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The Barefoot Home: Dressed-Down Design for Casual Living
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Marc Vassallo (Author)
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Taunton (Editor)
As our personal and professional lives become more demanding and hectic, people have reacted with a more casual, relaxed, and open way of living at home. Kitchens are no longer just for cooking but serve as entertainment hubs; barbeques on the grill have replaced formal dinners. As our lives at home have become increasingly informal, the ?barefoot living? lifestyle has emerged and there is increased demand to carry this attitude over into home design.
Relaxed, open, filled with light, and intimately connected to the outdoors, barefoot houses make living at home feel like being on vacation 365 days a year. The 24 houses featured in The Barefoot Home reflect today?s barefoot times. From a long, low house on the Kansas prairie to an adobe home in New Mexico and a New England cottage by the sea, these homes capture the essence of barefoot living.
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The Kitchen: Life World, Usage, Perspectives (Living Concepts)
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Klaus Spechtenhauser (Editor)
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Birkhäuser Basel (Editor)
The culture of the kitchen ? a sophisticated portrayal for planners and users. The kitchen is regaining its role as the central living space in home life. Since the 1990s the kitchen has moved into the fashion and design spotlight, and this publication now examines and reviews its significance in an architectural, cultural, social and economical context. The authors and contributors look at important developments and revolutionary kitchen concepts of the last decades including standardised kitchens and open kitchenliving spaces; they also review design basics, current trends, the changing demands posed by patch-work families or single person households. Even culinary aspects are included. This is a book which should certainly have its place in every 21st century kitchen. Our new book series ?Living concepts? presents clearly and concisely selected topics relating to aspects of the home. It is aimed at general readers as well as specialists, and edited by the ETH Wohnforum Zurich.
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The Smart Loft
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James Grayson Trulove (Author)
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Collins Design (Editor)
What makes a loft smart? This book presents the extraordinary designs of recently completed lofts that highlight three kinds of smart solutions. Through smart technology, a variety of electronic devices attend to your needs while in the loft, and carry on a variety of necessary functions while you're away. Smart materials provide solutions through newly invented building materials and innovative twists on traditional ones. And smart design is used by ingenious architects with difficult design challenges to transcend these problems and create spectacular lofts, often on a very modest budget.
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Tropical Minimal
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Danielle Miller (Author)
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Richard Powers (Photographer)
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Thames & Hudson (Editor)
The most pleasurable aspects of tropical living combine with a con-temporary sensibility to create an entirely new and exciting book on interior design.
Living in a tropical climate, with rich vegetation, wide beaches, and relaxed attitudes has inspired a wide range of creative and appealing interiors and design, often influenced by local crafts and building traditions, climatic considerations, and the desire to maximize indoor-outdoor living.
Selecting the best examples from far-flung locations around the tropics?from Brazil to New Zealand, from Florida to Singapore?Tropical Minimal demonstrates how exotic surroundings can be enhanced through simple touches and combined with pared-down furnishings.
Photographed specially for this volume, examples are presented in six chapters that cover the gamut of tropical-minimal design and architecture?living, dining, bathing, sleeping, and relaxing outdoors. A visual reference section focuses on design details, from wood and terraces to planting and pools. 281 color illustrations.
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