December 24,2008
Box set of Wallpaper* City Guides: World Cities Fashion

This box set contains five guides for the dedicated fashionista and the style-conscious shopper. It includes Wallpaper* City Guides to five world capitals of fashion – London, Milan, New York, Paris and Tokyo – presented in a specially-designed box tied with a ribbon. Themed box sets are a new addition to the Wallpaper* City Guides series: as well as the World Cities Fashion collection, three other box sets are also available, featuring Art Fairs, Beach and Business cities respectively.
Wallpaper* City Guides present a tightly edited, discreetly packaged list of the best a location has to offer the design conscious traveller. Here is a precise, informative, insider’s checklist of all you need to know about the world’s most intoxicating cities.
Whether you are staying for 48 hours or five days, visiting for business or a vacation, we’ve done the hard work for you, from finding the best restaurants, bars and hotels (including which rooms to request) to the most extraordinary stores and sites, and the most enticing architecture and design. Wallpaper* City Guides enable you to come away from your trip, however brief, with a real taste of the city’s landscape and the satisfaction you’ve seen all that you should.In short, these guides act as a passport to the best the world has to offer.
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December 15,2008
看藝術學思考
看藝術學思考作者:大衛.伯金斯
原文作者:David Perkins
譯者:莊靖
出版社:原點
出版日期:2008年10月03日
ISBN:9789868418479售價:$93 會員:$79
看得不一樣、想得更靈活的 創意思考技術
你常常被抱怨想事情囫圇吞棗,思考不夠靈活有創意?
你知道學生對於所學的內容,通常沒花腦子好好思考?
◎藝術適合練習思考的原因:
藝術可以讓飄浮的感覺停泊鎖定。在我們思考、談論和學習的時候,有個實質的物體可以聚焦將會很有幫助。而這正是藝術與生俱來的本質,你可以採用原作或複製品。
藝術可以隨時進入。同樣的,藝術作品的存在,可讓你隨時觀看、凝視、或從另一個角度觀察,藉此檢視各種論點,或探尋新的想法。
藝術可以讓人專注投入。藝術品的創作目的就是要吸引觀看者的注意力,讓他們久久難忘。這種特質可以讓觀看者反覆思索作品的意義。
藝術可以培養稟性氛圍。前面已經強調過,我們的目標是培養思考稟性,也就是寬廣的態度、傾向和思考習性。藝術往往會產生一種氛圍,有助於強化我們的思考稟性。
藝術可以促進廣泛的認知能力。雖然習慣上,我們總以為藝術主要是一種視覺現象,但是以深思熟慮的方式觀看藝術,卻需要動員各式各樣的認知能力──視覺處理、分析思考、提出問題、驗證假設、語言推理等等。
藝術可以建構多元連結。藝術往往容許豐富的連結性,並鼓勵多元串接,包括社會的論題、哲學的謎團、形式結構的特色、個人的憂慮和洞見,以及歷史的模式等等。
Q:為什麼不是量子力學,而是藝術呢? ...繼續閱讀
December 11,2008
世界名家椅經典圖鑑

作者:LOHO編輯部
譯者:蕭雅文
出版社:樂活文化
出版日期:2008年11月24日
售價:$90 會員:$77
※ 經典名作孕育時代的背景研讀
※ 日本也有名家設計的經典椅子作品嗎?
※ 在狹小的住宅之中的室內規劃
※ 家具商與知名品牌的歷史回顧
絕對不容錯過!大師級的經典設計!
已經被賦予世界經典印象、來自北歐的椅子作品。北歐的椅子不只是單純的美感設計,而是必須能夠滿足嚴冬中使用者,長時間在室內對舒適生活之要求。簡明直接的線條適用於各種空間風格。經典名作就此而誕生。什麼是「中世紀」的真正涵義?
經常可以聽到「midcentury」這個名稱。乍聽下似乎不容易理解,其實代表的就是20世紀之中間世代,更具體來說,也就是指1950 ~ 1960年代,以美國為主的時尚流行風格、與室內家具創作之具體呈現和設計。像宇宙探險般的造型及亮色系等都是主要的特徵。
名聲響亮的「包浩斯」究竟是指什麼呢?
包浩斯是1919年時設立於德國的國立造型學校。其所主張的機能設計主義對當時帶來莫大的影響。自1930年起擔任校長的密斯.凡.德羅以座右銘「God is in the details」而聞名。「形態來自機能」也是包浩斯為世人所熟知的設計理念。
照明設備中也有名家設計傑作嗎?
在室內設計之相關物件中,最重要的其實是照明設備。不是日光燈般均一的亮度,而是巧妙搭配白熱燈,以光線的強弱對比,才是營造空間的訣竅。照明設備,不只有單純散發光線的功能。接著就一起來欣賞創造出柔和溫馨與明亮清晰氣氛的經典照明傑作。
從包浩斯至今世界上的設計大師進入20世紀後,在德國設立的「包浩斯」、美國的「中世代」時期,以及屬於同期的「北歐黃金年代」,接連創作出無數的經典款式。也引導出現代的室內設計風格,接下來請看這些傑出設計師們的介紹。
Interior Color by Design : A Tool for Homeowners, Designers, and Architects
Publisher: Quayside Pub GroupFormat: Paperback
定價:200 會員:180
Provides more than 250 color samples with which to experiment to achieve different combinations.
"Interior Color by Design" is an upscale primer on color possibly the most important design element used in decorating interiors. Effective color selection can be a powerful element in any design. This book takes the mystery out of the color application process.
Included are more than 250 color samples to mix and match and experiment with to achieve different looks that suit any style of decor. Beautiful color photographs bring key concepts to life and make them easy to understand and easy to apply to any room in a home or office.
The book is packed with information on planning color relationships, preparing color schemes for interiors, making color charts, selecting materials, putting together color samples, and working with additive and subtractive color. The author also discusses the psychological impact of color and how color can enhance functional spaces and solve a wide range of practical problems.
December 9,2008
Wallpaper City Guides Art Fairs - Boxed Set: Basel, London, Miami, New York, and Venice
Wallpaper City Guides Art Fairs - Boxed Set: Basel, London, Miami, New York, and Venice
by Wallpaper Magazine Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Date Published: 2008
ISBN: 9780714855899
Description: New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. New
Languages: English
Price:$446 Member:$401
This box set contains five guides perfect for people interested in contemporary art.It includes cities that play host to the world's most prestigious art fairs and events –
Basel, London, Miami, New York and Venice
- presented in a specially-designed box.
Themed box sets are a new addition to the Wallpaper* City Guides series for Fall 2008:
as well as the "World Cities Art Fairs" collection, three other box sets will also be available, featuring Beach, Business and Fashion cities respectively.
"Wallpaper* City Guides" not only suggest where to stay, eat, and drink, but what the tourist passionate about design might want to see, whether he/she has a week or 24 hours in the city. Featured are up-and-coming areas, landmark buildings in an 'Architour', design centres, and the best shops to buy items unique to that city. "Wallpaper* City Guides" present travellers with a fast-track ticket to the chosen location. The edited guides offer the best, most exciting, and the most beautiful of that particular city. As well as looking beautiful, the guides are expertly designed with function as a priority, and have tabbed sections so that readers can easily find the information they are looking for.
The guides include rate and currency information, maps and a colour-coding system to help you navigate the different parts of the city. They are the ultimate combination of form and function.
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December 8,2008
水墨十講:哲學觀畫
作者:史作檉出版社:典藏藝術家庭
出版日期:2008年12月01日
ISBN:9789866833373
售價:117 會員:100
史作檉最新力作 首度執筆析論
尋找、歸返中國山水墨境間的大自然
超越四十餘載積累的哲學美學心體驗封筆多年後,哲學思想家史作檉最新力作,首度執筆水墨畫美學論作。
採黑白兩色為設計主調,封面簡冽融合現代感與水墨畫之留白意境,
並以觀音折仿古書裝幀方式增添閱讀手感與視覺美感。
從西方走進水墨畫裡的自然觀,史作檉與中國山水意境的初逢。山、水、樹──水墨畫畫面三元素。
簡單的畫面三元素,加上墨色濃淡所呈現的空間性,水墨畫的悠然意境就此產生,也勾勒出中國人視覺內外所描摹之主觀、客觀的「自然」。
畫面上,中國繪畫呈現一股靜止感,然而其所謂「止」並非停止,反是用「止」喻「不止」,旨在自然本身;人與自然的關係,就是中國繪畫中所呈現的根本法則,如同賈克梅第終生在人與對象間,從事不休止的充滿焦慮感之空間性距離的終極探討,這也是藝術中「永不能完成」的原理。
史氏從三十多歲就苦於無法在中國繪畫中尋求到一種清楚而確實之哲學方法與辨明,直到七十多歲的今日才能提筆撰寫,從綱要到辨明,從黑陶文化到唐宋五代與清代,列舉與辨證時代沿革下畫家們的空間配置與神韻追求間的異同,從矛盾到不矛盾,史氏在水墨畫中所面對之龐大自然,如同那一百多年前面對聖維克托山的塞尚,終在人與自然間找到原理與歸途。
November 24,2008
醜的歷史 La storia della brutezza (History of Ugliness)
作者:安伯托.艾可 原文作者:Umberto Eco
譯者:彭淮棟
出版社:聯經出版公司
出版日期:2008年11月08日
定價: $433 會員:$368
醜比美更美 ——安伯托.艾可
繼讓全球驚艷的《美的歷史》之後,博學大師安柏托.艾可寫出「醜」,而且他親自保證,一定比「美」更精采。
每個世紀,哲學家和藝術家都提出「美」的定義,藉他們述作之助,我們能夠建構一部審美觀念史。「醜」則異於是。大多時候,醜被界定為美的相反,但幾乎不曾有誰針對醜寫一部專論,醜淪落為邊緣作品順帶一提的東西。因此,美的歷史可以援引範圍很廣的理論文獻(我們由此推出一個特定時代的品味),醜的歷史則必須在關於人或事物的視覺、文字刻畫裡窮搜資料。
不過,醜的歷史和美的歷史還是有些共同特徵。首先,我們只能假定一般人的品味在某些方面和他們同時代的藝術家相同。設使一位來自外太空的訪客走進一所當代藝術的畫廊,又設使他看見畢卡索畫的女子臉孔,並且聽到其他觀賞者形容其為「美麗」,他可能誤以為,在日常生活裡,我們這時代的人認為畢卡索畫的那些女子臉孔美麗,秀色可餐。
但是,這位訪客看一場時裝秀或環球小姐選美,目睹那裡讚美其他類型的美,可能就要修正他的見解。很不幸,我們回顧久遠以前的時代,無法做到這一點,無論談美還是談醜,我們都無此參考,因為那些時代留給我們的只有藝術品。
醜的歷史和美的歷史另外一項共同特徵是,我們討論這兩種價值的故事,勢須局限於西方文明。在上古文明和所謂原始民族方面,我們有出土藝術品,但我們沒有理論文字來告訴我這些藝術品本來的用意是要引起審美的喜悅、對神聖事物的畏怖,還是歡欣。 ...繼續閱讀
November 12,2008
Sound Art (Beyond Music, Between Categories)
Sound Art (Beyond Music, Between Categories)
Writter: Alan Licht, Introduction by Jim O'Rourke
Publisher: RizzoliPub
Date: November 2007
ISBN: 9780847829699
售價:$495 會員價:$446
About this Book
Over the past century, an art form has emerged that draws from the worlds of visual art and music. Sound art’s roots can be found in the experimental work of Italian Futurism, Dada, and later the Fluxus group and the pioneering efforts of the American composer and artist John Cage. In the wake of this groundbreaking work, sound art began to mature into a movement, and artists explored the interactive possibilities of sound and in turn created entirely new modes of experiencing and engaging with art. In this volume, the complete story of sound art is told by one of the country’s leading critics and scholars. The author traces the history of this form of art–highlighting the convergence of the indie world bands such as Sonic Youth with the art world–looking at the critical cross-pollination that has led to some of the most important and challenging art being produced today, including work by Christian Marclay, LaMonte Young, Janet Cardiff, Rodney Graham, and Laurie Anderson, among many others.
About the Author
Alan Licht is an American composer, guitarist, music writer, and a widely respected figure on the experimental music scene. He is not only responsible for important album reissues, but was a member of the cult classic NYC bands Love Child and Run On. He currently lives in New York City. Jim O’Rourke is an American musician and producer, and most widely known as a member of the rock band Sonic Youth. Considered an expert on experimental music, he has scored films for Werner Herzog and Olivier Assayas.
Writter: Alan Licht, Introduction by Jim O'Rourke
Publisher: RizzoliPub
Date: November 2007
ISBN: 9780847829699
售價:$495 會員價:$446
About this Book
Over the past century, an art form has emerged that draws from the worlds of visual art and music. Sound art’s roots can be found in the experimental work of Italian Futurism, Dada, and later the Fluxus group and the pioneering efforts of the American composer and artist John Cage. In the wake of this groundbreaking work, sound art began to mature into a movement, and artists explored the interactive possibilities of sound and in turn created entirely new modes of experiencing and engaging with art. In this volume, the complete story of sound art is told by one of the country’s leading critics and scholars. The author traces the history of this form of art–highlighting the convergence of the indie world bands such as Sonic Youth with the art world–looking at the critical cross-pollination that has led to some of the most important and challenging art being produced today, including work by Christian Marclay, LaMonte Young, Janet Cardiff, Rodney Graham, and Laurie Anderson, among many others.
About the Author
Alan Licht is an American composer, guitarist, music writer, and a widely respected figure on the experimental music scene. He is not only responsible for important album reissues, but was a member of the cult classic NYC bands Love Child and Run On. He currently lives in New York City. Jim O’Rourke is an American musician and producer, and most widely known as a member of the rock band Sonic Youth. Considered an expert on experimental music, he has scored films for Werner Herzog and Olivier Assayas.
Great British Editorial
Great British Editorial
作者:Fernadez, JavierISBN:9789812456984
出版日期:2008/06/01
出版社: PAGE ONE PUBLISHING PTE LTD.
商品語言: 英文
售價:$450 會員價:$405
The Best British examples in editorial design are gathered in this book. You will find the most intriguing examples of books , magazines , book covers by British studios and artists, such as : Hypetype Studios; Crush ; Saturday etc. Included with each entry are personality descriptions and secrets of each studio. The Great British Editiorial is recommended for readers who want a peek into British artistry and graphic designs.
本書收集了英國最好的出版物版式設計作品。你可以看到由英國的設計工作室和藝術家設計的最棒的書籍設計、雜誌設計、封面設計作品。諸如Hypetype Studios;Crush;Saturday等。
本書內容包括對每個設計工作室的個性化的介紹。本書適合那些想要瞭解英國平面設計的讀者。
康定斯基論點線面
康定斯基論點線面作者: (俄)康定斯基著,羅世平等譯
出版社: 中國人民大學出版社
出版時間: 2003-10-1
售價:$63 會員:$57
就外在的概念而言,每一根獨立的線或繪畫的形就是一種元素。就內在的概念而言,元素不是形本身,而是活躍在其中的內在張力。——康定斯基
《康定斯基論點線面》是康定斯基的重要理論著作《藝術中的精神》的續篇。在這本書中他系統地闡釋了對繪畫元素的認識,他對每一種繪畫元素都作了外在的和內在的兩主面分析。康定斯基自稱這本書的分析是“顯微鏡式的”。 ...繼續閱讀
