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When we describe a home as being ‘full of character’, we mean that it’s individual or exceptional in some way. Character comes from a variety of sources, from the property itself to the people who live there, while the act of bringing character into a home is a layering process, one that starts with the bones of the building and finishes with the decor – the human element. In this new book, interiors expert Sally Coulthard explains just what it takes to turn an uninspiring space into a personality-packed home, whether it’s a cottage, an apartment or a modern family house. Each chapter focuses on a particular element – for example, the importance of family and loved ones, and making an interior feel like a social space – and explains why this element matters and how to bring it into your home. Inspirational features, in the form of ‘Keys to Character’ boxes, offer tips on incorporating individuality into even the most unpromising of spaces, from making the most of period details and mixing old and new furnishings to introducing artwork and displaying photographs.

• A unique guide to introducing personality into your home, regardless of whether you live in an old or a new property
• Explores both the architectural and the human elements necessary to create characterful interiors
• Combines 250 inspirational images by leading interiors photographers with a wealth of practical advice

Though times have changed, the charm and grace of Southern style endures. It’s a design tradition that values gentility and gracious living above conspicuous consumption; history and mystery above the cutting edge; and hospitality above all else. Today’s Southern homes reflect a sense of style that remains in touch with the past as it embraces the present.

In this affectionate portrait of Southern homes, Frances Schultz and Paula S. Wallace lead a tour of more than twenty of the South’s proudest houses and most remarkable modern domiciles, proving that the legendary graciousness of the Southern home lives on in all forms – from seaside cottages to some truly over-the-top domains.

Despite the differences among these diverse homes, the most timeless aspects of Southern style abound, including:

- Using wrought iron for decorative elements both inside and outside the home
- Incorporating the porch as an essential room of the house
- Collecting antique silver to complement the contemporary table

Magnificent full-color photographs of each house show everything from the grand and elegant to the quaint and quirky, making this unique book a visual treat for anyone enchanted by the eternal grace of the American South.

About the Authors:

Frances Schultz, a native of Tarboro, North Carolina, is the former host of Turner South's Emmy Award-winning series Southern Living Presents and the author of several books, including Atlanta at Home, Atlanta at Table, and Ryan Gainey's The Well-Set Table. A regular contributor to House Beautiful and Veranda magazines, Schultz has also written for Town & Country and Town & Country Travel, among others. She lectures widely on the subjects of decoration, design, and entertaining, and currently resides in Manhattan.

Paula S. Wallace is president and cofounder of the Savannah College of Art and Design, the largest art and design college in America, with campuses in Savannah and Atlanta, Georgia, and Lacoste, France. Additionally, she collaborates with a team of artists and designers responsible for the award-winning architecture and interiors of the college's historic buildings as well as numerous homes throughout the south. Under Wallace's stewardship, the college has been honored by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Art Deco Societies of America, the American Institute of Architects, the International Downtown Association, and the Historic Savannah Foundation. She is the author of seven children's books and oversees the college's permanent art collection. She lives in Savannah with her family.

An intimate glimpse of the artistry of two women whose beautiful, evocative, and carefully curated interiors are crafted from what they find around them.

Be inspired by i gigi’s unique textures and natural palette to create your own haven of calm. Zoe Ellison and Alex Legendre have created a beautiful shopping and interiors experience with their unique store i gigi – a haven of beautiful gifts and unique pieces for your home.

The muted, earthy colour palette is chic and modern and yet utterly timeless, allowing their pieces to fit seamlessly into any home. In this, their first book, they share their secrets and open their hearts as they describe the journey they have taken, what makes them tick, their philosophy, their inspirations, ideas and interiors. With stunning photography throughout, this is a truly fascinating look into their world.

• Featuring beautiful specially commissioned photography.
• The muted palette used is a perennially popular decorating trend.

About the Author

Zoe Ellison trained as a florist and artist before turning her attention to interiors and retail. With Alex Legendre, she owns and runs i gigi, a unique homewares and clothing store in Brighton. This is their first book.

This lavishly photographed interiors book shows how to leave behind design "rules" to create truly beautiful, original interiors.

For over 20 years, Kit Kemp has been at the forefront of the international design community, with her signature style that mixes contemporary elements with antiques and junk-shop finds, luxurious fabrics with printed wallpapers and hand finished detailing with collections of simple objects that create impact. She avoids taking design too seriously, playing with scale, colour and pattern to create very personal, handcrafted spaces.

Alongside the stunning images of room sets and detailed close-ups will be the inspiration behind Kit's work and her tips for creating your own version of her style at home. Interiors are meant for living in, and the key is to create a space that is comfortable, beautiful and reflects who you really are.

About the Author:

Over the years Interior Designer Kit Kemp MBE has been forging an internationally-acclaimed reputation, not only for her unique hotel interiors as Founder and Creative Director of Firmdale Hotels and the Kit Kemp Design Studio, but also as a successful textiles, fragrance and homewares designer, author and a highly-respected champion of British art, craft and sculpture. The Kit Kemp Design Studio is celebrated for its individual and original approach to hotel and residential design, with colourful and detailed storytelling which celebrates craft and captures the imagination.

Kit has collaborated with leading global design brands such as Wedgwood, Wilton Carpets, Andrew Martin, Anthropologie, Christopher Farr, Chelsea Textiles, Fine Cell Work and Porta Romana, creating collections including tableware, fragrance, furniture, fabrics, wallpaper and lighting.

Kit has won many awards including House & Garden's Hotel Designer of the Year, Andrew Martin International Interior Designer of the Year and CN Traveller's Best Hotel in the World for Design.

In her most personal book, Carolyne Roehm shares her lifelong love of classical architecture and design, graciously inviting us into her favorite spaces in three remarkable homes: her own dazzling Manhattan prewar duplex, her antique-filled Colonial-era stone house in Connecticut, and a special friend’s Aspen residence evocative of eighteenth-century Sweden. Each is an architectural showpiece as well as a superlative example of her polished style: never fussy, always graceful and enticing.

Even as a young design assistant to Oscar de la Renta, Carolyne Roehm was a devotee of the eternal virtues of artistry. Now, having lived in several residences, she has gathered her knowledge, enthusiasms, and extraordinary collections to make these three homes quintessential examples of the Roehm style. Each is individual - yet all showcase her classical leanings and devotion to the beauty and grace of authentic craftsmanship. The New York apartment, with its selection of antique busts and objects and superlative artwork and furnishings; the stunning double-height great room, beautifully finished in handcrafted neoclassical details, that forms the heart of her Connecticut residence; Aspen’s colorful, abundant interiors, light-flooded from 78 windows - all express the special, satisfying harmony that can exist between timeless architecture and the artisan’s atelier.

With more than 300 intimate and evocative photographs of these classical splendors, A Passion for Interiors is a masterwork - rich with stylish inspirations for tailor-made décor. Oprah Winfrey admits, “Whenever I’m having a stressful day, I just want to open up Carolyne Roehm’s books, look at beautiful things, and dream.” Indeed, there is plenty to dream about in this extraordinary book.

Let acclaimed Sydney stylist and blogger Jason Grant show you how to become your own stylist, and transform your house into a beautiful home. In his first book, A Place Called Home, Jason Grant shares insider information on how to decorate your home just like a stylist. This is a uniquely Australian interior design book, without being kitschy, Jason is able to incorporate classic Australiana into his style in a really tasteful way.

Fun and accessible, the book is filled with lots of clever tricks and ideas, as well as information on where to source things from. A highly illustrated, creative guide on how to create beautiful spaces, Jason explains where to get inspiration and how to get started (moodboards, tools and so on). He then goes through each room from the bedroom, living, dining and kitchen, detailing what you need to consider. Jason also addresses storage solutions, small spaces, outdoor areas, working with colour, recycling and finishing touches.

There will be an information section with a directory of all of Jason's favourite places to shop, including online stores and international addresses.

This book presents the radical architectural strategies and poetic cultural projects developed by OPEN Architecture, and the opportunities and challenges that arise from redefining built forms.

Drawing on a series of conversations and site visits to six recent groundbreaking projects, architecture writer Catherine Shaw describes how Beijing-based OPEN Architecture is reinventing and responding to China’s complex and fast-changing cultural landscape with projects that mark a new era for contemporary Chinese cultural architecture. OPEN Architecture was founded in New York in 2003 by Li Hu and Huang Wenjing, while their Beijing office opened in 2008.

From a contemporary art gallery buried beneath a sand dune to a sculptural open-air theatre in a remote mountain valley near the Great Wall, co-founders Li Hu and Huang Wenjing re-evaluate conventional Western assumptions about culture and design as they base each pioneering project on the needs and pleasures of humanity within the context of diverse terrains and climates. In doing so, they not only consider how cultural architecture looks, but how it works. Projects are presented with commentary and contextual information as well as new analyses and archival material, including outstanding color photography, plans and drawings, and exploratory sketches. This book provides a fresh perspective on contemporary cultural architecture and place-making, high-lighting the architects’ sources of inspiration, their challenges, and their construction methods, showing how each impactful project responds to China’s distinctive context.

About the Author:

Catherine Shaw is an independent architecture, design, and art critic and published author. Originally an urban planner, she writes extensively on architecture, design, arts, and craft in Asia.  

For French-inspired living and romantic entertaining. Skillfully partnered vintage finds and fabrics create French-style elegance and comfort.

A Romance with French Living provides a glimpse into Carolyn Westbrook's world, where treasured antiques and vintage finds, perfectly faded fabrics and timeworn furniture blend, seemingly effortlessly, in superb interiors that are both relaxing and chic, inspired by French style.

Part One - French-inspired Interiors - showcases Carolyn's love for designing interiors, decorating, and creating relaxed and welcoming rooms. Essentially French shows how to adapt classic French style to suit modern-day living, and this ethos is carried through to the chapters on A Cottage in The Country and Urban Farmhouse.

Part Two - It's All in The Detail - concentrates on adding those all-important finishing touches to a room, whether it's antique leatherbound books, cherished items gathered on overseas travel or swathes of Carolyn's much-loved white linen, from vintage French linen bedsheets finding a new life as tablecloths and curtains to pristine bed linen and smart upholstery.

The final section of the book focuses on entertaining and celebrations, from a country barn party to a bridal shower and an intimate family wedding at Carolyn's own home, The Oaks Plantation in Texas.

About the Author:

Carolyn Westbrook is a prominent lifestyle designer, known for her brand, The Carolyn Westbrook Home, with a passion for all that is French. Carolyn’s first branded book, The Carolyn Westbrook Home, was published by Sterling and she was a featured designer in the bestselling Where Women Create book. Her products have been featured in many home décor magazines, and she was included in Vintage Vavoom, the book released by the editors of Romantic Homes magazine.

Thirteen exquisite houses create a portrait of life in one of America’s most exclusive coastal destinations, along the beaches of Martha’s Vineyard and Cape Cod.

Hutker Architects, led by founding principal Mark A. Hutker, has designed more than three hundred houses along the New England shore. A member of the close community on Martha’s Vineyard since his arrival in 1985, Hutker has become an expert at interpreting the ideal lifestyles of his clients within the respected traditions and restrictive codes of the beautiful but fragile environment.

In their design and construction, these houses honor the vernacular traditions of craft and indigenous materials, are deeply respectful of the cherished landscape, and demonstrate a lively range of solutions to building on the bluffs and dunes that line the shores of the Vineyard and Cape Cod. A working organic farm fulfills a family’s dream of simpler values; a luxurious renovation saves the best of an antique shingle cottage while transforming it for contemporary family life and a raised structure clad in naturally weathered boards combines the legacy of midcentury regional modern architecture with Cape Cod’s maritime tradition.

The firm is committed to the principle “Build once, well,” looking to the historic architecture of the region and the inherited experience of its carpenters and craftspeople as inspiration for contemporary design. The result is an architecture that is at once adaptable and livable, yet enduring, efficient, inevitable, and appropriate.

The houses sit lightly on the land, deferring to their surroundings, often built as a series of modest pavilions linked by passages or grouped to enclose an outdoor space. Creative design solutions — a light-filled gallery running the full length of a house, a continuous wall of sliding glass doors — make houses both open to views, but protective in a storm. Specially commissioned photography captures the craftsmanship and the settings of the houses, from dramatic bluffs overlooking the sea to secluded coves and rolling meadows filled with wildflowers, creating a unique portrait of Cape Cod and Martha’s Vineyard.

Packed with images of beautiful decorative objects, extravagant interiors, sumptuous fabrics and ornate furniture, this sumptuously produced book explores the enduring allure of Orientalist decor and introduces the princes and aristocrats, artists and poets who commissioned this opulent 18th and 19th-century interiors.

Architects and decorative artists of the time were constantly seeking new sources of inspiration to satisfy the demands of their rich patrons. While some revisited the canons of the classical world, others began to turn their eyes towards the East, and the 'Oriental' became a byword for spectacle and sensuality.

The result was a wave of creative expression that encompassed everything from the smallest objets d’art to entire buildings.

This sumptuously produced book explores the enduring allure of Orientalist decor and introduces the princes and aristocrats, artists and poets who commissioned these opulent interiors. Packed with images of beautiful decorative objects, extravagant interiors, sumptuous fabrics and ornate furniture, this book will transport the reader to another time and place.

Even today, the design industry of Hong Kong seems to be dominated by men between the ages of 40 and 50. It is challenging for a woman to cut a niche in the professional market, but Anita Tang is a rare exception. Her indulgence and originality has produced unique designs that carry an unspoken sophistication of elegance and extravagance. Her first collection of design projects “A touch of Anita Tang” focuses on residential designs. It contains over 10 household and model home projects which not only expresses the talents of a female designer, but also the prevailing grace and passions exclusively found in feminine practitioners.

Thanks to the omnipresence of computers, cell phones, gaming systems, and the internet, a broad audience has traded its past reservations against technology for an almost insatiable curiosity for all things technical. Against this background, unprecedented new tools and possibilities are opening up for the world of design. In addition to sketchbooks and computers, young designers are increasingly using programming languages, soldering irons, sensors, and microprocessors as well as 3D milling or rapid prototyping machines in their work. The innovative use of powerful hardware and software has become affordable and, most of all, much easier to use. Today, the sky is the limit when it comes to ideas for experimental media, unconventional interfaces, and interactive spatial experiences.

A Touch of Code shows how information becomes experience. The book examines how surprising personal experiences are created where virtual realms meet the real world and where dataflow confronts the human senses. It presents an international spectrum of interdisciplinary projects at the intersection of laboratory, trade show, and urban space that play with the new frontiers of perception, interaction, and staging created by current technology. These include brand and product presentations as well as thematic exhibits, architecture, art, and design.

The comprehensive spectrum of innovative spatial and interactive work in A Touch of Code reveals how technology is fundamentally changing and expanding strategies for the targeted use of architecture, art, communication, and design for the future.