Key Moments in Architecture: The Evolution of the City

Vickers, Graham

Hamlyn Publishing

This book charts the history of design and advertising over the last forty years. Covering a range of design disciplines – including graphic design, press advertising, radio and television, new media and retail packaging – a narrative-style essay sets out the historical framework and describes the main developments in design practice since the 1960s. The material in the book is drawn from the extensive archives of the London-based organisation, Design and Art Direction (D&amp;AD), one of the world’s leading bodies representing the creative industries of design and advertising.

Rewind Forty Years of Design & Advertising

Arts & Photography

MYERSON, Jeremy

Graphic Design

Phaidon Press

Newly built hotels are being admired throughout the world by travelers and architects, and this strikingly illustrated survey, featuring over 200 full–color photographs, highlights the best new designs. In the past several years, hoteliers have responded ever more boldly to their guests’ demands for both luxury and aesthetic sophistication. The result has been the emergence of new trends in hotel design, which at one extreme increasingly blur the border between lodging, lifestyle, and living theatre, and at the other seek to reinvent the more discreet manners and style of the grand hotels of the late nineteenth century. This visually exciting volume by noted design writer Graham Vickers provides a timely overview of these trends, profiling no fewer than thirty–seven of the world’s most noteworthy new hotels, from the lavishly appointed Ritz–Carlton Miami to a Quebec hotel constructed entirely of snow and ice. Vickers skillfully clarifies the distinctions between the various strands of contemporary hotel design by dividing the book into categorical chapters: Traditional Interpretations” surveys luxury hotels a la the Four Seasons; Mainstream Experiments” highlights fresh takes on the conventional business or tourist hotel concept; Original Ideas” presents hotels with a special theme or purpose; Designer Hotels” focuses on the unique creations of celebrated interior designers; and Architectural Significance” covers hotels based in exceptional buildings. The commentaries on individual hotels within these chapters are illustrated by a total of 210 color photographs, as well as the designers’ own plans and elevations. Additional features—a concise introduction to the cultural context of hotel design, a complete list of featured architects and designers, and a full index—make this book an appealing and useful guide for both the hospitality professionals who operate hotels and the travelers who stay in them.

21st Century Hotel

Architecture

Abbeville Press

This fascinating and in-depth biography of Neal Cassady takes a look at the man who achieved immortality as Dean Moriarty, the central character in Jack Kerouac’s On the Road. A charismatic, funny, articulate, and formidably intelligent man, Cassady was also a compulsive womanizer who lived life on the edge. His naturalistic, conversational writing style inspired Kerouac, who lifted a number of passages verbatim and uncredited from Cassady’s letters for significant episodes in On the Road. Drawing on a wealth of new research and with full cooperation from central figures in his lifeincluding Carolyn Cassady and Ken Keseythis account captures Cassady’s unique blend of inspired lunacy and deep spirituality.

Neal Cassady: The Fast Life of a Beat Hero

Biographies & Memoirs

Sandison, David

Arts & Literature

Chicago Review Press

In the summer of 1958, a twelve-year-old girl took the world by storm—Lolita was published in the United States. This child, so fresh and alive, yet so pitiable in her abuse at the hands of the novel's narrator, engendered outrage and sympathy alike, and has continued to do so ever since.
Yet Lolita's image in the broader public consciousness has changed. No longer a little girl, Lolita has come to signify a precocious temptress, a cunning underage vixen who'll stop at nothing to get her man. How could this have happened?
Chasing Lolita,published on the fiftieth anniversary of Lolita's American publication, is an essential contemporary companion to Vladimir Nabokov's great novel. It establishes who Lolita really was back in 1958, explores her predecessors of all stripes, and examines the multitude of movies, theatrical shows, literary spin-offs, artifacts, fashion, art, photography, and tabloid excesses that have distorted her identity and stolen her name. It considers not just the "Lolita effect" but shifting attitudes toward the always volatile mix of sex, children, and popular entertainment—from Victorian times to the present. And it also looks at some real-life cases of young girls who became the innocent victims of someone else’s obsession—unhappy sisters to one of the most affecting heroines in American fiction, and one of the most widely misunderstood.

Chasing Lolita: How Popular Culture Corrupted Nabokov's Little Girl All Over Again

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

The public's appetite for new and excitingly designed hotels is insatiable. Never before have hotels been so earnestly responsive to the zeitgeist. How else can we explain the latest trends in design which at one extreme increasingly blur the border between lodging, lifestyle and living theatre, and at the other seek to reinvent the more discreet manners and style of the grand hotels of the late 19th century? 21st-Century Hotel highlights the latest examples of these trends and more as the international hotel sector finds newer and more imaginative ways to invent and reinvent itself in order to match the mood of the moment. A large-format bible of style for architects and interior designers, this book outlines the very latest developments in types of hotel design and then showcases the best on international scene through five themed chapters. It features forty six unusual

21st Century Hotel /anglais

LAURENCE KING

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