Product Description: The human being was at the center of Danish modernism. Traditional craftsmanship and a high degree of quality influenced both its design and its architecture. Alongside the construction of numerous groundbreaking public buildings, the 1950s and 60s saw the design of many single-family homes based on an aesthetic that focused on truth to materials, honesty in construction and the reduction of form...read more

Product Description: This book is organized in thematic chapters, broken down into three sections, which each examine room 606 as a microcosm of the SAS House. Each section reconstructs the original building and traces the connections between Jacobsen's masterpiece and his other works, from buildings to household objects...read more

Product Description: The Furniture of Poul Kjaerholm: Catalogue Raisonne is the comprehensive and definitive reference work on one of the most important and profound designers of the twentieth century. Poul Kjaerholm (Denmark, 1929-80) was a furniture architect whose unique aesthetic language combined industrial materials and techniques with a craftsman's approach to details and materials...read more

On the 23rd of December 1996, the body of Sophie Toscan du Plantier was discovered outside her remote holiday home near Schull in West Cork. This is the story of how an independent and beautiful woman sought peace and sanctuary and instead found violence and the ultimate terror.

Product Description: Teddie Durban is a college English professor who visits his elderly mother, Lorraine, at her inner-city apartment. Cigarettes and alcohol have stolen the health of the bony, blue-haired woman, yet Teddie glimpses the two-fisted young steelworker beneath the sagging skin and bloated belly -- the alley fighter, the body puncher, a woman fully able to bully life into a corner, then apply fists, feet, and teeth...read more

Looks at modern Italian society, life in Rome, recent Roman history, and political scandals