The publication Glasgow Interiors offers a glimpse into a selection of Glasgow´s most impressive historic interiors. Featuring thirty-three of the city´s most alluring buildings - both public and private -this book tells the story of the city´s built heritage over the past 150 years and demonstrates the extraordinary wealth of interiors that lie behind the façades of Glasgow´s buildings: from a dramatic Victorian swimming bath and a glittering Art Deco restaurant to intricately detailed Art Nouveau warehouses and imposing Edwardian townhouses in the city´s West End.
Glasgow has a spectacular array of buildings and is internationally renowned for its history of architectural innovation, design excellence and unique brand of urban glamour, both cosmopolitan and gritty. Unlike other world-class cities, such as London, Paris or New York, until now there has been no publication to showcase the interiors of Glasgow´s built heritage.
KENDRICK, Helen (text); SMITH, Neale (photographs), 2014 / Glasgow Interiors
BIRLINN LIMITED, EDINBURGH
176 pp., 20 x 24 cm, 110 colour Illustrations. Published in English
Available in paperback / £20
For more information: www.birlinn.co.uk/Glasgow-Interiors
"Glasgow Interiors"
Glasgow, 18.02.2015 | Published by BIRLINN LIMITED, EDINBURGH
"Lechner, a Creative Genius"
Budapest, 18.02.2015 | Published by Museum of Applied Arts - Institute of Art History, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Lechner, a Creative Genius is a fresh publication which accompanies the Budapest Museum of Applied Arts´ centennial exhibition dedicated to Ödön Lechner (1845-1914). It is an album rather than a catalogue, though you will find a list of exhibited original works in the appendix. The well-proportioned selection of plans and photos covers his entire oeuvre. The same could be said about József Sisa´s essay, an article that gives the book great merit and is furthermore the best academic text on Lechner in English to date. The author skilfully incorporates into his summary relevant details from nineteenth-century political and art history, pointing out, for example, new Asian buildings which probably influenced the architect. Both this book´s content and its unfortunate brevity call for increased recognition of this Hungarian genius, who has been languishing on the Unesco World Heritage sites´ Tentative List since 2008.
SISA, József, 2014 / Lechner, a Creative Genius
Museum of Applied Arts - Institute of Art History, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
152 pp., 22 x 28 cm. 301 colour and b/w illustrations.
Text in Hungarian and English
Available in paperback / HUF5900 (ca. euros 20)
For more information: www.imm.hu/lechner
Reopening of Cau Ferrat and Maricel Museum of Sitges
Barcelona, 23.12.2014 | Published by coupDefouet
Horta Museum in Brussels awarded European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Awards.
Barcelona, 13.11.2014 | Published by coupDefouet
The award ceremony for the European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Awards was held in the Horta Museum in Saint-Gilles, Brussels, on 10 October. The Museum itself was honoured with an award for its conservation project, conducted over twenty-five years by the architect Barbara Van der Wee (IP/14/283) and with a master plan dating from 1989 that encompassed the complete renovation of the building.
For more information:http://www.europanostra.org/news/435/
Palau Güell: A Look at Furniture
Barcelona, 29.10.2014 | Published by Diputació de Barcelona, Palau Güell
The permanent exhibition "Palau Güell: a look at furniture" will officially open on 7 November in Palau Güell. The Palau Güell has set up four rooms dedicated to furniture for this exhibition, including a selection of original decorative elements from Palau Güell and furniture items representing the main Modernista designers. The exhibition will also display two pieces designed by Antoni Gaudí until 12 January 2015.
Antoni Gaudí´s Palau Güell is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is owned by the Diputació de Barcelona.