A Passing Bell is the culmination of a life’s work. The poem skillfully takes the form of a series of classic Persian ghazals, a style perfected by poets such as Hafiz and Rumi, into a contemporary setting. The ghazal is a lyric poem often compared to the sonnet for its traditional invocation of love, longing and melancholy. Each line of a ghazal has two parts and resembles a couplet. The final line usually contains the poet’s name, but Kane has reworked this tradition, and included his wife’s name in the final line of each ghazal, making her absence ever more present. In 2013 the poet’s wife fell ill to the devastating motor neuron disease ALS, and in 2015 she returned home to Australia to die. A Passing Bell begins at this tragic ending, and traces the poet’s grief, from a time when he is so bewildered by loss he is ‘shocked to be alive’, to his return home, to the house he built for his wife in Australia, to reflect on his life and loss, arriving at a place where ‘there comes a time every day when I travel backwards, as if against the tidal flow of my future’. Kane’s poetry offers luminous sorrow and the glimmering possibility of joy restored.
Between 1400 and 1500 a design revolution in Persia swept away a 2000-year-old tradition of carpet design, replacing abstract geometric patterns with complex floral scrolls dominated by a central medallion derived from the Chinese cloud-collar shape. This revolution represents a major event in world art history, comparable to that which occurred at the same time in Renaissance Italy. It was followed over the next four centuries by a second revolution, during which the principal design elements of the first permeated carpet production at every level throughout Persia and continue to dominate it to this day.
This book features the collector/author’s well-informed views about a careful selection of mainly 19th century knotted pile carpets and flatwoven covers in various techniques from his own extensive collection, which has been built up over a period of more than five decades. Many of the rugs, which are all of the highest graphic and artistic quality, have been acquired without recourse to the open market and are therefore previously unseen and unpublished. Raoul (Mike) Tschebull’s long experience in the genre allows insights that go beyond the conventional wisdom of the traditional antique oriental carpet bazaar. His collecting career began under the aegis of one of the great US collectors of a previous generation, Joseph V. McMullan.
This beautifully illustrated book will include a general introduction to the region, which straddles the present-day border between north-western Iran and the Republic of Azerbaijan, setting the context for the focused presentation of some 70 examples, each with the author’s comments about design, structure, technique and attribution, providing a matrix within which dating can be considered. In-country field experience colours some of his views, and extracts from his field notes and accompanying images will be included the book.
From the first sparks over blazing flames to red-hot embers – cooking and baking outdoors in nature over the open fire creates a very particular fascination. Combined with a good pinch of adventure and originality, there is more to it than mere food preparation. Outdoor pro Carsten Bothe, together with the innovative but tradition-steeped Petromax company, presents more than 80 recipes for cooking outdoors, and conjures up splendid treats in a Dutch Oven, Skillet or Loaf Pan – from a German farmer’s breakfast of pork roast with crackling and vegetables on the Griddle and Fire Bowl, to bread, soups, stews, pastry and drinks. In this book you will find instructions and recipes together with field-tested tips and interesting facts on handling cast iron – all of which enrich the outdoor kitchen experience, but are, of course, also suitable for cooking at home. Contents: Breakfast; Meat, fish & poultry; Pan fried dishes; Savoury casseroles; Soups; Pizza; Side dishes; Bread & pastries; Cakes & desserts; Beverages
Letters, manuscripts, drawings and ancient books… many are unique documents that offer us a closer look at the men and women who have made history. These written treasures of cultural heritage and social history, patiently collected by the team of the Museum of Letters and Manuscripts in Brussels, are the very source material for historians and researchers, and often constitute the only link between the world of the remote past and the present time. Anthology, which was conceived to preserve and publicise what amounts to an exceptional overview of history, presents 120 documents signed by some of the most famous historical figures (Alexander III, Charles V, Louis XIV), statesmen (De Gaulle, Eisenhower, Leopold I), authors (Voltaire, Dickens, Hugo Claus ), scientists (Vesalius, Marie Curie, Einstein), artists (Delacroix, Van Gogh, Magritte) and musicians (Mozart, Strauss, De Greef).
Food is one of the reasons many tourists visit Thailand each year, not only for its affordability, but because the Kingdom’s exotic cuisine offers an unrivalled culinary experience and is internationally famous for its distinctive flavours. The diversity, abundance and quality of ingredients are incomparable with any other country in the world. Bangkok Street Food provides you with all the best addresses in Bangkok as well as more than 60 authentic street food recipes. Many of the famous Thai dishes actually originated on a street corner or at a food market and made it to the gastronomic world of food. That’s why you can find the soul of Thai food on the streets. This book offers a lot more than the traditional green, yellow and red curry recipes. As you open the volume, you can smell coconut milk, coriander and lemon grass. Besides the appetising recipes, it explains everything you need to know about cooking techniques and products. Otherwise said, Bangkok Street Food is not just a culinary feast, but an unrivalled adventure! Also available: Hanoi Street Food ISBN 9789020997842 Singapore and Penang Street Food ISBN 9789401403672 New York Street Food ISBN 9789401403696
His photographs are of an old-fashioned beauty and at the same time radically contemporary. Flower by flower Bas Meeuws composes his floral still lifes, but digitally: the basis for Meeuws’ monumental works are digital photographs of individual flowers. They allude to the Dutch masters of the seventeenth century with their sense of luxury and their eye for the ephemeral. Meeuws strikes a chord in the art world with his flower still lifes. He is represented by Dutch, American, Taiwanese and Indian galleries and exhibits from Amsterdam to New Delhi.
“Flowers represent the circle of life for me as well as the short time of real beauty – Carpe Diem” – Bas Meeuws.
“Meeuws’ assortment of flowers, seem to emerge yet elapse into their inky black backdrops, reveling in sharpness, flaunting texture, pore and vein.” – Newspaper The Hindu.
Text in English and Chinese.
Dutch photographer Carli Hermès has been working all over the world as a groundbreaking photographer for over 25 years now. This book features Carli’s classics including his work for brands like Martini, Swatch, Levi’s, Mexx, G-Star, Nike, WE, Philips, Sony, BMW, Suitsupply and Mercedes Benz, and includes Carli’s personal favourites alongside new images – made exclusively for the book. His rich collection is imaginative, both conceptual and honest and with a dash of kinetic volatility.
Chicken is a universal dish, prepared around the world. It is versatile and affordable. Luc Hoornaert and Kris Vlegels present recipes by famous top chefs such as Bocuse and Georges Blanc, classical chicken dishes for every day, and recipes from cultures around the world.
There is a way leading to the realisation of our dreams for each and every one of us. The difficult part is finding it. Based upon the power of authenticity in music, together with the most pressing perspectives of contemporary thought leaders, Dreamers Who Do allows you to create a climate of safety: a personal climate in which you and/or others are inspired to take action. This book reveals the four dimensions of purpose that drive ‘dreamers who do’: they dream, stand up, push through, and above all they continuously let love rule. Draws from the insights of musicians like Lenny Kravitz and thought leaders such as Simon Sinek, Maya Angelou, George Kohlrieser and William Ury to reaching your dreams or those of others. Features illustrations by artist Koen Vanmechelen.
Gin & tonic, the drink of the eighties, is more fashionable than ever before. Bars, clubs, gin menus in restaurants – gin is everywhere.
This beautifully compiled book is an essential guide for gin lovers in search of their own original take on this wonderfully complex drink. Richly illustrated, it covers the history of gin, the gin families with their distinct characteristics and distilled flavours, and the exciting, more recent developments in the marketing, the bottling and packaging of gin which is increasingly quirky, artistic and original. There is an overview of some of the smartest places to drink and discover a world of gin; hip and very cool.
Beyond ‘ice and a slice’, how do you put together the perfect gin and tonic, from the amazing array of new infusions? What are the flavours and textures in food that best accompany this very particular drink? With foodpairing ideas and recipes to create at home… find your favourite glass, crack the ice and indulge!
The perfect accompaniment to the booming “ginterest,” this new edition includes a section on foodpairing (with new recipes!) with gin, and an overview of the most famous gin bars across the globe.
“Haute-à-Porter demonstrates that fantasy can be found at both ends of the fashion spectrum, and it proves that nothing in this field is ever static.” – Vogue.com “Haute-à-Porter features an outstanding selection of garments by high-end designers and fashion houses from the past 30 years, completed with photography, film and art.” – Metal Magazine Haute couture often dazzles us with its precision, craftsmanship and the extravaganza inherent in it. Clothing items are made out of proportion; unique materials are used and everything is hand-finished. But, the Prêt-à-porter collections of today comply with the classic principles of Haute Couture. The items shown on the catwalk should theoretically be wearable, but often in reality this is not entirely the case. Haute-à-Porter examines the relationship between Haute Couture and prêt-à-porter collections and shows the evolution in their relationship over the past 25 years. Includes conversations with Angelo Flaccavento, Antonio Mancinelli, Alexander Fury, Colin McDowell, Farida Khelfa, Irene Silvagni, Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni, Nicole Phelps, Pierre Hardy, Robin Schulié, Rick Owens, Stephen Jones, Thom Browne, Tim Blanks, Vivienne Westwood, Yohji Yamamoto, Zandra Rhodes, Viktor & Rolf and many more Photographs and artworks by Ali Mahdavi, Anthony Maule, Brian Griffin, Daniel Jackson, Erik Madigan Heck, Fabien Baron, François Berthoud, Giampaolo Sgura, Jackie Nickerson, Kevin Tachman, Luigi & Iango, Michal Pudelka, Mikael Jansson, Miles Aldridge, Peter Lindbergh, Rene Habermacher, Txema Yeste, Sebastian Kim, Sheila Metzner and others. Text in English and Dutch.
“Influencers are like a match in a hearth. You can’t get the fire to start without them (unless you can afford to use more drastic methods). But their way of working often remains hidden: as soon as the fire is burning, you no longer see the match.” Like the wood in a hearth, the combined talents within a company form a solid basis for business activity. But this alone is not enough to make a company successful. What every company needs is a plan for finding the influencers who can set its brand alight. Influencers provides decision-makers and marketing executives with a guide for translating an influencer strategy into practice, and allows influencers themselves to discover how to build up sustainable relationships with trendsetting companies. In doing so, Influencers is among the first to clearly map out the often-neglected subject of influencer marketing in Europe.
Josse Goffin is one of the most important illustrators/graphic designers of his time. The artist excels in poster design, illustration, graphics, children’s books illustrations and television. His use of colour and form, his simple designs, his freshness have granted him a place on the highest level internationally. His works are often described as warm and recognisable. In this book, his works are brought together for the very first time. The exhibition Inventory will be held in Brussels (from April to July) where most of the work of Goffin will be displayed.
Text in English & Dutch.
Vineyard tells the story of 15 Belgian winemakers who operate in 15 different European countries. Their journeys lead the reader to the most diverse wine domains: from the flanks of the Etna in Sicily to the Douro riversides in Portugal, and the fascinating landscape of the Priorat in Spain. This book details the wine-making process, while giving the reader an intimate feel for the localities where these wines are produced.
By means of the ambitious We Drift-concept, an exhibition of 1,000,000 m², Wim Tellier wants to confront us with our vulnerability as a human on an endangered planet Earth. Through this book, the author shows us the origin of the project, the challenges and the various unique locations. Impressive images illustrate the result of this exciting project. It is the first art installation in the world that is driven by nature.
“Belgian solutions is first of all a title, that became a way of speaking: ‘Look, a Belgian solution.’ It all started with me stopping to take pictures of situations that I later began publishing on Facebook under this title. After some time people were sending me more and more photos, not only from Belgium of course, but from all over the globe, pictures that in very different and individual ways always kept saying: ‘Look, a Belgian solution.’ or simply: ‘Look, a solution.'” David Helbich Not every solution is the answer to the problem. The Brussels-based artist David Helbich started collecting ‘Belgian Solutions’ in 2006. Once he started to share his photos online on Facebook in 2008 (the Belgian Solutions page has over 23,000 fans), the project gathered speed, with contributions by Belgian Solutions spotters all over the world. Luster is publishing the third, updated and improved edition of the original publication.
The Brussels-based artist David Helbich started collecting Belgian Solutions in 2006; he made photos of the peculiar and sometimes hilarious, no-nonsense solutions that he spotted in his daily surroundings. Once he started to share his photos online on Facebook in 2008 (the Belgian Solutions page has over 25,000 fans), the project gathered speed, with contributions by ‘Belgian Solutions’ spotters all over the world. And because Helbich keeps receiving pictures, he keeps creating content – much to the joy of his fans. Also available: Belgian Solutions 1 ISBN 9789460581571
The youngest of the four children, Charles Spencer was the only one to follow his father’s footsteps. In 1914, the year of his father’s death, Charles took control of the flourishing family business. While attending Oxford in 1894, his future path seemed fairly clearly mapped out for him by family tradition. Before graduation, however, he set out on a tour of Europe, like many a well-to-do young man before him. The experience was recorded in a series of notebooks, which lay forgotten in a drawer for years, until they were collected after the author’s death by his daughter Margaret, and were privately printed. The Tuscany that Charles describes is a Tuscany of city-states and belltowers, of good red wine and of country traditions. In his description not a word is mentioned about Leonardo da Vinci, and only the briefest mention is made of Michelangelo; but Piero della Francesca and Caravaggio are lovingly dwelt upon, as are wayside votive tabernacles. Travels in Tuscany presents an everyday Tuscany as seen by a tranquil English traveller and lover of art and fine food.
Britain and Ireland have so much to offer. The Gulf Stream is responsible for the development of many unique natural landscapes, and Britain’s countless natural wonders have one thing in common: the colour green. Whether in Ireland, Scotland, or England, whether on the Shetland Islands or on the Isle of Man – green prevails everywhere. The islands’ vast moors, steep cliffs and gentle hills are not only the habitat of many animals, but also of abundant flora – prospering here in all its diversity. The rich fauna is comprised of birds of prey such as the red kite and the peregrine falcon, while sheep and ponies are found on the mainland, and seals and northern gannets in the coastal regions. UNESCO protected areas and national parks such as Wester Ross and Galloway, Snowdonia and Dartmoor, Copper Coast and Killarney give a glimpse of the unique beauty of the nature of the British Isles.
Nicknamed ‘the French Borromini’, Gilles Marie Oppenord (1672-1742) was born in Paris, the son of a royal cabinet maker. He was a royal pensioneer at the Academie de France in Rome. There he devoted much of his studies to Mannerist and Baroque architecture and ornament and the Louvre’s carnet (acquired in 1972) is a testament to this period of intense study. Only three sketchbooks of this period survive. When he returned to Paris he was trained as an architect by Jules-Hardouin Mansart and he soon became the architect of Philippe II Duke of Orleans, later Regent of France, for whom he decorated and designed the interiors of the Palais Royal. For the reception of the King in 1723, he was entrusted with the restoration and decoration of the Château de Villers Cotterets. Oppenord also carried out important church commissions, among them the completion of the church of Saint Sulpice in Paris. A talented draughtsman, he published two books of his engraved designs.
Text in French.
In 1778 Pierre Henri De Valenciennes, a young landscape painter from Toulouse, found himself in Rome with many other foreign artists intent on studying not only the ancient monuments and the works of the modern masters, but also to encounter Italy’s light and landscape. Contrary to most of his companions, Valenciennes rarely copied ancient or modern works of art, but instead he chose to sketch views of Rome, ‘a mix of antique and of modern, an assemblage of irregularity and symmetry’. The 96 pages of the sketchbook, reproduced in their actual size and accompanied by a commentary, guide us through Rome, from the river port of Ripa Grande to the basilica of St. John Lateran, from the Ponte Salario bridge to the Vatican, from Piazza Barberini to the Villa Borghese and along the banks of the river Tiber. An advocate of en plein air painting, Valenciennes’ sketches use two or three tints of the same colour to trace the landscape of an ideal Rome, and to achieve this goal he did not hesitate to modify or move the surrounding architecture.
Contents: Preface by Xavier Salmon, Director of the Prints and Drawings Department of the Louvre; Introduction; Travel to Italy and meeting with artists; Valenciennes’ Italian Sketchbooks; Description of the organisation of Sketchbook RF 12966; Material Description; Provenance; List of Exhibitions, Bibliography.
Text in French.
This book challenges the conventional idea of what constitutes the physical form of the contemporary city. Observing the absence of extended urban fabrics – the missing urbanism – in the new global cities developed today, it argues that these cities are merely statistical accumulations of density that lack the positive attributes of a genuine urban condition. Cities as urban places cannot be made by individual buildings alone but rather depend on the intertwined combination of an architecture that is bound to the creation of public spaces and streets, and engaged in the structure of urban blocks to form a complex field pattern of interactive solids and voids. Broad in scope, the book explores the nature of the fundamental relationship between architecture and urbanism as one of spatial formation. As an independently designed entity, the city forms the ordering framework in which architecture is partially subordinated to the mutual sustainability of the overall urban fabric. If a new urban architecture is to be an integral constituent of public place making, it must be composed using a radically different paradigm of positive, figurally constructed ‘space’ rather than the indefinite background of ‘anti-space’ as exemplified in the chapter on Mies van der Rohe’s architectural quest for the ineffable modern void. These two different spatial models are explored in depth in the eponymous article, ‘Space and Anti Space,’ first published in the Harvard Architectural Review in 1980, which forms the core of the book and postulates that the underlying attitudes toward spatial formation, at both domestic and urban scales, determine our ability to shape place and human experience. In a series of essays, articles and urban projects extensively illustrated by plans, analytic diagrams, and dramatic images, this book makes a visual and verbal argument for the steps that need to be taken to re-urbanise the city in order to achieve an urbanity consisting of multiple discrete places that depend on the essential concept of contained geometrical space. These spatial ideas are illustrated in this book in three proposals: for Rome, in ‘Roma Interrotta,’ 1979; Paris, the ‘Consultation Internationale pour L’Aménagement du Quartier des Halles,’ 1980; and New York in the ‘World Trade Center Site Innovative Design Study,’ 2002.
[re]TOKYO explores a wide, understanding vision of the transformative processes of one of the most influential and unknown metropolitan areas in the world, from large scale efforts such as Tokyo’s land engineering transformations, to smaller examples such as its capital vending machine system. Four hundred pages, compiling 400 years of history, are covered in this uniquely Japanese complexity of social conurbation, including more than 1400 illustrations, diagrams, photographs, and maps in order to visually support selected themes. [re]TOKYO develops the idea of [re]definition processes to explain what, who, when, where, and why all these changes took place, concluding with a collection of the essential processes that comprehensively elaborate Tokyo’s changes – a tool to understand its history and speculate about its future as an exciting metropolis and cultural center of the world.