Dream Villa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dream Villa write by Dayanita Singh. This book was released on 2010. Dream Villa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Dream Villa Singh explores how the night transforms what seems ordinary by day into something mysterious and unsettling. This series of colour photographs presents a landscape which exists as much in the artist's imagination as in the real world. Singh travels to many different cities never knowing where Dream Villa or its inhabitants will present themselves. It is a place where nothing is quite as it seems to be - it comes alive at night, when all is lit by artificial light and the moon is just ornamentation.
Villa Madama
Villa Madama - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Villa Madama write by Claudio Strinati. This book was released on 2007. Villa Madama available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The ideal model of a suburban residence desired by Leo X (1513-1521), son of Lorenzo the Magnificent, and continued by his cardinal cousin Giulio de' Medici, the future Clement VII (1523-1534), the 'vigna del papa', or papal residence, to be called Villa
Jacques Garcia
Jacques Garcia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jacques Garcia write by Jacques Garcia. This book was released on 2022-11-01. Jacques Garcia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. On the outskirts of the spectacular baroque town of Noto, Sicily, Jacques Garcia has transformed an ancient monastery into an abode of earthly bliss. Celebrated interior designer Jacques Garcia invites readers inside his private residence in Sicily for the first time. The former monastery, rebuilt in Noto’s characteristic golden limestone, boasts spectacular salons that have been restored with a profusion of noble materials and techniques: colored marbles, flamboyant stuccowork, majolica tiles, damask silks, and velvets. Time stops in the elegant music room, decorated with embroidered silks and rococo-style mirrors that reflect the decor to infinity; the gilded dining room is hung with silk damask wall coverings and an eighteenth-century Murano chandelier and furnished with Chantilly porcelain and antique Italian rococo chairs. The grand marble salon features baroque paintings and a stunning collection of sculpture and Sicilian furniture. The exquisite villa—surrounded by shaded terraces planted with towering cacti and succulents—attests to Garcia’s love of ancient civilizations and his masterful blending of Arabian, Norman, Renaissance, and baroque influences that converge in Sicily’s colorful history. The domain, dotted with ancient sculptures and reflecting pools, is graced with splendid panoramic views revealing the sea near Syracuse, a distant folly, a restored villa nestled in an ancient olive grove, and the decaying grandeur of a classical temple reconstructed with ancient fragments.
Dream House
Dream House - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dream House write by Ulysses Grant Dietz. This book was released on 2009. Dream House available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Recognizable to millions as a symbol of the American presidency, the White House was first an American home. From 1800 until 1960, it kept pace with changing ideals of the American house and garden. That ended when Jacqueline Kennedy redecorated the White House as a museum to upper-class taste. Today the Obamas are pulling it back to its role as an American home. This book looks at the president's house in the context of American house design and decoration. Hundreds of historic photographs, plans, and drawings compare it to other American houses, gardens, and interiors, showing the White House as it changed through decades of interior renovation, rebuilding, and landscaping.--From publisher description.
Not in a Tuscan Villa
Not in a Tuscan Villa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Not in a Tuscan Villa write by John Petralia. This book was released on 2013-08. Not in a Tuscan Villa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Newly retired and looking for more than a vacation, John and Nancy Petralia intrepidly pack a few suitcases and head to the "perfect" Italian city for a year. Within days their dream becomes a nightmare. After residing in two Italian cities, negotiating the roads and health care, discovering art, friends, food and customs, the Petralias learn more than they anticipate -- about Italy, themselves, what it means to be American, and what's important in life.
