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A comprehensive travel guide dedicated to Germany’s Bauhaus architecture, this book takes an in-depth look at over 100 locations that can still be visited today.

Established in 1919 in Weimar, the Bauhaus college for design influenced one of the world’s most important Modernist movements. Divided into three geographic sections that follow the locations of the school — Weimar (1919–25), Dessau (1925–33), and Berlin (1933) — this unique travel guide leads readers through the most important Bauhaus structures in Germany.

Each section features important sites that are given historical background. These entries are illustrated with historic and contemporary photography, and are accompanied by up-to-date tourist information. Throughout the book, short essays highlight significant events and figures of the Bauhaus movement.

This guidebook is an indispensible reference for anyone travelling to Germany’s greatest extant Bauhaus structures.

Aimed at architecture students and professionals Bawa Staircases offers the reader a primer of how staircases are often the most dynamic and theatrical spatial elements of a building or landscape.

It is a compelling addition to the literature on Sri Lanka’s preeminent architect, Geoffrey Bawa and showcases his numerous and varied architectural and landscape designs for residential, public works, gardens and hotel architecture, with particular reference to the staircases he created.

Throughout, lush photography by Sebastian Posingis and insightful texts by David Robson are accompanied by contextual shots, plans and illustrations, all illustrating this absorbing island and the work of an architectural master.

About the Authors:

David Robson is an architect, academic and writer and is Geoffrey Bawa’s official biographer.

Sebastian Posingis spent much of his childhood in Sri Lanka and India and gained a degree in anthropology before turning to his first love as an architectural photographer. His work has appeared in many books, newspapers and magazines around the world.

Selecting favourite rooms from more than fifty renowned designers such as Kelly Wearstler, Bunny Williams, Albert Hadley, Nate Berkus, and Mary McDonald — and shot by the world’s top shelter photographers — Susanna Salk offers insightful advice on how to apply basic design principles to interiors.

Organized into chapters on balance, colour, mixing, accessorizing, arrangements, rule breaking, and whimsy, Salk walks through the process of great design, illustrating how the featured designers made the decisions they did to make these rooms look so great. The book’s encouraging, conversational tone, practical tips and ideas, and quotes by the designers themselves explaining their philosophies empower the reader to create stylish, functional, and unique rooms of their very own.

Covering a range of styles from traditional to modern, formal to whimsical, and showcasing some of the best work by the best designers of our age, Be Your Own Decorator is a rich resource for the aspiring decorator.

About the Author

Susanna Salk is the author of Room for Children and Weekend Retreats and a contributing editor for 1stdibs.com and ivillage.com, as well as regularly producing decorating segments for NBC’s Today Show.

"Find inspiration aplenty in a beautiful new interiors book... Beachside, with photographs by Jessica Klewicki Glynn, presents a wide array of the houses, organised room by room. From bougainvillea-framed entrances to airy living and dining rooms, to bedrooms and bathrooms with stunning ocean views, it will inspire anyone yearning for a stylish coastal life." - The Gloss

The community of Windsor is located on a barrier island between the Atlantic Ocean and offers elegant–yet–casual seaside living at its best. Planned by the renowned New Urbanists Andrés Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, this sublimely landscaped, pedestrian-friendly village by the sea boasts houses by A-list architects and top interior designers, among them John Stefanidis, Steven Gambrel, and Alessandra Branca. The exteriors, Anglo-Caribbean in style, feature steeply pitched roofs, open eaves, cantilevered balconies, and palm-shaded courtyards and pools. The interiors, all executed with exquisite craftsmanship and appointed with fine finishes, range in style from classical and traditional to sleekly contemporary.

Beachside presents a wide array of the houses, indoors and out. Filled with photographs of bougainvillea–framed entrances, airy open–plan living–dining rooms, cosy studies, and bedrooms that open onto balconies with sweeping ocean views, Beachside will inspire anyone yearning for a stylish coastal life.

About the Authors:

Hadley Keller is a digital director at House Beautiful. She lives in Brooklyn.

James Reginato is a writer-at-large for Vanity Fair, a contributor to Sotheby’s Magazine, and former features director at W. He lives in New York City.

Jessica Klewicki Glynn is an award–winning photographer whose work appears in Architectural Digest, Milieu, Galerie, House & Home, Traditional Home and Coastal Living. Her books include Palm Beach Chic. She lives in Palm Beach and Kilmovee, Ireland.

This New York Times bestselling book from interior designer Mark D. Sikes is a celebration of American style today, showcasing chic and accessible ideas for every home. 

Modern and unfussy, Mark D. Sikes’s interiors are classic takes on California indoor/outdoor living, with natural fibers and crisp colouration, informed and influenced by the fashion world where he began his career. In eight chapters, he explores approachable, stylish looks, from "Blue and White Forever," which features indigos, stripes, batiks, and wicker in casual rooms such as porches and pool houses; to "Timeless Neutrals," presenting semiformal rooms filled with chinoiserie, gilt, glass, mirrors, banquettes, and French chairs; to "Garden Greens," featuring happy, casual family rooms and kitchens inspired by the garden with treillage woodwork, rattan, and cotton. There are also "Beautiful Brights," colourful rooms that are eclectic, layered, and fun, with chintz, florals, and Middle Eastern influences; and "Sun Faded Hues," rustic coastal rooms with weathered fabrics and furniture. 

Each chapter presents light-filled images of the designer’s looks and offers the reader inspiration and advice. As famed film director, Nancy Meyers writes in the book’s foreword, this is a book that shows design lovers "how classic can look fresh, how style and comfort go hand-in-hand."

About the Author:

Mark D. Sikes began his career in visual merchandising at Banana Republic/GAP. After two successful decades, he launched his interior design business and immediately attracted national publicity in publications from Veranda to Architectural Digest. His lifestyle blog — Chic People, Glamorous Places, Stylish Things — has become an inspiration and resource for design lovers all over the world. 

Nancy Meyers is the director and screenwriter for several Hollywood blockbusters, including Something’s Gotta Give, The Holiday, and It’s Complicated.

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The unique architectural language of China as told through homegrown design practices and the architects shaping its future.

The transformation of China in the past four decades has been nothing short of spectacular. Now a cultural and economic player on the world stage, its rise has also given air to a new generation of architects and interior designers. Once China looked to the West for references and inspiration, today an emerging movement is molding a new design expression which fuses centuries of local tradition with idealistic visions.

Beauty and the East presents the Chinese talent shaping an aesthetic bound by heritage and the surrounding environment. Adopting new methods and techniques, they are pushing design possibilities and influencing the watching world. From cultural institutions to cityscapes, explore the tantalizing world of Chinese architecture and get a window into the world of tomorrow.

Sleep beautifully: be inspired by hundreds of the most stylish, iconic, and simply fabulous beds and bedrooms ever designed

In our bedrooms, we take leave of our daily woes. Far from the bustle of the kitchen, the sociability of the living room or the indulgence of the dining room, this part of the home is reserved for intimacy, romance, and dreaming.
Bedtime: Inspirational Beds, Bedrooms and Boudoirs is an inspiring, visual journey into the sleepiest, yet most salacious, room of the house. Celia Forner whisks you through the bedrooms of queens and emperors, designers and decorators, today’s most exclusive hotels, and even the most evocative fictional boudoirs from stage and screen. Taking us from Marie Antoinette to the Maharaja of Indore; from Tony Duquette to Peter Marino; from Mae West and Peggy Guggenheim to Rudolph Nureyev; from Gone with the Wind to 2001: A Space Odyssey, Bedtime is a must have for anyone who dreams of sleeping like a king or queen. Designers and clients alike will find fresh inspiration in this king-size source book, which shows astonishing breadth of vision in collating more beds and bedrooms than one could possibly dream of, and is an invaluable addition to any design collection.

About the Author:

Celia Forner is an art collector, jewelry designer, curator of the Portable Art exhibition at the Hauser & Wirth Gallery, and founder of ALLEVEN, a luxury beauty brand. Married with two children, she divides her time between London, New York, and Mallorca—much of it in bed. Gianluca Longo is a contributing editor for British Vogue, AD, and W magazines and style editor of Cabana.

The décor of entrepreneur John Demsey’s six-story townhouse on the Upper East Side of Manhattan is an explosion of color, pattern, and art.

The muted, understated exterior of the townhouse on a tree-lined New York City street belies the sumptuous feast for the eyes that hits you upon opening its blue front door. Every room of its five main floors has its own saturated colour scheme, filled with a David Hicks-inspired geometrically patterned rug, vibrant fabrics, new and vintage furniture, art and photographs covering walls, and sculptures and knick-knacks topping tables and filling shelves. For the owner, John Demsey, the starting point was a pair of multicoloured Louboutin boots, which inspired the palette of the living room rug. Working with interior decorator and friend Bibi Monnahan, he carefully chose and positioned each piece of furniture, work of art, and decorative object, and mounted his enormous photography collection. The result is a tour de force of maximalist design, now captured for all to see in Douglas Friedman’s luminous photographs and with journalist Alina Cho as our eyewitness guide.

About the Authors:

John Demsey is a transformational business builder, prestige beauty pioneer and philanthropist who has led multiple luxury brands to unparalleled global success. Over his 30-year career at Estée Lauder Companies, he was instrumental in growing the company into a multi-billion-dollar beauty icon across established and emerging markets. A career-long innovator and creative mentor, Demsey is known for forging some of the most successful artist and designer collaborations in the industry and supporting several philanthropic organizations helping animals, addressing food access challenges, promoting performing arts and fundraising for HIV and AIDS research, treatment and prevention.

Alina Cho is an Emmy Award-winning contributor to CBS Sunday Morning, producer of the Netflix documentary on Martha Stewart, and host of 'The Atelier with Alina Cho', an interview series with fashion designers at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. For nearly a decade, Cho was a national correspondent for CNN, where she covered presidential politics and travelled twice to North Korea. She lives in New York.

Douglas Friedman is a renowned fashion, portrait, and interiors photographer whose work has appeared in Architectural Digest, ELLE Decor, Veranda, Vogue, T Magazine, Vanity Fair, and countless other publications in the United States and abroad. He has had several exhibitions of his fine art photography. He lives in Marfa, Texas.

To celebrate the publication of Beige Is Not a Color, Carlos Mota has designed an oversize portfolio box, wrapped in his signature motif, to house a first-printing copy of the volume along with five postcards of images selected by Carlos Mota from the color-drenched pages of his outstanding new book. The interior of the portfolio is printed in a motif adapted by Carlos Mota from a traditional Indian block print. A collector’s item, this boxed edition is strictly limited to a production of 350 copies. Available only through Vendome Press and Abrams.

About the Authors:

Carlos Mota is a creative consultant with extensive experience in styling, interior design, product design, and advertising campaigns. Formerly international style editor for Architectural Digest and editor at large for Elle Decor, he is the author of A Touch of Style. He lives in New York.

Architecture involving and consisting of bamboo has developed into one of the most fascinating areas of global building culture. A material with many faces, more flexible than wood and stronger than steel: in addition to its individual and natural appearance, above all, the unique material properties such as extreme hardness combined with low weight, strong compressive and tensile strength, and elasticity significantly promote this trend.

Architects, engineers and material scientists are constantly optimizing the combination methods of bamboo with other building materials, thus expanding the range of its possible applications. What is more, the giant grass is found on all continents (with the exception of Europe) and, as the fastest-growing plant species, is in basically infinite supply. This book shows the amazing versatility of this eco-hero in architecture and interior design applications.

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Architecture involving and consisting of bamboo as a building material has developed into one of the most fascinating and dynamic areas of global building culture. The giant grass is found on all continents and, as the fastest-growing plant species, is in basically infinite supply. The unique material properties combining extreme hardness with low weight, strong compressive and tensile strength, and elasticity significantly contribute to this trend.

Bend & Build shows the amazing versatility of this eco-hero of architecture and interior design, whose applications have become significantly wider and more diversified This collection includes some of the finest, most creative, and cutting-edge bamboo projects of recent years. The range extends from traditional building styles and their modern interpretation to the innovative combination of bamboo with other materials.

Bernard Trainor's newest book celebrates the wild and elemental landscapes of California, from the craggy coasts of Big Sur to the fertile hills of Sonoma wine country.

His award-winning work combines an awareness of regional context with materials, collaboration, and deep connection to the land.

Beautifully photographed and documented with full-color plans, the projects in this survey of his recent work include a range of scale, from compact urban gardens to expansive rural sites.

Trainor's regional, sustainable approach inspires wonder and respect for nature as it aims to preserve and restore it.

This inspiring book is for wine connoisseurs and amateurs convinced that their hobby deserves the most beautiful space in their private home for storing, displaying, tasting and sharing their favorite wines. The greatest specialists in custom-made wine cellars and spaces, renowned architects, designers and passionate oenophiles show their hidden gems: integrated in the kitchen or living room, in a cellar or near the swimming pool or another space for relaxation...

Prefaces by Amélie Vincent, Quique Dacosta, Sang-Hoon Degeimbre & Peter Goossens

The first book from the acclaimed Atlanta interior designer, known for elegantly collected interiors.

Beth Webb believes that regardless of who we are or what kind of style we prefer, beauty and comfort are paramount for any home. Because each room is an environment, her design elevates the everyday by speaking to the five senses. In this lavishly illustrated book, Webb explores the fundamentals of creating a home in which every element we see and touch, and how the room makes us feel, enhance our ability to live well.

Drawing from her background in the fine arts, Webb offers insight into how form, line, and scale render a space timeless and promote a sense of well-being. There should be texture, calm colors, and plenty of visual moments to keep the eye moving. There should be impeccable tailoring and polished details. And most important, there should be soul, meaning that the house must reflect its owners and their evolving lifestyle. Webb gracefully shares ideas, images, and stories illustrating these principles throughout this rich visual resource and design reference.

About the Authors:

Beth Webb came to the world of interior design via her first career as an art dealer, having received a master’s degree from the Sotheby’s Works of Art Course in London. She has been president and CEO of Beth Webb Interiors for more than twenty years. Her work has been frequently featured in House Beautiful, Traditional Home, Veranda, and Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles Magazine. She won the Atlanta Decorative Arts Center Award for Southeastern Designer in 2015 and is an active member of the Leaders of Design Council and the Design Leadership Network. Clinton Smith is the editor-in-chief of Veranda and the author of Veranda The Romance of Flowers and Veranda Entertaining.

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This ideal gift for gardeners features a photographic collection of beautiful, innovative, ecologically friendly gardens that will inspire and inform anyone with a green thumb, from backyard gardeners to accomplished landscape architects.

Through eighteen distinctive projects set across urban, suburban, and rural spaces, Beyond the Garden explores how thoughtful design and awareness of local ecology can make gardens both beautiful and sustainable. Featuring interviews with designers in the United States and the United Kingdom, this survey presents the stories and lessons behind inspirational garden projects, including stormwater conservation in the high desert of New Mexico, native woodlands restoration in coastal Maine, and land stewardship in England's Hampshire county, this comprehensive survey of eco-conscious garden designs offers guiding principles to make your landscape "greener" and will spark curiosity about the natural systems just outside your front door.

About the Author:

Dana Davidsen is a landscape designer and writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is a senior designer at Surfacedesign Inc. and holds a master of landscape architecture degree from the University of California, Berkeley. She has written for a variety of publications on topics ranging from the environment to politics.

This beautiful and inspirational portrait of a country garden shows how its owners created deep connections to the natural world with techniques and advice any gardener can use.

Photographers Susann Probst and Yannic Schon left Berlin for the German countryside in 2018 with the aim of growing wholesome produce whilst maintaining a healthy ecosystem through sustainable gardening. They bought an old farmhouse on a plot of land with room for a vegetable garden, an orchard, a wildflower meadow, and a greenhouse.

Filled with useful and hard-won information that is the result of both ingenuity and trial and error, this book takes readers on a detailed and exquisitely illustrated tour of the property and its development over the years. Susann and Yannic share what they’ve learned about garden design, soil composition, beneficial organisms, edible perennials, plant care, and self-sufficiency, and include a list of all the species and varieties they’ve planted. A breathtaking photographic section celebrates the beauty of the land through the seasons.

More than a garden-variety gardening guide, this deeply personal and gorgeously produced book documents a lifelong dream becoming a reality — and celebrates a contemporary approach to country life that will speak to anyone looking for ways to deepen their own relationship with nature.

About the Authors:

Susann Probst and Yannic Schon are professional photographers and food stylists and the creators of the award-winning blog Krautkopf. They have published two cookbooks, bestsellers in Germany. After moving from Berlin to the countryside in Mecklenburg in 2018, the Krautkopf blog has expanded from being a pure food blog to covering more diverse topics and now features stories around their new home and garden and about country life in general. They also offer cooking, food styling, photography, and photo editing workshops.