The eagerly anticipated first monograph to celebrate the fifty-years-and-counting career of decorating legend Mario Buatta. Influenced by the understated elegance of Colefax and Fowler and the doyenne of exuberant American decor, Sister Parish, Buatta reinvented the English Country House style stateside for clients such as Henry Ford II, Barbara Walters, Malcolm Forbes, and Mariah Carey, and for Blair House, the President's guest quarters. The designer is acclaimed for his sumptuous rooms that layer fine antiques, confectionary curtains, and sublime colorations, creating an atmosphere of lived-in opulence. This lavishly illustrated survey-filled with images taken for the foremost shelter magazines as well as many unpublished photographs from the designer's own archive-closely follows Buatta's highly documented career from his professional start in the 1950s working for department store B. Altman & Co. and Elisabeth Draper, Inc. to his most recent projects, which inclu...
Lao Zi (Lao Tzu, 600-500BC)-a great thinker, educationist, and founder of Taoism-was born in state of Chu. The Analects of Tao, or "Dao De Jing" include "Dao Jing" and "De Jing"The English text of Dao De Jing was mainly based on the translation complied by J. Legge. In this edition, I have made a few of revisions. They included the names and place are converted into Pinyin forms.In this book, I use three forms of written languages-Chinese characters, the Pinyin, and English. Each Chinese character is followed by its Pinyin form (Chinese phonetic symbols). In this way, you can not only understand the meaning of original text, you can also easily pronounce and read the Chinese text as well. Product details Format Paperback | 58 pages ...