Product Description: Sometimes restoring a building is more complicated than constructing a new one, not simply because of the historical value of the part which is to be preserved, but also bearing in mind the state of the structure is often not known before the project gets underway...read more

Product Description: A rich heritage of Japanese tradition meets the best of international trends in Tokyo's cutting-edge boutiques and stores. As you?d expect from a dynamic and forwarding-looking city, the shops in Tokyo have an innovative flair unequalled anywhere else...read more

Product Description: This lavishly illustrated volume displays the 40 most spectacular houses built in recent years. Located all over the world, they are set apart by their imaginative and innovative design, as well as their use of the latest technologies in construction, newly developed sophisticated materials, and furnishings from leading designers...read more

Product Description: One of a new series of authoritative guides teNeues is introducing this season, Cool Shops London takes the reader on a tour of the best stores and boutiques in this vibrant city. Each shop included is distinguished by more than just the products it sells...read more

Product Description: One of a new series of authoritative guides teNeues is introducing this season, Cool Shops Paris takes the reader on a tour of the best stores and boutiques in one of the worlds most beautiful and romantic cities. Each shop included is distinguished by more than the products it sells although those by big name designers (Calvin Klein, Giorgio Armani, Chanel) are among those featured...read more

Product Description: The exotic beauty of the Asian coastline and the Pacific islands have always been attractive to Western tourists. Here is a lavishly illustrated guide to the most contemporary and innovatively designed hotels in countries from Turkey to Japan, with Thailand and Indonesia in-between, and Australia and New Zealand down under, for those seeking accommodation as spectacular as the scenery...read more

Product Description: This latest volume of Harper Design's ongoing Duets series focuses on a special creative relationship indeed -- that between architect Josep Lluís Sert (1902-1983) and artist Joan Miró (1893-1983).Both Barcelona natives, the lifelong friends remained influential to one another as their individual careers evolved...read more

Product Description: Arguably America's best-known architect, Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) is famed for his sleek, rational designs of houses and buildings nestled in natural surroundings. Across the United States, Wright's works embody the precept of Organic Architecture, that a project must be constructed in response to the site's landscape, with respect for the client's needs, and with awareness of local materials...read more

Product Description: At the turn of the 20th century, the Vienna Secession shook the worlds of art and design, breaking the rigid constraints of an esthetic dominated by slavish emulation of prior styles. Nowhere is this paradigm shift better exemplified than in the works of the two Austrian creators featured here...read more

Product Description: Each volume of the ground breaking Duets series provides innovative comparison between a renowned architect and the artist, exploring the themes, resonances, and commonalities linking their work. Essentially three volumes in one, a section on each artist presents a brief biography and an examination of some major works, with a third section that compares the images and ideas of the two creators...read more

Product Description: Antoni Gaudí/Salvador Dalí, the premiere book in the Duets series, brings together the work of these two artistic geniuses in order to present a rich comparative study. Essentially three volumes in one, a section on each artist presents a brief biography and an examination of some major works, with a third section that compares the images and ideas of the two artists...read more

Product Description: Jean Nouvel (Fumel, 1945) studied and started his working life in May 1968 in France. Nouvel was one of the founders of the Mars 1967 movement, which adopted a very critical position on the prevailing bureaucracy and legal anachronisms in architecture...read more

Product Description: Andrea Palladio (Padua 1508-Vicenza 1580), Italian architect of the late Renaissance period published L?Antichit? di Roma (1554). Between 1560 and 1580 he constructed several churches in Venice.including the churches of San Francesco della Vigna, San Giorgio Maggiore and Il Redentore...read more