COMPENDIUM CLASSIC LIVING

Spain is a country as extraordinarily diverse in its architecture as it is in its landscape. Ranging from the lush green Pyrenees to the arid vineyards of La Rioja, and from traditional Andalucian haciendas to the creative hive of contemporary trends in Catalonia, Spanish Style provides a luxurious, often dramatic tour of 23 hand-picked homes and boutique hotels across the country, showcasing a superb array of design ideas.

Bring the indoors outdoors with these inspiring design ideas. Gardens should be spaces that invite gathering, entertaining, and relaxing-gardens are for living. This is the philosophy behind Judy Kameon's design, and it reflects a shift in the way people today relate to the areas around their homes. Kameon has developed a unique style of creating rooms outside. By extending interior design to the exterior, she shows how to expand effectively the space of the home. What's more, gardens provide opportunities to engage with our surroundings and with each other in new ways. Here, Kameon shares insights for making dynamic outdoor spaces that are both beautiful and usable.

In 1956, Time magazine called him one of the “form-givers of the 20th century“: with his invention of steel-tube furniture, Marcel Breuer (1902-1981) has made his mark in the history of design at the tender age of 23. He started his architectural career as one of the Bauhaus’s most influential architects with the 1932 Harnischmacher House.

A thirty-year career has made Jacques Garcia a worldwide name in interior design in the French tradition. In Paris, chic crowds flock to his celebrated Hétel Costes and Ladurée tearoom, and to his many fin-de-siécle brasseries. Garcia's designs also grace the interiors of the Musée Carnavalet and the Musée de la Vie Romantique-and his most recent tour de force is the restoration of Paris' Hétel Mansart.

Rather than merely fulfilling an aesthetic purpose, today's new buildings have cultural, political, and social importance, and only those that succeed in reflecting these values, in combination with a novel approach to the practice of architecture, can be considered as spectacular.

Dwór ziemiański przez wieki był jednym z najważniejszych składników polskiego pejzażu kulturowego. To tutaj pielęgnowano rodzinną i narodową tradycję, przechowywano pamiątki, strzępy historii bliższej i dalszej okolicy, gromadzono dzieła sztuki i dawną broń, kompletowano pokaźne księgozbiory - wszystko, co określało i budowało polską tożsamość. Wpisany na trwałe do literackiej tradycji, obecny na płótnach największych polskich artystów, dwór stał się swoistym "rajem utraconym", symbolizując świat, który bezpowrotnie minął.