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Loft Design: Solutions for Creating a Livable Space
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Katherine Stone (Author)
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Rockport Publishers (Editor)
If you think of lofts as urban oddities inhabited only by Soho artists, think again. Celebrity television host and loft expert Katherine Stone has been chronicling the rising popularity of lofts for years. In this hands-on book, she shares her wisdom and trade secrets with home and business owners everywhere. Katherine Stone reveals how to transform spaces large and small into open, inviting, and practical areas for living comfortably and working well. From homes to offices to corporations, here are a range of innovative loft designs that achieve the intricate balance between practicality and aesthetic beauty. Stone reveals the inventive ideas that made these lofts spectacular sharing tips and techniques for everything from planning, ergonomic issues, and decorating concerns to specifics such as lighting, scale, and space definition. Both a primer and inspiration for home and business owners and designers, this hardworking guide will take loft design and decorating to new heights.
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Lofts: Good Ideas (Good Ideas Series)
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Aurora Cuito (Author)
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Collins Design (Editor)
Although loft living once meant converting old industrial warehouses, today it has evolved into a style and approach for modern living spaces. This new volume in the Good Ideas series provides more than 50 recent examples of contemporary lofts from around the world, ranging from remodeled industrial buildings to old farmhouses and garages transformed for today's lifestyle. With 800 photographs, Good Ideas: Lofts is an incredible value for anyone who dreams of owning or living in a loft.
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London Apartments (Tools)
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Aurora Cuito (Author)
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Te Neues Publishing Company (Editor)
Narrow winding streets, tasteful gardens, and centuries? old structures have long made London the Capital of Quaint. But in the past few years this historic city has made a name for itself in the world of architecture and design, and nowhere is that distinction more evident than in its apartment dwellings, as this colorful volume clearly proves. If you thought living in London meant electric fireplaces and damp cheerless parlors decorated with your grandmother?s furniture, think again. Windows that wow, rooms vibrating with color, kitchens so sleek they seem to melt into the walls and bathrooms so luxurious they seem to make other rooms unnecessary?all these and more can be found between the covers of this elegant book that will both inspire and transport. Forty intimate home tours of beautifully appointed apartments, each with its own character, take readers through the basics of space, lighting, and color. Blueprints, sketches, and an informative text aimed at professionals and laypeople alike present each apartment?s unique challenges and design strategy. From the witty to the high-tech, the minimalist to the lavish, these London apartments showcase the best work of today?s architects and designers and secure London?s reputation as one of the most exciting places to live in the world.
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Maison--Christian Liaigre
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Herbert Ypma (Author)
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Christian Liaigre (Author)
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Thames & Hudson (Editor)
Christian Liaigre's epoch-defining interiors include the Mercer Hotel in New York, offices for Valentino Couture in Paris, and Selfridges department store in London, as well as private residences for Calvin Klein, Karl Lagerfeld, and Kenzo. His luxurious dark-wood minimalism and masculine palette of creams, browns, and grays have redefined modernism, supplanting the Scandinavian blond timbers on white that just a few years ago were the sine qua non of the modern interior. Working in close collaboration with Liaigre, Herbert Ypma set out to capture and document eight recent and previously unpublished residential projects. They are incredibly diverse: a modernist retreat on the Galician coast belonging to the family of Spanish fashion designer Adolfo Dominguez; a former artist's atelier in Montparnasse; Rupert Murdoch's capacious SoHo loft; an eighteenth-century Bavarian timber farmhouse owned by the proprietor and designer of Germany's fashion label Strenesse; and Liaigre's own fisherman's cottage retreat on the Ile de Ré. The integrity and pervasive calm of Liaigre's spaces reflect an instinctive aversion to the clamor of modern life. His materials are luxuriously authentic?exotic African timbers such as ebony; linen, silk, and wool; marble and natural stone; and his signature bronze hardware. And, as every project demonstrates, he makes deep connections with the tradition of each location, whether it be the industrial heritage of downtown Manhattan or the wild coastal landscape of Corsica. 500 color illustrations.
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Naturally Modern: Creating Interiors with Wood, Leather, Stone, and Natural Fabrics
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Ros Byam Shaw (Author)
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Andrew Wood (Photographer)
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Harry N. Abrams (Editor)
A style book, a wish book, and a practical how-to guide to creating handsome and functional interiors, Naturally Modern offers a fresh approach to decorating with natural materials, including wood, leather, stone, and textiles like cotton, linen, and wool. In a world dominated by technology, nature's raw materials are back in fashion0and with them a taste for interiors that minimize clutter and accentuate sensual appeal. Design writer Ros Byam Shaw offers a wealth of useful and inspirational decorating ideas to help the reader bring the colors and textures of nature into the home. As illustrated in some 250 photographs of contemporary American, European, and Asian rooms, natural materials bring a warmth and intimacy to both country and city dwellings-and a look that will wear beyond the vagaries of fashion. With its emphasis on simplicity, durability, and comfort, this is an interior design manual perfectly suited to today's lifestyles. ROS BYAM SHAW is a former features editor of World of Interiors. She is now a freelance journalist and writes on design and interiors for Country Life, House & Garden, and various other publications. She lives in London. ANDREW WOOD specializes in interior and fashion photography. 250 illustrations in full color, 91/4 x 9"
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New Paris Interiors
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Angelika Taschen (Editor)
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Taschen (Editor)
Many of the city's most interesting designers and personalities open their doors for this breathtaking collection of resplendent Parisian homes and interiors that are packed floor to ceiling with new ideas and unexpected pleasures.
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Practically Minimal
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Maggie Toy (Author)
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Thames & Hudson (Editor)
Minimalist elegance has been a constant theme in interior design for decades. But this manner of living need not mean ascetic white-walled rooms stripped of decoration and accented with rectilinear furniture and hard surfaces. Rather, today's essential interior is defined by sumptuous materials, deep textures, and striking colors. A host of designers and architects around the world have taken the minimalist vocabulary--whether it be that of the Modern progenitors, Japanese essentialists, or the more recent absolutists--and imbued their interiors with innovative twists. No longer content with the search for hard-edged purity (which often conceals extravagant expense), contemporary designers enhance, exaggerate, and extrapolate pared-down minimalism within reasonable budgets. The spaces they create are flexible, livable, and practical, artfully combining the beauty and spirituality of minimalism with an exuberant love of exotic woods and metals, playful or mysterious forms, and a respect for natural light, clean lines, and easy living. Drawing on the best interiors from around the world, created by a wide range of architects, designers, and residents themselves, Practically Minimal focuses on five themes that define the flexible modern lifestyle: living and relaxing, cooking and dining, sleeping, bathing, and outdoor rooms. A final section, Elements, is a rich visual resource of details of the new minimalism, from stairs and storage, to materials and textures, to lighting and plants. 200 color illustrations.
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Residential Lighting: A Practical Guide
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Randall Whitehead (Author)
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Wiley (Editor)
Residential Lighting is the complete guide to illuminating single-family homes. - Examines the "how" behind the art of residential lighting.
- Emphasizes use of "light layering"-using variety of lighting sources together.
- Features more illustrations, room-based design strategies, common lighting mistakes, and a larger color section.
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Scandinavian Living
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Magnus Englund (Author)
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Chrystina Schmidt (Author)
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Andrew Wood (Photographer)
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Carlton Publishing Group (Editor)
DesignAddict review:
From IKEA to Workbench, Scandinavian home design is more popular than ever. "Scandinavian Living" traces the fascinating development of the Scandinavian style, and introduces the most important designers and their work, such as Poul Kjaerholm of Denmark and Eero Aarnio fo Finland. Magnus Englund and Chrystina Schmidt offer up their professional expertise while exploring some of the most interesting homes in Scandinavia. Andrew Wood's stylish photography showcases real interiors, including those owned by celebrated designers. *Explores the relaxed comfort, unpretentious simplicity, and easy elegance of the modern Scandinavian home. *Over 80,000 copies sold in hardcover.
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