By Christina Noelle

Author Christina Noelle, a Chicago native and urban lifestyle specialist, takes you through the history of the Urban Loft in Chicago.

Just the word Loft conjures up images of rough and tumbled edges. Cool hip places. Urban atmosphere. It has personality. It has substance. Just like the lofts themselves, the idea of loft is as different and inspired as the people who dwell in them. As loft has moved around the country, it has become different things for different people. And it has just as much to do with the people responsible for creating them as it does for the organic evolution of the architecture.

This full color 168 page coffee table book with over 200 illustrations is the perfect gift for anybody who loves the city of Chicago.

About the Author
Christine Noelle, Chicago native and Urban Lifestyle Specialist, is the core and inspiration behind some of the nation's most progressive, energetic, trend-setting and successful urban neighborhoods. A visionary behind the development of the Urban Loft concept, she has redefined the urban lifestyle, embracing convenience and luxury, art and ingenuity to develop inviting and thriving enclaves of chic sophistication and metropolitan spirit.


$49.95 plus $4.00 shipping and handling

Published: Rizzoli, New York
By Beth Dunlop / Photography By Steven Brooke

The revitalization of Miami's South Beach Art Deco District is one of the great success stories of twentieth-century architecture and urban design. In the wake of this success, a modernist building boom resulted to complement the existing Art Deco gems, and the development Aqua is the culmination of this urban transformation. The brainchild of the developer Craig Robins, Aqua is the first New Urbanist community that features exclusively modernist work--with a star roster of architects, such as Walter Chatham, Alison Spear, Hariri & Hariri, Brown Demandt, Duany Plater-Zyberk and Alexander Gorlin. The result is an unprecedented residential enclave that combines the best of neo-traditional urbanism with cutting-edge modernist designs. In addition, specifically commissioned artwork by internationally renowned artists Richard Tuttle, Guillermo Kuitca, and Mark Handforth further engages the senses and activates Aqua's community spaces. Aqua -a realized vision for living in both Miami Beach and beyond provides a compelling model for the future of growing communities worldwide.

About the Author
Beth Dunlop is the author of numerous books, including Arquitectonica. She is Editor-in-Chief of HOME Miami magazine and an award-winning architecture critic of the Miami Herald. She is also a regular contributor to House & Garden Magazine.


$60.00 plus $4.00 shipping and handling

By Hans-Ulrich Obrist

Rirkrit Tiravanija thrives on the interactions between himself and strangers, friends new and old that he encounters on his travels. He insists that art should provide an occasion for geniality and sociability, an insistence that has enriched the environments he has traversed. Conceived as an artist's book, Rirkrit Tiravanija is also the artist's first monograph. It is constructed as a "storyboard" comprised of images from every work produced between 1989 and the present day. In collaboration with the great Paris designers M/M, Tiravanija offers us the most complete evaluation of his work to date, using as narrative backbone his numerous international retrospective exhibitions of 2004 and 2005 (at the Chiang Mai University Art Museum in Thailand, the Munich Kunstverein, the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam, the Musee d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, and the Serpentine Gallery in London). As documentation, this book is an unsurpassed survey that demonstrates the conceptual unity of Tiravanija's seemingly disparate projects. Texts include written scenarios and scripts by the artist Philippe Parreno, the science fiction writer Bruce Sterling and by Tiravanija himself. Also included is a post-retrospective conversation between the exhibitions' curators, among them Hans-Ulrich Obrist.

Born in 1961 in Buenos Aires (Argentina) Rirkrit Tiravanija lives and works in New York, Berlin and Bangkok.

About the Author
Hans-Ulrich Obrist was born in 1968 in Zurich, Switzerland. In 1993, he founded the Museum Robert Walser and began to run the Migrateurs program at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris where he served as a Curator for contemporary art. He presently serves as the Co-Director of Exhibitions and Programs and Director of International Projects at the Serpentine Gallery, London.


$75.00 plus $4.00 shipping and handling

Bridge House Publishing creates and distributes high-quality books on all subjects related to the fine arts. The focus is on contemporary art, photography, design and architecture. Bridge House Publishing also distributes books worldwide for other publishers and museums. Among the new titles is a book on Carlos Alfonzo, the late Cuban-American artist who was a key figure in the development of expressionist painting in the 1980s.

New this spring is the illustrated humor book "Like Cats and Dogs" by Beatrice Rich who is also the author and illustrator of Bridge House's successful Vanessa series for young readers.

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