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Dostępność: na zamówienie Monographs on the subject of architects who are still in good health are commonly regarded as the equivalent of monuments to people who are still alive - they supposedly put their subjects on a divine pedestal and stamp their buildings and designs with the mark of 'eternity'. Brodsky's Oblako ('Cloud') Bar and Ice Pavilion no longer exist, and yet you'll find them in the journal you're now holding, and this gives them a kind of 'immortal' glory. However, periodicals such as our own cannot afford to sacrifice immediate relevance to current issues to a memorializing impulse. In the present case this immediate relevance is not simply a matter of the fact that Brodsky has been chosen to represent Russia with a one-man show at this year's Venice Bien-nale.
Dostępność:na zamowienie The inimitable Jacques Garcia is an internationally-acclaimed interior designer whose work ranges from private residences to museums to upscale hotels from New York, Chicago, Las Vegas, and Miami to Geneva, Brussels, and Beirut. While Garcia draws inspiration from neoclassical and oriental sources, his passion and genius lie in his unique blending of textures, patterns, colors, and styles. In Paris, crowds flock to his chic Hotel Costes, Laduree tearoom, and fin-de-siecle brasseries and salons; he redesigned the Musee Carnavalet, the Musee de la Vie Romantique, and Hotel Mansart, which was originally designed by an architect of Versailles.
