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| These 10 new books are brimming with architecture, art, design, and cultural references sure to inspire. |
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 | Norwegian Sverre Fehn's striking works, strongly influenced by the Scandinavian landscape, are examined in Sverre Fehn: The Pattern of Thoughts, from the Monacelli Press.
Photo: Nils Petter Dale/Courtesy of the Monacelli Press |
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 | Innovative structures built amid boughs and branches around the globe fill Abrams' New Treehouses of the World.
Photo: Pete Nelson/Courtesy of Abrams |
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 | Rizzoli New York's Oscar Niemeyer Buildings showcases the once-futuristic architecture of this modern master through a visual tour of his daring large-scale civic and institutional structures.
Photo: Courtesy of Rizzoli New York |
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 | A visual compilation of Russian cultural and intellectual icons that references the likes of Fabergé, Catherine the Great, Erté, Leo Tolstoy—even caviar—appears in Russian Style, from Assouline.
Photo: Courtesy of Assouline |
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 | Andrea Cochran: Landscapes, from the Princeton Architectural Press, details the living sculptural settings of the San Francisco-based landscape architect.
Photo: Courtesy of Princeton Architectural Press, 2009 |
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![The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography, from Aperture, looks at the arresting forms, images, and experiments produced by photographers working outside the realist mode. - Photo: Untitled [Number 179]," © Richard Caldicott](/content/editorial/StoryPhoto/big/e15424image9.jpg) | The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography, from Aperture, looks at the arresting forms, images, and experiments produced by photographers working outside the realist mode.
Photo: Untitled [Number 179]," © Richard Caldicott |
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 | Japanese Design, a new volume in the MoMA Design Series, examines the evolution of the country's modern innovations in furniture and industrial design.
Photo: Courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art |
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 | Vitamin 3-D, New Perspectives in Sculpture and Installation, from Phaidon Press, presents 120 international artists working in three dimensions, from large-scale projects to delicate works crafted from paper, selected by some of the world's most influential curators and critics.
Photo: "Rotating Labyrinth," Jeppe Hein/Courtesy of Phaidon Press |
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 | Made in Cassina, from Skira/Rizzoli New York, covers the history of Italian furniture firm Cassina and the influence of designers such as Gaetano Pesce, Gio Ponti, and Philippe Starck.
Photo: Courtesy of Skira/Distributed by Rizzoli New York |
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 | Green Archtecture Now!, from Taschen, showcases sustainable designs from leading architects and artists around the globe, including Tadao Ando and Zaha Hadid.
Photo: CaixaForum Vertical Garden, Madrid, Spain, Patrick Blanc/© Roland Halbe; courtesy of Taschen |
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