Diccionario visual de diseño gráfico

100 years of evolution prove it: motorboats are more than just nice toys. Based on more than 300 original images drawn from archives and sales broschures, this book offers a unique insight at motorboat design and lifestyle from the early racers to classic mahagony runabouts, from fast offshores to the newest motoryachts. With a biographical overview of the diverse personalities behind the scenes of motor boating. Book jacket.

Chronicling the birth of haute couture and haute cuisine, this illustrated account documents how the young, charismatic, and attractive King Louis XIV—the first man to wear silk stockings, high heels, and cover himself entirely with diamonds—played a major role in the origin of French style. This detailed analysis combines historical research with fanciful anecdotes in order to describe how the French established standards of sophistication, style, and elegance that today's international chefs, famous hairstylists, distinguished cafés, and elegant hotspots still aspire to meet. Una...

This book explores the relation between modern design and the Belgian State. The ideology of modern design was closely linked to the utopian attempt of improving the everyday material world. Modernists had the universal belief that everyday spaces and objects affected their users in such a way that design practice could be a kind of political and social reform, or even a moral education. Modern design was however not only invested with these social aspirations, but knew also succes in political circles as an exponent for ideological positions, as a tool for political propaganda or as a marker ...

Un viaje íntimo a las entrañas de una joven creadora que siente y entiende lo real desde el prisma de su peculiar sensibilidad. Y mientras reivindica una historia que poder vivir desde el principio hasta el final, va entendiendo que las declaraciones de amor más valiosas no se pregonan sino que se hacen en silencio; que la vida es más sencilla cuando uno tan solo se deja fluir; y que sí, definitivamente, hay que permitirse el lujo de vivir sin los ojos cerrados.