In celebration of the seventieth anniversary of the founding of the house of Dior comes the first volume in a series devoted to each designer of the couture house. Dior by Christian Dior is the ultimate compendium of the most iconic haute couture designs conceived by Christian Dior. Carefully conserved in the world’s great museums and institutions, these fashion treasures have been photographed and exclusively compiled for this indispensable collection.
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Director of the Palais Galliera in Paris since 2010, Olivier Saillard is a recognized fashion historian who has curated several innovative fashion exhibitions, including the critically acclaimed Madame Grès: Couture at Work (Musée Bourdelle, 2011), an Azzedine Alaïa retrospective (Palais Galliera, 2013), Comme des Garçons: White Drama (Les Docks, 2012), and Cristóbal Balenciaga: Fashion Collector (Les Docks, 2012). As a live performance director, he staged The Impossible Wardrobe in collaboration with British actress Tilda Swinton at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris (2012), then Eternity Dress (2013), and Cloakroom (2014) at the Palais Galliera. In 2015, his show Models Never Talk, featuring seven former fashion models reminiscing about their careers, was presented at the French Institute Alliance Française in New York. Most recently he curated the exhibition Louis Vuitton: Voguez, Volez, Voyagez at the Grand Palais in Paris (2016).

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Plain, hardback books are transformed into beautiful, decorative displays. A five volume stack of decorative books with an inspirational quote from Steve Jobs. Each book is deconstructed and reassembled by hand. Spine details are made using 18th and 19th century documents and steel engravings that are printed on handmade parchment paper to capture its original elegance.

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An entertaining and modern twist to the classic deck of tarot cards filled with whimsical and fun cat illustrations and feline humor. A guidebook accompanies the 78 tarot cards, revealing how to learn from your cat’s wisdom 
- Entertaining and charming illustrated tarot cards 
- Find inspiration and humor with the accompanying guidebook

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By David Ritz (Paperback)
The definitive biography of the Queen of Soul.

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The essential tool for organizing the picture-perfect wedding of your dreams.
Every bride needs a chic and practical planner: Expert advice from in-demand wedding planner Alison Hotchkiss combines to-do lists, sample floor plans, downloadable templates, and gorgeous design by Hello!Lucky to create the ultimate wedding planner book and organizer. There are countless decisions to be made and several little details that simply cannot be forgotten, so this wedding book will help you stay on track moving towards your big day.
In a hardcover, 3-ring binder style, you can take this planner book to all of your appointments to take notes and keep all important documents together.
Includes 176 pages of planning and organization help, 16 color tabbed dividers, and 2-color interiors.
Provides expert advice for every step of the way including resources for gift registries, wedding insurance, wedding websites, travel planning, and more.
All the Essentials Wedding Planner truly is the ultimate tool for organizing your big day.

All The Essentials Wedding Planner

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Plain, hardback books are transformed into beautiful, decorative displays. A five volume stack of decorative books with an inspirational quote from Coco Chanel, each book is deconstructed and reassembled by hand to create these eye-catching items.

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Will some students ever learn from their mistakes? We hope not! This all-new collection of hilarious, totally wrong, real test answers serves a fresh batch of A+ wit misapplied to F- quiz scores. A little studying would reveal that the most powerful light source known to man isn't "lightsabers," nor do we salt the roads when it snows "to make them taste better." But where's the fun in that? From the same wellspring of failure as the million-selling F in Exams series, this special pop quiz collection will amuse and entertain anyone preparing to face down a test paper as well as those just glad to be far away from a classroom.

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How To Make A House A Home: Creating A Purposeful, Personal Space By Ariel Kaye

Furniture Makeovers shows how to transform tired furniture into stunning showpieces. You’ll never look at a hand-me-down dresser the same way again! The book offers 26 easy-to-follow techniques that can be applied to all different types of pieces, from bookshelves to desks: painting, applying gold leaf, wallpapering, distressing, dip dyeing, and more. In addition to the core techniques, author and Knack Studios founder Barb Blair shares 30 beautiful before-and-after makeovers from her studio and outlines how to achieve each look. With helpful step-by-step photographs, a visual glossary explaining all the tools and materials needed, and a lovely contemporary aesthetic, Furniture Makeovers is a treasure trove of ideas and instruction for the home decorator

Furniture Makeovers

These 75 tiny tear-out letters offer an easy and delightful way to brighten someone's day. Folded into adorably small envelopes and sealed with the enclosed stickers, they're perfect for tucking in a kid's lunch box, a stranger's windshield, or a loved one's pocket.

Little Letters To Say Hello

From the award-winning architecture firm Backen, Gillam & Kroeger, comes a brilliant display of artistry in, From the Land. Their first book of work shows creatively thought out designs alongside natural materials, such as wood, stone and brick. Proudly displayed on your coffee table, this book creates beauty from cover to cover.

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Historically, major women artists have been excluded from the mainstream art canon. Aligned with the resurgence of feminism in pop culture, Broad Strokes offers an entertaining corrective to that omission. Art historian Bridget Quinn delves into the lives and careers of 15 brilliant female artists in text that's smart, feisty, educational, and an enjoyable read. Replete with beautiful reproductions of the artists' works and contemporary portraits of each artist by renowned illustrator Lisa Congdon, this is art history from 1600 to the present day for the modern art lover, reader, and feminist.

Broad Strokes

Product Sku: 41455148; Color Code: 000 San Francisco: home of hills + valleys, dreamers + trailblazers, hippies + artists, it's also a treasure trove of unusual neighborhood sights that sparkle with hidden local lore. Whether you're a first-time visitor or Bay area lifer, discover 111 interesting and unknown places and experiences: take a stairway that transports you from the depths of the ocean to the heights of outer space, take a spin class amidst the grand elegance of a repurposed 1920s movie palace or slide down a century-old sundial that sits at the center of what was once California's first racetrack for cars. Strung together, the 111 experiences gathered here tell the B-side story of the city once romantically known as the Paris of the West. Fully illustrated with 111 full-page color photographs. Part of the international 111 Places series with over 150 titles! Paperback. 2015, Emons Publishers. Content + Care - Imported Size - 240 pages - Dimensions: 5.6"l x 0.8"w x 8.1"h

111 Places In San Francisco That You Must Not Miss By Floriana Petersen

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The next installment in the bestselling series presents 642 writing prompts in an irresistible new format. Delightful and thought-provoking, this book is perfect for stumped writers, journalers, or any creative type needing a tiny flash of inspiration.

642 Tiny Things To Write About

The Underachiever's Manifesto is the playfully persuasive pocket guide to living life to the least and loving it. This isn't your average handbook—this is a funny self-help book for our ongoing modern age of overachievement. The book makes the case for just the right amount of effort—a lot less than we've been led to believe—and reveals how mediocrity is the key to happiness at work, in relationships, dieting, exercise, investment, and more. 
- Contains easy-to-follow advice with gentle humor and genuine wisdom 
- Addresses issues such as social media stress, FOMO, and the life-draining tragedy of tidying up 
- Author Ray Bennett is a medical specialist in Seattle and a recovering overachiever This welcome new edition—revised just enough but not going overboard—brings its needed-now-more-than-ever perspective to our new era of fitness tracking, app overload, and tidying up. Turn it down a notch. Don't you feel better already? 
- Humorous but actually helpful—a rarity for self-help books 
- Perfect for overachievers, underachievers, anyone looking for a funny, friendly way to take things down a notch 
- Great for those who loved The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson, Unfu*k Yourself: Get Out of Your Head and into Your Life by Gary John Bishop, and How to Be an Imperfectionist: The New Way to Self-Acceptance, Fearless Living, and Freedom from Perfectionism by Stephen Guise

The Underachiever's Manifesto

This imaginative 1000-piece puzzle comes together to feature a special collection of LEGO® minifigure expressions. Minifigures have feelings too—happy and hopeful, confused and surprised, silly . . . and puzzled! Now you can collect your favorite iconic LEGO® minifigures in a whole new way!

MINIFIGURES ARE THE HEART OF THE LEGO BRAND: The minifigure—the humble yellow character found in LEGO creations—has become a global icon. In this up-close-and-personal puzzle, they get to show off the characteristics that set them apart.
GREAT FAMILY ACTIVITY: AFOLs (adult fans of LEGO), parents, and kids nine years and older will love putting this puzzle together
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On a farm-like compound near New Hope, Pennsylvania, George Nakashima, his family, and fellow wood-workers create exquisite furniture from richly grained, rare timber. Tables, desks, chairs, and cabinets from this simple workshop grace the homes and mansions and executive boardrooms of people who prize such excellence.
George Nakashima’s singular literary opus has inspired generations of architects, furniture-makers, and collectors around the world. In this lavishly illustrated volume — part autobiography, part woodworking guide — George grants readers a close look at his artistry, philosophy, and personal history. It is the portrait of an artisan who strives to find the ideal use for each plank in order to "create an object of utility to man and, if nature smiles, an object of lasting beauty."

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The ultimate gift for book lovers, this volume brims with literary treasures, all delightfully illustrated by beloved artist and founder of Ideal Bookshelf, Jane Mount.

Book lovers, rejoice! In this love letter to all things bookish, Jane Mount brings literary people, places, and things to life through her signature and vibrant illustrations. Readers will: 
- Tour the world's most beautiful bookstores 
- Test their knowledge of the written word with quizzes 
- Find their next great read in lovingly curated stacks of books 
- Sample the most famous fictional meals 
- Peek inside the workspaces of their favorite authors A source of endless inspiration, literary facts and recommendations, and pure bookish joy, Bibliophile is sure to enchant book clubbers, English majors, poetry devotees, aspiring writers, and any and all who identify as bookworms.

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The New York Times bestseller is back! The career workbook Roadmap is better than ever. Roadmap has been updated and expanded with tons of brand new content—including chapters on changing directions mid-career and not letting your past define your future. Through inspirational stories and interviews, journal-like prompts, and practical career development information, this helpful resource will steer students, recent graduates, and career-changers toward an authentic, fulfilling life. 
- Features fresh perspectives from people like singer-songwriter John Legend, surfing world champion Layne Beachley, and MacArthur fellow and radio host Jad Abumrad 
- Full of advice for people seeking a fulfilling work life that will make them happy and keep them engaged 
- A self-mapped guide to creating a rewarding and satisfying work life Roadtrip Nation, based in Costa Mesa, was founded by Nathan Gebhard, Mike Marriner, and Brian McAllister in 2001, and has grown into a national career exploration movement, educational organization, and PBS series. Since its original publication in 2015, the team at Roadtrip Nation has continued to travel the world and interview accomplished individuals about their path to success. 
- A great gift for recent college graduates, interns, or anyone questioning their career path and in need of advice and a fresh perspective 
- Useful as a resource for career advisers, educators, and companies who want to foster an engaged workforce 
- Add it to the collection of books like What Color Is Your Parachute? 2019: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers by Richard N. Bolles, Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans, and How to Have a Good Day: Harness the Power of Behavioral Science to Transform Your Working Life by Caroline Webb

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This encouraging workbook for creating cool patterns is the ultimate tool for artists and designers seeking a creative boost. Inside are 50 playful exercises that prompt users to find inspiration in their surroundings by spotting patterns and sketching their own. At the back, 50 professional pattern designers are profiled in galleries of their work and share insights from their processes. The perfect place to brainstorm new ideas and have some creative fun, Pattern Studio is chock-full of inspiration for pro and aspiring designers, plus anyone who loves to draw.

Pattern Studio

Personalizing your color palette may be one of the most important decisions you make in your home. The right combination of hues can set the mood and transform any room from ordinary to magical. Textile designer Rebecca Atwood invites you to take a color journey in this stunning yet practical guide. In Living with Color, you’ll tour beautifully designed homes to see some of the most interesting uses of the rainbow and to gather inspiration for your own spaces. You’ll train your eye to notice how color lives all around you, from the pink light bouncing off a building you see every day to the exact blue of the ocean on your last getaway. You can even learn how to express yourself through your own custom palette with Rebecca’s accessible, illustrated overview of color theory. As you embark on your color hunt and begin to trust your own instincts, Living with Color will embolden you to breathe life into every part of your home.
Hardcover: 272 pages Publisher: Clarkson Potter (August 27, 2019) Language: English Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 0.9 x 10.3 inches

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Living With Color

This playful collection of rainbows is a bright and beautiful appreciation of all the color that surrounds us. Artist Julie Seabrook Ream invites us to see the extraordinary beauty of ordinary objects: she gathers colorful iterations of a single type of thing, from feathers to fishing gear, matchbooks to macarons, and neatly arranges them in rainbow order. A fascinating index details all the objects in each rainbow, bringing the magnetic appeal of meticulous organization to this burst of color in book form. A striking package— with foil stamping on the cover and a rainbow-colored spine—makes this celebratory book a treasure for those who love art, design, and a fresh perspective.

Encyclopedia Of Rainbows

An essential addition to the library of every booklover and Francophile, this unique love letter to Paris offers an immersive photographic stroll through its literary delights, from historic bookstores to hidden cafes. Paris in Color author Nichole Robertson turns her lens onto spots both legendary and little-known, highlighting quiet moments that every booklover savors—inviting cafe scenes, comfy chairs, enticing book nooks—and the weathered charm of places steeped in centuries of literary history. Quotes by great writers such as Balzac and Colette are interspersed throughout, while a timeline and an index of featured locations round out the volume. This bijou treasure of a book will inspire every creative soul who dreams of following in the footsteps of their literary heroes.

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This classic memory-keeper is the perfect way to track the ups and downs of life, day by day. Each page of the journal includes an entry for five successive years, allowing users to revisit previous thoughts on a specific day of the year over the span of five years. See patterns emerge as important events like anniversaries, birthdays, and holidays come and go. As the pages fill, you’ll discover happy coincidences and have a chance to relive forgotten moments. Daunted by the idea of keeping a journal? The simple commitment of just one line a day is manageable for everyone, appealing to those new to the journaling habit and seasoned journalers alike. Durable and elegantly designed with a ribbon for easily jumping to the right page, this keepsake diary will be a treasure for years—and a great gift for generations to come. One Line a Day is the perfect present for someone starting on a new journey in life or for your own daily ritual.

One Line A Day

"I can't wait to cook my way through this amazing new book," Ina Garten writes in the foreword to this cookbook of more than 400 recipes and variations from Julia Turshen, writer, go-to recipe developer, co-author for best-selling cookbooks such as Gwyneth Paltrow's It's All Good , Dana Cowin's Mastering My Mistakes in the Kitchen , and author of cookbook Feed the Resistance . The process of truly great home cooking is demystified via more than a hundred lessons called out as "small victories" in the funny, encouraging headnotes; these are lessons learned by Julia through a lifetime of cooking thousands of meals. This beautifully curated, deeply personal collection of what Chef April Bloomfield calls "simple, achievable recipes" emphasizes bold-flavored, honest food for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert. More than 160 mouth-watering photographs from acclaimed photographers Gentl + Hyers provide beautiful instruction and inspiration, and a gingham spine elevates this entertaining and essential kitchen resource into a covetable gift for both beginners and accomplished home cooks.

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Pantone, the worldwide color authority, invites you on a rich visual tour of 100 transformative years. From the Pale Gold (15-0927 TPX) and Almost Mauve (12-2103 TPX) of the 1900 Universal Exposition in Paris to the Rust (18-1248 TPX) and Midnight Navy (19-4110 TPX) of the countdown to the Millennium, the 20th century brimmed with color. Longtime Pantone collaborators and color gurus Leatrice Eiseman and Keith Recker identify more than 200 touchstone works of art, products, décor, and fashion, and carefully match them with 80 different official PANTONE color palettes to reveal the trends, radical shifts, and resurgences of various hues. This vibrant volume takes the social temperature of our recent history with the panache that is uniquely Pantone.

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Swimming Lessons: Poems By Lili Reinhart

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Perfect gift for that wine lover.
Originally just plain hardback books,  then transformed into beautiful decorative objects sure to add the punctuation mark to any decor. Each book is deconstructed and reassembled by hand with the finest materials. New spine details are made using scanned 18th and 19th century documents and steel engravings that are printed on beautiful handmade parchment paper that really captures their original elegance. Artfully hand made in the U.S.A.

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Named one of the Best Cookbooks by The New York Times, Eater, Epicurious, Food & Wine, Forbes, Saveur, Serious Eats, The Smithsonian, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, CNN Travel, The Kitchn, Chowhound, NPR, and many more; plus international media attention including The Financial Times, The Globe and Mail, The Telegraph, The Guardian, The Independent, The Times (U.K.), The Times (Ireland), and Vogue India. " The Flavor Equation deserves space on the shelf right next to Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat as a titan of the how-and-why brigade." —The New Yorker "Deep and illuminating, fresh and highly informative… a most brilliant achievement." –Yotam Ottolenghi "A beautiful and intelligent book." –J. Kenji López-Alt, author The Food Lab and Chief Consultant for Serious Eats.com Aroma, texture, sound, emotion—these are just a few of the elements that play into our perceptions of flavor. The Flavor Equation demonstrates how to convert approachable spices, herbs, and commonplace pantry items into tasty, simple dishes. In this groundbreaking book, Nik Sharma, scientist, food blogger, and author of the buzz-generating cookbook Season, guides home cooks on an exploration of flavor in more than 100 recipes.

Provides inspiration and knowledge to both home cooks and seasoned chefs
An in-depth exploration into the science of taste
Features Nik Sharma's evocative, trademark photography style

The Flavor Equation is an accessible guide to elevating elemental ingredients to make delicious dishes that hit all the right notes, every time. Recipes include Brightness: Lemon-Lime Mintade, Saltiness: Roasted Tomato and Tamarind Soup, Sweetness: Honey Turmeric Chicken Kebabs with Pineapple, Savoriness: Blistered Shishito Peppers with Bonito Flakes, and Richness: Coconut Milk Cake.

A global, scientific approach to cooking from bestselling cookbook author Nik Sharma
Dives deep into the most basic of our pantry items—salts, oils, sugars, vinegars, citrus, peppers, and more
Perfect gift for home cooks who want to learn more beyond recipes, those interested in the science of food and flavor, and readers of Lucky Peach, Serious Eats, Indian-Ish, and Koreatown

Add it to the shelf with cookbooks like The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science by J. Kenji López-Alt; Ottolenghi Flavor: A Cookbook by Yotam Ottolenghi, and Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking by Samin Nosrat

The Flavor Equation

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Sean C. Jackson has been illustrating and exploring mazes for his own enjoyment for more than 30 years. Inspired by art, architecture, and the natural world, his colorfully detailed mazes offer imaginative and meditative journeys through village streets, garden vistas, island habitats, castle grounds, scenic towns, and gravity-defying surreal situations—each encouraging the mind to wander while following the paths. This large-format collection features nearly 50 absorbing single-page and full-spread mazes, sequenced with increasing complexity, and includes inventive bonuses such as mazes with two paths to follow and a maze that runs on the inside covers from front to back. Solutions are provided, but for those seeking mindful activity or hours of puzzle decoding entertainment, getting there will be half the fun.

From Here To There: A Book Of Mazes

Following the success of the first volume, Portraits of the New Architecture II introduces thirty-four new and exciting architects and architectural firms whose projects are shaping the future of architectural design. With an insightful introduction by Pulitzer Prize–winning architectural critic Paul Goldberger, this magnificent volume includes sketches and designs as well as Richard Schulman’s stunning portraits of these architects’ projects. Featured architects include David Adjaye, Asymptote, Bjarke Ingles, Jeanne Gang, Dominique Perrault, Annabelle Selldorf, and Alvaro Siza. While the book emphasizes the power of contemporary architecture, Schulman’s excellent images reveal unique and intimate angles, and the sketches and layouts provide a special perspective into each project’s genesis.

Richard Schulman has photographed leading artists, collectors, and patrons of the arts, as well as architectural masterpieces, as found in his first book for Assouline, Portraits of the New Architecture (2004). Schulman’s work has appeared in The New York Times, the London Times, Vanity Fair, Paris Match, and Der Spiegel. He is currently a lecturer on the history of photography at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
Paul Goldberger is a Pulitzer Prize–winning architectural critic and educator who holds the Joseph Urban Chair in Design and Architecture at The New School in New York City, and was formerly Dean of the Parsons School of Design. Goldberger is currently a contributing editor for Vanity Fair magazine, and from 1997 to 2011 he was the architecture critic for The New Yorker, for which he wrote the magazine’s celebrated Sky Line column.

Portraits Of The New Architecture 2

Find gravitational stability and embrace your natural radiance with this intergalactic guide to self-care. Cosmic Care brings readers on a dreamy journey through space to reveal tips that will help them unlock their inner glow. Featuring the visionary art and signature style of Robin Eisenberg, Cosmic Care is an escape into a vivid, immersive universe that’s simultaneously familiar, relatable, and out of this world. Filled with vibrant illustrations and never-before-seen art, Cosmic Care offers feel-good advice to relax, find peace, stop and smell the bioluminescent flora, and bring out your stellar luminosity. 
- Pairs bite-size pieces of advice with vibrant illustrations 
- Blends the earthly and the extraterrestrial 
- Offers a unique take on traditional self-care The formation of a star begins with gravitational instability, but with a little cosmic care, it evolves into a luminous celestial object—and you can, too. 
- Great for fans of Robin Eisenberg's art and illustrations 
- A wonderful gift for anyone who loves self-care, the cosmos, astrology, and anything witchy 
- Add it to the shelf with books like Strange Planet by Nathan W. Pyle, Basic Witches by Jaya Saxena, and The Witch's Book of Self-Care: Magical Ways to Pamper, Soothe, and Care for Your Body and Spiri t by Arin Murphy-Hiscock