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In The New English Garden the leading garden writer Tim Richardson, author of The Arcadian Friends, discusses twenty-five significant English gardens made or remade over the past decade. Together these represent a coherent overview of what remains probably the most inventive garden culture in the world.

With the benefit of an international perspective, the author surveys a wide spectrum of gardens in styles ranging from the cutting-edge naturalistic planting design of the Sheffield School to the scientific imagery of Througham Court. While many of these gardens are challenging or thought-provoking, other reflect the sensuously romantic tradition of English planting design, which has also been moving ahead in interesting ways.

Through Tim Richardson’s incisive writing, The New English Garden presents all that is most interesting about garden-making in England in the twenty-first century and is beautifully illustrated by Andrew Lawson’s photography of some of England’s most famous gardens, from Prince Charles’s garden at Highgrove, Christopher Llyod’s garden at Great Dixter and Arabella Lennox-Boyd’s garden at Gresgarth right up to the Olympic Park in 2012.

A comprehensive overview of the contemporary English garden scene, by the dream team of Tim Richardson, most perceptive and insightful of contemporary writers on gardens, and renowned garden photographer Andrew Lawson.

The past ten to fifteen years has been an exceptionally rich period in English garden design, and for this book Tim Richardson has selected twenty-five gardens which have gone through an intense phase of creativity and innovation during this time span. The gardens chosen (most of which are open to the public), cover the wide range of styles flourishing in English garden design today and range from the Prince of Wales's garden at Highgrove, through Trentham Gardens (a 'Capability' Brown landscape imaginatively reworked for the twentieth-century by Piet Oudolf, Tom Stuart-Smith and Dominic Cole), Arabella Lennox-Boyd's own garden and 'laboratory for design ideas' at Gresgarth and Dan Pearson's Gardener's Cottage to Christopher Bradley-Hole's Modernist garden at Crockmore House, Kim Wilkie's astonishing Orpheus Landform, and Alasdair Ford's truly original garden of sculptures and poetic inferences at Plaz Metaxu.

The Full List of Gardens is:

- Armscote Manor
- Mount St John
- Packwood House
- Scamptson Hall
- Daylesford House
- The Lynn Garden, Ascott
- Great Dixter
- Througham Court
- Crockmore House
- Pettifers
- Waltham Place
- Highgrove
- Living Wall, Athenaeum Hotel
- Trentham
- Plaz Mataxu
- Cottesbrooke Hall
- Olympic Park
- Temple Guiting
- Angel Field
- Hanham Court
- Tilbuty Hall
- Gresgarth
- Bury Court
- The Laskett
- Wildside

The art of setting, compiling, or combining disparate objects is a difficult art. Yet it has become the chic new decorating style in France, and is now spreading throughout the world. After the success of The New Eighteenth-Century Style, journalist Michèle Lalande and photographer Gilles Trillard team up once again to showcase the most successful combinations of treasured heirlooms and contemporary design.

From precious mundane objects like seashells and glass bottles to priceless works of master craftsmanship like candelabras and carved wooden chests, The New French Décor provides insight into the blend of sophistication, symmetry, confusion, and minimalism that makes each of these rooms successful. Beautifully photographed by Trillard, these rich designs, conceived and executed by top stylists, decorators, and antiquarians, delight the eye on each page with a brilliant patchwork of old and new.

About the author
Michèle Lalande is a journalist and interior decorator. For many years she has been a regular contributor to various French and other foreign shelter magazines.

Gilles Trillard has been a freelance photographer for twenty-five years. He specializes in photographing interiors, and his work is regularly published in Elle Décoration and Campagne et Décoration among other magazines. Both contributors live in Paris.

Through her first book, Bringing Paris Home, Penny Drue Baird established herself as an authority on all things French - interior design, flea market and antiques shopping, Parisian life, and stylish entertaining. In The New French Interior, she moves beyond the traditional historic styles to explore the design elements that make up the fresh, clean look - architectural details adapted from art deco, a monochromatic palette based on creams and ivories highlighted with rich browns and blacks, bold forms in furniture and lighting, and restrained tabletop settings.

To illustrate the style, Baird draws on ten of her own recent projects, apartment and house installations, and presents French precedents and influences through specially commissioned photography of Parisian interiors. Images of cafes, markets, shops, and street scenes add to the magical Parisian ambiance she creates.

About the Author:

Penny Drue Baird is an internationally renowned interior designer, known not only for her design skills but also for her vast knowledge of all things French and for her entertaining and table-top flair. Her firm, Dessins, is based in Paris and New York. An AD Top 100 Designer, she is frequently featured in Architectural Digest and other prestigious magazines.

The New Homesteader provides all the knowledge necessary for anyone thinking of embracing a self-sustaining lifestyle and starting their own homestead or urban farm – or even just tending their own plot to provide fresh ingredients throughout the year.

Starting with the Kitchen Garden, Nick and Bella Ivins discuss designing and planning their plot then move on to choosing and planting fruit and vegetable crops. Next, in The Orchard, they explain how to plant and tend an orchard as well as different varieties of soft fruit. Animals covers the topic of livestock, including bees, chickens and other small poultry, and rearing lambs and pigs. The Garden shows how to make any additional outside space productive by planting a wildflower meadow, a small woodland, and even a nuttery. Following on, The Outbuildings takes a closer look at the places at the heart of a successful homestead - the barn, the woodyard, the workshop, and the store, where summer produce is stored to keep the homestead going during the lean winter months. Finally, in The Farmhouse, Nick and Bella move on to the hub of the homestead, the backdrop for day-to-day farm life. The farmhouse kitchen is the place where produce is preserved, bread is baked, and dairy products are produced. Other sections address homestead housekeeping with natural cleaning products.

Whether you dream of starting a homestead in the city, the country, or the suburbs to become fully or partially self sufficent, The New Homesteader puts the dream within reach.

About the Authors:

Bella and Nick Ivins have spent the last ten years restoring Walnuts Farm and its surrounding five acres into a beautiful, productive modern homestead. Here, the couple have embraced the 'good life' along with their two daughters, Flora and Peggy. Walnuts Farm is also a location house for the film and photographic industry, with clients including John Lewis, Net a Porter and Neal's Yard.

Imagine the sun on your skin and a breeze in your hair...as you put a meal in the oven! For years we've dreamed up ways to bring the outdoors into our homes. Now here is the know-how to bring the indoors out. And the best news? You can create a glorious al fresco kitchen no matter how limited your "good weather" season, yard size or budget.

First you'll be inspired by beautiful outdoor kitchen photos and profiles. Then this unique new guide will help you create your own, with expert advice on everything from floors to shelter tops and stoves to sinks.

A celebration of gardens in which man-made materials such as plastic perspex, steel, glass and textiles have been used by a new generation of garden designers to create gardens more in keeping with contemporary design and lifestyles.

Award-winning and controversial garden designer Paul Cooper has chosen the best examples of New Tech gardens from all over the world including kinetic gardens, portable gardens, multi-experience gardens for use in both day- and night-time, instant-assembly gardens, and radical gardens that overthrow convention.

The first book in an attractive and informative new series that focuses on innovative architectural design and the primary materials in your home. The New Wood House features projects from prominent and emerging architects with designs both classic and cutting-edge, most of which have not been previously published. The book is heavily visual and filled with gorgeous photographs, as well as floor plans and elevations. The text is an accessible discussion of the benefits and challenges of the materials used, the design goals, and the context in which each house is built. More inspirational than how-to, THE NEW WOOD HOUSE is an indispensable and innovative guide for anyone building, renovating, or updating a home. A resources section at the back of the book describes the types of woods and finishes selected for each project.

Nearly a quarter-million people bought this ground-breaking book when it was published in Fall 1998. Since then, the books simple message -- that quality should come before quantity -- has started a movement in home design. Homeowners now know to expect more. And the people responsible for building our homes have also gotten the message. Architects and builders around the country report clients showing up with dog-eared copies of The Not So Big House, pages marked to a favorite section.

Why are we drawn more to smaller, more personal spaces than to larger, more expansive ones? At parties, why do we spend more time in the kitchen and family rooms than we do in the formal living and dining rooms? What makes the sunny, intimate breakfast nook more inviting than the vaulted spaciousness of a cathedral-ceiling great room? The Not So Big House proposes clear, workable guidelines for creating homes that serve both our spiritual needs and our material requirements, whether for a couple with no children, a family, empty nesters, or one person alone.

In 1938, Life magazine commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to design a dream home for America. The result was the Usonian house, an enduring model of modest-sized residential architecture. Now, Sarah Susanka, architect and principal with Mulfinger, Susanka, Mahady & Partners, the firm selected to design the 1999 Life Dream House, brings Wright's same common-sense, human-scale design principles to our generation. Consider which rooms in your house you use and enjoy most, and you have a sense of the essential principles of The Not So Big House. Whether you seek comfort and calm or activity and energy at home, The Not So Big House offers a place for every mood.

In 2012, an interdisciplinary team of globally recognized architectural, interiors, sustainability, engineering, and construction experts identified trends, advances and opportunities for potential incorporation into the design of an Office Building of the Future (OBF) for the year 2030 as part of a national competition sponsored by NAIOP, the Commercial Real Estate Development Association. The OBF team included Pickard Chilton, Design Architect; Magnusson Klemencic, Structural and Civil Engineer; Atelier Ten, Sustainable Design; Cosentini Associates, MEP Engineer; IA, Interior Architect; and Gilbane Building Company, Cost Estimator and Scheduler. The award winning work culminates in a case study which integrates new thinking about the workplace, sustainability, building systems and modularity to accommodate a limitless range of building program types and scales.

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Dena Fishbein believes that putting a paintbrush in someone’s hands opens up the imagination to a new world of color and design opportunities.

The woman behind internationally acclaimed merchandise company Dena Designs shows how her hand-painted style combines vintage and traditional elements with a modern twist. Here she walks the reader through her own home, room by room, and discusses her inspirations and methods for encouraging creativity.

The Painted Home features simple DIY projects, useful design tips, and personal stories from one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the textile and design business. The book also includes a custom stencil so that readers can launch into the DIY projects themselves.

Trish Deseine, former BBC cooking show host who has sold more than one million cookbooks worldwide, shares tips on food and entertaining in the true Parisian style.

In The Paris Gourmet , Trish Deseine serves up a definitive guide to French cuisine, divulging her secrets on all aspects of Gallic food and entertaining.Her extensive black book of foodie addresses in Paris and online is an essential resource for stocking your kitchen with indispensible cooking utensils and table trimmings, procuring the best ingredients, or dining at her most treasured restaurants. Her practical advice covers everything from selecting produce at the market to a sampling of her favorite French recipes.

Trish distills tips gleaned over two decades of living in France into lists of rules on all aspects of enjoying food and entertaining tips from hosting a great cocktail party to being the perfect guest.

A glossary of French cookery terms completes this handsome book that features a leatherette binding and ribbon page marker. Trish has become one of Frances most celebrated food writers thanks to her unpretentious approach to food.

This accessible book provides all the information you need to delight in French culinary traditionsin the style of Patricia Wellss seminal Food Lovers Guide to Paris and to host like a true Parisienne.

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About the Author

Born in Ireland, Trish Deseine has lived and worked in France for twenty-five years. She regularly contributes recipes to French Elle and has published twenty award-winning cookbooks in French. She writes a popular blog and is active on Twitter. She hosted three TV programs that aired on UKTV Food and on the BBC: "Trish’s Paris Kitchen," "Trish’s Country Kitchen," and "Trish’s Mediterranean Kitchen."

Style is a luxury, and luxury is simply what makes you happy.

Over the years, founding editor in chief of domino magazine Deborah Needleman has seen all kinds of rooms, with all kinds of furnishings. Her conclusion: It’s not hard to create a relaxed, stylish, and comfortable home. Just a few well-considered items can completely change the feel of your space, and The Perfectly Imperfect Home reveals them all.

Ranging from classics such as “A Really Good Sofa” and “Pretty Table Settings” to unusual surprises like “A Bit of Quirk” and “Cozifications,” the essential elements of style are treated in witty and wonderfully useful little essays. You’ll learn what to look for, whether you are at a flea market or a fancy boutique — or just mining what you already own.

Celebrated artist Virginia Johnson’s original watercolour illustrations bring the items and the inspiring rooms of world-famous tastemakers to vibrant life. Styling tips and simple how-tos show you techniques to put it all together to create, say, a beautifully made bed (the fast way and the fancy way), an inviting reading nook, or an effortlessly chic display of pictures.

According to Deborah, the point of decorating is to create the background for the best life you can have, with all its joys and imperfections.
This book will show you how.

The best 21st-century architecture from all over the world.

Explore the best architecture of the 21st century in this collection of 1037 exemplary buildings sited all over the world in the Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture. Divided into six world regions, the Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture provides an important overview of global and local trends in architecture. This truly unparalleled resource presents easily accessible world data exploring the geographical contexts for 21st century architectural production in a global framework. Each of the six world regions is introduced by an analysis of urban and architectural issues. This statistical information has been researched and elaborated by a team from the London School of Economics.

This collection of key buildings has been chosen through a rigorous selection process involving a panel of expert advisors with specialist input from each world region. The list includes the work of an emerging generation of architectural stars featured alongside buildings by internationally acclaimed architects. Each building is fully illustrated with drawings and photographs, and described by a short essay. Further information includes key facts such as construction cost, client name, area of the building and geographical coordinates. Cross-referencing between projects enables the user to find other buildings by the same architect included in the book. In addition, a mass of useful information is provided including details of architects' practices and extensive indexes.

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Собрание лучших образцов архитектуры со всего света, появившихся с 2000 года. Разделенный на 6 частей по мировым регионам, атлас дает обширные, важные сведения о крупных и малых направлениях в архитектуре. Материал представлен в удобном для читателя виде. Приводимые статистические данные собраны командой из Лондонской школы экономики. Свыше 1000 строительных объектов на страницах издания прошли жесткий отбор, который был проведен экспертами с каждого региона. Все проекты снабжены чертежами, фотографиями и статьями, в которые входит основная информация: стоимость сооружения, имя заказчика, местонахождение. Перекрестные ссылки позволяют легко находить работы одного и того же архитектора. Кроме этого приводится масса других полезных данных – сообщаются профессиональные достижения архитекторов, расширены некоторые сведения.