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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)
From IKEA to Workbench, Scandinavian home design is more popular than ever. Scandinavian Living traces the fascinating development of the modern Scandinavian style, and introduces the most important designers and their work. Magnus Englund and Chrystina Schmidt, co-founders of Skandium, a chain of stores specializing in modern Scandinavian furniture and housewares, offer up their professional knowledge and expertise while exploring some of the most interesting and unique homes in Scandinavia. In the process, they offer insights to the design within the context of the materials used and the planning and evolution of home design.
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Selling Good Design: Promoting the Modern Interior
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Marilyn Friedman (Author)
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Rizzoli International Publications (Editor)
Designers now have at their fingertips an invaluable reference: an illustrated history of modern furnishings and interior design from period rooms of the early twentieth century. Ikea, eat your heart out: Macy's, Lord & Taylor and others designed exhibits in the 1920s with mock living rooms, bedrooms, and even kitchens to display and sell modern furnishings and decorative objects.
Marilyn Friedman's text and accompanying period photographs describe in detail the exhibits held by Macys, Lord & Taylor, B. Altman, and Wanamaker's to popularize modern design. Macy's, in particular, worked closely with the Metropolitan Museum of Art to select designers and display works of modern design by Gio Ponti, William Lescaze, and Paul Frankel as part of the exhibits. More than 120 photographs illustrate period furnishings and decorative objects by European and American designers, providing a visual feast for interior designers, art lovers, and collectors.
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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 Press (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 (Living Concepts)
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Klaus Spechtenhauser (Author)
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Klaus Spechtenhauser (Editor)
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Birkhäuser Architecture (Editor)
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 standardized kitchens and open kitchen living 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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