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About face : Stonewall, revolt, and new queer art

Jonathan D. Katz, Collectif
- The Monacelli Press
- Art
- 14 Mars 2024
- 9781580936286
A unique survey of 350 artworks by a global and diverse array of LGBTQ+ artists - many underrecognized and overlooked - from the last 50 years.

Though the Stonewall Riots might now be shorthand for the start of the gay rights movement, so much of art and culture has been 'queer' since the beginning of time. In About Face, art historian and curator Jonathan D. Katz explores this concept head-on, curating a tapestry of works that connect historical threads and reveal how gender and sexual identity have been interwoven by artists contemporaneous to and since Stonewall. With more than 350 artworks by over 40 LGBTQ+ artists across nationalities and generations, and original texts by artists and scholars, About Face is as stunning as it is important.
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Midcentury houses today

Michael Biondo, Jeffrey R. Martz, Lorenzo Ottaviani, Cristina A. Ross
- The Monacelli Press
- Architecture + Urbanism
- 2 Mai 2024
- 9781580936101
Traces the evolution of midcentury houses and demonstrates how they are experienced and lived in today.

This expanded and updated edition of the 2014 classic focuses on the concentration of midcentury houses in New Canaan, Connecticut, built by noted architects including Marcel Breuer, Eliot Noyes, Philip Johnson, John Black Lee, and Edward Durell Stone. This new edition addresses the issue of preservation and adaptive reuse as a sustainable architectural strategy.

A representative group of 17 houses reveals an evolving legacy, now adapting to contemporary life. Each is examined in detail, with plans, timelines, and both archival and new photography, capturing the clean, minimalist look of the initial construction and re-imagining by significant architects of our time. Today preservation and renovation of older buildings has new visibility as a sustainable approach. As the National Trust for Historic Preservation has said, «The greenest building is the one that is already built.»
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The wide world of graffiti

Alan Ket
- The Monacelli Press
- Art
- 15 Juin 2023
- 9781580936019
A guide to the art, artists, and culture of graffiti from the 1970s to today, as told by the taggers themselves.

This major co-publication with the Museum of Graffiti chronicles the worldwide graffiti movement from its birth in the 1970s, through the street and train painting of the 1980s, to its emergence as an artistic genre admired in museums and sold at auction. With hundreds of never-before-seen photographs of graffiti art from the 1970s to today, many of which have been provided exclusively for this volume by the artists themselves, the book gives an insider's view through multiple interviews with celebrated graffiti artists, including Roger Smith of Sane Smith, Hotboy Hert, DESA, Shirt King Phade, RIME, MadC, Saber, AURA, and others.

Told through essays, hundreds of images, and interviews with the artists - both the underground outlaws and the writers who went mainstream - The Wide World of Graffiti will become the standard-bearer of the art form's history and life today, a unique contribution from the first and only museum dedicated to graffiti as an art form.
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New England coastal : Homes that tell a story

Mark A. Hutker, Kyle Hoepner
- The Monacelli Press
- Interior Design
- 13 Juin 2024
- 9781580936347
Dreamy coastal residences from Martha's Vineyard to Vermont to Maryland, and beyond.

Architect Mark Hutker and his firm design residential heirlooms deeply rooted in New England vernacular but with a modern sensibility-beach camps with driftwood-hued timber and open-flow rooms; modern, multilevel homes set seamlessly into their landscape; shingle-style dwellings with distilled detailing; and bespoke farmhouses in harmony with tradition but conceived for contemporary living. Through beautiful photography and engaging texts, this book tells the stories of thirteen houses that encapsulate the fantasy of New England coastal summers through a modern perspective.

The residences of the award-winning firm behind this collection have been featured in Architectural Digest, Coastal Living, and Veranda, among other publications, and the firm has garnered awards including Best Coastal Architect (Ocean Home; Boston Home; Boston Magazine), Best Architect (Boston Magazine), Residential Excellence in Design for Exterior and Contemporary Architecture (Luxe Red), Best Luxury Design (Modern Luxury Interiors) and numerous others from IFDA New England, Builder's Choice Design, and American Architecture. Over the last decade, Hutker Architects has established offices in four locations across New England, including Martha's Vineyard, Boston, Plymouth, and Falmouth. This lavish book features more than 200 stunning original photographs of inspiring coastal residences, including several never-before-published homes.
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Contemporary art underground : New York MTA arts & design

Sandra Bloodworth, Cheryl Hageman
- The Monacelli Press
- Art
- 2 Mai 2024
- 9781580936422
A celebration of more than 100 major public art commissions throughout the New York transit system.

Contemporary Art Underground presents more than 100 permanent projects completed between 2015 and 2023 by MTA Arts & Design. This ground-breaking program of site-specific projects by a broad spectrum of well-known and emerging contemporary artists has helped to create a sense of character and place at subway and commuter rail stations throughout the MTA system. Among the featured artists are Yayoi Kusama, Kiki Smith, Nick Cave, Ann Hamilton, Xenobia Bailey, Jim Hodges, Alex Katz, Sarah Sze, and Vik Muniz.

Of special interest is the discussion of fabricating and transposing the artist's rendering or model into mosaic, glass, or metal, the materials that can survive in the transit environment. This is the definitive survey of the latest works of the internationally acclaimed MTA Arts & Design collection. On view 24 hours a day, the collection is seen by more than four million subway riders and commuters daily and has been hailed as 'New York's Underground Art Museum.' The collection enlivens stations in all boroughs, with a myriad works by major contemporary artists executed in mosaic, glass, metal, and ceramic.
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Hamptons modern

David Sokol
- The Monacelli Press
- Architecture + Urbanism
- 23 Septembre 2022
- 9781580935944
LONG KNOWN AS AN ENCLAVE FOR THE WEALTHY AND GLAMOROUS, TODAY THE HAMPTONS AND NEARBY COASTAL COMMUNITIES HAVE BECOME A HAVEN OF SEASIDE MODERNISM. NEW HAMPTONS HOUSES SHOWCASES HOUSES THAT REFLECT THE AREA'S DESIGN HISTORY AND STRONG AFFINITY FOR ITS LANDSCAPE.

There are few places in the United States that have experienced as many waves of American modernism as Long Island's East End. In New Hamptons Houses, author David Sokol explores the latest architectural experiments taking place in New York's legendary summer retreat. With contemporary design increasingly mainstream in the region, the seventeen residences featured here reflect modernism's spread across not just the Hamptons but up-and-coming destinations like Bellport and Montauk, Greenport and Mattituck. Yet perhaps more important, the houses featured here represent a shift away from the image of conspicuously sprawling properties for the elite; these projects return to modernism's founding principles, shun Instagrammable spectacle, and steward the East End's increasingly fragile landscape.

These houses interface with the seaside landscape in ways that that reference the Hamptons' rich design history and sensitively highlight Long Island's famed natural beauty. Some are renovations and additions to houses by famed twentieth century modernists like Andrew Geller, Charles Gwathmey, and Norman Jaffe, and leading offices such as Bates + Masi, Young Projects, and Ryall Sheridan Architects represent the contemporary approach to twenty-first century regionalism. New Hamptons Houses presents these and numerous other examples of design-forward residences that are responsive to terrain, building vernacular, and cultural legacy.
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The Edith Farnsworth house : architecture, preservation, culture

Michelangelo Sabatino
- The Monacelli Press
- Architecture + Urbanism
- 13 Juin 2024
- 9781580936194
The comprehensive story of an icon of modern architecture: the Edith Farnsworth House, designed by Mies van der Rohe

One of the most famous residences in modern history, a glass and steel marvel that seems to float above its site, the Edith Farnsworth House had been legendary in the public imagination long before it could be widely accessed. This book charts the house's original design by Mies van der Rohe and periods of neglect, flooding, and new ownership by Lord Peter Palumbo.

Now publicly accessible and celebrating twenty years of being owned and administered by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, this icon of modern architecture commissioned by client and patron Edith Farnsworth now gets its due. The Edith Farnsworth House is one of the most prized residences in modern architectural history, whose sometimes fraught history culminates in its publicly accessible life today.

The book, which newly foregrounds the key role of client Edith Farnsworth, is written and edited by Michelangelo Sabatino, who contributes deep expertise on modernist architecture, and includes an essay by architectural historian Dietrich Neumann, excerpts of Edith Farnsworth's unpublished memoir, as well as interviews with Mies's grandson Dirk Lohan, and the house's second owner, Lord Peter Palumbo. Published in association with the National Trust for Historic Preservation, this book is published is a trove of cultural and visual history, and includes photographs by Hedrich Blessing, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and Annie Leibovitz, in addition to documentation of cultural collaborations with artists, designers, and performance troupes such as Virgil Abloh, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, and Gerard & Kelly.
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American modern : Architecture ; Community ; Columbus, Indiana

Matt Shaw, Iwan Baan
- The Monacelli Press
- Architecture + Urbanism
- 12 Septembre 2024
- 9781580936125
The definitive book on one of the foremost modernist cities and architecture destinations in the USA: Columbus, Indiana

The midwestern city of Columbus, Indiana, is more than a mecca of modern architecture; it is an example of how design can help foster a remarkable community. The dozens of buildings and projects by legendary architects - from mid-century titans such as Eero Saarinen and I. M. Pei to contemporary practitioners Deborah Berke and IwamotoScott - remain integral to its urban fabric. This book explores Columbus's optimistic program of bold new architecture and landscapes, initiated by the legendary industrialist J. Irwin Miller and local leaders, and the generations-long quest to develop the ideal American city through design excellence.

This is the first in-depth history of Columbus, Indiana, demonstrating the unique convergence of civic, industrial, and social forces that produced the pre-eminent laboratory of architectural modernism in the USA. It presents a rich showcase of outstanding, generation-spanning architects and is published in association with Landmark Columbus Foundation, the civic organization behind the progressive preservation and promotion of the city's architectural heritage, as well as the producer of the acclaimed program Exhibit Columbus, a two-year cycle of events that uses the context of Columbus to host conversations around innovative ideas and then commissions site-responsive installations in a free, public exhibition.
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Decorate like a decorator : All you need to know to design like a pro

Dara Caponigro, Melinda Page
- The Monacelli Press
- Interior Design
- 2 Mai 2024
- 9781580936309
From FREDERIC magazine, the best - and most unexpected - decorating pro tips and tricks of the trade in one accessible guide.

Decorate Like a Decorator highlights the decorating tricks that only experienced designers know how to pull off - until now! Culled from FREDERIC magazine's educational columns, this book shares with readers more than one hundred decorator pro moves: like how to use stripes on the bias, upholster doors, deploy curtain tiebacks, hang plates on the walls, and fabricate bespoke lampshades.

Divided into twenty-one chapters covering everything from pelmets and valances, trim, upholstery ideas, slipcovers, folding screens, and fabric-covered walls, to accent paints, bedspreads, decorative lampshades, scenic wallpaper, and more it's a lavishly illustrated cheat sheet for what it takes to transform a room from standard to sensational.

Decorate Like a Decorator features rooms by some of the world's most celebrated interior designers, among them Charlap Hyman & Herrero, Billy Cotton, Sara Ruffin Costello, Veere Grenney, Rita Konig, Redd Kaihoi, and Tom Scheerer, and best-known photographers, including François Halard, Stephen Kent Johnson, Francesco Langnese, and Simon Upton. This is the first book by FREDERIC magazine, a new and refreshing voice in design where beauty has no limits and quality has no compromise
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Blue and white done right : the classic color combination for every decorating style

Hudson Moore, Mario López-Cordero
- The Monacelli Press
- Interior Design
- 12 Octobre 2023
- 9781580936354
The legendary Schumacher design house presents an inspiring interiors survey exploring the versatile and transformative use of blue and white.

Let Schumacher take you on a tour of the best of blue and white decorating, featuring interiors that show just how versatile this color combination can be. Divided by style - charming, modern, boho, traditional, and more - the book features a guide to iconic blue and white colors from robin's egg, sky, and cerulean to oyster, alabaster, and porcelain, as well as a roundup of best-in-class product from tabletop to fabrics and wallcoverings.

This definitive survey captures the most compelling use of blue-and-white interiors in a stunning variety of rooms by the heaviest-hitting interior designers and interiors photographers in the world, including Mark D. Sikes, Redd Kaihoi, Tom Scheerer, Virginia Tupker, Veere Grenney, Bruce Budd, Todd Romano, François Halard, Melanie Acevedo, Simon Upton, William Waldron, and Stephan Julliard.
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Milton Glaser, pop

Steven Heller, Mirko Ilic, Beth Kleber
- The Monacelli Press
- 20 Avril 2023
- 9781580936132
An overview of the work of illustrator and designer Milton Glaser during the 1960s and 70s.

From 1954, when he co-founded the legendary Push Pin Studios, to the late 70s, Milton Glaser largely defined the international visual style for illustration, advertising, and typeface design.
Across thousands of works across all print media, he invented a graphic language of bright, flat color, drawing and collage, imbued with his customary wit. This collection from Glaser's Pop period features hundreds of examples of his work that have not been seen since their original publication, demonstrating the graphic revolution that transformed design and popular culture.
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Anthony Cudahy: Spinneret

Anthony Cudahy
- The Monacelli Press
- Art
- 26 Juin 2024
- 9781580936675
The first comprehensive monograph on the contemporary figurative painter, published as a companion to the artist's first solo exhibition in the United States

Spinneret draws inspiration from the eponymous silk-producing organ that spiders use to weave their webs. Anthony Cudahy's figurative paintings tenderly piece together enigmatic scenes of specific objects and equivocal environments from interwoven references drawn from queer archives, art history, film, poetry, friends, and autobiography.

Coinciding with Cudahy's solo exhibit at the Ogunquit Museum of American Art, this monograph spans the last half-decade of his career, including brand new work, and unpacks his richly layered artistic practice. Organized by five artistic themes - allegories, figures, spaces, slippages, and fragments - Spinneret captures the ongoing push and pull, conceptually and materially, across the artist's practice.
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Entropy

Diane Tuft
- The Monacelli Press
- Art
- 2 Mai 2024
- 9781580936705
A photographic exploration detailing the poetry and fragility of nature amidst the tragedy of climate change.

Since 1998, mixed-media artist Diane Tuft has travelled the world recording the environmental factors shaping Earth's landscape. Entropy is Tuft's fourth monograph capturing the sublime and awe-inspiring beauty of nature as it is radically transformed under the unrelenting pressures of climate change.

Focused specifically on water as its subject, Tuft contrasts global sea-level rise with water depletion in Utah's Great Salt Lake. Compelling essays by prominent figures in art and science contributed by Bonnie K. Baxter, Ph.D., Professor of Biology and Director of Great Salt Lake Institute at Westminster University and twentieth-century art historian Stacey Epstein, Ph.D. add depth and insight to Tuft's work and its significance in the context of climate change and the exquisite collection of photographs provide a captivating glimpse into the rapidly changing landscapes of our world.

Weaving passages of haiku with her beguiling photographs, and packaged in a luxe-cloth-wrapped case screenprinted with Tuft's artwork featuring the Great Salt Lake, Journey's End, this extraordinary book is a dramatic call to arms inspiring collective action for the critical preservation of nature.
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STILL: The art of noticing

Mary Jo Hoffman
- The Monacelli Press
- Art
- 2 Mai 2024
- 9781580936330
The astonishing culmination of the artist-author's decade-plus project to capture beauty, commemorate place, and see the world more fully.

Every day (every single day) for over a decade, Mary Jo Hoffman has made a photograph of found nature - no subject too small or too ordinary. For Hoffman, a former aeronautical engineer, this daily ritual cracked open profound revelations about the connectedness of all things, the importance of place, and her own life.

This book shares a selection of the breathtaking photographs from Hoffman's enormous archive, accompanied by perceptive, deeply felt, and oftentimes humorous essays illuminating the insights gained through this daily creative practice. STILL features 275 of the most stunning photographs the author-artist has accumulated over thousands of consecutive days of daily shooting - a true feast for the senses.
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The new antiquarians : at home with young collectors

Michael Diaz-Griffith
- The Monacelli Press
- Interior Design
- 29 Juin 2023
- 9781580935906
An inspiring collection of idiosyncratic interiors assembled around eclectic collections of objects with life and history.

The once rarefied world of antiques is bursting open thanks to a new generation of collectors. The New Antiquarians features twenty-two young connoisseurs whose spirited interiors exemplify unorthodox approaches to living with history. Hailing from across the United States and Britain, they brazenly blend the old with the new, embrace anachronism and pastiche, employ serious knowledge with humor and wit, and consider vintage and historical objects through the lens of contemporary values. The New Antiquarians is an exuberant entry point into the world of antiques, highlighting one-of-a-kind collections and the single-minded collectors whose stories suggest compelling new ways of living with the past.

Collectors whose homes are featured include: Jared Austin; Emily Adams Bode Aujla and Aaron Singh Aujla; Pablo Bronstein; Collier Calandruccio; Adam Charlap Hyman; Emily Eerdmans; Jared Frank; Andrew LaMar Hopkins; Kyle Marshall; Sean McNanney and Sinan Tuncay; Avril Nolan and Quy Nguyen; Camille Okhio; Jeremy K. Simien; Abel Sloane and Ruby Woodhouse; Samuel Snider; Alex Tieghi-Walker; and Giancarlo Valle and Jane Keltner de Valle.
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Art in flower : finding inspiration in art and nature

Lindsey Taylor
- The Monacelli Press
- Art
- 16 Novembre 2023
- 9781580936200
In Art in Flower, Lindsey Taylor introduces an original take on floral design that teaches us to see the world anew.

Based on Lindsey Taylor's popular Wall Street Journal column, Flower School, on its surface this book demonstrates how Taylor creates stunning but achievable floral arrangements inspired by works of art. Riffing on works by a diversity of artists across mediums, periods, and styles, including Alice Neel, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Julie Mehretu, Sheila Hicks, Willem de Kooning, Georgia O'Keeffe, Frank Stella, Salman Toor, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Kerry James Marshall, among many others, Taylor inspires readers to interpret the palettes, compositions, brushstrokes, and mood of the art in flowers, and shares florists' trade secrets for building beautiful arrangements. Through this meditative practice of looking intently at art and nature, readers learn, in the words of David Hockney, "to really look," and to really see the world.
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KAWS : new fiction

Daniel Birnbaum, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Bettina Koreck, Alexandra Kleeman
- The Monacelli Press
- Art
- 2 Novembre 2023
- 9781580936507
The ingenious physical and augmented reality artworks from the most viewed art exhibit in history by the acclaimed artist KAWS.

Based on the blockbuster 2022 solo show in London, KAWS: NEW FICTION documents the groundbreaking, multi-layered exhibition that presented the artist's new and recent works in physical and augmented reality.

A unique collaboration between the acclaimed artist KAWS, the Serpentine Galleries, digital art platform Acute Art, and the online video game phenomenon Fortnite, KAWS: NEW FICTION bridges the gap between the physical and virtual worlds, showcasing KAWS's artworks as they've never been seen before. This one-of-a-kind book chronicles the iconic KAWS figure as it journeys through viewing the exhibition's paintings, sculptures, site-specific additional artworks revealed via augmented reality (visible at the show through a dedicated AR app), and the virtual recreation of the physical gallery simultaneously featured in Fortnite. KAWS: NEW FICTION is a celebration of the unprecedented exhibition, and KAWS's creative influence, as it was experienced in physical, virtual, and augmented realities.
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Evoke : Nina Magon

Nina Magon, Jill Sieracki
- The Monacelli Press
- Architecture + Urbanism
- 28 Septembre 2023
- 9781580936293
The first monograph of interior designer Nina Magon, featuring the glamorous spaces that have made her sought-after by a jet-set clientele.

Born in Canada and raised in Houston, interior designer Nina Magon's family would frequently return to their country of origin, India, and with every passage take a different course, visiting the world's cultural capitals. These dramatic detours profoundly impacted her global approach and shaped her award-winning practice.

In Evoke, her first book, Magon shares with readers the cosmopolitan glamour that has become her signature, a sophisticated style that carefully balances high-gloss modernism and old-world grandeur, and has been embodied in her designs for the royal family of Abu Dhabi, MGM Resorts International, and Major League Baseball World Series winner José Altuve. In Magon's interiors, the defining characteristics of the most coveted haute couture are echoed in the elegant arch of a sculpted niche, a jewel-tone fabric enveloping a collection of voluptuous sofas, or the sparkle of a glamorous chandelier that cascades like fine jewelry over a breathtaking restaurant. Each unique space that Magon creates is evocative of an international lifestyle, synthesizing art, architecture, and fashion.
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For what it's worth : Value systems in art since 1960

Thomas Feulmer, Lisa Le Feuvre
- The Monacelli Press
- Art
- 25 Avril 2024
- 9781580936583
A collection of work by 80 artists who explore the contemporary art world's fundamental concerns of value, markets, and the business of art

Grounded in the global, conceptual art tendencies that began in the 1960s, For What It's Worth looks at artists who generate, question, and infect value systems through their work. These works address issues vital to the art world connected to systems of exchange, social structures, or metacritiques of the market - and all stops in between. Central to this assembly are works from the famed Rachofsky Collection by Judy Chicago, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Annette Lawrence, Seung-taek Lee, Sherrie Levine, Piero Manzoni, Bruce Nauman, Giulio Paolini, Sherrill Roland, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Fred Wilson, and Yukinori Yanagi.
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Oudolf Hummelo : a journey through a plantsman's life

Piet Oudolf
- The Monacelli Press
- 1 Mars 2021
- 9781580935708
An intimate look at the personal garden of the Dutch landscape designer renowned for his plantings at the High Line in New York City, and Lurie Garden at Chicago's Millennium Park.

Hummelo-near the village of the same name in Gelderland in the eastern Netherlands-is visited by thousands of gardeners seeking inspiration each year. It is Piet Oudolf's home, his personal garden laboratory, a former nursery run by his wife Anja, and the place where he first tested new designs and created the new varieties of perennials that are now widely available.

A follow-up to Oudolf's successful Landscapes in Landscapes-Hummelo tells the story of how the garden has evolved over the past three decades since Oudolf, Anja, and their two young sons moved onto the property, with its loamy sand and derelict, wood stove-heated farmhouse, in 1982. Text by noted garden author and longtime personal friend Noel Kingsbury places Hummelo in context within gardening history, from The Netherlands' counterculture and nascent green movement of the 1960s, to prairie restoration in the American Midwest, and shows how its development has mirrored that of Oudolf's own outstanding career and unique naturalistic aesthetic.

Oudolf has long been at the forefront of the Dutch Wave and New Perennial Style movements in garden design, which have ecological considerations at their base. His work stresses a deep knowledge of plants, eschewing short-lived annuals in favor of perennials that can be appreciated for both structure and blooms in every season. He is credited for leading the way to today's focus on sustainability in garden design.

The book will appeal to readers who favor beautiful, biodiverse, and ever-changing plantings: seed heads, grasses, sedges, and winter silhouettes. They will be drawn into its pages by lush photography, often demonstrating how Oudolf views his own work, and providing rare glimpses into his daily life. Short essays highlight important techniques, including scatter plants and matrix planting, and introduce other famed landscape designers-Karl Foerster, Henk Gerritsen, Rob Leopold, Ernst Pagels, and Mien Ruys-to create a full panorama of the movement Oudolf now leads.
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Beatrix Farrand : garden artist, landscape architect

Judith b. Tankard
- The Monacelli Press
- Architecture + Urbanism
- 1 Mars 2022
- 9781580935937
A long-awaited updated edition of the 2009 definitive monograph, Beatrix Farrand: Garden Artist, Landscape Architect chronicles the life and work of one of the most important figures in American landscape architecture.

Beatrix Farrand, the only female founder of the American Society of Landscape Architects, is one of the most important landscape architects of the early twentieth century. Today the scope of her work and her influence on the profession are widely acknowledged, and her gardens are being studied, restored, and opened to the public.

Born into a prominent New York family (she was Edith Wharton's niece), Farrand designed lavish gardens for the leaders of society, including the Harknesses, the Rockefellers, and the Blisses. Ultimately, her portfolio extended to college and university campuses, including Princeton, Yale, and the University of Chicago, and public gardens, the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden and the Rose Garden at the New York Botanical Garden among them. Her best-known design is the landscape at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C., originally a private residence with extensive grounds and now a research center for Harvard University surrounded by a naturalistic park restored and maintained by the National Park Service. Deeply influenced by the English garden designer Gertrude Jekyll, Farrand was known for broad expanses of lawn with deep swaths of borders planted in a subtle palette of foliage and flowers. In her public work, she adapted this design strategy to create paths and plantings that define the character of the space and the hecirculation through it.

Heavily illustrated with archival images and photographs of her gardens at their peak-many taken especially for this book, Beatrix Farrand: Garden Artist, Landscape Architect also displays beautiful watercolor wash renderings of her designs, now preserved at College of Environmental Design of the University of California at Berkeley. The new edition includes updated images that reflect the current state of gardens including the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden at the New York Botanical Garden, the International House Courtyard at the University of Chicago, Garland Farm (Farrand's last home and garden, which has recently been restored), Dumbarton Oaks, Dumbarton Oaks Park (which was not included in the first edition), among others.

The book concludes with a comprehensive list of Farrand's commissions and the gardens open to the public, providing direction for further study and exploration. It also features a new preface outlining the milestones in research since the first edition's publication, updated details about ownership and renovations of many properties, and a revised bibliography including articles and books published over the past ten years.

Published to coincide with the 150th anniversary of Farrand's birth and written by landscape historian and preservation consultant Judith B. Tankard, Beatrix Farrand: Garden Artist, Landscape Architect takes readers on a tour of Farrand's finest works, celebrating her influence on succeeding generations of women landscape architects.
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Gaetano Pesce : the complete incoherence

Gaetano Pesce, Glenn Adamson
- The Monacelli Press
- Art
- 28 Juin 2023
- 9781580935999
The definitive volume on Gaetano Pesce's incomparable life and career, as told in the artist-designer's own words.

In a category all his own, Gaetano Pesce is widely considered one of the most important, and elusive, creative figures of the last half century. Bridging numerous key art and design movements, while never truly belonging to any of them, Pesce's singular practice has remained steadfastly provocative, defying widely held notions of convention, utility, and good taste.

Yet as New York magazine demonstrated in its feature on the «Pope of Gloop» upon the opening of his recent solo show at acclaimed gallery Salon 94, the world has arguably caught up to Gaetano Pesce. Now in his eighth decade, Pesce recounts his life and career to renowned design curator and critic Glenn Adamson, generating discussion conducted over several years that is as informative as it is surprising. Discussing his incomparable decades-long career-which includes the creation of the classic articles of his UP series, the effusively postmodern design for Chiat/Day's headquarters, and countless works of furniture and design objects in his signature poured resin-Pesce shares his wide-ranging thoughts on art, design, and architecture.

Always forward-looking, Pesce's process of reinterpreting and transforming the premises of modern design to create idiosyncratic and deeply personal works beat a path for multidisciplinary design practice seen everywhere today. Particularly in his exploration of introducing imperfections, if not «defects,» into the traditionally uniform systems of mass fabrication, Pesce turns out to be much more of a prophet of modern design than a curious detractor.

Gaetano Pesce: The Complete Incoherence is the long overdue summary of an irreverent, wildly inventive career that should inspire practitioners across all creative disciplines.
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Rogan Gregory : event horizon

Rogan Gregory
- The Monacelli Press
- 29 Juin 2023
- 9781580936095
The first monograph of Rogan Gregory, the artist/designer on the forefront of contemporary organic form-making.

Rogan Gregory's work pushes boundaries across media and scale - from miniature bronze animal forms to towering sculptures and furniture in innovative aggregated materials. Gregory's iterative process and life-long interests in abstract forms, geology, and evolutionary biology allow him to develop an organic aesthetic unlike that of any designer working today.

This debut monograph explores Gregory's work through the elemental inspirations that condition his work. Contributions by landscape architect Edwina von Gal, interior designer Pamela Shamshiri, and conservation biologist Tremaine Gregory reflect the synthesis of disciplines Gregory brings to his practice. Co-published with R & Company, this book is an object in its own right, incorporating Gregory's design and materials sensibilities.
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The Urbanist: Dan Doctoroff and the Rise of New York

Collectif
- The Monacelli Press
- Architecture + Urbanism
- 2 Mai 2024
- 9781580936323
A never-before-told, behind-the-scenes look at the central role one man played in New York's rise from the ashes of 9/11, creating a new generation of landmarks in the world's most recognizable city.

On January 1, 2002, Michael R. Bloomberg took office as the 108th mayor of New York City, with smoke still rising from the World Trade Center site. Many questioned whether the city could rebound from the worst terrorist attack in the nation's history. Instead, New York thrived - entering a period of unprecedented growth, spurred by new neighborhoods, parks, office districts, cultural facilities, and more. At the center of many of these initiatives was Daniel L. Doctoroff, who served as Deputy Mayor for Economic Development and Rebuilding from 2002 to 2007.

Told through the eyes of the individuals who worked with Doctoroff to lead these projects and accompanied by more than 450 photos, The Urbanist: Dan Doctoroff and the Rise of New York tells the astonishing story of the role that one man played in creating an array of iconic projects, from the rebuilt World Trade Center to Brooklyn Bridge Park to the High Line and more.
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