I found my copy in a used bookstore about 25 years ago, back when 3rd Street in Santa Monica was still a sleepy street lined with great used bookstores instead of chain outlets. It was a 1970’s reprint of the original, in great condition. But the most striking thing about it was ho...
Another option in England isPeriod House, by Jackson & Day, which goes into extensive detail about common interior architectural elements for restorers. In Germany, the best book on period construction I’ve found isKonstruction Und Form Im Bauen, by Friedrich Hess. There are lots of very nice...
LONDON (AP) — Veteran fashion designer and activist Vivienne Westwood posed in a giant bird cage in London Tuesday to show her support for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and call for his extradition to the U. S. to be stopped. Dressed in a canary
In Convergence Station, you begin in an elevator which opens up into an alien street with signs for their mythical Quantum Department of Transportation, an organization which features heavily in the story and which gives the whole experience its name. It is immediately crushing in its maximalism. ...
She also dresses her hair in different styles, such as long braids, a tight bun or leaves it loose and decorated with a neat bow. "My husband once took a business trip to Shanghai during the 1980s. He bought me lots of dresses. When I wore the outfits around my hometown, people's...
Never fall in love with an idea. They're whores: if the one you're with isn't doing the job, there's always, always, always another. —Chip Kidd 73 The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect - to help people work together - and ...
Environmental problems represent one of the most intensive focuses in the world. At present, the rate of environmental damage caused by peoples’ consumption of products and services is still far faster than the rate of regeneration, processing, and recycling of natural ecosystems. In the face of...
in 1862, his firm already had produced some 450,000 guns in 16 different models. Colt’s Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company produced the pistols most widely used during theAmerican Civil War, and its six-shot single-action .45-calibrePeacemaker model, introduced in 1873, became the most-...
Fashion Designer Paul Carroll launches his 2015...Angelica Acevedo
I have several bra and panty sewing patterns and kits that I have collected in hopes to sew up pretty underpinnings for myself or others. I just love the pretty laces and fabrics that go into making lingerie sand find that making them up brings me great satisfaction and joy. For this pro...