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James Winter: Chef! ABSOLUTE PRESS,
A celebration of British cooking with the today's top British chefs Chef! is a celebration in words, pictures, and recipes of the current brilliance of British cooking and British chefs. With 100 recipes from 20 of the best British chefs at work today, James Winter has assembled a landmark cookbook for our times. The rich diversity of talent brought together from all over Great Britain includes many household names as well as a few less familiar to the public at large, though talented none the less. The stellar group includes Michael Caines, Mark Hix, Marcus Wareing, Fergus Henderson, Atul Kochhar, Theo Randall, Rowley Leigh, Matt Tebbutt, and Nathan Outlaw.

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Mulas, Pier Luigi: TORRIANI BOOK OF HOURS.|THE, Modena Franco Cosimo Panini 2009
Facsimile with accompanying hardcover commentary. One of 980 copies. With its extraordinary binding and highly elaborate illumination work, while very small, this precious Book of Hours must be considered an absolute masterpiece. The splendid binding The Torriani Book of Hours is just one of a small handful of manuscripts of this period which still have their original bindings. It is therefore an exceedingly rare item. The two binding covers, with their gilded silver filigree work, are adorned with cameos representing Saint Catherine and Saint Lucy. Inside the binding covers, we also find 14 enamel inserts representing the Kiss of Judas, the Way to Calvary and twelve busts of saints. The wealth, luxury and refinement of the times is clearly illustrated by the Torriani Book of Hours, alongside other devotional works of this kind produced by the jewellers workshops of Milan under the House of Sforza. The refinement of the embellishments Thirty illuminations adorn this small devotional codex for private use. Twelve are Calendar illustrations. For the eighteen Offices of the Virgin we find six full-page illuminations and twelve pages with illuminated initials featuring architectural and floral motifs, putti, birds and rabbits. A masters workshop The illustrations for the Torriani Hours may be ascribed to the Milanese bottega (workshop) of the master, Giovanni Ambrogio de Predis. This leading workshop operated in full awareness of the latest developments in the field of painting in Lombardy at the close of the fifteenth century, and, in particular, of the art of Leonardo da Vinci (with whom de Predis worked in 1483, on the Virgin of the Rocks). The embellishments of the borders, with their markedly naturalistic representations of animals, jewels and floral sprays, are the work of the young Matteo da Milano one of the leading illuminators of Milan who received commissions from the most important Houses of Renaissance Italy. Patronage The codex was commissioned by the Milanese Della Torre or Torriani house, an illustrious family of Lombardy which, for some time, ruled over Milan. Further confirmation of the Milanese origin of the work is to be found in the inclusion of certain features such as local saints, in the Calendar, and the church of Santa Maria Maggiore, Milans old cathedral, surmounted by a statue of Saint Ambrose (the Patron Saint of Milan). However, the identity of the lady for whom the codex was made, perhaps a lady of the court of Ludovico Sforza, is unknown. The Commentary: The work is accompanied by a book with commentary, edited by Pier Luigi Mulas, with writings by Marco Collareta, Jean-Baptiste Lebigue and Monica Visioli. Facsimile is present with the accompanying commentary and a clamshell case.

Large Miniature, Bound by hand (gilded silver binding covers and spine), clamshell case. 30 pages, 333 pages.

[KW: 9788857000909 ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS, FIFTEENTH CENTURY INCUNABULA BOOK OF HOURS FACSIMILES]

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Pochna, Marie-France: Christian Dior. The man who made the world look new. From the French by Joanna Savill. Foreword by Stanley Marcus. New York: Arcade, 1996. ISBN: 9781559703406
Umschl. gering berieben. - christian Dior, the legendary French fashion designer, caused a worldwide sensation in 1947, in a Paris still groping to recover from the devastations of wartime occupation. Reintro-ducing the flowing, ankle-length skirt, Dior gave women back their long-lost sense of freedom, femininity, and joie de vivre: overnight he was crowned "The King of Fashion." Dubbed the "New Look" by the press-especially the American fashion journalists-Dior's collection, with its pinched waist and generous folds of fabric, also reestablished Paris as the center of world fashion. For the next thirty years the House of Dior, with its subdued and refined pearl-gray, velvet-covered walls and its gray carpeting, played host to aristocrats, stars of stage and film, and glitterati from around the world. In a recent Women's Wear Daily survey, the Dior label ranked second in name recognition in the United States, only after that of Calvin Klein. Dior's career, a veritable fairy tale, is set in a rich tapestry of Paris cultural life before, during, and after the war. Much of Dior's daily inspiration emanated from the world of the intellectual and artistic elite, in which he moved with such people as Erik Satie, Francis Poulenc, Henry Sauguet, Jean Cocteau, and Raoul Dufy. Born at the end of an era in which luxury seemed reserved only for the happy few, Dior again revolutionized the world of fashion by introducing, in the early 1950s, "ready-to-wear" in his Dior Boutique. Until then, couturiers had worked essentially if not exclusively for the very rich and famous. With his boutique, Dior brought high fashion to the world at large. Marie-France Pochna guides us skillfully through the constellation of Paris high-fashion luminaries: Lanvin, Balenciaga, Lelong, Hermes, Givenchy, and Jacques Fath. Rivalries and gossip might have divided the fiefdoms, but absolute perfection in design and high standards of fashion united the Paris "family" of haute couture. From 1947, when the House of Dior was established on Avenue Montaigne near the Champs Elysees and burst upon the scene following its first collection, we follow the Duchess of Windsor, Olivia de Havilland, Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Ingrid Bergman, and many more society celebrities and film stars-all Dior clients-to their fitting rooms. ISBN 9781559703406, ISBN: 1559703407

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Bonar, Ann. SHRUBS AND DECORATIVE TREES. London: Ward Lock Ltd., 1973. ; fester Einband / hard cover; 1. Ed.
Very minor wear on the clean, sound binding. Small red dot on top edge. Contents are almost like new. DJ is not much to look at, but it provides plenty of protection and information. This is a large book and is not eligible for Priority or Air under standard fees. ; Brown cloth, bright gold lettering. GARDEN. "There is such a vast selection of trees and shrubs in cultivation in Great Britain that I was hard put to it to avoid writing a book twice the size of this one...I have tried to indicate heights, times of flowering and requirements of each plant, but it should be remembered that gardening is not an absolute discipine...a sandy soil may produce a 2-foot plant which, in moist clay, would be 4 feet. " Four parts: History, choice and planting; Uses of shrubs and trees; Flowers, foilage and fruit; Cultivation of shrubs and trees. 16 pages of full-color photos. Drawings and b/w photos throughout text. Index. ; 7-3/4 x 10"; 356 pages. 070631512X.

First Edition, Hardcover, VG-/P.

[KW: Hedges; Ground Covers; Rhododendrons; Roses; Pruning; Foliage; Winter Bloomers;,]

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