Paris Interiors = Interieurs Parisiens: Interieurs Parisiens (Single Jumbos)

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A JOY TO OWN!.......2005-03-30

Of all of my interior design and style books this is one of my VERY favorites... I sink into my favorite chair with this book again and again. I just love it! Wether you prefer old world style or sleek modern this book has it all (but far from ordinary!)... lots of inspiration with LOTS of gorgeous photos. A treat for your eyes whatever your taste!

brilliant.......2005-03-23

I own this book, Morroccan Interiors, Provance Interiors and Seaside Interiors. I will eventually own the whole lot of them. Why-- the books are a marvelous look into the interiors of people who are most rarely interior designers. They are artists, old people, young people, even gypsy caravans are given their due. I have gleaned better decorating ideas from these books than any "decorating" magazine or book. There was a story about letting the person who just moved from your apartment help you place your furniture as you move it- they know what fits where from their expericance. This and these books are great for "just making sense" in a vairety of gorgeous settings documented in gorgeous full color photos.

Wonderful Decorating Inspiration.......2004-02-25

If you are looking for a picture book of Parisian interiors to inspire your decorating, this will work very well. I am constantly searching for books like this--which are full of illustations of those interior details which seem to be uniquely Parisian. Every page is illustrated with photographs and includes just enough commentary to keep it interesting without getting descriptively heavy. This is definitely a pictoral reference/beautiful parlour table book.

Mmm........2003-02-28

I don't actually own this book; I found it by chance in my college's art library. Instantly, I fell in love with it's straight-forward photography. I have been renewing it for two months, and it has given me boundless inspiration for decorating my new apartment. This book is a jewelbox of decor and interior style. The full-page spreads offer tantilizing shots of the personal apartments of Parisian society-- both of the known and unknown; of large dimensions and of miniscule-- expousing beautiful decor that only a Parisian could pull off. Junk shop havens, classical boudoirs, catch-all collecting dens, and the odd moderne loft-- each interior is a true joy to see. Read, view, and enjoy and be inspired.

Eye Candy Anyone?.......2001-08-05

As a creative director, I've found this book to be very inspiring. Great photographic studies of Paris' most stylish homes (some owned by the famous, some are not) drip from these pages. Huge full-page and sometimes double-page images, printed on nice thick semi-matte stock, draw you right in. Like her book on Provence, its a great escape into another world. If you are a student of the esthetic, you will love it! PS. The cover is coffee-table ready too.

Interiors Paris / Interieurs Parisiens (Taschen 25th Anniversary Series)

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Great Ideas
Great Gift for a Lover of Paris Style
Fabulous

Interiors Paris / Interieurs Parisiens (Taschen 25th Anniversary Series)
Lisa Lovatt-Smith
Manufacturer: Taschen
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 3822838055

Book Description

Private Paris homes only open their doors to the few. This book shows us around 50 imaginatively conceived apartments and houses, the homes of prominent people such as Isabelle Adjani, Helena Christensen and Christian and FranÃ§oise Lacroix.

How we live is who we are. These interiors are "mirrors of the soul", showing the true personalities of those who live in them. From baroque opulence to cool understatement to colourful exoticism, their style is unforced - these are homes that people live in, not museum pieces. They also document Parisian vogues - for the Frech Thirties and Forties, for the furniture of Jean-Michel Frank and Jean RoyÃ¨re, for Diego Giacometti's stucco work, or the design features of the Vienna Secession.

This book documents a particularly energetic and fertile moment in one of the world's most beautiful cities. Paris Interiors brings together a selection of extraordinary apartments in the French capital, chosen purely for their individuality. From wicked fun to timeless classicism, everything in this unique book will be an inspiration.

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Great Ideas.......2007-07-19

Amazing book, if you like collecting art and good flea market finds this is the book for your inspirations. Tre Chic!!

Great Gift for a Lover of Paris Style.......2007-01-11

I bought this for my daughter and her husband. Both of them love Paris styles. The book was so gorgeous I was tempted to get another! My daughter wound up giving it to my son for his birthday, and has already ordered another copy for herself.

Fabulous.......2005-09-10

I drooled over this book in hardcover and I still regret not buying it. I was thrilled when it was reissued, albeit in papaerback, it is a fabulous read and visually stunning. It is a great homage to french style.

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Best Marker Technique.......2007-03-20

The best marker technique book you can find. Very easy to follow and apply them to many different renderings. The technique shown in this book is well known to industrial designers especially Car Designers or product designers. You'll see same techniques used on beautiful Car Design Renderings from The Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA. Car designers use vellum instead of marker papers. They use both side of the vellum to create different value effect with same marker. This book will make your renderings and presentation stand out from your competition. Highly recommended for students, designers, architects and 3D artists.

It WILL help u a lot!!!.......2001-07-04

Well, I've searched for many, MANY, books and when I found this one I couldn't belive on it! It shows marker techniques very simple to use and step by step. But I'm still a student of architecture, so it's also good for those who already knows a little. It's woderful for those that like design! ^^

Learn to do amazing renderings with markers and pastels.......1999-06-08

As an upcoming concept designer I've been searching for a book which explaines the techniques on how to render a sketch with markers and pastels. This book shows you how to rendering different products with the same technique. Some of them do almost look as if they were a photo. It is much of a Japanese styl, but it really illustrates your idea. Actually, iF Amazon would have shown the cover you would see whats really in this book. If you like those illustrations done by industrial designers, drawn with markers and pastels on vellum, with flying perfect lines, amazing shadows, you will love this book.

BUT WAIT! The only bad thing is that it shows you how to work the SAME tachnique on a variety of objects. The technique is great, sure is, but it is one technique!

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It is okay

Entering a competitive field

Beautiful Illustrations

Eye Opener

Creative Colored Pencil Workshop: 26 Exercises for Combining Colored Pencils with Your Favorite Mediums
Carlynne Hershberger , and Kelli Money Huff
Manufacturer: North Light Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Spiral-bound

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Take Your Colored Pencils Out of the Box . . . and Combine the Best of All Mediums!

Creative Colored Pencil Workshop is your guide to exploring a new world of artistic possibilities. Following clear, step-by-step demonstrations, you'll try your hand at a range of exciting techniques that blend colored pencils with all kinds of dynamic mediums, including:

Watercolor
Gouache
Acrylics
Ink
Graphite
Oil pastels
Metal leaf

More than 25 fun projects show you how to use each medium successfully, while offering in-depth guidance for working with various papers, textures and surfaces. Best of all, this book features the insightful instruction of two accomplished artists who offer different yet effective approaches to colored pencil creations.

From highly realistic art to more abstract representations, you'll learn how each medium and technique can accommodate virtually any artistic style or subject. Creative Colored Pencil Workshop gives you the best of both worlds: the fluid spontaneity and speed of mixed media and the control and precision of colored pencils. Mix it up, and see what happens!

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It is okay.......2007-08-03

It is okay. It has a lot in it but it has not given me what I wanted. I like the way Ann Kullberg illustrates her books. She doesn't have mixed media but with colored pencil in itself she makes it very visible in what to do. This book is a good book but not as exciting as some others.

Entering a competitive field.......2007-08-03

I was disappointed in this book for two reasons. Firstly the mixed media exercises use other mediums more as underpainting than as combinations with colored pencil to create new effects. By comparison, see Mary Todd Beam's demonstrations with colored pencil in mixed media in "Celebrate Your Creative Self." The results from Hershberger and Huff still look like colored pencil, not mixed media. In my view, this means it misses out as a mixed media book. How does it fare, then, as a colored pencil book?

I find the end results of the exercises in this book rather flat compared to works by established colored pencil artists, and this is my second reason. The book begins with some promising ideas, but adding other mediums should enhance, not muddy the result as I feel they do here.

The colored pencial medium has burgeoned into an extremely professional field in the last ten years or so, and this makes it a highly competitive market where new publications are concerned. The authors of this book have hard acts to follow, and this inevitably affects any assessment of its merits. The competition includes artist/instructors like Cecile Baird, Bet Borgeson and particularly Ann Kullberg, arguably the best of all colored pencil artists.

In fact, on Kullberg's website, even unsuccessful entries in her 2007 juried competition have a "zing' that is somehow missing in the illustrations in this book. The explanation that clarity is inevitably lost in simplifying the step-by-step lessons may be fair enough, but I suggest you compare these instructions with those on the Kullberg website. Although using colored pencil alone, Kulberg's exercises nevertheless achieve radiant, light-filled results.

Perhaps minor quibbles, but the exercises are not numbered (for easy reference) and the number is incorrectly given as 52 in the subtitle on the cover.

'Creative Colored Pencil Workshop'is beautifully bound and the authors undoubtedly convey a passion for their medium, but I find that the book comes nowhere near the high standard of books by the artist/authors mentioned above. For the higher price, I really expected something more.

Beautiful Illustrations.......2007-05-25

Beautiful paintings by the authors and other artists strike a nice balance between a how-to book and a must-have for sheer enjoyment. I uploaded two images so you could see into the book.
Herschberger and Huff share their expertise on an expansive range of materials making this an excellent entry point for beginners and great fun for experimental artists. In one demonstration, or technically two I guess, they both paint from the same reference photo, but make entirely different painting choices. Witty humor highlights their rapport as the two artists work together and play off one another.
I particularly liked the silver leaf demonstration and how it was used in a realistic, not decorative, painting. Can't wait to try that!

Eye Opener.......2007-05-04

I always thought colored pencils were for the grandkids. Wow, I read the entire book in one sitting and I can't wait to try some of the new ways of using not only colored pencils, but other media. Thank you to the authors for opening my eyes to new things.

Painting Various Subjects with Mixed Media (Easy Painting and Drawing Series)

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Painting Various Subjects with Mixed Media (Easy Painting and Drawing Series)
Parramon's Editorial Team
Manufacturer: Barron's Educational Series
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Binding: Paperback

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Six detailed exercises show the exciting effects that can be achieved by mixing ink, watercolor, tempera, charcoal, and other media.

Drawing with Mixed Media (Understand How to Draw)

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Drawing with Mixed Media (Understand How to Draw)
George Cayford
Manufacturer: Arthur Schwartz & Company
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blame it on rio.......2004-09-02

This is by far my favorite among Bruce weber's books. it is a beautifully edited collection of images from many different decades all involving some sensually stunning man or woman living a life of passion, be it sport or narcissitic pleasure. What makes this "bruce weber book "so special is that not all the photographs were shot by mr. weber, however all of them have caught his eye for more than obvious reasons. So it's really in his editing is where the fun lies. A big change is in the variety of males presented, not all are the usual silky-smooth northern european weber cliches. If you are at all intrigued by mr. weber's male and female ideals, you are sure to be delighted at this wonderfuly light hearted and super sexy homage to the state of mind that is Rio ...and Brazil.
The sepia tones further heighten the feeling of heat and sun-bleaching where the only way to escape the sun is to give into an erotic adventure.
An intoxicating fantasy created with the chicest taste.

O Rio, By Bruce Weber ...(for sale).......2002-01-31

This book is great!
It was the first of the modern era of fashion photographers shooting senuality.

To call it HOMOEROTIC... is just to miss the point. It is SENSUAL, regardless of sex.

It is beautiful, with lots of beautiful imagery.

I will part with it for the right price... make a REAL offer.
( Still in GREAT shape.)

[ stevenbigler@hotmail.com ]

-SB

Homoerotic photographs abounds.......2000-09-30

O Rio De Janeiro is basically a huge volumne of pics (mostly black and white and presumably taken in Rio, Brazil) by Bruce Weber. Despite the cover which featured a guy staring lustily at a girl, who in turn, looked away from in and toward the reader, this book is really a book for gay men.

Homoerotic photographs abound, mostly of young men louging around in bikini briefs, either on bed, in apartments, on roof tops, during a soccer match, on the beach, and so on.

For gay men, this book is a delicious affair...and little else.

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Study Guide to Accompany Economics Today: The Micro View : 1999-2000 Edition
Roger LeRoy Miller , and Robert W. Pulsinelli
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Leading the way with simple truths.

Jim Anderson's Original Rent-Free Guaranteed and Save Up to $25,000 on Your Home Purchase

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Leading the way with simple truths........2000-05-10

A book about how to live rent free and proudly own property without getting institutionally "screwed" by realtors and bankers. A great book written by a very smart man. Thanks to this writers work, more and more people are finally catching on to the inequities of the "Real Estate Industry".

Book Description

An interdisciplinary study of market women from all parts of Africa shows how, from historical times to the present, African women have used the economic power they have derived from market activities and commercial enterprises to improve their social and political status in a man's world. They used their wealth in pre-colonial times to obtain titles and even chieftainship. Because of their involvement in trade, many women acquired considerable property, especially real estate. The authors stress the positive aspect of women's economic activities, but also point out the prevalent sexual division of labor in Africa as a limiting factor. They illustrate the concomitant struggle between men and women over certain market items traditionally associated with one or the other sex. They analyze the cultural, social, and economic barriers that restrict female involvement in some economic activities. Nevertheless, the overwhelming conclusion by all of the writers, who are Africans and Americans, is that women play a major role in the economic sector of all the regions of the continent.

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