Period Rooms in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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In this classic book, readers can experience a grand tour through the history of interiors and interior design by viewing thirty-four spectacular period rooms in the Metropolitan Museum. From an ancient Roman bedroom excavated near Pompeii to a Louis XVI grand salon from eighteenth-century Paris to the Frank Lloyd Wright Room in the American Wing, these popular galleries can now be viewed at all times through the book's beautiful color photographs and accessible explanatory text.


The Marvel of Maps: Art, Cartography, and Politics in Renaissance Italy

Among the most beautiful and compelling works of Renaissance art, painted maps adorned the halls and galleries of princely palaces. This book is the first to discuss in detail the three-dimensional display of these painted map cycles and their full meaning in Renaissance culture.
Art historian Francesca Fiorani focuses on two of the most significant and marvelous surviving Italian map murals--the Guardaroba Nuova of the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, commissioned by Duke Cosimo de' Medici, and the Gallery of Maps in the Vatican, commissioned by Pope Gregory XIII. Both cycles were not only pioneering cartographic enterprises but also powerful political and religious images. Presenting an original interpretation of the interaction between art, science, politics, and religion in Renaissance culture, the book also offers fresh insights into the Medici and papal courts. The Marvel of Maps: Art, Cartography, and Politics in Renaissance Italy
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Italian Vegetarian Cooking by Jo Marcangela, ISBN 0892813431

115 distinctive recipes introduce the cheeses, herbs, and other essential ingredients that make Italian cuisine unique. Italian Vegetarian Cooking by Jo Marcangela, ISBN 0892813431
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Feng Shui Your Workspace for Dummies by Jennifer Lawler, ISBN 0764519875

Packed with tips on lighting, furniture, and clearing clutter

The fun and easy way® to dress a workspace for success

Looking to tap into the power of Feng Shui to enhance your workspace? This essential guide shows you how to apply its basic principles to design a comfortable, welcoming work environment that increases harmony, relieves tension, boosts your job productivity and performance, and maximizes positive energy.

Feng Shui Your Workspace for Dummies by Jennifer Lawler, ISBN 0764519875
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Macaroni Boy by Katherine Ayres, ISBN 0385730160

Mike Costa has lived his whole life in The Strip, Pittsburgh's warehouse and factory district. His father's large Italian family runs a food wholesale business, and Mike is used to the sounds and smells of men working all night to unload the trains that feed the city. But it's 1933, and the Depression is bringing tough times to everyone. Money problems only add to Mike's worries about his beloved grandfather, who is getting forgetful and confused.
Mike is being tormented at school by a loud-mouth named Andy Simms, who calls Mike "Macaroni Boy." But when dead rats start appearing in the streets, that name changes to "Rat Boy." Around the same time Mike notices that his grandfather is also physically sick. Can whatever is killing the rats be hurting Mike's grandfather? It's a mystery Mike urgently needs to solve in this atmospheric, fast-paced story filled with vibrant period detail. Macaroni Boy by Katherine Ayres, ISBN 0385730160
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The Secular Furniture of E. W. Godwin by Susan Weber Soros, ISBN 0300081596

Victorian architect-designer E. W. Godwin (1833-1886), tying himself neither morally nor aesthetically to a single style, approached design with what he called "judicious eclecticism." Seeking to design furniture appropriate to the needs of modern living, he grappled with the problems of affordability, utility, and function and experimented with modular and fitted furniture decades before it became popular in the mid-twentieth century. This book is the first comprehensive study of Godwin's furniture designs. Taking the form of a catalogue raisonne, the book documents and reproduces all known examples of his secular furniture and related furniture designs.

Susan Weber Soros traces the development of Godwin's style, examines its sources, and assesses the historical importance of his work. She discusses how Godwin combined antiquarian interests with the study of more recent design traditions from different parts of the world, Including Japan. Godwin worked in six major styles: Gothic revival,...

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The World of Biedermeier by Linda Chase, ISBN 0500510555

Biedermeier furniture and interior design are recognized today as the first great flowering of haute bourgeois taste in interior design. Biedermeier is a style with great range, from austere to sumptuous, but it is never ostentatious in its celebration of comfort, domestic intimacy, and practicality. Beginning in the early nineteenth century, these bourgeois ideals in design were pursued by a wide range of society from the Hapsburgs and Hohenzollern to the middle class, from Middle Europe to Italy, yet Biedermeier's innate classicism, its lyrical yet elegant forms, have made it an influential inspiration in our own time.

The World of Biedermeier celebrates the elements of a wonderfully appealing style -- the furniture, decorative elements, paintings, crystal, porcelain, fabrics -- as no other recent book on furniture and design. Created out of an enraptured obsession with Biedermeier -- shared by Karl Kemp, the renowned antiques dealer, and Linda Chase, the noted interior designer and...

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Regional Italian Cooking by Circe, ISBN 0595267807

Circe is an astonishing cook, having spent more than 15 years in Professional catering in some of the finest homes in the Southern California area. She had the luck to marry at an early age into an extended Italian family whose women were only too happy to share their expertise in the kitchen. Besides cooking for her family of seven daily, she is also well known for entertaining large groups of up to 200 people by herself. Here is the culmination of almost 35 years of experience preparing the wonderful foods of her adopted homeland. Regional Italian Cooking by Circe, ISBN 0595267807
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