The New Glamour

The New Glamour

Author: Jeff Andrews

Publisher: Rizzoli Publications

Published: 2019-04-02

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 0847866327

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Interior designer Jeff Andrews reveals his decorating secrets in a refreshing, youthful, and livable take on what glamour today can be. Kourtney Kardashian. Kris Jenner. Kaley Cuoco. These Hollywood stars and more have turned to Jeff Andrews to deliver his trademark high style to their homes. In his first book, Jeff Andrews guides us through the bold spaces he has created for his celebrity clients, while sharing his philosophy on design, exploring topics such as creating a vision and keeping unexpected choices elegant and cohesive; cultivating cinematic style with sweeping staircases and a feeling of extravagance, while never insisting on buttoned-up formality. Throughout, Andrews reminds us that interiors must be balanced--whether it's making sure that even the most sophisticated house has a sense of welcome, or adding an element of rusticity, like grasscloth walls, to an otherwise sleek modern space. Captivating light fixtures, luxe-yet-comfortable furniture, and carefully curated collections come together for a modern take on old Hollywood glamour that will inspire and instruct. Colorful and fun, this is a sourcebook of cool California living at its best.


Vintage Black Glamour: Gentlemen's Quarters (Hardcover Edition)

Vintage Black Glamour: Gentlemen's Quarters (Hardcover Edition)

Author: Nichelle Gainer

Publisher: Rocket 88

Published: 2020-11-19

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781910978542

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A glamorous and sumptuous celebration of Black male artists, actors, entertainers and writers of the 20th century. Author Nichelle Gainer has drawn on personal family memories and largely undiscovered library archives to create a glorious collection of images and biographies that explore the lives and indomitable spirit of wonderful men who wowed audiences on screen, sports field, stage and the page, but who went largely ignored by mainstream media.


The Power of Glamour

The Power of Glamour

Author: Virginia Postrel

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-11-05

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1416561110

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An exploration of glamour, a potent cultural force that influences where people choose to live, which careers to pursue, where to invest, and how to vote, offers empowerment to be smarter about engaging with the world.


Jamie Drake's New American Glamour

Jamie Drake's New American Glamour

Author: Jamie Drake

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 9780821257166

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A veteran interior designer presents a collection of his signature rooms, marked by their distinctive, dynamic, and livable approach to decorating and explains how to transform a room from ordinary into extraordinary by using the principles of Luster, Texture, Color, the Curve, and the Mix. 20,000 first printing.


Glamour

Glamour

Author: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2004-01-01

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 0300106408

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This catalogue revises our understanding of glamour in the fields of fashion, industrial design, and architecture. Tracing glamour's trajectory from Hollywood's golden age to its present-day connotations of affluence, this illustrated volume presents an array of postwar couture, jewelry, automobile, furniture, and built and unbuilt architecture - all of which share an affinity for richly decorative patterning, complex layering, and sumptuous materials.


Vintage Black Glamour

Vintage Black Glamour

Author: Nichelle Gainer

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9781906615895

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Using rarely accessed photographic archives and private collections, inspired by her family history, Nichelle Gainer has unearthed a revealing treasure trove of historic photographs of famous actors, dancers, writers and entertainers who worked in the 20th-century entertainment business, but who rarely appeared in the same publications as their white counterparts. Alongside the familiar images and stories of renowned performers such as Eartha Kitt, Lena Horne and Aretha Franklin are those of less well-remembered figures such as Bricktop, Pearl Primus, Diana Sands and many, many more. Vintage Black Glamour is a unique, sumptuous and revealing celebration of the lives and indomitable spirit of Black women of a previous era. Although talented, successful and ground-breaking, many of the women in these pages were ignored by mainstream media, but their life's work and attitude stand as inspiration for us still, today.With its stunning photographs and insightful biographies, this book is a hugely important addition to Black history archives.


The Glamour of Grammar

The Glamour of Grammar

Author: Roy Peter Clark

Publisher: Hachette+ORM

Published: 2010-07-22

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 0316089060

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Early in the history of English, the words "grammar" and "glamour" meant the same thing: the power to charm. Roy Peter Clark, author of Writing Tools, aims to put the glamour back in grammar with this fun, engaging alternative to stuffy instructionals. In this practical guide, readers will learn everything from the different parts of speech to why effective writers prefer concrete nouns and active verbs. The Glamour of Grammar gives readers all the tools they need to"live inside the language" -- to take advantage of grammar to perfect their use of English, to instill meaning, and to charm through their writing. With this indispensable book, readers will come to see just how glamorous grammar can be.


American Glamour and the Evolution of Modern Architecture

American Glamour and the Evolution of Modern Architecture

Author: Alice T. Friedman

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13:

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Alice Friedman argues that the aesthetics of mid-20th century modern architecture reflect an increasing fascination with 'glamour', a term used in those years to characterise objects, people, & experiences as luxurious, expressive & even magical.


War is Beautiful - The New York Times Pictorial Guide to the Glamour of Armed Conflict

War is Beautiful - The New York Times Pictorial Guide to the Glamour of Armed Conflict

Author: David Shields

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2019-06-11

Total Pages: 121

ISBN-13: 1576879496

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Bestselling author David Shields analyzed over a decade's worth of front-page war photographs fromTheNew York Timesand came to a shocking conclusion: the photo-editing process ofthe "paper of record,"by way of pretty, heroic, and lavishly aesthetic image selection, pullsthe woolover the eyes of its readers; Shields forces us to face not only the the media's complicity in dubious and catastrophic military campaigns but our own as well.This powerful media mouthpiece, the mightyTimes, far from being a check on governmental power, is in reality a massive amplifier for its dark forces by virtue of the way it aestheticizeswarfare. Anyone baffled by the willful American involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan can't help but see in this book how eagerly and invariably theTimesled the way in making the case for these wars through the manipulation of its visuals. Shields forces the reader to weigh the consequences of our own passivity in the face of these images' opiatic numbing. The photographs gathered inWar Is Beautiful, often beautiful and always artful, are filters of reality rather than the documentary journalism they purport to be.


Faded Glamour

Faded Glamour

Author: Pearl Lowe

Publisher: CICO Books

Published: 2019-10-08

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781782497912

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“To me, an object that was once the height of elegance but is now a bit battered has far more allure than something brand new.” Pearl Lowe in The Daily Telegraph Pearl Lowe has a passion for vintage finds with character—jewel-toned velvet sofas, hand-dyed lace curtains, gleaming lacquer cabinets—and these are the essential ingredients of Faded Glamour, a gloriously decadent and perfectly lived-in decorating style. With evocative photography, Pearl’s beautiful Georgian home is revealed, showcasing her trademark blend of grandly romantic and cool rock ’n’ roll interiors. Take a tour through the colorful living rooms, intimate bedrooms, and plush bathrooms of her creative friends’ unique homes. There are hand-painted peacocks and an emerald silk bedspread in the charming house of a renowned British fashion designer; bright contemporary paintings on the perfectly rustic plaster walls of Hauser and Wirth in Somerset; a rainbow staircase and vivid embroidered wall hangings in the home of an eclectic jewelry designer, and so much more.