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Windsor Castle is the largest and oldest occupied castle in existence. It is the home of the Queen, and with its skyline of battlements, turrets and great Round Tower it is instantly recognisable throughout the world. Visitors have been admitted to the Castle since the eighteenth century, and in this flowing and well-researched account John Martin Robinson traces the building's 1,000 years of history. He describes how William the Conqueror's impenetrable fortification became in time a medieval hunting lodge, a private retreat and a magnificent State residence. His final chapter describes the official engagements that form part of the Queen's diary each year, and for this new, expanded edition he also includes a full account of the much-praised restoration work that was carried out after the fire in 1992. New illustrations have also been added to the final chapter, and throughout the book there are excellent reproductions of the priceless works of art that form part of the Royal Collection and the superb rooms in which they are displayed.

The author's lively writing style and the wide variety of the illustrations make this title both an ideal introduction to the history of the Castle and an attractive souvenir for the many visitors of all nationalities who come to Windsor each year.

Mixing glamour with modern practicality, interior designer Windsor Smith’s first book celebrates her elegant, comfortable style.

Windsor Smith’s aesthetic was once described as "unbuttoned elegance, like a taffeta dress worn with bare feet." In her first book, Smith — a traditionalist who likes to realize classic themes in a new way — shares her fresh vision for modern life. Each chapter reflects one of her unique philosophies for creating beautiful, livable spaces, expressed through the homes she designs.

Themes include how to bring balance — an essential ingredient to a beautiful, functional home — into rooms and spaces, as well as how to successfully combine new belongings with treasures from the past to create homes that reflect where we have come from, as well as where we wish to go.

Whether it is repurposing a neglected dining room or expanding the role of the kitchen, Windsor Smith Homefront will guide readers to reclaiming their home’s best spaces and remaking them to suit modern life.

About the Author

Named by Veranda as one of the top 25 design influencers in their twenty-five-year history, Windsor Smith has created iconic homes for leaders in the entertainment and business worlds. She has a wide array of licenses, including furniture, fabric, lighting, decorative accessories, and rugs, for such industry leaders as Kravet, Century Furniture, and Arteriors. Smith also started the revolutionary online decorating service Windsor Smith Room in a Box. Gwyneth Paltrow is an Academy Award-winning actress, the founder of the lifestyle website GOOP, and the author of the best-selling cookbooks My Father’s Daughter and It’s All Good.

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400 color photographs

This attractive volume covers all elements of wine and design, with a host of striking photographs, and informative text. With chapters on drinking, enjoying, growing, producing, storing, tasting, promoting, and presenting wine, you'll learn the most advanced and innovative ways design can enhance everything wine-related. After all, it's only fitting that one of the most civilized of pleasures be appreciated to the full.
* One of the few resources covering wineries and design
* Contains an introductory essay on the latest design trends in the world of viticulture

200 color photographs

Nestled by rows of luscious grapevines, wineries evoke images of fine living few other places can rival. The spirit of each winery is as distinctive as the wines it produces. With a multitude of unique design touches, each one creates a sense of place, and a charming invitation to slow down and savor a way of life deeply rooted in growing cycles and the seasons. This lavishly illustrated compendium showcases the new wave of winery buildings. This school of design takes its lead from architect Herzog de Meuron’s 1997 design for Dominus Winery, setting a trend away from the rustic and embracing the sleekest contemporary ethos. Since then leading wineries have commissioned chic tasting rooms and spectacular facilities by architectural luminaries such as Santiago Calatrava, Rafael Moneo, Zaha Hadid, Frank O. Gehry and Norman Foster.

Christian Datz and Christof Kullmann are architects who write for leading German publications such as Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and deutsche bauzeitung.

* A unique gift for the wine connoisseur and design devotee alike
* A compelling look at all the design elements that make up the world’s most beautiful

The book explains how to win landscapes through excellent real estate landscape analysis. It expounds brand-new design concept and shows new design effect with the characterization of large numbers of pictures, novel design, unique classification, and high reference value, etc

Project Introduction:

Winning Ideas
Winning Techniques
Winning Practices

- Showcases the work of top photographers Herman and Eugeen of Studio Verne
- For the first time their most beautiful photographs have been collected and presented in a magnificent book
- A product of years of scouting the world for the perfect images

Wish you were here is a unique book of images that collects Studio Verne's most astonishing interior and atmospheric photography. Leafing through this book you will discover inspiring images and atmospheric settings from all corners of the world. Each and every photo gives you the chance to start wishing that you were there too.

Marcel Wolterinck remains one of the most popular and influential style masters in the Netherlands. In this book outside and inside become an organic unity, with beautiful garden designs that connect the rooms of the house with the outside; it contains projects from all over Europe, each one beautifully photographed by Sigurd Kranendonk. Wolterinck's touch is boundless and is taking the international scene by storm. Far and wide, interiors and exteriors, terraces, gardens and events are undergoing magical metamorphoses, courtesy of this prominent designer. This title includes text in English and Dutch.

You are your stuff! This book is about embracing everything you own and showing it off on your walls. Whatever your taste, it's about celebrating the beautiful, the eccentric, the simple. In a world where trends and styles are dictated to us, Sarah Bagner, better known as Supermarket Sarah, encourages readers to believe in their own styles and ideas. Here Sarah travels the globe, visiting cosmopolitan locations in Tokyo, London and Stockholm, offering up inspiration and variety as she illustrates novel ways in which people use their own walls to display themselves and their "treasures." She visits the homes and studios of designers and collectors, viewing the displays of minimalists and hoarders. The walls range from the quirky to the romantic, from vintage to brand new. Whatever is displayed, and however it is displayed, everything has a meaning for its owner. From collections of supermarket receipts, records and toys, to chandeliers and antlers, whatever it may be, Sarah loves a story. Items only have the value that you put on them and Wonder Walls explores the ideas and thoughts behind people's objects and why these objects, when adorning a wall, help us discover ourselves. The walls featured here are all revealing, amusing and thought-provoking, and will inspire you to look at your own collections with a fresh eye.

Cities like Hong Kong do not just appear out of nowhere. Behind and beyond the skyline and the tourist attractions, people from all parts of China and the world have worked together to overcome daunting internal obstacles and external forces. In architecture, Wong & Ouyang has been an important contributor to that immense effort. The publication of this book, Wong & Ouyang – Blueprints for Hong Kong on the occasion of its 50th anniversary, is a fitting tribute to the accomplishments of the firm.

In the last half century, buildings have become increasingly complex. The range of projects illustrated in this book – from master plans to building complexes to individual buildings – shows the scope of Wong & Ouyang’s capabilities. Looking at the procession of projects and how they have changed over the years, it becomes apparent that the long-term stability and continuity of the firm and its ability to draw on expertise from around the world has created a strong core competence and ‘institutional memory’. That has been a key factor in its ability to learn and improve with each succeeding task. The variety and size of the projects parallel the change and growth of Hong Kong to its present status as one of the most advanced cities in the world.

Wood presents a global survey of the most outstanding works of contemporary wood architecture from around the world completed in the last five years. Organized typologically, the book illustrates more than 60 different housing projects, and includes most of the actual tendencies in wood construction around the world. It also includes fine interior designs, decorations and furniture, always showing the widest variety. Each project is illustrated with colour photographs, line drawings and a descriptive text.

Timber is having a renaissance as an architectural material, as more architects come to understand its properties and enjoy adding it to their repertoire of materials. With a growing crop of good new timber buildings, architects are coming to realize that this is no longer the sole preserve of the traditionalist, but a material that has an important role to play in the contemporary world. The book's introduction examines the ways in which a raw material of diminishing quality (but abundant quantity) can be stretched to perform as it has never done before using new technology and careful detailing.

The 40 case studies are devoted to some of the most interesting new wood projects worldwide. The projects are grouped into seven themed chapters.

Featured architects include Steven Holl, Foster and Partners, Rural Studio, Renzo Piano and Shigeru Ban.