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With a style that is accessible and chic, Nathan Turner's aesthetic is Nate Berkus meets Colin Cowie and Domino Magazine. Turner's unique approach to design for living incorporates his accessible, California chic aesthetic. He will show readers how to design their home to create a space that is relaxed and stylish, but still functional and affordable. Turner's practical tips and tricks for affordable home makeovers and remodeling will also be included along with many never before seen projects, including his own Malibu retreat or his families Ranch in Northern California. The book will also incorporate another one of Turner's passions; entertaining. Turner will show readers how to create a space that's inviting for others and allows them to easily entertain in their home. His ideas, tabletop design, easy party themes and menus, teach readers to how to be chic hosts, ready to open up their home for visitors at any time. Informed by his eclectic background and varied passions for decor, travel, entertaining and food, Nathan Turner's American Style will appeal to readers looking to incorporate Turner's stylish and relaxed aesthetic into their home and life.

Natural Elegance showcases the award-winning interiors of WRJ Design, headquartered in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and led by Rush Jenkins and Klaus Baer. The firm’s homes are set against the back-drop of dramatic Western landscapes from the Rockies to the Pacific. Their interiors are infused with a unique elegance — one versed in the beauty of the wilderness combined with sophisticated contemporary design. Juxtaposing a warm palette with rugged elements, they create homes that have a deep connection to the natural world just outside the windows. Illustrated with photographs by the masterly William Abranowicz, the book features more than a dozen gloriously sited houses decorated in WRJ’s signature rustic yet refined style.

About the Authors:

Rush Jenkins, formerly Director of Design at Sotheby’s New York, and Klaus Baer, formerly head of international production teams for investment banking firms, relocated to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, where they established WRJ Design.

William Abranowicz has been a photographer for nearly forty years and his work has appeared in nearly every major publication in the United States, Europe, and Asia. His most recent book is Vendome’s American Originals: Creative Interiors.

Nancy Greystone co-authored Barbara Barry’s Around Beauty and Tim Campbell’s Intentional Beauty.

In a world dominated more and more by urban development, nature is increasingly seen as an inspiration for gardeners. Sustainability and biodiversity, currently high on the world’s agenda, are important aspects of natural-style gardening. In this beautiful new book, gardening expert Noël Kingsbury considers a variety of approaches to making gardens that celebrate nature. He discusses what is meant by ‘the natural look’, gives guidance on how to achieve it, and outlines the ideas and problems involved. Organized into thematic chapters, the authoritative text deals with all aspects of natural-style gardening, from prairies and meadows to water and sculpture. With stunning images by award-winning gardens photographer Nicola Browne, Natural Garden Style is essential for anyone wishing to take an ethical and sustainable approach to gardening and garden design.

• A timely in-depth exploration of approaches to garden design that take their inspiration from nature
• Includes a directory of natural-style gardens worldwide that are open to the public
• Features a special section on creating and maintaining your own natural-style garden

For more than twenty-five years already, Marcel and Monique van Dijk share the same passion: creating atmosphere and experience with vegetal materials. Their company Oogenlust has rapidly turned into the Dutch reference when it comes to floral decoration. Every day more than twenty employees are on the move, both at home and abroad. First and foremost, nature remains their inexhaustible breeding ground. Sometimes a bare room is being transformed for a major event, some other time a historical property is being opulently decorated. But every time, the result breaks new ground. After Geert Pattyn and Gilles Pothier, the team of Stichting Kunstboek Publishers has invited Marcel van Dijk to bring forward his vision on floral interior decoration in a beautful publication. The result is stunning. The Oogenlust team loves a challenge and suceeds in creating a certain atmosphere with simple, but sometimes also more complex, interventions and surprising combinations of materials. Readers can enjoy this exuberant big work endlessly, but can just as well find many creative ideas for their home. It is a delicious coffee table book that will continue to inspire.

The volume explores the contemporary reinterpretations of age-old materials in a variety of exceptional new projects which are grouped into houses, buildings and landscapes. the projects have little in common other than the fact that they take inspiration from stone, brick, concrete or rammed earth. they include of course, many free-standing houses, as well as museums, bridges, churches, industrial buildings, landscape instalations and even cemeteries.

These age-old material are today being use in the most modern and advanced designs, inspiring a new generation of architects. Doubtlessly they will continue to be critically important to construction for age more in the future.

A fascinating voyage into the natural realm to discover the sources of inspiration of architectural forms, from antiquity to our time. Have you ever compared the shaft of a fluted column and a tree with its bark? Have you ever noticed the perfect homology linking the structure of a metallic bridge and the skeletons of large mammals? This book relates the forms of architecture, and even more the rules and ideas that have characterized architectural production through the centuries, with the forms of nature, whether they belong to biology or the physical world. The comparisons are conveyed by original photographs which themselves offer a fascinating itinerary between nature and artifice.

One of America’s greatest houses, the unequaled home of Gilded Age philanthropist Alfred I. duPont, has been newly restored to national acclaim. Nemours Mansion and Gardens is the 222-acre estate and onetime home of Alfred I. duPont-photographer, manufacturer, musician, politician, banker, inventor, suffragist, newspaper owner, businessman, and philanthropist. Designed and built in the Louis XIV style in 1909 by Carrere and Hastings, it is one of the largest and most opulent houses in America, to be compared only with the likes of the Biltmore Estate, the White House, The Breakers, and Hearst Castle. With seventy rooms spread out over 46,000 square feet, it is capacious, yet an intimacy of detail and graciousness of proportion give the visitor a feeling of serenity and a special sense of place that is unique to Nemours. Newly and painstakingly renovated, the house-now a museum that can be toured-glows with the finish of its original splendor, captured at long last in a volume that sumptuously reflects the magnificence of a masterpiece.   

 Dwight Young is a senior communications associate for the National Trust for Historic Preservation in Washington, D.C. Sisse Brimberg has been a regular photographer for National Geographic magazine since 1976. Cotton Coulson has worked as a photographer for National Geographic, was associate director of photography at US News and World Report, and has served as senior vice president of C-NET in San Francisco. Grace Gary is executive director of Nemours Mansion and Gardens.

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006-023 VILLA 80Ј  WEST COAST OF GUAGNZHOU
024-033 THE PARAPHRASE
034-045 RANCHO SANTA FE
046-057 JANGNAN FANC RESIDENCE
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310-317 CHANGCHUAN ROAD
318-329 WANKE TANGYUE TOWNHOUSE 6A
330-337 HANGYU SHANGRI-LA GARDEN VILLA TYPE 251
338-347 DIVERSIFED NEW CLASSIC