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Looking for inspiration and direction in the design or remodel of your home? Clearly written and profusely illustrated, Patterns of Home brings you the timeless lessons of residential design. The 10 patterns described in the book -- among them, "capturing light" and "the flow through rooms" -- are drawn from hundreds of principles and presented with clarity by the authors, renowned architects who have designed homes together for more than 30 years. This book will jump-start the design process and make the difference between a home that satisfies material requirements and one that meets your personal needs of "home." Patterns of Home promises to become the "design bible" for homeowners and architects.

Highlights...

• The authors' work in residential architecture was the inspiration behind Sarah Susanka's best-selling The Not So Big House and Creating the Not So Big House
• Insightful tours of 33 homes bring essential design concepts to life
• 300 photos and 50 illustrations illustrate the patterns

This is a remarkable collection of patterns in home design from world-renowned graphic designers. These exquisite works involve every aspect of the home furnishing, including bed linen, cushion, sofa, wallpaper, tablecloth, tableware, lampshade and home accessories. We believe that it will be a good reference on visual design for interior designers, graphic designers and those who have the talent in this area.

Payette Associates' philosophy is centered on planning and designing spaces and enduring buildings for people. As evidenced in this book, the firm creates spaces in which to conduct research and teaching for science, technology, medicine and health; places for campus and cultural life; and places for healthcare. These facilities are designed to promote human interaction, facilitate the exchange of ideas and provide physical comfort. The firm's clients include colleges and universities, medical and health schools, hospitals, corporations, and cultural institutions. Payette Associates' history extends back to 1932, when architect Paul Nocka and Frederick Markus, an engineer and industrial designer, worked together on the landmark New York Hospital.

Collect stones, pebbles, and shells, and adorn your garden and home with these beautiful pebble mosaics! Experiment with textures, design, and color to create some stunning feature pieces and decorate your garden and home. 

The mosaic has long been a stunning method of decoration, stretching back to the cities of ancient Greece and Rome, and now, with Pebble Mosaics, you can create your own little piece of history in your home! Learn how to find and forage ceramics, stones, and pebbles in your back garden and home, and arrange them to make the 25 beautiful and original designs packed inside Pebble Mosaics.

Complete with a "Gallery" section to inspire your creativity, there will be a pattern or a project to suit every need and any taste. Pebble Mosaics is split into two chapters.

The first, "Paths, Plaques, and Panels", will take you through creating mosaics for larger projects such as Stepping Stones, Garden Benches, Sundials, and Evening Tables. You will learn how to mix cement, identify good materials for your project, and construct patterns that suit you.

The second chapter, "Planters and Decorative Features", will show you how to make some beautiful ornamental items, such as a Bubbling Fountain, a Lattice Planter, and Hurricane Lanterns.

With easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions and photography, Pebble Mosaics is suitable for even the most novice of pebble-layers.

About the author

Deborah Schneebeli-Morrell grows crops on her city roof terrace and in a spectacular community garden in London. She also works a large garden in Wiltshire, where she practices the complementary craft of bee-keeping. She is dedicated to both flowers and vegetables, and grows all her produce organically. Deborah’s other passions include art and craft; she originally trained in fine art, and is an award-winning artist. She has written over 20 practical craft books, including Grow Your Own Herbs in Pots and Decorating Pumpkins and Gourds.

Project Introduction:

012 Motril Footbridge
020 Garden Bridge in Banciao City
028 Plashet School Footbridge
034 “Kiss Bridge”
048 Footbridge in Villetaneuse
058 Pedestrian Bridge in Zapallar
068 Lugner Bridge
076 Stratford Town Centre Link
084 SKYWALK
090 Footbridge Valmy
100 Traffic Bridge
106 Bourges Multimodal Station and Overpass
112 Grasshopper Pedestrian Bridge
116 Villepinte Pedestrian Overpass
122 Fontenay-sous-Bois RER Station
130 Ruckholt Road Footbridge
136 Can Gili Footbridge
144 Ruckholt Road Footbridge
150 Stratford City Bridge One
156 DSSH Bridge
162 Blois
170 Las Vegas City Hall Pedestrian Bridge
176 Trestles Beach Footbridge
182 Titanium Bridge
190 Mur Island
196 Webb Bridge
204 Wang-Gong Footbridge
212 Melkwegbrug
218 Simone de Beauvoir Footbridge
232 Footbridge Over the River Marne
242 Pennington Road Footbridge
248 Sava Footbridge
254 Foot- and Cyclebridge over the Rhein
262 Brucke Leichlingen Tafel
266 Forumbrücke Tafel
272 Water Lilies Bridge
276 Amsterdam Footbridge
286 The Tulip Pedestrian Bridge
294 Auckland Harbour Bridge Pathway
300 Leaf Bridge
306 Rochester Reed Bridges
312 Archi Made

Perfect English Cottage explores 18 beautiful and inspirational homes that celebrate the best of classic cottage style in the English countryside.

The classic English country cottage is both an icon and an archetype. Dozing beneath a heavy thatch and with roses around the door, it seems to epitomize all that is desirable about life in the countryside and to offer the perfect antidote to the stress of the urban grind. In Perfect English Cottage, Ros Byam Shaw takes a fresh look at the decorating and design solutions that make the classic English country cottage as attractive inside as out as well as practical and comfortable to live in.

The book is divides into five different chapters that address different facets of the look: Romance, Character, Holiday, Simplicity and Elegance. The featured homes are incredibly varied, from a humble farmworker's cottage with exposed beams to a pared-down Georgian gem, to a picture-perfect cottage with roses round the door - and plenty more adorning the interior.

At the end of each chapter there is an invaluable review picking up on ideas and inspiration from the featured homes. At the end of the book there is also a comprehensive directory of sources to help you achieve the English Cottage look in your own home - wherever you may live.

About the Author:

Ros Byam Shaw writes on design and interiors for House & Garden and the Telegraph, among others. She is the author of Perfect English, Interiors by Design, and Old House New Home (all Ryland Peters & Small). Perfect English was selected by the editor of House & Garden as one of the top ten interiors books available.

Continuing her exploration of English interiors, Ros Byam Shaw visits 14 distinctive townhouses full of charm, character and style.

In Perfect English Townhouse, Ros Byam Shaw examines the timeless English style of decoration in a variety of Georgian, Victorian and contemporary townhouses. Architecturally, these tall, narrow properties present challenges. How do you make the best of a basement kitchen with a low ceiling and limited light? Or allocate space when you live on five floors? And how do you maximize any precious outdoor space?

Perfect English Townhouse features case studies of such homes, not only in London but also in the provincial towns and cities of England. Some feel like little pockets of countryside surrounded by pavements, others have a more sophisticated, metropolitan allure; some are endearingly eccentric, others more classical. All the interiors featured are inspiring, and reflect the personalities of the people who inhabit them. These are the kinds of space that most of us are familiar with, and that many of us occupy. What is unusual is how cleverly and creatively these examples have been decorated and designed.

In Perfect French Country Ros Byam Shaw celebrates relaxed rural France at its finest, visiting timeless and beautiful French country homes that feature ancient beams and stone fireplaces, panelled rooms and attics under steeply-pitched pantiles.

In a busy modern world that seems increasingly overcrowded and monopolized by technology, the allure of the ‘good life’ is more potent than ever. As an antidote to texts and tweets, traffic jams and queues, additives and packaging, we seek out the simple and the wholesome, and long for the luxuries of space and fresh air. France can offer all these things, with its traditional farming methods, its authentic regional cuisine, and its low population density. Add to this the inimitable French sense of style and joie de vivre, and you have all the ingredients for an enviable way of life.

Perfect French Country revels in the timeless and authentic beauty of the French country home.

Even in this age of varied home entertainment and fast-paced mass media, immense creative energy is being directed towards new space for live performance. Profusely illustrated with photographs, computer renderings and architectural drawings, Performing Architecture explores fifty of today’s finest performance spaces, as well as recently refurbished, restored and transformed buildings. A brief introduction traces the post-war development of theatre and concert hall design, and sets out the circumstances today that have led to such a rich provision for performance. Buildings featured range from Frank Gehry’s landmark Disney Opera House in Los Angeles to the quieter Unicorn Theatre for Children in London; and from the Tenerife Opera House by Santiago Calatrava to the Guangzhou Opera House, China, by Zaha Hadid. A celebratory study, this book showcases some of the most exhilarating buildings of our time.

• The only book to bring together the world's finest twenty-first-century buildings for live performance
• Individual entries on fifty opera houses, theatres, concert halls and dance spaces in the US, Europe, Asia and Australasia
• Will appeal to architects, architectural students, engineers and anyone interested in architecture and the performing arts

Project Introduction:
THEATRE

008 Wuxi Grand Theatre
032 Tianjin Grand Theatre
050 Incheon Tri-bowl
058 South Miami-Dade Cultural Center
070 Theater Of The Archipelago Perpignan
084 Mihara Performing Arts Center
094 Shanxi Grand Theatre
102 Soweto Theatre
116 Espai Ridaura
130 Teruel-zilla! Underground Leisure Lair and Public Space
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252 Sandler Center for the Performing Arts

CINEMA

260 Cinema Center in Matadero de Legazpi, Madrid
274 Galaxy East Square & UA Galaxy Cinemas, Galaxy Hotel & Resort, Macao
288 Museum of the Moving Image
300 Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center
306 Star Cinema @ Popcorn
316 HDIL, Kulraj-Broadway Cinema At Dreams Mall HDIL

Larry Perkins describes the firm's philosophy: 'While we enjoy recognition, the applause we seek is the quiet trust and satisfaction of clients and public who know that their interests have been thoughtfully served.' From its early beginnings more than 65 years ago, Perkins & Will has evolved into a firm characterised by its ability to transform commonplace building programs into uncommon designs and to work with clients in very successful ways. Perkins & Will's portfolio of buildings is vast in quantity as well as scope, and includes schools, hospitals, colleges and university facilities, laboratories, museums and corporate headquarters. Many of these are located around the world.

Success at Perkins+Will is measured by how imaginatively a client’s vision is translated into a finished product. The firm designs and strategizes with a philosophy that places people at the center of their work; collaboration is what propels their design process forward. This approach is a Perkins+Will legacy, dating back to one of the firm’s first and most prestigious projects, the 1930s Crow Island School, designed with the insight founder Larry Perkins gained from attending school with the children. This monograph explores the firm’s work through its rich history, examining a variety of completed and conceptually designed projects that promote the firm’s philosophy of ideas and buildings that honor the broader goals of society.

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Persian art and architecture have a rich heritage that stretches far beyond the borders of modern-day Iran, from the Abbasid monuments of Baghdad to the splendid Timurid buildings of Samarqand and Bukhara.

In this glorious volume a wealth of photographs capture this profusion in rich detail, creating a vibrant guide that will captivate anyone keen to explore the cultural achievements of this 
great civilization.

When the ancient land of Persia was conquered by the Arabs, its people embraced the coming of 
Islam but strove also to retain their own language and culture, celebrating their history in works of literature such as the epic Shahnama. This merging of influences resulted in a distinctive artistic style that spread through the Middle East, reflected in monumental architecture and in art forms that range from expressive miniature paintings to sumptuous carpets and ceramics.

The book follows a historical path across the Iranian world and examines the artistic legacies of great rulers and their dynasties, from the rebirth of Persian art under the Seljuqs, to the magnificent structures built by Timur-i Lang in Samarqand, to the cultural flowering that occurred under the Safavid dynasty through the patronage of Shah Abbas and his descendants, and beyond.

Palaces, mosques, madrasas and mausoleums display a mesmerizing decorative complexity, with form and ornament combining to create an indivisible whole. Spectacular polychrome tiles, intricate brickwork, curling arabesque motifs and calligraphic inscriptions attain a transcendent beauty, designed to reflect both the temporal power of the rulers who commissioned these works and the heavenly glory of creation

Persian Rugs and Carpets: The Fabric of Life presents a pictorial journey around Persia, reflecting the weaving and pattern styles of the many regions and tribes - including Esfahan, Kashan, Nain, Qum, Kerman, Tabriz, Bakhtiari, Senneh, Malayer and Qashqa'i - showing the vast range of carpets woven in Persia from about 1850 to the third quarter of the 20th century. The introductory text to each section explains the particular aspects of that region's weaving style. In addition, each caption gives an in-depth account of the carpet, not only the date and region in which it was woven, but also the motifs and patterns, the technique used, even the weaver, and, in the case of pictorial carpets, the fascinating stories being depicted.

The introductory essay takes the reader through the history and geography of the Persian rug, including information on structure, weaving and knotting, the different output of the city and urban workshops compared to tribal and village weaving, flatweaves, and identification. It also features points of note for the collector, such as conservation and cleaning, as well as highlighting the difficulties in dating rugs, and the problems with fakes.

Lavishly illustrated in colour throughout, Persian Rugs and Carpets: The Fabric of Life shows these carpets at their very best, with incredible clarity of detail, bringing together in one place the diversity of weaving styles and the great variety of patterns, allowing the reader to compare carpets at a glance.

This exquisite book - an essential addition to the bookshelves of all carpet collectors and aficionados - is a testament to the rich and vibrant art form of Persian carpets.

Born in Iran to a family with a long history of dealing in Persian carpets, perhaps it was inevitable that Essie Sakhai should become a respected expert on Oriental and Persian carpets, gaining much of his great knowledge from his father Benayahoo Sakhai. Essie lives in North London, though he spends most of his time at ESSIE CARPETS on the corner of Albemarle Street and Piccadilly in London's Mayfair, carrying on the family tradition started in the 18th century.

Essie is a true enthusiast and hopes through his extensive lectures, interviews and writing (his previous books include The Story of Carpets, which has been translated into many languages, and The Buyers' Guide) to share his knowledge and passion for carpets with a wider audience.