FLOWERS ARE LIKE WATER: YOU NEED THEM EVERY DAY Forget about fussy bouquets and ornate vases. All you need are a few blooms from your grocery store or farmers’ market, a simple container—perhaps one found at a garage sale or in your recycling bin or kitchen cabinet—and a touch of whimsy to pull it all together. In Flowers Chic and Cheap, Elle Decor editor at large Carlos Mota shows how unexpected elements can make a style statement. For example, fill a vintage teapot with pink peonies and set it next to your bed; gather some ferns and an orange poppy in a colorful gift bag and call it a centerpiece; dress any entryway by loading a soup tureen with lemons and a few dusted-off leaves (picked from the backyard, of course). Inside, Carlos reveals his trademark secrets for teasing the most out of flowers’ color, height, and texture, such as: Unusual combinations make the most interesting arrangements (think posh English garden roses paired with inexpensive pom-poms). Two dozen cheap roses are perfect for a graceful bouquet when the stems are cut short, arranged tightly, and peppered with mint stems. Short- and long-stemmed flowers placed in bud vases on a cake stand are always easy and elegant. Carlos also shares his tips for treasure hunting for vessels found in the most ordinary places. To him, a salsa jar is a vase for a dinner of Mexican take-out. Reused paint cans stuffed with any bouquet are one of the best wide-mouth vases around. With short lists of what you’ll need and clear instructions for what to do, plus more than two hundred gorgeous color photographs by celebrated photographer William Waldron, Flowers Chic and Cheap gives you all the practical information—and inspiration—for sprucing up your place without making a fuss.

Flowers Chic and Cheap: Arrangements with Flowers from the Market or Backyard

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Mota, Carlos

Crafts & Hobbies

Clarkson/Potter

Uno + uno (James Buchanan's Red Seal) (Spanish Edition) [paperback] Mota, Carlos,Ordorica, Ana Paula [Jan 14, 2011] ... 0307882306

Uno + uno (Spanish Edition)

Politics & Social Sciences

Ordorica, Ana Paula

Politics & Government

Grijalbo

Bland is anathema to Carlos Mota. As he travels the world—from Lisbon to Tangier, India to Santo Domingo, New York to Paris—producing feature stories and ad campaigns for countless publications and companies, he exults in every spark of originality and creativity he sees. Fortunately for us, he not only documents his sightings with his camera but also collects images by a Who’s Who of interiors and architectural photographers. And in this volume, he has culled some 280 of his favorite images, all wholly different but all sharing one quality: the beauty of color, both literally and figuratively. There are interiors, table settings, fabric swatches, tiles, floral arrangements, sculptures, architectural ornamentation—whatever captures his discriminating eye. Peppered with quotes about color and beauty by a host of designers, Beige Is Not a Color is the antithesis of bland and as aspirational as it is inspirational.

Beige Is Not a Color: The Full-Spectrum World of Carlos Mota

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Vendome Press

An exuberant celebration of the color green--in nature, art, interiors, and design Green is like water; it is everywhere, and we can't live without it. Green is the color of nature and the environment. Green is life. Interior designer and style guru Carlos Mota has such a passion for green that he has now devoted an entire book to it. G: Forever Green celebrates the color in all its manifold manifestations: in nature, food, fashion, jewelry, art, interiors, and architecture. From the brilliant markings on a butterfly's wings to the feathers of a tropical bird's breast, from Magritte's oversized apple to the brocade drapery in the background of a Holbein portrait, from a leafy arbor to a leafy wallpaper, from celadon to forest to emerald to acid to lime to kelly, the variety is astounding. Illustrated with Mota's own photographs, taken as he has traveled the world, as well as images by prominent photographers, G: Forever Green is a testament to the power of green to soothe, inspire, and excite.

G: Forever Green: A Celebration of Nature’s Most Prominent Color

Carlos Mota is the mastermind behind the amazing photographs seen in all the top design magazines, including Architectural Digest, Elle Decor, House &amp; Garden, Vanity Fair, Departures, and Interior Design. His gifted and educated eye for selecting furniture, textiles, accessories, and art has produced some memorable imagery. Mota is known for adding color and sophistication to the set, often by way of his elegant flower arrangements. Mota’s styling influences the way we see the world’s most extraordinary interiors, bringing vivacity to the pictures of some of the finest homes. Beautifully illustrated, A Touch of Style presents a curated journey through some of these incredible spaces.

A Touch of Style

Assouline

Es la aventura de Simón Troyano. Un joven mecánico que se ve involucrado en la guerra más antigua y vigente que ha existido. La guerra entre Dios y Luzbel, y la que nunca termina. Simón a punto de fallecer de muerte natural, en un hospital de la ciudad de Montreal Canadá, aceptará el trato de su vida y alquilará su cuerpo para que, un ser tan poderoso como Dios mismo, lleve a cabo sus bien planificadas vacaciones en este mundo. Simón será salvaguardado en la ciudad del Hades, colosal, cosmopolita, moderna y ordenada. Ahí Simón permanecerá encerrado en la suntuosa y magnífica mansión de su anfitrión Luzbel. Rey de esos dominios. Simón vivirá una semana llena de miedo, nervios, sorpresas y hasta amor. Mientras descubre un complot para robarle su reino a Luzbel en su ausencia. Simón conocerá ángeles y demonios y seres aún más antiguos que Dios mismo, en su aventura dentro de esa otra dimensión astral. Interactuando en Montreal, dentro del cuerpo humano de Simón Troyano, este ser antes celestial descubrirá rápidamente que, si algo nos sobra, son los problemas. Sus lujosas vacaciones serán cambiadas por persecución y viviendo en la casa parroquial con dos viejos sacerdotes, sabedores de quien es él. Con ellos disfrutará de muchas copas de buen vino y mucha plática filosófica y bíblica llena de curiosidades, lo que es su especialidad pues todo lo involucra a él. Atrapado en ese cuerpo tan normal y sin el habitual poder que posee en su dimensión. Este ex-ángel celestial será llevado a enamorarse, a sentir deseos carnales, sentir piedad, reirá, contará chistes y bailará salsa y merengue. El ángel caído, aprenderá a ser humano. Pues recibirá amor y dará amor, hoy con corazón hasta Dios lo puede perdonar.

Simón Dice (Spanish Edition)

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Page Publishing

Learn how to use Kotlin to share code across platformsMobile developers have to often repeat the same code across multiple platforms, which is not only time-consuming but also error-prone. Most documentation targets only specific use cases but misses out on the nuances essential to sharing code effectively across platforms.Kotlin Multiplatform by Tutorials will help you efficiently implement real-world apps for different platforms by sharing common code.Who this book is forThis book is for mobile developers and managers who want to explore how they can use Kotlin Multiplatform to share code across Android, iOS and desktop apps. If you want to reduce development and testing time by writing certain parts of your apps only once, this book will help.Topics covered in Kotlin Multiplatform by TutorialsJetpack Compose Android: Use Android's latest UI toolkit to quickly spin up the UI for different screens of your Android app.Compose Multiplatform: Use the concepts you learned in Jetpack Compose Android to develop the UI for desktop apps.SwiftUI: Learn how to develop the UI for iOS and macOS apps entirely in Swift.Testing: Make your code reliable by writing tests for both common code as well as platform-specific code.Koin: Learn about dependency injection and how you can use Koin to implement dependency injection in multiplatform apps.SQLDelight: Create a common persistence layer for your multiplatform apps while also getting the benefits of compile-time safety for schemas, statements and migrations.Serialization: Learn about different serialization formats and how you can use them to parse JSON data fetched from the Internet.Ktor: Implement a common networking layer with support for platform-specific HTTP clients.Coroutines: Learn about structures concurrency and the considerations to keep in mind while using coroutines on different platforms.One thing you can count on: after reading this book, you'll be prepared to create modules where you can write your code only once but target multiple platforms.

Kotlin Multiplatform by Tutorials (First Edition): Build Native Apps Faster by Sharing Code Across Platforms

Computers & Technology

Tutorial Team, raywenderlich

Moore, Kevin D

Taheri, Saeed

Programming

Razeware LLC

Kotlin Multiplatform by Tutorials (Second Edition): Build Native Apps Faster by Sharing Code Across Platforms

Team, Kodeco

Operating Systems

Kodeco Inc.

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