An emancipator of porcelain, Piet Stockmans has freed this material to be a purely artistic means of expression. The Belgian artist first defunctionalized tableware, then created installations with porcelain on walls and floors, and finally introduced the human body into his oeuvre. This book is the first extensive monograph on the artist.

Piet Stockmans: Monograph

Arts & Photography

Raskin, Ludo

Individual Artists

Stichting Kunstboek

Stein Are Hansen is probably one of the most eccentric floral artists with a reputation worldwide. He was Norwegian Champion several times and ended up third in the European Championships in 1999. He is currently working in Norway and China and runs his own shop in Oslo. He likes to work in a minimalist way with non-professional models (mostly florists themselves) and has the gift to amaze again and again with the completely unexpected. All of his colleagues consider him as a real trend-setting artistic genius. Stein Are Hansen performs on a regular basis in Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Germany, Austria, China and Taiwan. This volume is a truly breathtaking compilation of his works. Also available: Nicole von Boletzky: Master Florist ISBN 9789058560797 Annette Kamping: Vitality ISBN 9789058561657 Per Benjamin: Elements ISBN 9789058561329

Stein Are Hansen: The World of Botanics

Stitchting Kunstboek

Decorative Arts & Design

The Amstel Intercontinental Hotel has been the best known and most prestigious hotel of the Netherlands for 135 years. The regular visits of world figures or members of royal families have over the years given the hotel an almost mythical value. One of the reasons why so many guests from all over the world want to reside in the Amstel Hotel is without any doubt the culinary mastery of Edwin Kats, Chef of Restaurant La Rive. La Rive, situated on the shores of the Amstel, forms the ultimate location for a refreshing lunch or unique dinner. Recently, chef Edwin Kats and his 32 team members have received a second Michelin star for the many gastronomic top moments they offer their international guests time and time again. In this publication Alma Huisken (winner of the Wina Born-prize 2002) takes the reader on a walk from the chef's table to the wine room, everything situated in the most glorious setting of Amsterdam. This publication deals with everything that makes La Rive what it is and is richly ill

La Rive: The Taste of Amstel

Travel

Kats, Edwin

Huisken, Alma

Europe

Custom wheel rims for Mercedes Benz, double-decker train cars for the Belgian railway system, pots and pans for Tupperware and ice coolers for Coca-Cola are but a few of the 1500 sleekly designed products that the Belgian firm Enthoven Associates has created for its impressive roster of international clients over the past 30 years. This well-edited compendium illustrates how the role of product design has evolved within the firm over the past three decades, moving from the vision of an individual designer, Axel Enthoven, to the combined expertise of a team that has expanded to include Alain Denis and Jean-Pierre Geelen. Through images, interviews and essays, it traces the development of the firm's designs, from early aesthetic objects to current projects that combine design with technology, ethics and marketing concepts.

Enthoven Associates: Simplicity versus Complexity

Business & Money

Bucquoye, Moniek

Denis, Alain

Marketing & Sales

This series has documented the contemporary landscape architecture of Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and England. Now at last comes France, that historic force in formality (Versailles), fauvism (Fontainbleau) and egalitarianism (public parks), and a recent force in contemporary landscape architecture. The most accomplished projects of 20 renowned French landscape architects are presented--figures like Michel Corajoud, Jacques Coulon, Allain Provost, Pascal Cribier, Gilles Cl&#xE9;ment, Jacques Simon and Michel Desvigne--alongside the work of their up-and-coming younger colleagues--Louis Benech, Anne-Sylvie Bruel &amp; Christophe Delmar, Cath&#xE9;rine Mosbach, Christine &amp; Michel P&#xE9;na and many others. These inviting public parks, breathtaking castle gardens and gigantic sculpted surfaces surprise and please in 250 color photographs.

Garden and Landscape Architects of France

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Maarten Van Severen is among Belgium's most famous furniture designers and interior decorators working today. His quest for perfection in form, detail and fabrication is evident in his simple, pure lines and mastery of color. With a keen and critical eye, this son of an abstract painter (Dan Van Severen) has created innumerable chairs, sofas, cabinets and tables (.03, .04, Blue Bench, MVS Chaise, Schraag, to name just a few). In contrast to the austerity and limited range of his forms, Van Severen uses an almost flamboyant range of materials: aluminium, bakelite, carbon fibre, concrete, stone, glass, laminated bamboo, leather, plexiglass, plywood, polycarbonate, polyester, polyurethane, reinforced glass fibre, stone and timber. There is a respect for the particularities of materials, not only their structural qualities, but as surfaces, with visual and tactile qualities. His paired-down, sleek designs--either handmade in his home atelier in Ghent, or produced by important manufacturers such as Vitra, Edra, Bulo--continue to be very successful around the world, particularly in the United States and Japan. In addition to his furniture practice, Van Severen plays an important role as an interior designer in Van Abbemuseum (the Netherlands) and the Villa d'Ava (France) among others. And, in the near future, he will design a cutlery line for production with world-renowned Italian design firm, Alessi. This book, the most comprehensive publication about Van Severen to date, features large-plate images of his works, including dozens of new images of his designs. In addition to 170 color illustrations, Maarten Van Severen: Work also presents 70 written contributions from experts, manufacturers and the designer's colleagues. Van Severen's classic, Modernist pieces are underscored by the simple yet sophisticated design of this extensive volume.

Maarten Van Severen: Work

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Maarten Van Severen

Antiques & Collectibles

Since its inception in 1950, Tupperware has been helping chefs and preserving dinners around the globe. The lidded, plastic containers are so popular and well-designed that, Tupperware was awarded the National Design Award in Corporate Achievement by the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, and, in 2004, PBS premiered the documentary Tupperware!, which chronicles the history and life of the $1.2 billion a year company. The many styles of Tupperware are even housed in the permanent collections of fine art museums around the world, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; and the Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris.  Published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Design Museum of Ghent, Belgium, Tupperware: Transparent is the complete catalogue raisonné of 45 years of Tupperware in Europe. Woven through the extensive illustrations is the story of Tupperware pioneers Earl Tupper (aha!) and Brownie Wise, a discussion about the origins of the well-known Tupperware party, notable Tupperware collectables, and the history of development of the famous Tupperware design. And, best of all, Tupperware:Transparent comes in an exclusive Tupperware edition, thus ensuring that the book will be protected for years to come. Plastic came back into fashion around 1992-93 as a cutting-edge, colorful material used by younger designers with at-the-bow companies like Alessi and Authentics, tremendously influenced by Tupperware. As a steadfast advocate of plastics, Tupperware has not stopped using plastics since its foundation in the 40s, through the pop years, and even when the material was neglected between 1973 and 1992.  -Murray Moss In the heyday of home shopping and door-to-door selling, you couldn't slip out of your house without bumping into an Avon Lady, getting cornered by a neighborly zealot singing the praises of Shaklee vitamins, or being invited to the major social event of the season--a Tupperware party.  --Vic Sussman U.S. News & World Report, September 17, 2002.  Extraordinary design for everyday living.  --Tupperware motto Essays by Moniek Bucquoye, Peter Scholliers, Peter Zec, et al. Boxed, 7.5 x 10.75 in./192 pgs / 950 color.

Tupperware: (BAD ISBN DNU)

German top florist Annette Camping became Champion of Germany in 1994 and winner of the Golden Rose in the same year. One year later she became Vice-Champion of Europe. In 2001 she opened her own floral school Blumenwerk, a school for florists, designer and flower lovers in general. This monograph introduces a colourful and enthusiastic person. In her interaction with flowers, Annette wants to bring her compositions to life, full of character. An inner feeling, an impulse, an experience... they are all expressed in an harmonious coexistence of colours and shapes. Annette manages to bring across her love of flowers to the reader and will certainly bring a smile to your face. The publication is a discovery journey behind the scenes of a floral composition. The creativity of her compositions is beautifully captured in the many close-ups by photographer Bart Van Leuven. Also available: Nicole von Boletzky: Master Florist ISBN 9789058560797 Stein Are Hansen: The World of Botanics ISBN 97890

Annette Kamping: Vitality

Crafts & Hobbies

Interest in Belgian design--be it furniture, fashion, graphics or products--has exploded in the last five years. Label-Design.be, Design in Belgium After 2000 presents the recent work of some 130 jury-selected designers and showcases at least four designs from each making it the most comprehensive overview of design in Belgium today. Here, function meets beauty and more! Included in the book are also designs of furniture, cars, trains and bathrooms. Preceding this unique overview are essays by Lise Coirer, Johan Valcke, and Francis Smets. Designers featured here include Claire Bataille & Paul Ibens, Colombo, Jo Crepain, Dark, Durlet, Extremis, Xavier Lust, Maximal Design, Modular, Quinze & Milan, Annick Schotte, Piet Stockmans, Vincent Van Duysen, Maarten Van Severen and many others.

Label-Design.Be: Design in Belgium After 2000

Smets, Francis

History & Criticism

New edition, finally available! In 1942, driven by natural curiosity and a shortage of industrial materials during the war years, Earl Silas Tupper, an American dreamer and amateur inventor, produced his first injection-molded plastic cup, the Bell Tumbler, which was followed soon after by his stackable plastic Wonderlier Bowl--neither of which found much success in the American marketplace. In 1949, inspired by the lid of a humble paint can, Tupper introduced the Tupper seal, a flexible, "burpable" lid for his bowls. It was that innovation, coupled with Tupper's pragmatic 1950s aesthetic and the extraordinary vision of one Brownie Wise, a 40-year-old housewife (and later the Vice President of the company) who convinced Tupper to distribute his products exclusively through home parties, that made Tupperware one of the most iconic, collectible and beloved industrial products of all time, both in America and overseas. Tupperware: Transparent is the complete catalogue raisonne of 45 years of Tupperware in America and Europe. Featuring more than 900 photographs--from vintage advertisements, to product shots, to candid photographs from early Tupperware parties--it also includes chapters on the history of the company, product design, Tupperware as museum object, the Tupperware Party and more. Perhaps most important of all, this jam-packed, extremely engaging publication actually comes in a custom Tupperware container produced exclusively for the book.

Tupperware: Transparent

Zec, Peter

KATZ, Sylvia

Scholliers, Peter

Cautereels, Vic

Daenen, Lieven

Wolters, Frederic

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