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In her latest book, best-selling author of The Not So Big House Sarah Susanka teams up with architectural design writer Marc Vassallo to expand upon the message that has resonated with over a million homeowners and builders across the country: opting for personalized, well-crafted, thoughtfully designed spaces over superfluous square footage results in a home that comforts and nourishes those who live there.
In Inside The Not So Big House, Susanka and Vassallo focus their lens on the tangible and sometimes intangible details that bring an otherwise ordinary home to life. Incorporating such details as dropped ceilings, built-in shelves, pocket doors, window seats, and well-placed alcoves infuses a home with the character of its owners and conveys a uniqueness that's mising in many homes built or remodeled today. From Rhode Island to San Diego, the 23 homes featured here illustrate exceptional attention to detail. Each offers inspiration for those building or remodeling to transform their home into an expression of all that is important to them. "Detail is everything in design. Sarah Susanka proves it again with this, her latest book."
--John Wheatman, author, Meditations on Design and A Good House Is Never Done
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For those who want to dig a little deeper.......2007-09-02
Susanka's attention to detail is awe-inspiring, and probably more information than the average person wants, but the book has great photos and some wonderful ideas that anyone can use. If you've been able to acquire the perfect furniture, best use of space and light, but you're still missing the ingredient to really pull it all together -- balance, aesthetics, personality, etc -- this book may help you.
Full of inspiring ideas!.......2007-03-08
I have been devouring the pages of ideas in this book. I think I have looked all through it a dozen times, because many of the concepts and ideas seem to improve and become more usable as I think them over. We live in a ca. 1970's "split-ranch" house and this book has me thinking creatively about using the space in our house in ways I haven't done before.
Great Ideas.......2006-11-03
Read the book cover to cover and enjoyed a fresh look at residential design. As an architect myself, it made me rethink some of my own design processes. Bigger isn't always necessarily better!
Less is most definitely more.......2006-03-22
In this astonishing book, which is filled with wonderful ideas, as well as being a beautiful coffee table book, we are granted an inside look at a truly new concept in home design in our age of teardowns and mega-mansions, a concept that smaller can be more satisfying than larger, if properly done. Here we are presented with something seldom viewed these days, how to make a house a home. There is something for every taste herein, and it is even multi-cultural, with oriental viewpoints as well on both furniture and flow of the home. Spend some time with this excellent book to see how every size home can be made more personal and beautiful, no matter what the budget.
Great as always!.......2006-03-20
Sarah books are a staple in my books of design collection. I refer to them frequently. She has a wonderful sense of design as it relates to organization, usefullness,and asthetically pleasing. I wish more designers and architects would use her sensibility and we would not be over run with all the hideous, vapid,mac mansions everywhere. I would reccommend all of her books without hesitation.
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- New and fascinating views of Picasso and cubism.
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The Sorcerer's Apprentice: Picasso, Provence, and Douglas Cooper
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Two quotations from Francis Bacon bookend this curious, exasperatedly affectionate memoir by John Richardson, distinguished art historian and 1991 Whitbread Award-winning biographer of Picasso: the prophetic "she'll try to lure you to bed, and then she'll turn on you. She always does," finds its uncanny conclusion in "Didn't I warn you she was a thoroughly treacherous woman?" The sorcerer (art collector Douglas Cooper) and his apprentice (Richardson) lived for 10 years in the grandiose "folly" Château de Castille in Provence, where they entertained a circle that included Pablo Picasso, Jean Cocteau, Angus Wilson, Tennessee Williams, and a range of other usual suspects from that period's artistic fraternity. When Richardson left Cooper for the lights of New York, Cooper, in the great tradition of spurned lovers, burned Richardson's remaining possessions, stole his paintings, denounced him to friends and employers, and even attempted to arrange his arrest by Interpol. Cooper was a duplicitous, sadistic bully (among his more outrageous acts was loudly booing the queen outside Westminster Abbey at her coronation). But his deep knowledge of art history and classical cubism and his pioneering collecting of the works of Picasso, Braque, Léger, and Gris were an essential counterpoint to the staid policy of the Tate Gallery and its director, Sir John Rothenstein, for whom he held a deteriorating scorn. Richardson's delight in reviewing this formative period reignites the fire in Cooper flaring nostrils and borrows some of its flame to stoke what is arguably an enriching addendum to his Picasso magnum opus, which, appropriately, bears a dedication to his old sorcerer. --David Vincent, Amazon.co.uk
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John Richardson brings the same dazzling narrative style to this memoir as he did to Volumes I and II of
A Life of Picasso. Robert Hughes called the second volume "a masterpiece in the making, the most illuminating biography yet written on a twentieth-century visual artist and the only one that can sustain comparison with Painter on Proust, Ellman on Joyce, or Edel on Henry James"; he also praised Richardson's "crispness of writing" and "impressive eye for the offbeat or scandalous detail." All these qualities conspire to make
The Sorcerer's Apprentice a brilliant and fascinating chronicle.
This book is a sharply etched portrait of Douglas Cooper, the colorful Evelyn Waugh-like figure who single-handedly assembled the world's most important private cubist collection. It is also the story of Cooper and Richardson's association, which began in 1949 and came to fruition -- and ultimately disaster -- at the Chateau de Castille, the eighteenth-century colonnaded folly in Provence that they restored and filled with masterpieces by Picasso, Braque, Leger, and Juan Gris. Besides these artists and the women in their lives, Jean Cocteau, W. H. Auden, Cyril Connolly, Marie-Laure de Noailles, Helena Rubenstein, Peggy Guggenheim, and Anthony Blunt are just some of the figures who, through Richardson's insightful prose, leap off the page to appear before us in an entirely new light. A major revelation of the book is its portrait of Picasso in private; Richardson's friendship with the artist coincided with a period of dramatic change in the artist's life. Not since Gertrude Stein's
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas has anyone given so intimate a picture of leading modern artists and their circle at work and play, or with such insight and understanding.
The flawless style, highly tuned sensitivity, and incisive wit of
The Sorcerer's Apprentice make it one of the most entertaining and captivating memoirs of one of the great periods of artistic activity in this century.
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Astonishing cultural history.......2006-03-06
By Picasso's most distinguished biographer, this memoir of life in Provence in the 1950s with art collector Douglas Cooper mesmerizes with its cast of quirky characters. The inside glimpses of Picasso at work and play are the book's highlight, but one can't underrate other protraits of the arts intelligentsia of the time. Many great candid photos enhance the superbly written text. Why did Richardson stay with Cooper for more than a decade if Cooper, the world's first huge cubist collector, was as horrid a person as portrayed? That's unanswered, and Cooper is long dead and unable to defend himself. Both men, not quite closeted gays in the '40s and '50s, were esteemed companions for some of the era's greatest creatives, so one must temper this acidic portrait with a bit of doubt. Well worth reading even if you haven't looked into the author's Picasso bio, still in progress.
New and fascinating views of Picasso and cubism........2000-03-05
Richardson's fine survey of Douglas Cooper, who assembled the world's most important private cubist collection, provides an excellent consideration of both the man and his involvement in the arts and Richardson's personal involvement with Cooper's works. Chapters offer new views of Picasso based on Richardson's friendship with the artist, plus many other unusual insights on artists and works of the times. Highly recommended.
an elegant retrospective.......2000-02-06
john richardson gives us snippets of a fascinating period intertwining the lives of influential artists and personas. i only wish the book was longer and more descriptive of braque,guttoso and miro. if you collect or enjoy the cubists and their relatives,you will enjoy this book
Delicious/Malicious Fun, by fermed.......2000-02-05
John Richardson has set aside his scholarly masterpiece (A Life of Picasso: Volumes I & II completed, Volumes III & IV eagerly awaited)to produce something bubbly and light; it is not soda-pop, though, but vintage champagne. Far different from the careful and meticulous research of his Picasso oeuvre, The Sorcerer's Apprentice is a welcome intermission and a clearing of the palate.
Richardson writes about himself and his friends, and especially about his love affair with Douglas Cooper ("The Sorcerer" of the title), art collector, critic and expert on cubism from whom Richardson learned a great deal, both good and bad.The book illuminates not only the relationship between the older, impossible, Cooper and his young apprentice, but also back lights aspects of Picasso, Braque, Lèger and Juan Gris as they are reflected in the tumultuous lives of that odd couple.
The author is an inveterate gossip, as good biographers should be. He likes to tell the little details that deflate or humanize others. He does not have the malice of Capote (although sometimes he comes close), and he is obviously too amiable and forgiving to twist the knife or seek idle revenge.
One cannot be sure about the motives that led to putting out this light froth between the serious stuff; I am glad it is out there, though, and glad I read it. Being taken into Mr. Richardson's confidence and getting to know him will make the enjoyment of his next Picasso volumes all the more intense.
Bill Owens..Suburbia.......2000-02-04
Bill Owens captured the great American Migration to the suburbia of the early seventies. Amidst the conformity suggested by social critics and our owm memories of having lived there, he found that which was uniquely human and individual. This loving document, now published in an improved second edition, brings to us a classic in documentary photography.
These are not the photographs of a cultural tourist. These views were secured through the trust reserved for the insider that he was. Lives of his friends and neighbors are captured in a time and place that no other photographer had the insight to document in such a dedicated and revealing fashion. Through these photographs we see and remember the awkward growth and construction of the sense of culture and neighborhood created from scratch. We are reminded that we were living life "in the local," free from the burden of ordained histories, in a place where everything was new and unused.
See and remember the life you thought everyone might want to forget. From the sinister implications of conformity, to the humorous recollections of the rituals of the middle class, Bill saw and recorded it all....a classic not to be forgotten.
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The Sorcerer's Apprentice: Picasso, Provence and Douglas Cooper
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The first collection of Edward S. Curtis's stunning, evocative, and hugely popular portraits of Native American women-with never-before-published images. These indelible portraits of Native Americans by Edward S. Curtis, made at the dawn of the 20th century, have become among the most avidly collected, published, and sought-after emblems of early encounters with American Indian life. But not until now has there been a book on Curtis's photographs of women. This book, the follow-up to Edward S. Curtis:
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In Margaret Coel's latest Wind River Reservation mystery, an atrocity from the past has resurfaced with a vengeance.
Two murders-a century apart-are linked to photographs taken of the Arapahos on the reservation in 1907, currently on display at St. Francis' Mission. As they begin their investigation, Father John O'Malley and Vicky Holden unearth secrets best left buried.
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"In Margaret Coel's latest Wind River Reservation mystery, an atrocity from the past has resurfaced with a vengeance. Two murders-a century apart-are linked to photographs taken of the Arapahos on the reservation in 1907, currently on display at St. Francis' Mission. As they begin their investigation, Father John O'Malley and Vicky Holden unearth secrets best left buried. Publishers Weekly Best Book 2004"
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What an excellent series!.......2007-08-31
This series does truly keep getting better and better. This is my favourite book so far, and I still have two or three more to go. I love Father John O'Malley. He is so real that I can't help going through all his angst with him. Vicky is a good character too. This book has non-stop tension from beginning to end. It actally starts in October 1907 and Coel weaves back and forth from then to the present day. When an historic photographer's works are shown at the Wind River Museum, Father O'Malley has no idea that these pictures would wake up a sleeping terror that has lain dormant for almost 100 years. Vicky and Father John are drawn into a web of terror and a cover-up that is incendiary as it was in 1907. Of course there are more dead bodies along the way, but Father John and Vicky stick with it until they discover the truth of what happened on the reserve in 1907. This books was riveting, and I just couldn't put it down. Can't wait for the next one.
From a native Wyomingite and Indian.......2007-01-16
Margaret Coel has a new fan. This is the first Coel novel I have read and I truly enjoyed it. Coel deftly weaves the murder of an Arapaho woman in 1907 to a present day murder of another Arapaho woman. In 1907 Edward S. Curtis captures the murder of Bashful by her White husband during a stagged attack on an Indian village, but the evidence remains hidden for nearly a century. When a Wyoming Senator, the grandson of that long ago White man, wants to make his bid for U.S. President Curtis's pictures become important enough for him to kill for, and that he does by killing a direct descendent of Bashfu in order to keep the truth hidden.
Despite the obvious history between Coel's key characters; Attorney Vicky Holden and Priest, John O'Malley, the reader does not need to know about it to have the story make sense.
There are some disappointments in Coel's writing. For example, the Wind River reservation is comprised of Arapaho and Shoshone, not just Arapaho, and there was not one mention of the Shoshone. There is no Arapaho County in Wyoming, but there is one in Colorado where Coel is reported to live. More detail to the traditional and contemporary lives of the Arapaho people would have made the book that much more interesting. All in all it was a good read.
If you enjoy Tony Hillerman or Steven Havill . . ........2006-10-19
T.J. Painted Horse's wife, Denise, is dead, an apparent suicide. Further investigation reveals that she was murdered. The obvious suspect, T.J., swears to his attorney Vicky Holden that he didn't do it, and she believes him. Until she finds out that he's been cheating on Denise for quite some time, that Denise was thinking seriously about divorcing T.J., that his alibi is non-existent. T.J. maintains that his enemies, the people on the rez who want some methane gas drilling sites allowed, killed Denise because they couldn't get to T.J. This is a reasonable possibility, but not first on anyone's list.
At just about the same time that Denise is killed, Christine Nelson,the new curator at the local museum, disappears. Is this a coincidence? When her husband comes looking for her, the disappearance becomes ominous; her husband is a very controlling, very dangerous man with powerful friends.
While investigating Denise's murder, and trying to protect her client, Vicky Holden uncovers some ties to a local politician. Wyomin Senator Jaime Evans is getting ready to announce his bid for the presidency. Evan's grandfather was married to an Arapaho, Bashful Woman. She was killed during the photographing by Edward S. Curtis of a staged attack on an Arapaho village. The Indians portraying the attackers were convicted of killing Bashful Woman, and hanged. Since then, some descendants of Bashful Woman's father, Chief Sharp Nose, have died; their deaths have not all been from natural causes, the murders have not been solved.
Wife of Moon is a very well-written mystery. Margaret Coel has written seven other books in this series. This is the first one I've read. There is obviously a lot of history between Vicky Holden and Father John O'Malley; while not knowing that history made me curious, it did not detract from the story. The plotting is tight. The characters, even when not particularly likeable, are believable. I know about half-way through the book what the key to the story was, but not how it would be used, or where it would take me. The interweaving of the back-story (from 1907) and the current events was seamless. The historical details in the author's note at the end were interesting, and relevant.
All in all, this was a thoroughly enjoyable read. I will add Margaret Coel's series to my list of "Stuff I Want to Read", and see if my local library has The Eagle Catcher in their collection. I suggest that if you haven't already read Coel, and you like contemporary mysteries set in the southwest, with Native American protagonists, that you do the same.
Re-playing the Indian wars?.......2005-08-10
Father John O'Mallory, the "Indian priest" at the Wind River Reservation, got a phone call from his Episcopal colleague at the other side of the res. Father Nathan has received a message meant for Father John, which seems to indicate some old wars are heating up again. In 1874, Shoshone warriors massacred Arapaho in the Bates Battle. Now, 125 years later those left of the Arapaho have peacefully co-existed with the Shoshone at Wind River. But all that might come to an end, as Father John decodes the message and finds the bodies of slain Shoshone at the site of the Arapaho massacre.
In the meantime, Vicky Holden trying to devote her law practice to the big issues of her tribe, currently working on documents related to the reintroduction of the wolf. But she keeps being sucked back into representation of a young trouble-maker she's represented on DUI, assault, and burglary charges. But this time, he might go down for the murders.
And Father John and Vicky both have other problems. Father John's new assistant fears he'll never earn the same respect as the older priest. Vicky's new law partner worries that she'll contunue to represent the lowlife, draining all her energy away from the big projects. And just what is the relationship between Father John and Vicky?
Margaret Coel has given us another terrific mystery that keeps us guessing until the end, set among the peoples and places her readers have come to love. Highly recommended.
I'm a big Margaret Coel fan .......2005-04-19
I find life among the Arapaho as she describes it infinitely fascinating, and wish she would spend more time on that than she does. She's very good in her description of the setting, also, and I can easily imagine myself on the Wyoming Reservation.
This is the umpteenth book in the series (10th?) in which a Jesuit priest (who is with the St. Francis Mission) and his friend, an Arapaho attorney, solve mysteries on the reservation. The plot in this series is two-fold (turn of the 20th century and early 21st century) and revolves around an old photograph by Curtis on display in the mission's museum. The photo depicts a staged attack on a phony Arapaho village. In the course of shooting that photo, a woman was killed, so some chapters describe the events around this historic murder, while others describe some present day crimes that appear to be linked to the Curtis photographs in some way. A woman is murdered and her husband is the chief suspect, but on the same night, the newly-hired curator at the museum disappears. Then there's the visit from the Senator who may be declaring himself as a candidate for President -- how does that tie in?
Coel is an excellent writer, although she makes some blunders that a fact-checker or good editor could help her with. Like all the other states, for example, Wyoming has two senators, not a sole representative in Washington, and it is highly unlikely that a person who has only been curator for a month would have had time to mount an exhibition, particularly one that involves borrowing materials from another collection. These things take years, not weeks.
So -- I think perhaps Ms. Coel is under pressure to keep turning these best-selling books out and that's a pity, because this is quite a good book in other respects. Coel is a great story teller. I'm also happy to see that the unrequited love theme between the priest and the lawyer is being downplayed.
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