1000 Lights. 1000 Leuchten. 1000 Luminaires
Light up your life: Luminary design since the invention of the light bulb Designed to be a companion to the classic title 1000 Chairs, this edition contains an awesome selection of over 1000 lights. Presented chronologically by decade are history's most interesting electric lights, from Edison's first light to Tiffany's beautiful leaded glass shades to completely outrageous designs from the late 1960s and 1970s to the latest high-tech LED lamps. All major styles are represented here?Arts & Crafts, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Modern Movement, De Stijl, Postwar, Pop, Radical, Post-Modern, and Contemporary?in 704 pages of truly illuminated works. This definitive reference work is a must-have for collectors and design fans. The editors: Charlotte J. and Peter M. Fiell run a design consultancy in London specializing in the sale, acquisition, study and promotion of design artifacts. They have lectured widely, curated a number of exhibitions, and written numerous articles and books on design and designers, including TASCHEN?S 1000 Chairs, Design of the 20th Century, Industrial Design A-Z, Designing the 21st Century, Graphic Design for the 21st Century, and Scandinavian Design.
The Dunlap Cabinet Makers: A Tradition in Craftmanship
The Dunlaps of New Hampshire began making fine furniture in the mid-1700s. Their distinctive tables, chests, chairs, and clockcases have their origins in the traditions that the Scots-Irish brought to the New World. Most Dunlap works are now in museums where they are studied by scholars, but thanks to the book's detailed scaled drawings and Donald Dunlap's construction notes, woodworkers can undertake the challenging proportions and ornament practiced by the Dunlaps. The 14 projects range from a simple knife box to an intricate tall clock and include a one-drawer stand, tea table, and desk.
The Dunlap Cabinet Makers: A Tradition in Craftmanship 
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The House in Good Taste
After ninety years, "The House in Good Taste" by America's "first lady of interior decoration," Elsie de Wolfe, still offers timeless design advice.
Compiled from her articles in newspapers and magazines and first published in 1914, "The House in Good Taste" is a seminal book on interior design with ideas that have lasted a century because they influenced not only the wealthy clients of Park Avenue and Palm Beach, but popular taste as well.
De Wolfe advised Americans to shun ostentation and clutter in favor of simplicity, to dismantle the draperies in order to let in the light, and to replace garish colors with beige and ivory. "I believe in plenty of optimism and white paint," she declared, "comfortable chairs with lights beside them, open fires on the hearth and flowers wherever they 'belong, ' mirrors and sunshine in all rooms." The rooms that Americans inhabited in the middle of the twentieth century still today owe much to de Wolfe's tastes.
The House in Good Taste
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The Gentleman & Cabinet-Maker's Director by Thomas Chippendale, ISBN 0486216012
A broad selection of items -- beds, cornices, fireplaces, picture frames, sofas, shaving tables, dome beds, arm chairs, tea caddies, frets, and more -- with distinctive Chippendale marks: ball and claw foot, elaborate feathering, roping, fluting, and the convoluted shapes of high Rococo. 200 plates plus 24 photos.
The Gentleman & Cabinet-Maker's Director by Thomas Chippendale, ISBN 0486216012
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1000 Chairs
The ubiquitous chair in all its shapes and forms (TASCHEN's 25th anniversary special edition) More than any other piece of furniture, the chair has been subjected to the wildest dreams of the designers. The particular curve of a back-rest, or the twist of a leg, the angle of a seat or the colour of the entire artefact all reflect the stylistic consciousness of each era. From Gerrit Rietveld and Alvar Aalto via Verner Panton to Eva Zeisel; from Art Nouveau to International Style, from Pop Art to Postmodernism, the phenomenon of the chair is so complex that it requires a reference work as comprehensive as this to do it full justice. They are all here: Thonet's bentwood chairs and Hoffmann's sitting-machines, Marcel Breuer's Wassily chair and Ron Arad's avant garde armchairs. The book, a slightly abbreviated version of our classic title 1000 Chairs, devotes one page to each chair, displayed on its own as pure form, with biographical and historical information about the chair.
1000 Chairs
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Furniture/Mobel/Meubles Design by Paco Asensio, ISBN 3823855751
Whether it's the Eames chair, a Noguchi lamp, a Knoll table or a dresser designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, the best furniture is timeless and comfortable, utilitarian and unique. Each of the more than 450 four-color images featured in this compact volume possess all these qualities and more. Classics from Philippe Starck, van der Rohem, Le Corbusier, and Maurer and Aalto are depicted side by side with work from today's most exciting designers, such as Jorge Pensi, Marco Sousa Santos, Waldemar Rothe, Roberto Giacomucci, and more. From chairs, tables, sideboards and highboys to beds, lamps, desks, and bookcases, this portable volume is not only a comprehensive survey of the world's finest furniture, but a tremendous resource for anyone looking for extraordinary items that make ordinary life more enjoyable.
Furniture/Mobel/Meubles Design by Paco Asensio, ISBN 3823855751
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Donna Dewberrys Painted Garden: 15 Projects You Can Paint
7Author is a well-known and successful TV personality with regular how-to shows on PBS and HSN.7Combines latest craze for large outdoor living spaces with Donna's colorful decorative designs.7Provides perforated "Color Recipe Cards" and storage pocket for ease of color matching.Donna Dewberry's Painted Garden features 20 step-by-step projects painted on outdoor furniture and accessories using tough and durable acrylic paints that resist fading and weathering. From Adirondack chairs and patio tables to planters, window boxes, porch pillows and butterfly houses, there's something here for every taste and budget. Readers will enjoy the beautiful color photos of Donna in the garden as well as sidebars of Donna's favorite gardening and outdoor entertaining tips and hints. A bonus section called "Donna's Color Recipes" presents all the paint colors used in the book on handy recipe-sized cards readers can tear out and take to the store to reference colors.
Donna Dewberrys Painted Garden: 15 Projects You Can Paint
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Learning Foreign and Second Languages: Perspectives in Research and Scholarship by Heidi Byrnes, ISBN 0873528018
This inaugural volume in the MLA series Teaching Languages, Literatures, and Cultures provides an overview of second language acquisition research. Is language a system of linguistic forms to be acquired by the study of grammar, or is language a means of communication, where students learn not by studying rules but by engaging straightaway in the use of language to convey meanings? Which approach is better in the classroom? The vibrant field of second language acquisition research is now carefully examining questions like these.
Written for a nonspecialized audience -- for readers who share an interest in foreign language teaching and learning -- Learning Foreign and Second Languages addresses both theory and methodology. Administrators, department chairs, curriculum and materials developers, teachers, and graduate students will find this collection of essays enlightening.
Learning Foreign and Second Languages: Perspectives in Research and Scholarship by Heidi Byrnes, ISBN 0873528018
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