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Brassey’s Book of Camouflage

Tim Newark, Quentin Newark, Dr JF Borsarello

Designed by Atelier Works

Brassey’s,An Imprint of Chrysalis Books Group, London,  First English edition 1996, This paperback edition 2002, 144 pages,25x25cm, ISBN 1 85753 336 4

euro 50,00

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Camouflage has come a long way from jungle drab to modern-day colorful fluorescents—and this volume covers its history and development, with 450 patterns from around the world. It includes the pioneering and now highly collectible camouflage equipment of the German Army in World War II; the famous Tigerstripe worn by American soldiers in Vietnam; and the classic designs worn by today’s armies, including the U.S. Military “woodlands” pattern and the British DPM (Disruptive Pattern Material).

08/10/21

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Andean Textiles

This week we present textiles from Ancient Peru from Los Tejidos Indios del Antiguo Perú by Raoul d' Harcourt and Marguerite Béclard d'Harcourt. It is a 40 plate portfolio that was published in Paris by Albert Morancé in 1924. Unfortunately there is no text that accompanies the portfolio. Raoul d' Harcourt was a French ethnologist and his wife Marguerite Béclard d'Harcourt was a French composer and ethno-musicologist, who studied folk melodies from Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and other countries. They both traveled extensively in South America, and published La Musique des Incas et ses survivances in 1925, which is scholarly work on the ethnomusicology of the Incas and their descendants in the high Andes.

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Patterns in Art

A closer look at the Old Masters

Francesca Leoneschi                                                                                        with illustrations by Giovanna Ferraris  text by Silvia Lazzaris

Abbeville Press, New York 2019, 192 pages, ISBN  978-0-78921-340-2

euro 33,00

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A visual delight, and a designer's dream-the decorative details of great European paintings transformed into beautiful two-dimensional patterns Richly embroidered robes. Intricate lace collars. Elaborately laid floor tiles. Delicately carved and modeled cornices and capitals. These are among the details of decorative art that the Old Masters lovingly rendered in their paintings, to establish a setting, convey a portrait subject's social status, or sometimes just enliven a scene. Together these details-so easy to overlook in the imposing harmony of draftsmanship, color, and composition that makes up a great painting-form a veritable history of ornament. This inventive book plucks these decorative motifs from the background of paintings by masters like Bronzino, Fra Angelico and Jacques-Louis David, and transforms them into vibrant two-dimensional patterns. Seeing these patterns side-by-side with the original paintings deepens our appreciation of both. Patterns in Art will be a resource for graphic designers, and a revelation for all art lovers.

01/05/20

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