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This well-illustrated tour through 50 magnificent villas and palaces built by the Italian aristocracy, covers country retreats in Tuscany and the Vento, impressive residences in Rome and Sienna, fortress-like castles and grand villas in Trieste and Sicily, and many more.

Edith Wharton’s Italian Villas and Their Gardens, a seminal work on garden design, is a testament to the passionate connoisseurship of one of America’s greatest writers. A comprehensive look at the history and character of Italian garden architecture and ornamentation, the book explores more than seventy-five villas, capturing what Wharton calls their "garden-magic" and illuminating the intimate relationship between the house, its formal gardens, and the surrounding countryside.This beautiful hardcover facsimile is carefully reproduced from the first edition published in 1904 and features all of the original plates, including twenty-six illustrations by Maxfield Parrish, as well as décollage edges. It is published in association with The Mount Press. A portion of the proceeds of the sale of the book support the restoration of The Mount, the Massachusetts estate designed and built by Wharton based on the principles articulated in this book and in The Decoration of Houses. Elegantly written and informed by Wharton’s sensitivity and wit, Italian Villas and Their Gardens is a work that belongs on the shelf of every lover of gardens and good taste.

This monograph charts the evolution of Hasegawa's design process from her largely formal work of the late 1970s and early 80s to a more social architecture in recent years. This evolution has allowed her to explore not only the problems of form, as in her earlier residential architecture, but also the issues of program, which she couldn't address in the design of houses. Projects featured here include the Shonandai Cultural Center, the Sumida Cultural Factory and the Museum of Fruit.

Stressing total quality in all aspects of architectural practice, the J.J. Pan monograph features a rich collection of building types. According to Taiwanese architect, Joshua Jih Pan, such total quality includes at least design, service and delivery which many other architects find diffuclut to maintain in balanced proportions. This publication is fully illustrated with photographs and plans of many of J.J. Pan's most interesting projects.

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Stressing total quality in all aspects of architectural practice, the J.J. Pan monograph features a rich collection of building types. According to Taiwanese architect, Joshua Jih Pan, such total quality includes at least design, service and delivery which many other architects find diffuclut to maintain in balanced proportions. This publication is fully illustrated with photographs and plans of many of J.J. Pan's most interesting projects.

A thirty-year career has made Jacques Garcia a worldwide name in interior design in the French tradition. In Paris, chic crowds flock to his celebrated Hétel Costes and Ladurée tearoom, and to his many fin-de-siécle brasseries. Garcia's designs also grace the interiors of the Musée Carnavalet and the Musée de la Vie Romantique-and his most recent tour de force is the restoration of Paris' Hétel Mansart. Garcia's most ambitious project to date, the refurbishment of the Chéteau du Champ de Bataille in Normandy, attracts visitors from across the globe and has become a monument to his art and celebrity.

This new edition of the 1999 book is a continuing tribute to the restoration of the chéteau and to its magnificent gardens, seen here for the first time. Sumptuously illustrated and updated to include Garcia's latest creations, this new edition provides the reader with a privileged view of true French style.

Famous not only for his passion for antiquities but also for his much-lauded and internationally famous interior design work, Jacques Garcia purchased the imposing Château du Champ de Bataille twenty years ago in a state of virtual ruin and lovingly restored it to its former splendour. The chateau is now a treasure house of seventeenth and eighteenth-century architecture, furniture, and garden design, to which Garcia brought his considerable expertise gained from numerous restoration projects including rooms at Versailles and the Louvre. Every detail from the library with its collection of priceless books to the grand dining room with its rare collection of Sèvres porcelain to the hall of taxidermy has been carefully studied and interpreted through the prism of Jacques Garcia's extraordinary eye and inimitable style. This superbly illustrated volume documents the meticulous research and epic restoration undertaken by Jacques Garcia.

Informed by history and imbued with the exquisite beauty of the château and its priceless collection of paintings, sculptures, porcelain, silver, and furniture, Garcia's masterpiece will be a revelation to specialists on French art and a delight and inspiration to anyone interested in interior decoration and restoration.

This latest volume of NeoArchitecture presents the work of French firm Jakob + MacFarlane, a firm proclaimed as a highly promising collaborative, representing the best in emerging French architecture and architectural sensibility. The work of Dominique Jakob and Brendan MacFarlane engages the capture and articulation of movement, both ethereal and real, in order to articulate a dynamic sensibility in their work. Jakob + MacFarlane achieve sophistication in their design schemes by employing high-end digital computer technology in their design process. Indeed, their use of the computer and computer-aided modeling in pursuing formal strategies and design outcomes positions their practice at the forefront of avant garde architecture practices operating today. This volume showcases built architectural projects, either already completed or currently under construction, as well as theoretical and exhibition projects. Sales Points: Latest volume in IMAGES' NeoArchitecture series on the next generation of master architects. Introduction by Christian Girard. Showcases the work of young, experimental architects with detailed photographs, renderings, plans and text. Features internationally recognised projects such as Restaurant Georges at the Pompidou Centre and the equally innovative Florence Lowey Bookshop, both in Paris.

The first book from British-Argentinian interior designer and creative director James Boyd Niven, merging South American cultural and historical references to produce youthful, vibrant design.

This elegant monograph presents the story of the designer’s boutique firm, James Boyd Niven Design.

With five chapters divided by theme and geographical location (Urban/Buenos Aires, Rural/Campo, Austral/Patagonia, Hospitality/Montevideo, and Beach–Horseback riding/José Ignacio, Uruguay), the book features multiple homes illustrating each style through a coherent and amicable aesthetic.

The aromas and flavors of these regions are compounded in this book to illustrate the varied South American lifestyles and cultures. A section highlights table settings designed to complement the projects and to tell a story through the five senses.

Classic and timeless photographs showcase standout properties, including Boyd Niven’s own 12-room house in the Palermo Hollywood area of Buenos Aires, the farmhouses he has completed in Argentina and Uruguay, and the 100-room luxury hotel he recently designed in Montevideo. Boyd Niven’s projects embody a chic, contemporary sensibility through the creative reuse of traditional design elements.
Lastly, to complement the interiors illustrated throughout the book and position them within a historical and cultural framework, the projects are interwoven with artistic vistas of well-known city blocks, buildings, and landscapes.

About the Authors:

James Boyd Niven is an inveterate traveler who has lived in Europe and New York, where he studied fashion, architecture, and photography before settling down in his hometown of Buenos Aires. Twice winner of the Design Award at Buenos Aires’s prestigious Casa FOA design exhibition, his projects have been published in both AD España and AD Germany and London’s Sunday Telegraph, and he was selected by AD France as one of the top 80 designers worldwide. Diego Flores, is an Uruguayan curator, who has worked for 20 years as an editor and writer in the publishing industry in the fields of architecture, interior design, and urbanization, developing  a peculiar knowledge of the handicrafts culture and legacy of Uruguay.

The British architect James Frazer Stirling (1924-1992) stimulated impassioned responses among both supporters and detractors, and he continues to be the subject of fierce debate. He earned international renown through such innovative and frequently controversial projects as the Leicester University Engineering building (1959-63); the History Faculty building at Cambridge University (1964-67); the Neue Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart (1977-84); the Clore Gallery at Tate Britain (1984); and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum at Harvard University (1979-84). Stirling was also a visiting professor at the Yale School of Architecture where he trained and influenced many of the current leaders in the field.

Fully illustrated with previously unpublished documents and new photography from the James Stirling/Michael Wilford Archive at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, this book allows for a close examination of design drawings, photographs, and models spanning Stirling's entire career. These materials deepen our understanding of the influences, early formation, approach, and process of an architect whose work resists labelling. Filled with in-depth analytical and critical presentations of exemplary projects and their reception, the volume reveals Stirling to be a remarkably informed and consistent thinker and writer on architecture.

James Stirling was one of the most influential architects of the late 20th century. His formally inventive yet historically informed designs inspired a generation of architects in his native England and throughout the world.

"James Stirling: Revisionary Modernist" is the first in-depth, book-length analysis of the architect's work. Amanda Reeser Lawrence focuses on six of Stirling's projects from the early 1950s through the late 1970s, offering detailed formal analysis of the buildings and drawings while also mapping his relationship to a broader architectural and cultural context.

Though it is widely held that Stirling took a mid-career turn toward postmodernism, Lawrence shows that he was undeniably modern throughout his career. She clarifies the ways in which Stirling understood modernism as inextricably linked to the past and placed his own work in what he termed a "dialogue with architectural tradition".

Jan des Bouvrie has been one of the most famous and most successful Dutch designers for many a decade. He has created hundreds of striking buildings, designed interiors and a whole range of different objects and furniture. Starting from a very specific use of colour, he puts the spotlight on sober and stern interiors. "Jan des Bouvrie, Learning to Look" pays a tribute to a man celebrating his sixty fifth birthday. Thirty pioneering projects teach the reader how to look at form, colour, space and structure. Magnificent pictures by top photographer Cees Roelofs and a sublime layout by De Heeren van Vonder turn this book into an unmissable experience.

Leading floral artist Jane Packer is renowned the world over for her chic signature style of elegant flowers arranged with a fresh, modern twist. Beloved by private clients as well as those from the film, fashion and business worlds, Jane's arrangements are sold across the globe, and her admirers flock to her four flower schools to glean a little of the Jane Packer magic for themselves. In At Home with Flowers, Jane shows how to use flowers to bring colour, variety and style to every corner of the home. The introduction covers all the important basics, including choosing flowers, conditioning and caring for them. Jane also explains how to choose vases and containers and get the proportions of arrangements right. She then takes us on a tour of every room in the house there are dramatic flowers for mantelpieces, massed vases on console tables, tiny posies on windowsills, luscious blooms on dressing tables and desks, as well as gorgeous floral arrangements for guest rooms and bathrooms. In At Home with Flowers there are no stiff bouquets or formal displays, just simple and achievable arrangements that you'll yearn to recreate in your own home.

About the author:

Jane Packer is one of the world s foremost floral artists, renowned for her fresh, unpretentious style. She established Jane Packer Flowers in 1982 and in 1990 opened her first flower school in London. In 2004, Jane launched  janepacker.com, delivering her trademark arrangements nationwide. She has outlets in London, New York, Seoul, Tokyo, and Kuwait City. Jane s range of five floral fragrances was launched in October 2010, with a range of matching home fragrance candles to follow in Spring 2011. She is also the author of Jane Packer's Guide to Flower Arranging: Easy Techniques for Fabulous Arranging, also published by Ryland Peters & Small.

Illustrations: 450 color photos

Japan Living, this new book from noted authors Marcia Iwatate and Geeta Mehta, continues to explore the themes of their highly successful Japan Houses
. Some houses represented in Japan Living reflect the many changes in the dynamics of the new Japanese society, including an aging population and the desire to remain single, while others embody plenty of creativity, self-expression and individuality. Throughout, a return to traditional materials and design elements is married with such present-day requirements as minimalism, flexibility, energy efficiency and electronic gadgetry. Each of these homes is an exquisite representation of the integrity consistently found in Japanese interior design, in both new construction and old.

Whether you're remodeling your house, redesigning your apartment or just looking for a book of design ideas, Japan Home is a beautiful and indispensable resource full of practical information, shopping resources and, of course, inspiration.
Filled with light and simplicity and existing in close harmony with the natural world, Japanese interior design has long been renowned for its spare beauty, utility and grace. More and more people outside of Japan have come to appreciate its tranquil allure, and are incorporating uniquely Japanese features into their homes.