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Green Architecture
Sprouting with fresh ideas and sunny outlooks, this compact edition brings together the best examples of contemporary green buildings today. Well-known architects like Frank Gehryand Norman Fostersit alongside young, up-and-coming creators. Each entry introduces akey projectthrough plans, photos, and a close reading of the sustainable and ecological nature of the design.
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Jungle Spirits
Mit dem atemberaubenden Reichtum ihrer Tier- und Pflanzenwelt sind die Regenwälder der Erde wahre Schatzkammern der Natur. Der preisgekrönte Fotojournalist und Naturschützer Christian Ziegler hat sie für Jungle Spiritsfestgehalten. Das Buch ist mehr als eine Ode an die tropische Pracht der vielfältigsten Ökosysteme unseres Planeten – es ist ein dringender Aufruf, die tropischen Regenwälder weltweit zu bewahren. Fotografien aus 20 Ländern auf vier Kontinenten verschmelzen zu einem vollständigen Porträt berühmter Dschungelgebiete der Erde in all ihrer üppigen Vielfalt. Durch Zieglers dynamische Aufnahmen tauchen wir ein in unberührte Landschaften, entdecken faszinierende Kreaturen wie Bonobos, Chamäleons oder Fledermäuse und finden Gefallen an seltenen Pflanzen. Informative Texte von Daisy Dent, Zieglers Partnerin und Mitstreiterin in Sachen Naturschutz, komplettieren den aufwendigen Bildband.
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NYT Explorer – Beaches, Islands & Coasts
Whether it’s a chocolate tour of the Caribbean or a swim to the tiny monastery island on Italy’s Lago d’Orta, dive in and share the discoveries of the Beaches, Islands & Coastsedition of The New York Times Explorer. These 25 dream tripsfeature first-person narratives, postcard-perfect photography, and useful informationto help you on your way to these magical places where water rolls up to meet land.
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Plant
Following in the footsteps of the international bestseller Map: Exploring the World, this fresh and visually stunning survey celebrates the extraordinary beauty and diversity of plants. It combines photographs and cutting-edge micrograph scans with watercolours, drawings, and prints to bring this universally popular and captivating subject vividly to life. Carefully selected by an international panel of experts and arranged in a uniquely structured sequence to highlight thought-provoking contrasts and similarities, this stunning compilation of botanically themed images includes iconic work by celebrated artists, photographers, scientists, and botanical illustrators, as well as rare and previously unpublished images.
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Redouté
Meet Pierre-Joseph Redouté, official court draftsman to Queen Marie Antoinette, favorite of Joséphine Bonaparte, and master of botanical drawing. This collection brings together 144 of his hand-colored engravings of branches, flowers, and fruits from Paris’s most magnificent gardens and greenhouses.
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The Book of Flowers
French flower painter Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759–1840) devoted himself exclusively to capturing the diversity of flowering plants in watercolor paintings which were then published as copper engravings, with careful botanical descriptions. The darling of wealthy Parisian patrons including Napoleon’s wife Josephine, he was dubbed “the Raphael of flowers,” and is regarded to this day as a master of botanical illustration.
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The Book of Palms
After an epic Amazonian journey through Brazil and Peru, German botanist von Martius compiled an unsurpassed catalogue of all known genera of palm. This exquisite encyclopedic treasury is a jewel of 19th-century botany, as remarkable for its meticulous classification, as it is for its maps, color landscapes, and cross-sectioned diagrams showing the architecture of these majestic trees.
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The Gardener’s Garden
Ouvrage de référence, Jardins de Jardiniersrassemble les plus beaux jardins du monde et des idées pour aménager vous-même votre jardin. Ce livre incontournable présente plus de 250 jardins de tous styles, créés du XIVe siècle à nos jours par des horticulteurs, des jardiniers et des architectes paysagistes de renom. Chaque jardin est illustré d’une riche iconographie et accompagné de textes explicatifs destinés aussi bien aux jardiniers amateurs qu’aux paysagistes.
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The Gardener’s Garden
The ultimate garden book – both a collection of gardens from around the world and a resource for those seeking inspiration on garden design and planting. Featuring over 250 permanent gardens by leading garden designers, horticulturalists and landscape architects, from the 14th century to the present day, and covering all key types and styles of garden, this well-illustrated compendium combines images, text, key information and captions for each of the featured gardens, appealing to both amateur and professional gardeners, as well as garden designers.
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The Great Chinese Garden
Gardens designed for refined pleasure and spiritual relaxation were first perfected in ancient China. Western travelers from Marco Polo onwards saw them, and marveled at their intricacy, their elaborate garden buildings, their subtle design, and their assured use of plants, water, and natural materials. Yet for many centuries Westerners found them hard to understand and could not use the skills and concepts that they contained.
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The Parrots
TASCHEN is proud to announce the long-awaited, latest and final publicationsfrom artist David LaChapelle: a two-volume project to complete his career-spanning anthology. Here,Good Newspicks up from Lost + Found,Part I, in a monumental curation of images never before publishedin book form. It marks a dramatic conclusion to LaChapelle’s five-book narrative, one that has captivated a generation of viewers across the globe.
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Tree Houses
Gardens designed for refined pleasure and spiritual relaxation were first perfected in ancient China. Western travelers from Marco Polo onwards saw them, and marveled at their intricacy, their elaborate garden buildings, their subtle design, and their assured use of plants, water, and natural materials. Yet for many centuries Westerners found them hard to understand and could not use the skills and concepts that they contained.
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Warhol
Discover the artist who put soup cans in MoMA and movie stars in the Met. This introduction to Andy Warhol presents his prolific and radical oeuvre and its relentless interrogation of consumerism, materialism, and the role of the artist. The title includesmore than 100 images of Warhol’s work intop-quality reproductions that retain all of the originals’ pop.
