Author: Isabel López-Quesada
Publisher: Vendome Press
ISBN: 9780865653559
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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"Innovatively combining period and contemporary furniture and art in a sophisticated mix, the homes of Isabel Lâopez-Quesada are inspirational and unforgettable. In At Home, the Spanish designer tells her own story. Lâopez-Quesada introduces her family and their traditions, and reveals her sources of inspiration-such as the work of earlier designers like Renzo Mongiardino and John Stefanidis. She relates how she transformed an abandoned wax factory in a leafy district of Madrid into her family home and atelier, and then recounts how she created a country home out of a run-down Basque farm in the hills outside of Biarritz, France. Both the Madrid and Biarritz properties have been affectionately documented by Miguel Flores-Vianna, who has photographed interiors, patios, and gardens, as well as Lâopez-Quesada's design studios"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Miguel Flores-Vianna
Publisher: Vendome Press
ISBN: 9780865653399
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Who, exactly, is a haute bohemian? Leave it to the discriminating, gimlet eye of photographer Miguel Flores-Vianna, who enjoys an international, cult-like following. He has journeyed through four continents to capture an extraordinary group of fashion designers, landscape architects, artists and art historians, potters, and interior designers, where they live--country cottages, beach bungalows, canal-side lofts, and East Village apartments, as well as assorted estancias, ch teaux, and palazzi. Some of these spaces are grand, others are modest, but all are original, stylish, charming, and above all authentic, in the sense that they reflect their owners' care and taste. His work is introduced by Amy Astley, editor of AD.
Author: Alma Flor Ada
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439106967
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 58
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A third grader realizes the importance of her name in this classic story of heritage and self-identity. For María Isabel Salazar López, the hardest thing about being the new girl in school is that the teacher doesn't call her by her real name. "We already have two Marías in this class," says her teacher. "Why don't we call you Mary instead?" But María Isabel has been named for her Papá's mother and for Chabela, her beloved Puerto Rican grandmother. Can she find a way to make her teacher see that if she loses her name, she's lost the most important part of herself?
Author: John Raab
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1481765817
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 125
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Merry Christmas Paco Alvarez is a funny series of vignettes about one year in the life of a young Catholic boy and his relationship with his classmates, family, and dog. The many misadventures of Sean Raven, Paco Alvarez and friends will hopefully entertain and delight the reader. this novella will evoke sweet memories for catholic school alumni, and anyone who encountered the fears and joys of childhood.
Author: Hilary Macaskill
Publisher: Otter-Barry Books
ISBN: 9781914902000
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This new and revised edition of Hilary Macaskill's classic book, with many new illustrations, offers an insight into the life and work of the world's bestselling author. Hilary Macaskill examines the houses that meant most to Agatha Christie, including her childhood home, Ashfield, in Torquay; Winterbrook in Oxfordshire, and, above all, Greenway, soaring above the River Dart and Agatha's favorite home from 1938 to the end of her life in 1976 (though requisitioned in the Second World War by the Admiralty, and from 1943 to 1945 home also to the United States Coast Guard). The author also explores more temporary abodes, not only a succession of flats and houses in London (mainly in Kensington and Chelsea) but also the homes she set up at the digs (mostly in the Middle East) that she traveled to with her archaeologist husband, Max Mallowan, and the hotels - notably the Moorland Hotel on Dartmoor, to which she adjourned in the grip of writer's block to complete her first detective novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, and the Burgh Island Hotel, a major inspiration for And Then There Were None and Evil Under the Sun.
Author: Abu'l-Qásim Faizí
Publisher: George Ronald
ISBN: 9780853980742
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 41
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Abu'l-Qasim Faizi, has made no attempt to give a biographical history of Amelia Collins. But it is against the setting of her high rank and her distinction as a Baha'i that this moving tribute to her, as Mr Faizi came to know her in Haifa, must be read. Amelia Collins, the subject of this moving personal tribute, accepted the Faith of Baha'u'llah in 1919 and for over four decades gave to it her energetic and single-hearted devotion. The great love she bore for its Guardian, Shoghi Effendi, her loyalty to him and passionate desire to render him any assistance within her power and to lighten, however slightly, the heavy burden that rested on his shoulders, not only endeared her to him but to all her fellow-believers. For many years she was a member of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of the United States and Canada. On January 9th, 1951, she was appointed as 'highly esteemed Vice-President' of the first International Baha'i Council by Shoghi Effendi and on December 23rd of that same year, she was sent a cable informing her that he was 'moved convey glad-tidings your elevation rank Hand Cause'."
Author: Christine Bell
Publisher: Virago Press
ISBN: 9781860491429
Category : Cuban Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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It's 1980 and Juan Raul Perez has just emerged, blinking and bewildered from 20 years in Castro's prisons. He dimly remembers his beautiful wife who emigrated to America years ago, but before he can be reunited with his family he must cope with a gallery of eccentrics, rogues and free spirits.
Author: Victor Hernández Cruz
Publisher:
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 148
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Author: Rose Tarlow
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
ISBN: 0847874036
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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An elegant manifesto for Rose Tarlow’s approach of blending the personal with the aesthetic to create timeless, beautiful spaces. One of the most influential designers working in America, Rose Tarlow’s signature approach is as much an emotional matter as it is one of color, light, fabric, and furniture. This essential book encourages readers to decorate with elegance and personal style through simple principles of creative design that are appropriate to any home. Finely designed in a modest size, the book is powerful in its intimacy, offering insights into the mind of a master designer—as well as a glimpse into some of the extraordinary homes she has created. Long out of print, the book is republished in its entirety from the original edition of 2001—with photography from Oberto Gili, Derry Moore, and Tim Street-Porter, among others—and updated with new images and a new afterword by the author. The Private House is a classic of modern interior design and an inspiration to creative homeowners.
Author: Oscar Lewis
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 578
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