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In recent years a new generation of artists and designers has discovered that garden plants - from moss and grass to fullgrown trees - can become astonishing works of living sculpture. Iconoclast garden designer Paul Cooper has gathered together the best examples of this exciting new art form while overturning many preconceptions about what is possible in the context of both gardening and art, showing that every garden has the potential to include dramatic and lasting sculpture.

Living Systems surveys a wide array of innovative approaches to material technologies within the field of landscape architecture. The selected projects and materials exhibit a contemporary demand for technological landscapes and the collaboration between designers, engineers, scientists and ecologists. The book proposes a synthesis between technology and theory, focusing on growth, flow, metabolism, climate, and atmospheric phenomena.

Projects and materials are cross-referenced according to performance criteria, processes, and properties. Each of the 36 international projects and 23 material technologies is presented with drawing details and construction photographs. Descriptions of key processes and adaptive qualities provide an analysis of the various complex systems featured, such as vertical growth structures, flood prevention, stormwater infiltration and erosion control.

Projects featured include works by West8, GROSS.MAX, Weiss-Manfredi Architects, Field Operations, Kathryn Gustafson, and Vogt Landschaftarchitekten.

Today, more than ever, multifamily housing is recognised as vital to modern, urban communities. This type of housing requires immense dexterity from an architectural perspective, because while promoting a sense of community living, a sense of aesthetics must also prevail. 

Classic style and impeccable attention to detail are hallmarks of the work of interior designer Matthew Patrick Smyth. His comfortable, timeless rooms are tailored to fit his clients’ personalities and lifestyles, whether they are dynamic young couples with children or cultured art collectors. Smyth masterfully blends contemporary pieces with antiques to endow each space with a sense of solidity and history while maintaining a completely fresh, modern sensibility.

Smyth credits his mentor David Easton for teaching him how to see the intrinsic value of any given piece and to successfully mix furnishings with similar lines, materials, and forms even when they are products of different centuries. Easton also embedded in Smyth a love for travel - leading to the designer’s devotion to all things French that permeates his work. Smyth opened his own firm in New York in 1987 and now works with clients around the globe. His designs - characterized by refined, flawless interior architecture - are seen in grand Shelter Island mansions, classically proportioned San Francisco townhouses, and demure Parisian pied-à-terres alike.

In this lavishly illustrated volume, Smyth reveals his own design tips, rules, and approaches to meeting challenges offered by uniquely shaped spaces. He focuses on editing collections to better showcase individual works, the personal nature of color selection, adding - or restoring - historical references, and finishing a space off with glorious, often unexpected fabrics and trims. Over two hundred color photographs showcase a wide variety of styles, from a nature-infused Aspen vacation home to the quintessential Upper East Side apartment to a London flat that smoothly blends its owner’s inherited collection of Renaissance art with fine Indian pieces.

The tropics are a way of life. Embracing outdoor surroundings as much as indoor possibilities, tropical houses have become a source of new impulses for architecture, interiors, and furniture design worldwide.

The tropics are not only an address, but also a way of life. Living Under the Sun is a stunning showcase of modern tropical interiors and architecture that meld local design tradition and bold innovation in compelling ways.

More than anywhere else on earth, the tropics demand an architecture that can bridge the gap between what is outside — sea, sand, sky, and sun — and what lies within. The villas, family homes, artists’ ateliers, beach shacks, and urban pieds-à-terre featured in the book embrace their outdoor surroundings to offer fresh, often surprising indoor possibilities that are ideally suited to their climates. The elegantly easy-going work featured in Living Under the Sun exemplifies how to create tranquil settings to soothe our hectic lives, regardless of our geographical location.

Where is paradise: at the end of the earth or at home on the sofa? For many, the word paradise conjures up images of a sunny beach with palm trees. For others, it might mean pristine nature, a lively city with much to see and do, lazing in a hammock, or relaxing anywhere with a cool sea breeze. All of these versions of paradise can be found in the tropics.

Tropical regions around the globe have always offered an extraordinarily diverse range of impressions and inspirations. Yet only recently have countries such as Brazil, Colombia, Thailand, and Australia begun to gain international recognition as go-to sources for contemporary design ideas. Today, the tropics offer style aficionados at least as many, if not more, new things to discover than classic design destinations such as Italy or Scandinavia with their established brands.

Living Under the Sun is the first comprehensive showcase of modern tropical living styles and their designers. Presenting tropical interiors at the nexus of timeless tradition and self-confident freshness, the book brings their colors and elegantly easy-going ambience to life. It captures the refreshingly different coziness of rooms that seem to flow seamlessly into the exteriors surrounding them and are thus ideally suited to local climates and weather occurrences such as tropical storms.

Living Under the Sun features striking living and working spaces in Asian, Latin American, and Australian homes and villas that meld aesthetics with functionality in exceptional ways. The book also explores the myriad stylistic devices that characterize tropical interior design such as precious woods, natural stone tiles, colorful glass mosaics, and abundant vegetation in the form of orchids, ferns, and other lush plants. It includes stunning examples of shady green patios, stylish terraces, and enviable gardens.

Readers of Living Under the Sun are sure to revel in the tropical charm of the book’s select interiors, décor, and design. Perhaps they will even be inspired to create their own paradise at home.

Living walls enable plants turn 90 degrees vertically to become a special surface, which could increase the buildings’ artistic effects and inject vigour to them.

This book introduces some excellent cases of various vertical greening methods, including both exterior walls and interior walls.

Each case is equipped with rich and accurate elevations and detail drawings, providing a continuity view from the vegetation to the wall.

This book includes not only technical data about green walls, but also some of the latest green wall projects for inspiration. It is composed of two parts: technical theories and some wonderful projects.

The first part goes into the finer details about green wall systems characteristics, design approaches, and considerations, including system construction, growing medium, plants, irrigation, and illumination. The examples and technological drawings are used to make theories easier to understand. The secrets of the king of green wall design, Patrick Blanc, and his successful projects, are discussed in this part.

The second part of the book is a fine collection of green wall projects completed by world-renowned designers such as Patrick Blanc, Vertical Garden Design, and Kengo Kuma and Associates. Each project in this book has detailed drawings that will be great value for designers.

A dense concentration of design talent, uniquely varied topography and one of the world’s most pleasant climates have made Southern California a crucible of architectural innovation.

Forward-looking clients respond to dramatic modern interpretations of form and site that capitalize on natural light and magnificent ocean views, perch delicately on steeply graded land, or maximize privacy on a sliver of a city lot.

Thirty of the best designs by the most creative firms portray the diversity of Southern California’s architecture. Sam Lubell draws examples from Montecito to San Diego and the arid conditions of Joshua Tree to illustrate the wide range of responses to geography, budget and space.

Featured architects include Barbara Bestor, Belzberg, Griffin Enright, Lorcan O’Herlihy, Michele Saee, the Office of Mobile Design and Predock Frane, among others.

In this lavish, XL-sized coffee table book, twenty reports present the homes and studios of passionate art collectors, gallery owners, artists, architects and interior designers with a penchant for modern and contemporary art. 

A home filled with books can be a place of inspiration. Far from being simple storage spaces, bookcases, shelves and even entire libraries reveal the personalities and lifestyles of their owners.

Living with Books takes us on a guided tour of the libraries of some passionate readers, discovering how they fit their love of books into their homes and lives. Artists, interior decorators, graphic designers, fashion designers, writers, collectors, journalists and business people: all have different ways of engaging with books as a design challenge, striking a balance between style and practicality, modern trends and classic styling, strict organization and carefree clutter.

The lavish illustrations show how the right combination of shelving, lighting and accessories can be brought together with a dash of imagination to create a truly unique interior.
Here is a world of inventive ways to showcase books at their best, as objects of beauty and fascination for all.

Among the libraries’ owners are:
Philippe Starck
Terence Conran
Ron Arad
Manolo Blahník
Paul Smith
Gilbert & George
Annette Messager
Sonia Rykiel
Kenzo
Pierre & Gilles

Choosing the most suitable colour palette is always one of the greatest challenges for any interior architect or designer.

Paints, fabrics and wallpaper are an essential part of any interior and are inextricably bound up with it: the overall atmosphere is largely determined by the shades and nuances of colour that are used.

This book presents projects by well-known architects and interior specialists, with colour as a uniting theme: from monochrome white and sandy shades to the more exuberant and daring colour combinations, from the monastic simplicity of neutral tones to lively and extroverted colour schemes.

In spite of the significant differences between the projects, between styles and local trends, colours are clearly part of a universal language and have inspired designers through the ages.

A design book filled with beautiful photography and clear ideas for how to use pattern to decorate your home. If you focus on pattern, from texture and color to furniture and textiles, everything else will fall into place.

Pattern is the strongest element in any room. In Living with Pattern, Rebecca Atwood demystifies how to use that element, a design concept that often confounds and confuses, demonstrating how to seamlessly mix and layer prints throughout a house. She covers pattern usage you probably already have, such as on your duvet cover or in the living room rug, and she also reveals the unexpected places you might not have thought to add it: bathroom tiles, an arrangement of book spines in a reading nook, or windowpane gridding in your entryway.

This stunning book showcases distinct uses of pattern in homes all over the country to inspire you to realize that an injection of pattern can enliven any space, helping to make it uniquely yours.

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Living with White celebrates living in a hot climate where the use of colour is as intense as the heat. White is the backdrop while walls, floors, doors and furniture painted in vibrant blues and greens, hot reds, magenta pinks, terracottas and oranges create the drama and interest. Read reviews for Living with White Houses in hot climates from the Mediterranean to Caribbean have been adapted to withstand the heat and chic, modern, uncluttered interiors create oases of cool and calm. This stunning book by Gail Abbott provides glimpses into real homes designed for life in a hot climate, from beachside villas on the South African coastline to the laid-back style of California.

America’s love of wine has spurred a collecting and entertaining phenomenon

Some of America’s most passionate oenophiles have re-invented the wine cellar as an inviting and beautiful part of the home.

True collectors love to share their passion, and this book offers a tour of their distinctive cellars. Created with the help of some of the best designers in the field, these rooms blend luxurious design aesthetics with ingenious storage solutions. The thirty stunning spaces featured include a traditional wood cellar finished with rich paneling and ornate lighting; a cathedral-like space that showcases ironwork inspired by the French Quarter of New Orleans (and has a secret entry from a library inside the house); an inviting living room lined with temperature-controlled wood alcoves behind insulated glass; and an Old World terra-cotta cellar–within a sprawling entertainment center that includes a wet bar, a billiards table, and a tasting room.

Living with Wine reveals the details that make the cellars a welcoming place to return–from the materials, artwork, lighting, and cutting-edge preservation technology to the way the space harmonizes with the rest of the house. From the Bay Area to Boston, Napa to New York, homeowners such as Nancy and John Lasseter, the founder of Pixar Studios; American Idol host and TV and radio personality Ryan Seacrest; and entrepreneur Rick Ryan share insights into what they collect, why they started collecting, and how they designed their spaces to fit their passion.

This elegant volume shows what it means to love and collect wine.

Wood has very many positive attributes as a natural construction material, but was for a long time neglected in the architecture of western Europe.

However, this situation has changed a great deal over the course of recent decades. Construction with wood has gained a solid reputation and is seen as a valid alternative to traditional building with bricks. Wood also offers many advantages: processing it is both energy-efficient and environmentally friendly, the construction time is short, and it is a very durable material. Many wooden constructions have withstood the test of time over hundreds of years.

The most important reason for selecting wood, though, is the pleasant atmosphere enjoyed by owners of wooden houses.

This also applies when wood is used as an essential element of an interior: floors, panelling and fitted cabinetwork create a welcoming feeling of warmth and cosiness in a home.

This book features many inspiring examples of both houses and interiors: homes constructed out of wood and also traditional brick buildings where wood occupies a prominent position inside the house.

In times when environmental awareness is increasing, wood is an attractive alternative to other mineral based or manufactured materials.

The production of wood products uses less energy (usually sourced from finite fossil fuels) compared with other materials and new technologies continuously push the boundaries of traditional woodworking methods.

When it comes to construction, wood houses can be prefabricated and built more quickly than their counterparts in brick and concrete.

Furthermore, there is no doubt about the comfortable atmosphere that wood lends to a home!

Wood is a modern material and in the design world, it is a force to be reckoned with.