Jenny De Gex

Covering all the basic elements of Asian style, this unique decorating resource is brimming with great ideas using embroidery, lacquerware, calligraphy, screens, temples, and tea ceremonies to recreate the feel of the East in the home.

Creative Ideas for Enhancing Your Space

Asian Style

From the 19th to 20th century, skiing underwent great changes as it rose in popularity—as did the advertisements and art of the sport, which have since become collectors' items Immigrant Scandinavian gold miners chasing the Gold Rush mid-19th century introduced skiing to the United States. By the turn of the 20th century, skiing had emerged from its utilitarian origins to become a fashionable sport in both Europe and North America, and a wave of new, stylish resorts emerged. By the 1930s, skiing was by far the most popular winter pastime for the rich and famous—combining adventure, fashion, and exclusivity. The graphic art of the posters advertising this burgeoning sport have become collectors' items. The Art of Skiing is a beautiful collection of the finest examples of poster art. Organized by country and resort, it uses posters from the Beekley Collection—the largest private collection of ski art in the world—to reflect the changing trends in skiing fashion and technique, and investigates the most popular resorts, their establishment, and their development.

Vintage Posters from the Golden Age of Winter Sport

The Art of Skiing

This book contains reproductions of vintage posters used to promote skiing from the late 19th century onwards. The aim of the posters was to tempt people to join the ever-fashionable ranks of skiers.

Provides detailed illustrations of the fruits and flowers of the Holy Land, identifies their citations in the Bible, and notes fascinating botanical lore

Bible Flowers

Vera Lynn

Robin Cross

During World War II, two figures symbolized the spirit of Britain: Winston Churchill and Vera Lynn. Dame Vera Lynn sang to the troops abroad and reached the hearts of the people on the home front. Including Dame Vera's own recollections of the war, 'We'll meet again' revisits the way the people of Britain lived during those extraordinary years. Rationing, air raids, adjusting to loved ones being away while trying to maintain as normal a routine as possible are all addressed alongside family life, education, evacuation, the royal family, sport, commerce and entertainment. Marvellously anecdotal and sumptuously illustrated throughout, this book reveals the fashions of the time, the films people were watching, the songs people were singing and the headlines that people absorbed everyday.

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