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Featuring a total of 104 restaurants with superlative design selected from the restaurants opened between January 2004 and April 2005.

Featuring the interiors of 100 wining and dining establishments newly opened or renovated between January 2005 and April 2006.

In Tokyo, many restaurants close because of excessive competition every year. On the other hand, new restaurants trying to meet consumer's diversifying tastes and lifestyles open. In this book, restaurants in Tokyo which are newly opened or renovated between January 2005 and April 2006 in Tokyo are introduced with a multitude of high-quailty colour photos and drawings.

Covering 159 restaurants in Tokyo that have high quality in architecture, interior design, furniture and lighting design.

Konichiwa cool!

So you love sushi, sleep on a futon, drink green tea—why not take your Nippon-adoration one step further by infusing your surroundings with a few Japanese touches? The best place to start is this look book bursting with full-page color photographs of apartments, houses, and hotels throughout the city. Whether it`s a high-rise apartment overlooking Tokyo, a boutique hotel, or a house made of fiberglass, each dwelling herein will awaken the Japanese spirit within you. For a real treat, why not sip a sake while you peruse the pages?

Highlights include:
• Plastic House by Kengo Kuma
• Professor Nakamura's version of a Japanese literati retreat
• Natural Stripes House by Masaki Endoh
• Lost in Translation hotel Park Hyatt by Kenzo Tange

240 colour and 22 b/w illustrations

Today Tokyo is the largest city in the world. The image of the city, notwithstanding the widespread globalisation process, is very different to what we are accustomed to in Europe, America and also in other Asian countries. The visual and cultural shock is strong: it appears extremely vast, uncontrollable, indecipherable, incommunicable, and chaotic.
Tokyo is one of the few global cities, and, like London, New York and perhaps one or two others, is part of a real trans-national system. It is an extraordinary capital of contemporary architecture and, at the same time, constitutes an exceptional urban phenomenon that is impossible not to study with great interest. More importantly is the fact that, behind an apparently abstract debate, the city poses a substantial problem: does it represent the final decay of the Western city or rather is it something completely different, a city with its own deep-rooted historical diversity and specific cultural independence that has not been substantially modified by the powerful and recent hybridisation with the West? And also, does the city interest us for these reasons or rather because it is/appears to be the city which – not being a part of the Eastern tradition – has, more than any other place, embraced the challenge of the new millennium and projected itself into the future, spurring rapid change with the energy, recklessness and aggression that is possible only in a place that has never been part of a tradition, to the point that it has substantiated a new symbolic form in the urban phenomenology of the twenty-first century?

In an age when houses exhibiting unchecked exuberance, high drama, or conspicuous luxury get all the attention, leading interior designer Tom Scheerer has cultivated a more restrained brand of chic, a look he modestly describes as “cheerful” and “no nonsense.” But it is so much more. In Manhattan apartments, Brooklyn brownstones, Bahamian seaside cottages, and Maine country houses, Scheerer creates rooms that are crisp, confident, classic, and unfailingly correct, but also visually enthralling. His sophistication is extreme, but it is accessible, relaxed, and a touch “underbaked,” as Scheerer says, because he thinks the smartest rooms are always a little underdecorated.

The magic is in the way Scheerer combines classic, old-fashioned decorating with modernist touches à la Albert Hadley and Billy Baldwin, but with a keener attention to natural materials, unpretentious vernacular crafts, and the prettiest colour combinations this side of India. He cherishes the simplest, least manipulated fabrics — cottons, linens, dimities — and loves certain inexpensive accents as much as he does truly fine ones. All this adds up to fresh, relaxed interiors that look like no others. Exquisitely photographed, this is the long-awaited first book of Scheerer’s work, and it’s a must for all lovers of interior design.

A trove of master interior designer Tom Scheerer’s latest projects, from city apartments to summer houses to tropical getaways, in his signature style—sophisticated, yet relaxed and unpretentious

In Tom Scheerer’s second book, 16 of his latest projects are featured, including:

- city houses and apartments in New York, Dallas, Houston, and Paris
- summer houses in Nantucket, the Hamptons, and Maine
- tropical houses in Harbour Island, Antigua, and Abaco

Each project exudes a serenity and a sense of comfort and ease that derives from its perfect proportions combined with fresh, unpretentious beauty. It all seems completely effortless, belying the fierce intelligence and impeccable eye behind every decorating decision.

Illustrated with Francesco Lagnese’s luminous photographs, Tom Scheerer: More Decorating is a master class in interior design for aficionados and practiced professionals alike.

About the Authors:

Tom Scheerer began his decorating career in the mid-1980s and launched his own firm in 1995. His first book, Tom Scheerer Decorates, has been reprinted multiple times, and his work is regularly featured in Architectural Digest, Town + Country, House Beautiful, and Elle Decor. He lives in New York. Francesco Lagnese is an internationally acclaimed interiors and travel photographer whose work appears regularly in Condé Nast Traveler, Vanity Fair, HouseBeautiful, Town + Country, and Architectural Digest. He resides in New York.

 

 

 

The first major overview of the UK's leading garden designer, Tom Stuart-Smith

'The garden can be a place where the sense of otherness, of nature and of place is so strong that we have a powerful awareness of being, not masters of all we survey, but players in a greater drama … What I am doing as a designer is setting a process in motion, as it were pushing a boat out into the water' Tom Stuart-Smith

Landscape architect and garden designer Tom Stuart-Smith began his own practice in London in 1998. Known for deftly combining naturalism with modernity, and built forms with romantic planting, Stuart-Smith has designed gardens, parks and landscapes in Europe, India, Morocco, the United States and the Caribbean. With clients such as the Royal Horticultural Society, the Royal Academy of Arts and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, he has established himself as one of the UK’s leading landscape designers, with an international reputation for making gardens that respond to their wider landscape setting.

Featuring twenty-four of Stuart-Smith’s projects from around the world, Tom Stuart-Smith: Drawn from the Land is the first major overview of his career, with a critical introduction and essays by leading garden writer Tim Richardson. Two essays by the designer himself reveal his influences and methods, his thoughts about gardens and gardening, and how he approaches his projects. Drawing is an important part of Stuart-Smith’s work, and each garden is illustrated with an overview drawing as well as spectacular commissioned photography. Descriptive texts place each project in context and explain how the features and planting come together to create rich and multi-layered landscapes. An illustrated chronology of Stuart-Smith’s works to date completes this survey.

Offering unique insights into landscape design and planting, this book will provide inspiration and ideas for garden-lovers and professionals, opening up imaginative possibilities for designing spaces from the smallest to the grandest.

About the Authors:

Tom Stuart-Smith is an English landscape architect, gardener and writer. He is a member of the Society of Garden Designers and the Landscape Institute. He has written about landscape design and gardening for the Financial Times, Guardian and Daily Telegraph. Tim Richardson is an internationally respected landscape critic, former editor at Wallpaper*, gardens editor at Country Life and founding editor of New Eden magazine. His previous books include Avant Gardeners and The Arcadian Friends.

Home is a place where inspiration and creativity can be brought forth and given presence in the physical world. In turn, a home will have an effect on the mood and lifestyle of the occupant. A home and its owner share a reciprocal relationship and it becomes a most important private space. The projects in this book have been carefully selected to represent the most remarkable masterpieces of modern home design. We have endeavoured to include works by world-renowned and highly respected designers, such as Oskar L. Torres, Shahira H. Fahmy, Katherine Pooley and Philip Tang.

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In this book, Cambert explores the differences between 10 of today's best architects by evaluating their emblematic buildings, built, under construction, or those that have remained on the boards. It features interviews with and work from Ando, Perrault, Hadid, Moneo, Pelli, Ban, Nouvel, van Berkel, Holl, and Souto de Moura.