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The Other World - Asian Myths and Folklor Illustrations
Asian myths and folktales comprise a vast body of lore. From Chinese folklore to Japanese legends and Indian myths, they include elements from a dizzying array of religions, including Buddhism and Shinto, and they contain the historical traces of thousands of years of migration and cultural interchange. Through the form of illustration, the artists in this volume portray these ancient stories in a visual, artistic and intuitive way, re-interpreting their philosophies and aesthetics. The Other World features the expressive works of fifty distinguished illustrators who are passionate about Asian myths and folklore. The book contains both single and series illustration, and aims to explore the tacit connection between illustrated works and Asian myths and to serve as inspiration for both illustrators and lovers of stories.
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Cornucopia of Fruit & Vegetables
Close-up photos of plump apricots, juicy mangoes, crisp lettuce ... these are familiar to us all through cookery books and garden guides. But seeing fruit and vegetables as detailed art, viewed through eighteenth-century eyes, is something very different - and more interesting.
Thanks to intrepid explorers and plant-hunters, Britain and the rest of Europe have long enjoyed a wide and wonderful array of fruit and vegetables. Some wealthy households even created orangeries and glasshouses for tender exotics and special pits in which to raise pineapples, while tomatoes, sweetcorn and runner beans from the New World expanded the culinary repertoire.
This wealth of choice attracted interest beyond the kitchen and garden. In the 1730s, a prosperous Bavarian apothecary produced the first volume of a comprehensive A to Z of all available plants, meticulously documented, and lavishly illustrated by botanical artists. 'A Cornucopia of Fruit & Vegetables' is a glimpse into his world. It features exquisite illustrations of the edible plants in his historic treasury, allowing us to enjoy the sight of swan-necked gourds and horned lemons, smile at silkworms hovering over mulberries and delight at the quirkiness of 'strawberry spinach' ... a delicious medley of garden produce and exotics that will capture the imagination of gardeners and art-lovers alike.
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Apartment Buildings
This volume gathers together thirty of the most recognized international architects and presents current architectural trends in multi-housing design. The projects included showcase new e-structures and ideas and are illustrated in high quality photographs showing the outside, common areas and private interior spaces of the buildings. A selection of plans and sketches together with a clear descriptive text analyze the projects in detail.
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Electrifying Design
An unprecedented survey of modern lighting design foregrounding its materials, innovators, and far-reaching influence
Offering the first comprehensive history of lighting design from the 20th and 21st centuries, Electrifying Design: A Century of Lighting explores how lighting has been integral to the development of modern design both in terms of aesthetics and technological advances. This fascinating book outlines the key aspects of lighting as a unique and creative artistic discipline and examines themes such as different typologies, the quality of light, and the evolution of the bulb. A series of essays by Sarah Schleuning and Cindi Strauss showcase lighting designs from different time periods and geographic locations and feature the work of significant figures, including Poul Henningsen, Ingo Maurer, and Gino Sarfatti. With over 130 illustrations of functional and sometimes fantastical designs, a historical timeline, and comprehensive artist biographies, this handsome volume expands our understanding of an understudied but influential art form and demonstrates lighting's central role as both an expression of and a catalyst for innovations in modern and contemporary design.
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How to Be a Children's Book Illustrator
In this visually captivating volume, a vibrant selection of loved and revered children's book illustrators reveals the secrets of their narrative techniques. Divided into a series of enchanting sections each created by individual illustrators, this unique and gift-worthy book tells the story of how to successfully depict narrative and compel an audience through visual art. Marvel at how composition and environment can create suspense, and how color, visual hierarchy, and symbolism can tell a story beyond just the action.
Learn how to inject dynamism and emotion into your illustrations to tell a tale that isn't just engaging, but is memorable and one that transcends generations.
Lavishly illustrated and with a luxurious finish, How to Be a Children's Book Illustrator is ideal for book lovers in general as well as anyone looking to unlock the secrets of children's book illustration.
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Kiniro Mosaic 8
With the school trip behind
them, it's now test-taking season for Shino and the gang. Find out more about
Youko and Aya's past, as well as a secret that Kana's been keeping to herself!
Don't miss Volume 8 of Kiniro Mosaic!
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Když projížděl Chruščov naší vesnicí
Povídky albánského spisovatele, diplomata a pedagoga Ylljeta Aliçky nás přivádějí do země, o jejíchž reáliích u nás panuje stále velmi slabé povědomí. Výrazně to platí o albánské literatuře, která se v českých překladech vyskytuje jen zcela ojediněle. Vedle světově proslulého literáta, Ismaila Kadareho, se tak Ylljet Aliçka stává teprve druhým žijícím albánským spisovatelem, jehož tvorba se českým čtenářům zpřístupňuje. Čím si Aliçka tuto pozornost zasluhuje?
Jeho povídky poutavou formou poodkrývají každodenní realitu života v Albánii v době komunismu a také v prvním desetiletí po jeho pádu. Autor přitom v jejich sepsání vycházel převážně z vlastních životních zkušeností, což cizincům dovoluje lépe pochopit syrovost, absurditu a krutost života v zemi, jež ve druhé polovině minulého století prošla specifickým historickým vývojem stěží srovnatelným s jinou evropskou zemí. S ohledem na kontext Aliçkových povídek je žádoucí si tento vývoj v krátkosti připomenout.
Na sklonku druhé světové války se k moci dostali komunisté v čele s Enverem Hodžou (1908-1985). Až do roku 1948 byla Albánie úzce napojena na Titovu Jugoslávii a komunistická vedení obou zemí aktivně připravovala začlenění Albánie do jugoslávské federace. Teprve roztržka Stalina s Titem v roce 1948 přeměnila Albánii v běžný sovětský satelit. Hodžovo vedení se nekompromisně zbavilo všech dřívějších projugoslávských členů vládnoucí strany a ostrá rétorika proti dřívějšímu spojenci se stala klíčovým ideologickým pilířem stalinistického režimu v Tiraně. Těžkou ranou pro albánsko-sovětské spojenectví, z něhož země významně ekonomicky profitovala, bylo úmrtí Stalina v roce 1953 a kritika jeho kultu ze strany nového sovětského vedení. Sovětské pokusy o nové sblížení s Bělehradem byly albánskými komunisty sledovány s nedůvěrou a obavami o vlastní pozici. Neochota Envera Hodži zahájit proces destalinizace ve vlastní zemi a zároveň nelibost Sovětů nad albánskými megalomanskými průmyslovými projekty přivedlo nakonec Albánii k druhé roztržce, tentokrát se SSSR a jejími satelity. Na zasedání komunistických a dělnických stran v Moskvě v roce 1960 vystoupila albánská delegace ostře proti Chruščovově politice destalinizace a v propukajícím sovětsko-čínském ideologickém a mocenském sporu se postavila na stranu asijské mocnosti. Odvážný krok malé země, motivovaný pouze mocenskými zájmy její politické elity, dovedl Albánce do poněkud kuriózního spojenectví se vzdálenou Čínou, která ale do značné míry pomohla překlenout výpadek předchozí hospodářské pomoci sovětského bloku. Albánie se na oplátku stala pro Čínu jakýmsi hlasem na mezinárodní scéně, neboť pekingští komunisté se až do začátku 70. let nacházeli v naprosté mezinárodní izolaci. Peking neměl své křeslo ani v OSN. Pročínský kurz a objevující se hospodářské potíže se v Albánii projevily sílící mobilizační kampaní, která měla zajistit masivnější zapojení Albánců do výstavby socialismu a odpoutat jejich pozornost od narůstajících hospodářských problémů. Pod její rouškou režim likvidoval zbytky potenciálně nebezpečných skupin obyvatelstva. V roce 1967 tak mj. vyvrcholila protináboženská kampaň, která postavila mimo zákon všechny náboženské instituce a vedla k uzavření všech svatostánků v zemi. Albánie byla prohlášena za ateistický stát, což poté stvrdila nová ústava v roce 1976. Pod hlavičkou boje proti byrokratismu byly také tisíce lidí přesunuty na venkov. Na jedné straně se tak vládnoucí skupina zbavila nepohodlných osob v důležitých centrech moci a na straně druhé příchod relativně vzdělaných kádrů na venkov přispěl k rozbití tradičních kmenově rodových struktur venkovské společnosti, autority jejích vůdců a religiozity venkova. Tyto kampaně nazývané dobovou propagandou jako „další revolucionarizace života“ v jistém ohledu kopírovaly čínskou kulturní revoluci. Na rozdíl od Číny se však v Albánii tento proces nevymkl vládnoucí straně z rukou a ve svém důsledku vedl k posílení kultu osobnosti Envera Hodži a k nacionalizaci albánské komunistické ideologie. Obavy z možné zahraniční intervence, které zesílily po vpádu vojsk Varšavské smlouvy do Československa v srpnu 1968, se odrazily také v mohutné militarizaci země. Obyvatelstvo, včetně žen, se povinně účastnilo vojenských cvičení a do pádu komunismu byly v Albánii postaveny statisíce betonových bunkrů, které měly zemi ochránit před vnějším nepřítelem. Albánsko-čínské spojenectví se nakonec stalo obětí racionalizace čínské politiky. Navazování kontaktů se západními zeměmi včetně USA a slábnoucí čínská ochota financovat albánskou industrializaci zapříčinily v druhé polovině 70. let ideologický a politický rozchod obou zemí. Stejně jako v případě Jugoslávie a sovětského bloku začala Albánie obviňovat i Čínu ze zrady marxisticko-leninských principů. V období od roku 1978 do smrti Envera Hodži v roce 1985 se Albánie nacházela v naprosté mezinárodní izolaci, která se projevila v dramaticky se zhoršující životní úrovni obyvatel. Politický kurz Hodžova nástupce Ramize Alii navazoval na předchozí politiku, ale následkem hospodářského kolapsu a událostí v Evropě na konci 80. let byl nakonec donucen k opatrným reformám a otevírání země světu. Masivní demonstrace pak na počátku 90. let vedly i v Albánii k pádu komunistického režimu.
Každodenní pídění po základním zboží probíhalo v atmosféře permanentní propagandistické masáže, vyžadující naprostou konformitu s režimem, a ve strachu před všudypřítomnými spolupracovníky tajné policie. Jakákoliv odchylka od norem stanovených stranickými ideology byla drakonicky postihována. Poslech zahraniční hudby nebo četba zakázané literatury neznamenaly jen ztrátu zaměstnání či vyloučení ze studia, ale obvinění ještě v 80. letech končili ve věznicích nebo pracovních táborech s mnohaletými tresty odnětí svobody.
Několik desetiletí trvající stalinistická vláda diktátora Envera Hodži se sice na počátku 90. let 20. století zhroutila, avšak zbídačení země, dlouhá mezinárodní izolace, rychlý přechod od autarkie k dravému kapitalismu a nulová demokratická tradice vedly k politické a sociální nestabilitě provázené hromadným exodem obyvatelstva. Složité období počátků albánské demokracie vyvrcholilo v roce 1997 bankrotem země, ozbrojeným povstáním a zhroucením státní autority, která zemi vrhla do všeobecného chaosu. Většina území státu byla ovládána ozbrojenými gangy, kterým se do rukou dostaly zbraně z vyrabovaných armádních skladů. Zároveň došlo k polarizaci obyvatel – na příznivce tehdejšího prezidenta Saliho Beriši a příznivce opozičních socialistů v čele s Fatosem Nanem. Opozice obviňovala Berišu, že jeho vláda podporovala finanční instituce, které začátkem roku 1997 zkrachovaly, a že povstání na jihu země chtěl potlačit armádou. Nepokoje trvaly asi půl roku a vyžádaly si kolem 2000 lidských životů.
Nelehké období albánských dějin v druhé polovině 20. století Aliçka představuje očima neelitních skupin obyvatelstva. K čtenáři tak promlouvají prosté venkovské ženy, vězni, primitivní bachaři, venkovští učitelé, studenti či namyšlení místní straničtí funkcionáři a jejich mnohdy úsměvné až tragikomické příběhy skládají pestrou mozaiku těžko uvěřitelné albánské reality v době nedávné. Vezmeme-li v potaz české zkušenosti s komunistickým režimem a dobou transformace v 90. letech, nabízí se českému čtenáři prostřednictvím Aliçkových povídek zajímavé srovnání…
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The Boys Omnibus 1 - Photo Cover Edition
As the excitement for Prime Video's new series continues to build for Garth Ennis' & Darick Robertson's The Boys - Dynamite presents a special edition of the Omnibus Volume 1 featuring a fantastic photo cover from the series!
This is going to hurt! In a world where costumed heroes soar through the sky and masked vigilantes prowl the night, someone's got to make sure the `supes` don't get out of line. And someone will!
Billy Butcher, Wee Hughie, Mother's Milk, The Frenchman, and The Female are The Boys: A CIA-backed team of very dangerous people, each one dedicated to the struggle against the most dangerous force on Earth - superpower! Some superheroes have to be watched. Some have to be controlled. And some of them - sometimes - need to be taken out of the picture. That's when you call in The Boys!
Contains: The Boys Vol. 1: The Name of the Game & The Boys Volume 2: Get Some
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Democracy Rules
One of our most essential political thinkers offers a vital account of democracy in the twenty-first century
Everyone knows that democracy is in trouble, but do we know what democracy actually is? Political philosopher Jan-Werner Muller, author of the widely acclaimed What Is Populism?, takes us back to basics.
In this short, elegant volume, he explains how democracy is founded on three vital principles: liberty, equality, and also uncertainty. The latter, he argues, is crucial for ensuring democracy's dynamic and creative character. Authoritarians, as well as Big Tech, seek to render politics (and individual citizens) predictable; democracy holds open the possibility that new ideas, movements and identities can be created.
Acknowledging fully the dangers posed by populism, by kleptocratic autocracies like Russia's and by the digital authoritarianism of Xi, Muller also challenges the assumptions made by many liberals defending democracy in recent years. He shows how the secession of plutocratic elites in the West has undermined much of democracy's promise. In response, we need to re-invigorate our institutions, especially political parties and professional media, but also make it easier for citizens to mobilize.
Taking on many of the most difficult political questions we face, this book is a vital rethinking of what democracy is, and how we can reinvent our social contract.
Wolfenstein Youngblood
A full-color oversized hardcover chronicling the development of the next entry in the iconic first-person shooter franchise.
It's do or die in the dystopian streets of Nazi-occupied Paris as Jess and Soph Blazkowicz piece together the mysterious disappearance of their father, William J. Blazkowicz, while driving the fascists out of France once and for all.
This gorgeous volume features an amazing arsenal of concept art, production material, and exclusive creator commentary from the latest romp into Earth's alternate history with Wolfenstein: Youngblood.
Dark Horse Books, MachineGames, and Bethesda Softworks call all sisters, brothers, and other champions for the cause to unite, fight, and enjoy The Art of Wolfenstein: Youngblood!
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A Life of Picasso Volume IV
The beautifully illustrated, long-awaited final volume of John Richardson's magisterial Life of Picasso, drawing on original research from interviews and never-before-seen material in the Picasso family archives.
The Minotaur Years opens in 1933 with a visit by the Hungarian-French photographer Brassai to Picasso's chateau in Normandy, Boisgeloup, where he would take his iconic photographs of the celebrated plaster busts of Picasso's lover Marie-Therese Walter. Picasso was contributing to Andre Breton's Minotaur magazine and spending time with the likes of Man Ray, Salvador Dali, Lee Miller, and the poet Paul Eluard, in Paris and the south of France. It was during this time that Picasso began writing surrealist poetry and became obsessed with the image of himself as the mythic Minotaur.
Richardson shows us the artist being as prolific as ever, painting Walter, as well as the surrealist photographer Dora Maar, who became a muse, collaborator and lover. The bombing of Guernica in April 1937 would inspire Picasso's vast masterwork of the same name, which he painted in just a few weeks for the Spanish Pavilion at the Paris World's Fair. When the Nazis occupied Paris in 1940, Picasso chose to remain in the city despite the threat that his art would be confiscated. In 1943, Picasso met Francoise Gilot who would replace Maar and inspire a brilliant new sequence of paintings.
As always, Richardson tells Picasso's story through his work, analysing how it shows what the artist was feeling and thinking. His fascinating and illuminating narrative immerses us in one of the most exciting moments in twentieth-century cultural history, and brings to a close the definitive and critically acclaimed biography of one of the world's most celebrated artists.
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Shaman King Omnibus 4
The action manga bestseller returns, in 600-page editions featuring a remastered translation and new cover art by creator Hiroyuki Takei! Dive into the classic Shonen Jump adventure whose world of mystical spirits and bewitching battles inspired the classic anime.
This volume corresponds to Vol. 7-9 of the original release, featuring updated translation and lettering, back in print more than 20 years after its initial release!
In a world where shamans communicate with the dead and call forth the power of legendary spirits to defeat their enemies in both body and soul, Yoh is a teenager with the ultimate ambition: to become the Shaman King, the one and only shaman who may commune with the Great Spirit and help remake the world for the better. But the road to this pinnacle of spiritual power runs through the Shaman Fight, a gauntlet of battles with rival mediums who call forth dizzying powers from the world of the dead in their own bids for the crown. At Yoh's side is Anna, his coach, fiancee, and a powerful medium in her own right. Sure, it'd be nice if Yoh had a little more time to train and mature...but the Shaman Fight is only held once every 500 years, so he's going to have to grow up quick!
Kirchner
The artistic work of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880–1938) is considered a milestone of international modernism and the climax of German Expressionism. This volume documents the development of the multi-faceted oeuvre from the epoch-making nudes of the early Dresden years to the nervously vibrant Berlin metropolitan images, the depictions of the Davos mountains, and the abstract tendencies of the late work.
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Hitting A Straight Lick With A Crooked Stick
In 1925, college student Zora Neale Hurston - the sole black student at Barnard College, New York - was living in the city, 'desperately striving for a toe-hold on the world.'
During this period, she began writing short works that captured the zeitgeist of African American life and transformed her into one of the central figures of the Harlem Renaissance. Nearly a century later, this singular talent is recognised as one of the most influential and revered American artists of the modern period.
Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick is an outstanding collection of stories about love and migration, gender and class, racism and sexism that proudly reflect African American folk culture. Brought together for the first time in one volume, they include eight of Hurston's 'lost' Harlem stories, which were found in forgotten periodicals and archives.
These stories challenge conceptions of Hurston as an author of rural fiction and include gems that flash with her biting, satiric humour, as well as more serious tales reflective of the cultural currents of Hurston's world. All are timeless classics that enrich our understanding and appreciation of this exceptional writer's voice and her contributions to America's literary traditions.
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The Library: A World History
Ambitious and wide-ranging, this is the first single volume to tell the story of the library as a distinct building type, all around the world and from the beginnings of writing to the present day. In its highest form the library is a total work of art, combining painting, sculpture, furniture and architecture. From their designs for the libraries of ancient Rome to those of the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, architects have sought to outdo each other by producing ever more spectacular settings.
The author and photographer have travelled the globe, documenting some eighty libraries. Architectural historian James Campbell contributes an authoritative and highly readable account. Will Pryce is one of the world's leading photographers of interiors and architecture. Arresting and technically flawless, his photographs are both lucid and deeply atmospheric.
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Akira: Art Of Wall
AD 2019: The year the world caught up to AKIRA. Two years before this milestone, author Katsuhiro Otomo worked with artist Kosuke Kawamura to enrobe a Tokyo city block in a collage of gripping moments from the manga that revolutionized an art form. Then, over the next two years, he did it twice more. The result: three electifying compilations of Otomo's art, meandering across the city. And now you can take them home.
From 2017-2019, the throngs passing through Tokyo's emblematic Shibuya neighborhood were lucky enough to witness a massive art project. The PARCO department store was closed for renovation, and Katsuhiro Otomo and collage artist Kosuke Kawamura seized on the opportunity to stretch Otomo's landmark manga AKIRA across the barriers separating the construction site from the bustling nightlife of Shibuya, Tokyo.
When the project was completed, it was 2019: the very year the story of AKIRA began. To commemorate this milestone, a silver foil-coated collector's box presents an exquisite reproduction of Otomo and Kawamura's work, with the specifications overseen and approved by Otomo-sensei personally. Nearly 75 feet (22.7 meters) of illustrations, speech balloons, and text selected from AKIRA's six volumes stretch across three accordion-bound volumes. A fourth volume includes an exclusive interview with Otomo and Kawamura, as well as photographs of the original exhibition by award-winning photographer TAKAMURADAISUKE. Rounding out the box is a dramatic, 16.5x23.4-inch poster.
In this form, Kawamura's recontextualization of Otomo's manga is reminiscent of traditional Japanese emaki (picture scrolls), the narrative scrolls that some scholars see as manga's most ancient ancestors.
Don't miss this change to own a singular artifact in the history of anime and manga.
Contains
* Scroll 1: Oct. 25, 2017-May 15, 2018. 29.3 feet (8.94 meters).
* Scroll 2: May 16, 2018-Feb. 27, 2019. 22.6 feet (6.88 meters).
* Scroll 3: Feb. 28, 2019-Aug. 8, 2019. 22.6 feet (6.88 meters).
* 430 x 607 mm poster
* 52-page hardcover catalog book including new interviews with Katsuhiro Otomo and Kosuke Kawamura and photographs by TAKAMURADAISUKE
* Rigid, silver cold foil-wrapped box
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The Hitler Years Disaster 1940-1945
The second volume in a new, immensely readable narrative of the rise and catastrophic fall of the Nazi regime by a respected expert on the Third Reich.
At the beginning of 1940 Germany was at the pinnacle of its power. By May 1945 Hitler was dead and Germany had suffered a disastrous defeat.
Hitler had failed to achieve his aim of making Germany a super power and had left her people to cope with the endless shame of the Holocaust.
In The Hitler Years ~ Disaster 1940-1945, Professor Frank McDonough charts the dramatic change of fortune for the Third Reich, and challenges long-held accounts of the Holocaust and Germany's ultimate defeat.
Despite Hitler's grand ambitions and the successful early stages of the Third Reich's advances into Europe, Frank McDonough argues that Germany was only ever a middle-ranking power and never truly stood a chance against the combined forces of the Allies.
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Moby-Dick
Teeming with ideas and imagery, and with its extraordinary intensity sustained by mischievous irony and moments of exquisite beauty, Moby-Dick is both a great American epic and a profoundly imaginative literary creation.
Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition features an afterword by Nigel Cliff.
On board the whaling ship Pequod a crew of wise men and fools, renegades and seeming phantoms is hurled through treacherous seas by crazed Captain Ahab, a man hell-bent on hunting down the mythic White Whale. Herman Melville transforms the little world of the whale ship into a crucible where mankind's fears, faith and frailties are pitted against a relentless fate.
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Jungalow: Decorate Wild: The Life and Style Guide
From Justina Blakeney, the ultimate guide to designing wildly
creative interiors that are free-spirited, layered, and deeply personal. Justina Blakeney's new book is her biggest, boldest, and most beautiful volume yet, filled with irresistible style, original patterns, and artwork-lushly photographed by Dabito. In each chapter, Justina shares
her distinctive point of view on everything design fans want to know-how to make bold choices with color and pattern, how to take cues from nature, how to authentically glean inspiration from their heritage and
travels, how to break rules, and all the other paths to truly begin to decorate wild. Along the way, Justina also shares personal narratives, practical advice, and nuanced insight into how she lives in her own space-how she reconnects with nature, how she plays and stays inspired, how she gives herself permission to feel free and wild, and how readers
can do the same.
Jungalow is the term coined by Justina for the
brand that embodies her wild, but cozy and homey, style. Copycats
abound, but there is no other book like this one-offering Justina's
authentic, encouraging voice and approachable, signature style.
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