Kaffe Fassett has led an extraordinary life & is a captivating storyteller with a vivid memory. Born in 1937 in San Francisco he spent much of his youth in Big Sur where his parents bought a log cabin from Orson Welles & transformed it into the world-famous Nepenthe restaurant a gathering place of artists of all sorts (Kaffe has many stories to tell about mingling with the likes of Olivia de Havilland Elizabeth Taylor & Henry Miller). After attending a boarding school run by the disciples of Krishunamurti an Indian guru he studied painting on scholarship at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston but left after less than one year & traveled to England where he ultimately made his home. After struggling to make a living as a fine artist for several years Fassett met the fashion designer Bill Gibb & began designing knitwear for his collection. He went on to design knitwear for Missoni & for private clients like Lauren Bacall Shirley Mac Laine & Barbra Streisand & to revolutionise the hand knitting world with his explosive use of color. Further explorations led him to needlepoint mosaics rug-making yarn & fabric design set design & quilting. Now in his 70s Fassett continues to produce new work in his studio in London & to travel worldwide to teach & lecture. This intimate autobiography is lavishly filled with Fassett's amazing stories about his bohemian childhood his hard-earned rise to fame & all of his creative pursuits. It

Includes:: photos of him throughout his life (including his stint as a model in Paris) his home (which is an artwork in itself) his work (everything from childhood drawings to pencil sketches to oil paintings to massive tapestries & set designs to hand knits & quilts) as well as the people & places around the world that have inspired him.

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Lorna Kepler was beautiful & wilful a loner who couldnt resist flirting with danger. She has also been found dead in mysterious circumstances & her death pulls Kinsey Millhone into a netherworld of deception betrayal & unavenged murder.. . Crisply written ingeniously plotted with a regard for humanity striving against the odds thats both tonic & rare Literary Review K is for Killer is another exciting novel from the excellent Sue Grafton Daily Mirror ...

Inspired by worldwide travels & a plethora of ethnic textiles including the quilts of the Amish & from Gee's Bend in America Japanese all indigo quilts suzanis from the Caucuses & Pakistani kanthas the projects featured in this book include full sized bed & wall quilts as well as well as smaller pieces that can be completed more quickly such as throws table runners & pillows. With Shots + Stripes Fassett is answering the modern quilt community's call for quilts that make bold graphic statements that are less time consuming & complex than some of the work for which he has been previously celebrated. While still serving his core audience of long time devotees & celebrating his & their passions for vibrant colour Fassett is introducing himself to a new generation of quilters with the types of projects they're currently seeking. ...

In this dazzling book Kaffe Fassett presents 23 new patchwork designs all inspired by treasures from Londons world-famous decorative arts museum. Kaffe breathes new life into old masterpieces by updating the colourways & employing where necessary new patchwork techniques. The designs fall loosely into three separate groups. The utility quilts employ large simple patch shapes cut from charming prints; the traditional pieces encompass popular heritage patchwork formats reborn here in fresh modern colours; & the irresistible showpiece designs incorporate applique to create dazzling showstoppers. Kaffes fabric sources include his own ever-expanding fabric collection reproduction vintage prints antique scraps contemporary quilting prints of every description & toile de jouy. The designs are easily accessible to todays quilters with Kaffes sympathetic interpretations echoing the magic of the originals but employing contemporary techniques. This book is an inspiration. ...

Rowan has taken the unique step providing the renowned Kaffe Fasset with the chance to redesign & recolour 24 of his favourite Rowan designs in the current range of Rowan classic yarns; such as pure wool Scottish Tweed & the Rowan pure wool & cotton ranges. Kaffe has chosen to recolour some of his existing designs or reinvent the more complex as cushions or throws to make them accessible to less experienced knitters. ...

The Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) is one of the most important 20th century painters & one of the few Latin American artists to have achieved a global reputation. In 1983 her work was declared the property of the Mexican state. Kahlo was one of the daughters of an immigrant German photographer & a Mexican woman of Indian origin. Her life & work were more inextricably interwoven than in almost any other artists case. Two events in her life were of crucial importance. When she was 18 a bus accident put her in hospital for a year with a smashed spinal column & fractured pelvis. It was from her sick bed that she first started to paint. Then aged 21 she married the world-famous Mexican mural artist Diego Rivera. She was to suffer the effects of the accident her whole life long & was particularly pained by her inability to have children. Her arresting pictures most of them small format self-portraits express the burdens that weighed upon her soul: her unbearable physical pain the grief that Riveras occasional affairs prompted the sorrow about her childlessness caused her her homesickness when living abroad & her longing to feel that she had put down roots profound loneliness. However they also declare her passionate love for her husband her pronounced sensuousness & her unwavering survival instinct. ...

Christopher Clarks Kaiser Wilhelm II: A Life in Power" is a short fascinating & accessible biography of one of the 20th centurys most important figures. King of Prussia German Emperor war leader & defeated exile Kaiser Wilhelm II was one of the most important
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- figures in the history of twentieth-century Europe. But how much power did he really have? Christopher Clark winner of the Wolfson prize for his history of Prussia Iron Kingdom follows Kaiser Wilhelms political career from his youth at the Hohenzollern court through the turbulent decades of the Wilhelmine era into global war & the collapse of Germany in 1918 to his last days. He asks: what was his true role in the events that led to the outbreak of the First World War? What was the nature & extent of his control? What were his political goals & his success in achieving them? How did he project authority & exercise influence? & how did his people really view him? Through original research Clark presents a fresh new interpretation of this contentious figure focusing on how his thirty-year reign from 1888 to 1918 affected Germany & the rest of Europe for years to come. " Clarks fresh & enlightening history brings the Kaisers life into critical & illuminating review". (German History). Christopher Clark is a lecturer in Modern European History at St Catharines College University of Cambridge. His book " Iron Kingdom: The Rise & Downfall of Prussia 1600 to 1947" was the winner of the Wolfson Prize for History."

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A magical illustrated tour of natures wondrous almost supernatural sky Kaleidoscope Sky" reveals the beauty
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The Prophet first published in 1923 is the story of a seer & his wisdom. The books astonishing success turned it into a mystical & spiritual guide for the modern era & earned its author cult status. In the 1960s Gibran was embraced by the American counterculture movement & confirmed as the pioneer of the New Age. His messages remain powerful to this day. In one of 26 chapters the prophet Almustafa likens the soul to a battlefield in which reason & passion seem locked in warring opposition; yet it is fruitless to fight either
- instead one must become a peacemaker & love these elements before seeking to heal oneself. God rests in reason & moves in passion. Such timeless wisdom is typical Gibran. He had originally envisaged a Prophet trilogy but only the first two of these were ever published & both are included here. This book presents The Prophet & The Garden of the Prophet together with selections from the writers other philosophical & spiritual writings. With his uplifting inspirations Gibran one of the most profound writers of all time gives us eternal truths about human life & spirituality.
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