Top 10 Books Amy Butler’s Blossom
This book is a collection of everything that inspires Amy Butler’s: This book is a collection of everything that inspires Amy Butler: pages of photographs from her travels to inspiring places such as Morocco and Sedona, meditative articles from designers, artists, life coaches, and of course the signature designs and textiles that she creates from these inspirations. This irresistible look-book compiles the first two issues of Blossom magazine and is the perfect reflection of Amy’s unique philosophy on life and style. Publisher: Chronicle Books
Art & Makeup
Private Gardens of Paris
Shigeru Ban. Complete Works 1985-2010, Art Edition
The award-winning makeup artist Lan NguyenGrealis created Art & Makeup to show some of her greatest works. For the book, Lan Nguyen-Grealis looked for inspiration in art, sculpture, cinema, and performance art and her references were Picasso, Warhol, Marie Antoinette, Cleopatra, Mad Men, and The Great Gatsby. Art & Makeup shows more than 200 beautiful images and includes photography from Rankin. The second part features the techniques used to create some of the looks.
An exclusive glimpse into the hidden world of secret Parisian gardens. A secret landscape lies behind Paris’s urban facades, rarely seen by casual passersby these timeless places are verdant refuges ideal to provide inspiration to the expert gardener or even to the armchair enthusiast. Gardens come in many forms such as Hubert de Givenchy’s formal garden, Kenzo’s Japaneseinspired oasis, or an exotic hideaway with rare flowers, but when it comes to urban gardens, Private Gardens of Paris is an inspiring collection.
A special cover custom made by Shigeru Ban, with a hand-crafted mesh of polished African Samba wood, inspired by the roof design of the new Centre Pompidou-Metz, that’s what you’ll find in this limited edition with only 200 numbered copies.
Publisher: Laurence King
Publisher: Rizzoli
Publisher: Taschen
Shigeru Ban is one of the world’s most innovative architects; he often uses paper or cardboard tubes as a structural element thus giving new meaning to the expression Paper Architect.