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‘Elegance is a fantastic book . . . funny, moving, tongue in cheek’ Cat Deeley
Author : Kathleen Tessaro
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 50,88 MB
Release : 2013-09-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0007548516
‘Elegance is a fantastic book . . . funny, moving, tongue in cheek’ Cat Deeley
Author : Ali Rahim
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 16,7 MB
Release : 2007-03-23
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0470029684
Elegance represents an important watershed in architectural design. Since the onset of computer-driven technologies, innovative designers have, almost exclusively, been preoccupied with the pursuit of digital techniques. This issue of AD extrapolates current design tendencies and brings them together to present a new type of architecture, one that is seamlessly trying processes, space, structure and material together with beauty. ‘Elegance’ here is cast with a new contemporary meaning as it is applied to work that is effortlessly complex. It is analogous to an elegant algorithm that uses a small amount of initiative code to great effect. In a structure elegance may be expressed by a complex surface that retains its continuity and integrity even when punctured. In many ways, Elegance marks a coming of age for, ‘digital architecture’, as architects become more adept at producing complexity and integrating digital design technologies, production and assembly systems producing elegant solutions. It is the potent finesse that is often associated with the work of Zaha Hadid Architects and other featured architects, such as Mark Goulthorpe of Decoi and Hani Rashid of Asymptote.
Author : Elly Sienkiewicz
Publisher : C&T Publishing Inc
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 50,43 MB
Release : 2006-09-01
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1607053136
If you always wanted to create a Baltimore Album quilt, you'll love Elly Sienkiewicz' new collection of smaller, less-complex blocks that are perfect for your first Baltimore Album. Or, enlarge the blocks for a larger work! More than two dozen block designs are also ideal for adding elegance to accessories and home dcor, or for creating a very special child's quilt. In-depth how-tos and Elly's skill-building lessons will have you creating block after block.
Author : Kathleen Tessaro
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Page : pages
File Size : 26,92 MB
Release : 2003
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ISBN : 9780007823871
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Page : 50 pages
File Size : 43,34 MB
Release : 1802
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Author : Muriel Barbery
Publisher : Europa Editions
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 16,55 MB
Release : 2008-09-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1609450132
The phenomenal New York Times bestseller that “explores the upstairs-downstairs goings-on of a posh Parisian apartment building” (Publishers Weekly). In an elegant hôtel particulier in Paris, Renée, the concierge, is all but invisible—short, plump, middle-aged, with bunions on her feet and an addiction to television soaps. Her only genuine attachment is to her cat, Leo. In short, she’s everything society expects from a concierge at a bourgeois building in an upscale neighborhood. But Renée has a secret: She furtively, ferociously devours art, philosophy, music, and Japanese culture. With biting humor, she scrutinizes the lives of the tenants—her inferiors in every way except that of material wealth. Paloma is a twelve-year-old who lives on the fifth floor. Talented and precocious, she’s come to terms with life’s seeming futility and decided to end her own on her thirteenth birthday. Until then, she will continue hiding her extraordinary intelligence behind a mask of mediocrity, acting the part of an average pre-teen high on pop culture, a good but not outstanding student, an obedient if obstinate daughter. Paloma and Renée hide their true talents and finest qualities from a world they believe cannot or will not appreciate them. But after a wealthy Japanese man named Ozu arrives in the building, they will begin to recognize each other as kindred souls, in a novel that exalts the quiet victories of the inconspicuous among us, and “teaches philosophical lessons by shrewdly exposing rich secret lives hidden beneath conventional exteriors” (Kirkus Reviews). “The narrators’ kinetic minds and engaging voices (in Alison Anderson’s fluent translation) propel us ahead.” —The New York Times Book Review “Barbery’s sly wit . . . bestows lightness on the most ponderous cogitations.” —The New Yorker
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Page : 298 pages
File Size : 19,4 MB
Release : 1826
Category : English poetry
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Page : 830 pages
File Size : 22,86 MB
Release : 1790
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Author : Vicesimus KNOX
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Page : 802 pages
File Size : 13,19 MB
Release : 1791
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Author : Vicesimus Knox
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Page : 908 pages
File Size : 28,24 MB
Release : 1794
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