in Electa's BelVedere series pays homage to an Italian photographer who relates stories in images.

Paolo Chiasera
A young artist from Bologna, Paolo Chiasera (1978) is one of the most promising
emerging talents on the contemporary art scene.

Per Capodimonte Louise Bourgeois
Seventy works between sculptures and drawings document the
incredibly original journey of the French-American artist.

Perino & Vele
"Irony is one of the most frequently-used words when speaking of the sculpture of the
Neapolitan duo Emiliano Perino and Luca Vele..."

Pio Manzu
A much-awaited study of the brief but intense creative life of a pioneering and very
brilliant 20th-Century designer who died prematurely at the age of 38.

Prehistory to the Future
The collection is unique in combining extraordinarily fine paintings with unusual and precious objects...

Raffaello

Riva
A valuable iconography describes the images of some of the most famous boats and personalities who have
contributed to characterize more than a century, the curious and fascinating world of pleasure boating.

Robert Rauschenberg
The first Italian retrospective after his recent demise, the exhibition covers in detail
work done in the Seventies during his travels in India, Israel, Egypt and Italy...

Salvator Rosa
The monographic exhibition on Salvator Rosa (April 19-June 29 2008) is part of the
cultural program of the Superintendency Nature Napoletano...

Save as…Contemporary Art from Turkey
"Save as..." is a window onto the world of contemporary art in Turkey.

She-Wolf & the Sphinx
The review aims to document, with about eighty artworks, the chronological arc that
runs from the second century BC until the Age of Enlightenment...

Small Office. Home Office.
As more and more people elect either to work from home or star home-based
businesses, the need for dedicated workspace in or near the home will increase exponentially.

Stories on Human Rights by Filmmakers, Artists & Writers
"Some of the most influential campaigners for human rights across the centuries have been
artists and writers who, through their skill at placing the viewer or reader inside the
predicaments of others, alerted the rest of us to the inadequacy or abuse of
individuals' rights, and challenged us to change the status quo..."

Street Art
Graffiti, Stencils, Stickers & Logos [Spanish language]

Street Art Stencils!
A stencil is a templated used to draw or paint identical letters, symbols, shapes, or patterns every time it is used.

Street T
Featuring photographs of T-shirts worn on the street, specially commissioned T-shirt graphics,
T-shirt collections, and the best and coolest graphics from around the world.

Stunning Advertising
Stunning Advertising is a hard-hitting book on publicity. Remembering such as the Benetton
campaigns some years ago, a company which opted for publicity without taboos
in which we were presented with images opposing aids, hunger, and racism...we thought of doing this book.

Sustainable Urban Landscapes
The organization of public space raises many challenges. Its very nature of being on public
display makes urbanism one of the fields of architecture that is most open to debate and controversy.

TAIF
Rather than re-proposing a tried and true model, Taif revisits and reinterprets characteristic
elements of the traditional Venetian glass chandelier...

Tate Modern London
The color photographs make it possible both to contextualise the building in the
urban fabric of London, is to observe the impressive outer casing and the interior.

Terrazzo: 1988-1996
This book is the catalog of the exhibition in Milan (Triennale Design Museum, September 25-October 26 2008).

This is Visual Merchandising!
The pages of this is visual merchandising! are an outline, marvellously full-illustrated
with magnificent photographs in colour, most of them of big size, which show all factors that a visual merchandiser or shop
window designer must have present: the election of colour, the power of lighting,
spatial combination, typology of the window models, the importance of small details
and the seasonal and commemorative character of the shop window display.

Tiziano

Transiti Mimmo Jodice
These images by Mimmo Jodice are produced with lucid perception and by giving
himself over whole-heartedly to San Martino or to Guardia Sanframondi...

Tuning
Interest in tuning - or customizing - is growing exponentially. The tuning and customizing
process is a labour of love and ingenuity.

Vermeer

What is Italian Design?
Combining elegance with jubilation and exuberance triggered a volume exposure and
self-reflective, able to see the significance of the objects in the original design proud of their design...

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