Throughout the 19th century, European royalty built extraordinary palaces to which they retreated from their "official" lives in St. Petersburg, Paris, Vienna, and elsewhere. This book offers a panorama of these fantastic estates, where leading architects, craftsmen, muralists, garden designers, and naturalists were employed at enormous expense to create a life of unsurpassed luxury. Many of the palaces are now legendary: Ludwig II's famous Neuschwanstein, which dominates the Bavarian Alps; the "Alexandra Cottage" of Peterhof, the gift of Nicholas I to his wife; the lovely Castle of Miramare built for the ill-fated Archduke Maximilian, the short-lived emperor of Mexico. The palaces are "romantic" in every sense, as creations of their time, and as places suffused with nostalgic memory. Author Jérôme Coignard provides a brief overview of each royal family and their palace's architecture and decoration, drawing on contemporary memoirs and letters. Marc Walter's color photographs are accompanied by period interior views, watercolors, and family photographs. With information on visiting hours and directions to each of the palaces, this book offers a private tour through the last courts of Europe. AUTHOR BIO: Jérôme Coignard is a novelist, essayist, and contributor to numerous French magazines. Marc Walter is a photographer and graphic designer whose most recent books include Voyages around the World and Toile de Jouy. Markus of Habsburg-Lorraine, an Austrian archduke, is the current resident of Kaiser-villa in Bad-Ischl, built for his ancestor, the emperor Franz-Joseph I, in 1834.

Dream Palaces: The Last Royal Courts of Europe

Arts & Photography

Coignard, Jéröme

Architecture

Vendome Press

The essential purpose of a staircase is utilitarian: to facilitate ascent and descent. Yet the design of even the simplest stair is complex, requiring great knowledge, skill, and ingenuity. This volume showcases the astonishing diversity of staircases over the centuries, from the stepped pyramids of the Maya to the exquisitely proportioned stairs of the Renaissance, to the elaborate balustraded confections of the Baroque period, to the virtuosic, computer-aided designs of today. Among the scores of featured staircases are Michelangelo’s double stair at the Palazzo dei Senatori on the Capitoline Hill in Rome; the double-spiral stair at Château de Chambord in France’s Loire Valley; the entrance stair in the Winter Palace (now the Hermitage) in St. Petersburg; the radical spiral ramp of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim Museum; and the exterior stair at the Pompidou Center in Paris. Architectural tours de force all, often charged with religious, mystical, and hierarchical meaning, these staircases are inherently dynamic, as is every page of this fascinating and beautifully illustrated book. Praise for Staircases: "Forget utilitarian, boring staircases. This book illustrates an array of stunners, from Frank Lloyd Wright's spire ramp at the Guggenheim to Michelangelo's Roman masterpieces."—At Home "A useful piece of architecture that transcends cultures and location, staircases have been around almost as long as humans have. A new book, Staircases: The Architecture of Ascent, presents a dizzying array of staircases across the globe and throughout history." —PopSugar "If you, like me, fill your bookshelves with visual passion and lovely bound imagery, then you too will enjoy the downward or upward lift from Oscar Tusquet's Staircases: The Architecture of Ascent." —La Maison Fou "With beautiful images of a range of stairways. . . see a history of the trends, innovations, and modernizations of the seemingly simple invention that helps us get from one floor to the next."—The Daily Beast "The constructions documented in 'Staircases' are like ballets, set to orchestrations of marble, limestone, granite, cast iron, steel and inlaid wood." —The Wall Street Journal

Staircases: The Architecture of Ascent

Tusquets Blanca, Oscar

Diot, Martine

de Savray, Adelaïde

Dethier, Jean

Proud villas, farms surrounded by cultivated land, simple stone buildings in the middle of vineyards, and fields of lavender: that’s Provence, and these homes, photographed by Maisons Côte Sud magazine, showcase the region’s beauty and style. On display are brick tiles that stay cool in the summer, big clay pots displayed on either side of a door, mosaic stone paving, sunny kitchens full of yellow and green earthenware, comfortable bedrooms with cotton furnishings, wrought-iron banisters, gates, and window grills, and courtyards bathed in dappled light. It all adds up to a combination of heritage and stylishness unlike any other.

Provence: Style of Living

Hachette Illustrated

CLEFS D UNE PASSION

Boyer, Guy

Pagé, Suzanne

Claustrat, Frank

Arnault, Bernard

CONNAISSAN ARTS

HOTEL DE CAUMONT

Morel, Guillaume

Castaldo, Inès

Corty, Axelle

Bergh, Xavier de

Style colonial

BEAUFRE, Roland

LE CHENE

Bernard Buffet - les années berger

History & Criticism

CITADELLES

Guide du musee des Arts décoratifs: Version française

UCAD

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