Product Description: This beautifully illustrated book is a style bible for anyone interested in design and the home. It is arranged into ten distinct chapters, each one concentrating upon a specific interior style or theme. Each chapter is illustrated with ten evocative houses or flats, whose aesthetic essence is captured within an opening double-page spread concentrating on the most spectacular space in the home...read more

Product Description: This volume is the single best source for anyone interested in exploring and experiencing Mid-Century Modern, the international design movement that still influences homes and lifestyles from Palm Springs to Long Island and from Japan to Scandinavia...read more

Product Description: Offers unprecedented access into the most innovative high-rise living spaces around the world More people than ever before are living in apartment buildings high above cities. To meet the growing demand for dynamic urban environments, striking new buildings have become “vertical villages” that offer comfort, diversity, and refreshing atmospheres reminiscent of clubs or hotels...read more

Provides a close-up look at twenty-five homes and their interiors from around the Mediterranean Sea, capturing a style of architecture and interior design that emphasizes clean lines, open floor plans, and seamless indoor-outdoor living spaces and is suited to living in the hot climates of southern Spain, northern Africa, Greece, and the Côte d'Azur.

When Sir Malcolm Bradbury died in 2000, he left behind a lifetime's work; some of it published and some of it not; short stories; and more. From unfinished novel to unsent letters, from prose to play, from Macclesfield to the New Year's Honours List, this work is an evidence of the late author's versatility, wit and, passion for the written word.

The thirty houses featured in this beautifully illustrated volume range from a Portuguese vacation home whose granite facade blends seamlessly into an ancient system of agricultural terraces to a Japanese family residence whose translucent walls glow like a paper lantern in the nighttime, but they all embody the same contemporary architectural trend: a radical shift in thinking about the residential architecture of the countryside. An increasing exodus from the stresses of urban living has brought a positive and powerful design consciousness out of the cities into new and challenging environments. New Country Houses explores how architects today seek to reinvent the country house and develop a new rural architecture for the twenty-first century, rather than simply remodeling or recreating the methods and manners of the past.Exercising his keen eye for architectural style, the author divides the book thematically into four chapters which correspond to contemporary architects’ primary approaches to the challenge of designing for the countryside: organic, vernacular, contemporary, and experimental. The individual case studies within these chapters include insights from the architects themselves and are augmented by both detailed plans and elevations and no fewer than 175 full-color interior and exterior photographs. A full complement of supplementary features—an introduction tracing the history of the country house, a bibliography, and an index—ensures that this book will serve as a guide and inspiration to architects, their clients, and all readers who are interested in the aesthetically groundbreaking, flexible, and ecologically conscious way of living represented by today’s new country houses.

Product Description: Barns are the enduring symbols of a vibrant rural tradition as well as the heart and soul of a new generation of imaginative country houses.Architects are now using and rethinking these alluring and escapist structures, employing design principles that ensure they continue to complement the natural landscape in which they are set...read more

Product Description: A visually exciting and illuminating study of the rich heritage and fascinating fusion of styles found in Mexican architecture, interiors and design, from ancient times to the present day. The photography of Mark Lusc ombe-Whyte and text of Dominic Bradbury tell of the evolution of Mexican Style from the traditional dwellings of the Mayans, Toltecs and Aztecs, among others, to the cutting-edge examples of today's most influential Mexican artists and designers...read more

This title is a sourcebook of innovative ideas in contemporary interior design culled from inside the homes of nearly 20 of the best known names in European interior design. It contains a list of designer contacts and a directory of key fabric, wallpaper and furnishing suppliers.

Product Description: Beautifully presented and bound in silk, this stunningly photographed celebration of Moroccan style is a rich sourcebook of design and inspiration. From coastal Tangier to Casablanca and Marrakech, through the Atlas Mountains and right to the edge of the Sahara, here are exquisite landscapes, magnificent architecture, intricate crafts, and a unique approach found nowhere else...read more

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The ultimate guide to loft style decoration and design covers the basics of dividing a space, choosing colors, integrating the right materials, creating roof gardens and patios, and much, much more. Original. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This beautifully illustrated atlas of design a virtual travel book for the house, each chapter offering a new geographic experience and suggesting recipes for elegant living, fusing ideas from many different cultures into eclectic, exciting, and unique home interiors...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)