The new comprehensive bible of interior design, from a home styling guru who has coached an entire Scandinavian generation in the art of creating a harmonious home.Frida Ramstedt believes in thinking about how we decorate, rather than focusing on what we decorate with. We know more today than ever before about design trends, furniture, and knickknacks, and now Frida familiarizes readers with the basic principles behind interior and styling—what looks good ...

This long-awaited companion to Jonah Winter's acclaimed DIEGO features the paintings of young Spanish artist, Ana Juan. This stunning picture book is the perfect gift for art enthusiasts of all ages.When her mother was worn out from caring for her five sisters, her father gave her lessons in brushwork and color. When polio kept her bedridden for nine months, drawing saved her from boredom. When a bus accident left her in unimaginable agony, her paintings expressed her pain and depr...

See the world through Frida Kahlo's eyes and be inspired to produce your own masterpieces.Have you ever wondered exactly what your favourite artists were looking at to make them draw, sculpt, or paint the way they did? In this charming illustrated series of books to keep and collect, created in full collaboration with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, you can see what they saw, and be inspired to create your own artworks, too. In What the Artist Saw: Frida Kahlo,...

Frida Kahlo stepped into the limelight in 1929 when she married the Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. She was 22; he was 43. Hailed as Rivera’s exotic young wife who ‘dabbles in art’, she went on to produce brilliant paintings, but remained in her husband’s shadow throughout her life. Today, almost six decades after her untimely death, Kahlo’s fame rivals that of Rivera and she has gained international acclaim as a path-breaking artist and a cultural icon.Cutting through ‘Fridamania’,...

Help your little one dream big with a Little Golden Book biography all about the Mexican artist Frida Khalo! The perfect introduction to nonfiction for young readers!This Little Golden Book captures the essence of Frida Kahlo for the youngest readers. From overcoming illness, to being one of only a handful of girls at her school in Mexico, to having her paintings hanging in museums, this is an inspiring read for future trailblazers and their parents! Features infor...

The Mexican painter Frida Kahlo is recognised as one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, as her reputation soared in the decades following her untimely death in 1954. Today, Kahlo has attracted so much popular interest that the term “Fridamania” has been coined to describe the phenomenon. Her extraordinary work draws upon a diverse range of influences, including Surrealism, ancient Aztec belief, popular Mexican folklore, Christianity, Eastern philosophy and me...

Decades after her death, Mexican artist Frida Kahlo remains an icon for Chicanos as well as for the feminist and LGBTQ+ movements.On September 17, 1925, Frida Kahlo stepped onto a bus in Mexico City to return to her home in the nearby town of Coyoacán. What happened next changed the course of her life. A streetcar collided with the bus and sent it careening into a wall, and the crash left Kahlo seriously injured. Though she survived, her dreams of continuing her ed...

They met in 1928; Frida Kahlo was then 21 years old and Diego Rivera was twice her age. He was already an international reference, she only aspired to become one. An intense artistic creation, along with pain and suffering, was generated by this tormented union, in particular for Frida. On both continents, America and Europe, these committed artists proclaimed their freedom and left behind them the traces of their exceptional talent. In this book, Gerry Souter brings together both biograph...

Some curses don't announce themselves. They wait for the full moon.London, 1552. Frida is eight when robbers leave her parents dead and her left for dead beside them. She survives, but the city that nearly killed her isn't where she's raised. In Waltham Forest, her grandmother takes her in, and a hunter named James teaches her to track, to ride, to draw a bow with a hand that doesn't shake.By fourteen, the forest feels like home. So does Luca, a boy she's falling for, who d...

Have you ever been trapped in an emotion and had difficulty getting out of that space? Or have you felt stuck in relationships because negative feelings pop up that hinders you from really enjoying them? Maybe you have led a meeting in a work setting and noticed how easily fear or anger spreads in a group when you are about to set off on a journey of change? Perhaps parenting feels overwhelming because your child often gets stuck in one emotion and you don't know how to help them? If your ...

The short story is often viewed as an inferior relation to the Novel. But it is an art in itself. To take a story and distil its essence into fewer pages while keeping character and plot rounded and driven is not an easy task. Many try and many fail. Blackmore was one to succeed as this audiobook ably demonstrates.Richard Doddridge Blackmore was born on 7 June 1825 at Longworth in Berkshire (now part of Oxfordshire), where his father, John Blackmore, was Curate-in-charge of the par...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Frida Kahlo (1907–1954) was a Mexican painter best known for her deeply personal and symbolic self-portraits. Born in Coyoacán, Mexico City, she endured lifelong health problems, including polio as a child and a near-fatal bus accident at age 18, which caused chronic pain and medical complications throughout her life. These experiences heavily influenced her art, which explored themes of identity, suffering, femininity,...