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Household organization is complicated, and the basic steps to attaining rooms which are uncluttered yet have everything within arm’s reach usually lie in choosing good storage options. All resources come into play when conceiving and designing functional and versatile rooms that adapt to their inhabitants and lend a coherent decor to the whole, all to one’s personal taste.

This book explores various storage solutions for apartments of different sizes. It is structured from the lowest to the highest available surface, and they all have aspects in common: the style of each house, the space available, the entrance of light and how to take advantage of it, and finally the color.

In her third book, Cocoon: Creating Homes with Heart, Ali Heath, invites the reader to create a home sanctuary that focuses on the human touch, as an antidote to our fast-paced, tech-driven modern world. This way of decorating is so much more than just a look or style - it's about taking a holistic approach that draws upon all our senses, not just the visual, and connects us more meaningfully to ourselves and our surroundings. In the past creating a sanctuary was about the decoration of a few key rooms, now it is about how the whole home makes us feel.

Cocooning is not about isolation or shutting down and does not have to mean going off-grid - it is simply about tuning back into our emotions and creativity to satisfy our need for comfort and wonder. Divided into three informative chapters: Cocooning, Feeling and Living, the book explores the homes of 13 creatives from around the world, including architects, antique dealers, furniture makers and artists in the UK, France, Spain, Italy and Australia. With everything from small inner-city sanctuaries to spacious island retreats, Cocoon celebrates a design approach that speaks to the heart.

About the Author:

Ali Heath is a UK-based writer, interiors expert and mentor, bringing stories, homes and businesses to life. With over three decades of experience, Ali is a trusted voice in interiors and creativity, blending writing, styling, and design. Her work is featured regularly in titles that include Country Living, Elle Decoration, Homes and Gardens, House & Garden, Livingetc, Modern Rustic, Red, the Telegraph and YOU Magazine. Ali collaborates with many leading photographers and her work is represented internationally by Living Inside agency, in Milan.

Her first two highly successful books, Curate and Create, were published by Mitchell Beazley in 2020, and 2023. Ali is also Contributing Editor and Creative Consultant for the second book from The White Company, The Art of Living with White (Mitchell Beazley, September 2022).

A tour of country estates and urban dwellings designed by Ferguson & Shamamian Architects, renowned for their classic style and attention to detail and craftsmanship, and featuring the work of such interior designers as Bunny Williams, Michael S. Smith, and Victoria Hagan.

From the moment a project is launched, the team at Ferguson & Shamamian work in close collaboration with the world’s leading decorators, landscape designers, and artisans to create contemporary houses anchored in tradition and regional character. Distinguished by their dedication to craftsmanship and creativity, the firm’s residences balance artistic integrity, historic precedent, and the latest innovations in design, but always with a sense of comfort and innate elegance that endures for generations.

The captivating stories behind these singular homes are revealed through gorgeous photography and texts narrating the genesis and evolution of each property. Working closely with their clients and teams of exceptional designers and craftspeople, Ferguson & Shamamian created these distinctive, one-of-a-kind homes that embody the personalities of their owners yet are timeless in their design. An extensive section of drawings and plans enriches the narrative and offers a glimpse inside the firm’s creative process.

About the Author:

Ferguson & Shamamian Architects was founded in 1988 and is one of the country’s leading residential architectural firms. Their first book was New Traditional Architecture. David Masello is a writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Town & Country, the Wall Street Journal, and Fine Art Connoisseur. He is the executive editor of Milieu magazine. Margaret Russell is a design journalist and consultant who formerly was editor in chief of Architectural Digest, Galerie, and Elle Decor.

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Modern maximalist designer Philip Mitchell reveals his talent for blending collections, family heirlooms, contemporary art, and accessories in visually creative environments that are brimming with personality, color, authenticity, and warmth.

The elegant, clean classicism of Philip Mitchell’s style is on full display in these homes, where he masterfully incorporates a wide-ranging mix of antiques, vintage collectibles, and contemporary pieces — everything from inherited furniture collections to modern art — in rooms that are filled with memories and warmth. As a master of what he calls modern maximalism, Mitchell embraces the challenge of taking wonderful things that a homeowner already has and making more of them. Once Mitchell has established a connecting thread among a variety of disparate pieces — whether through finish, material, scale, color, texture, or line — he starts the process of building the relationships that bring a space to life.

Brilliant photographs take readers on in-depth tours of nine homes, ranging from an elegant Upper East Side pied-à-terre to a classic cottage on the water in Nova Scotia. Mitchell’s personal narrative in elegant text enlightens, while his takeaways accompanying each home help readers understand how to blend new and old, mix colors and patterns, and fill a home with an eclectic mix that is truly their own.

About the Authors:

Since 2002, Philip Mitchell Design Inc. has been designing homes around the world, and his work has been featured in Architectural Digest, Veranda, House Beautiful, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. Judith Nasatir is a lifestyle writer who has cowritten numerous design books. Bunny Williams is an interior designer and author, is a member of AD Hall of Fame and Elle Decor’s A-List, and has received House Beautiful’s Giants of Design award.

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Office construction is one of the largest building tasks today. Architects and designers face the challenge of creating buildings and spaces that are functional yet stylish. This title presents 170 of the most interesting office projects of the past years, which range from small-scale two-roomed offices to vast corporate buildings that comprise more than 100 stories.

Open-plan offices, single-roomed bureaus, group offices, office landscapes as well as new concepts such as just-in-time-offices and business clubs are presented in a variety of combinations. Striking photos and illustrations convey innovative design solutions that give new definitions to workplaces.

- Abercrombie & Fitch Headquarters in New Albany, USA (Anderson Architects)
- Stockland in Sydney, Australia (BVN)
- Daimler Financial Services in Utrecht, The Netherlands (Meyer en Van Schooten)
- Le Monde Building in Paris, France (Christian de Portzamparc)
- Highrise in Doha, Qatar (Jean Nouvel)

The last decade has witnessed major changes in the design of higher education institutions, keeping pace with the demands of broadening curricula, changing student expectations and the increasing importance of technology on campuses. New pathways forged in scientific research present a particularly exciting challenge to architects, who have responded with unprecedented and inventive laboratories and workspaces. Furthermore, the widespread introduction of additional departments and courses demands a corresponding growing diversity in the buildings in which they are housed. The resulting flood of new publications to be stored and accessed has led to the emergence of numerous new libraries.

Projects from around the globe are showcased in this volume, representing functional and stylistic diversity across this exciting and increasingly international field. These campuses set themselves apart as pioneering and inspirational, both architecturally and for those who live, work and study in them.

From the contents:

* School of Art and Art History in Iowa City, USA (Steven Holl)
* European School of Management and Technology in Berlin, Deutschland (hg merz)
* EWHA Campus in Seoul, Korea (Dominique Perrault)
* Donau-Universität in Krems, Österreich (Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes)
* INHolland University, Rotterdam, Niederlande (Erick van Egeraat)

This memo-game is based on a very special concept: the colors follow the format used in Johannes Itten’s color theory: red for a square, blue for a circle, yellow for a triangle, orange for a trapezium, green for a spherical triangle, and purple for an ellipse. The colors are shown with the corresponding form, which increases their specific impression.

Furthermore, each color is present in six different nuances; this increases the perception of the color tones and supports the creative process of finding new names to specify the individual forms. As the cards are turned over new color contrasts are revealed; these can also be used to intensify knowledge of color theory. Thus, these cards must not just be used for playing the memo-game, they can also be used for inspiration and for experimenting with different color combinations, series and tones.

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As far back as the earliest Greek temples, color has been an integral part of architecture but also one of its least understood elements.

Color theory is rarely taught in architecture schools, leaving architects to puzzle out the hows and whys of which colors to select and how they interact, complement, or clash. Color for Architects is profusely illustrated and provides a clear, concise primer on color for designers of every kind.

This latest volume in our Architecture Briefs series combines the theoretical and practical, providing the basics on which to build a fuller mastery of this essential component of design. A wealth of built examples, exercises, and activities allows students to apply their learning of color to real-world situations.

Color plays a significant role in design. It can make a design work more impressive, appealing and distinctive. For designer, it means the basic skill in combing colors.

This book includes basic color theories that help readers gain a better understanding of color. It also delves into the psychology of color, along with color associations and applications in commercial designs. Featuring referential color schemes and creative projects with color codes as well as color talk, this is an essential manual of great practicality and inspiration.

Interior designer Charlotte Coote mixes colour, fabric, textiles and originality in this bold guide to creating classic interiors

In this gorgeously inspirational and effortlessly practical book, Charlotte Coote guides readers through the process of designing a space, from creating the original design brief through to the finished room. Using her five principles of design - timelessness, authenticity, lifestyle, scale and quality - Charlotte shows how to balance comfort and style, light and shadow, colour and neutrals, old and new. Charlotte's bold and decisive style is like a breath of fresh air, with easy-to-follow tips and ideas for wall colours, kitchen finishes, furniture and fabrics to achieve rich and layered interiors.

An essential stylebook, Colour Is Home will help you create a home that will stand the test of time.

Contents List:

Foreword by Paul Bangay
Foreword by Nina Campbell
Introduction
1. Design Philosophy
2. The Brief
3. Creating a Narrative
4. Light
5. Colour
6. Textiles
7. Furniture Layout
8. Repurposing
9. Opposites Attract
10. Favourite Books

About the Author:

Charlotte Coote is a leader in classic contemporary interior design. With many years' industry experience working in Australia, Europe and the United States, she is a sought-after designer of interiors, furniture and lighting. Charlotte is the founder of and head designer at Coote & Co., her design business based in Melbourne, Australia. She is also the creator of The Mountain Academy, an online interior design course.

The call of the wild has never looked as stylish as in these homes nestled in the French countryside, crafted by families pursuing a new form of country living. 

A manor next to an elegant seventeenth-century castle in a picturesque village, a restored four-hundred-year-old windmill, or a ruin in the Barbizon forest transformed into a contemporary timber house — our trio of authors saw the potential in these rural homes and took the leap into a life rhythmed by nature. But how did these urban dwellers step away from the glamour of Paris, and why haven’t they looked back?

A calmer life enriched by its surroundings, with more space at home, a burgeoning garden, and a relaxed ambience is a seductive combination. But a country house is different from a cozy apartment, just steps from modern conveniences. In their search for a deeper experience, they embarked on a long-term project that required planning and effort, but it brought unexpected joy along with the challenges.

Life in the countryside takes adjustment and there is much to be learned — from furnishing and organizing your home to getting the most from nature and your garden, and from dressing to suit your new setting to hosting relaxed soirées where you’ll linger over dinner with your guests. This is the art of countryfication. Alongside portraits of similar-minded individuals and families who have adopted country living, this book provides insight, practical advice, and recipes that celebrate life in the countryside, all while retaining a Parisian flair.

About the Authors:

Gesa Hansen is a furniture and interior designer. Estelle Marandon is a lifestyle journalist. Charlotte Huguet is a stylist. Stephanie Füssenich and Nathalie Mohadjer are lifestyle photographers.

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A celebration of the innovative, artisanal, and sustainable living exemplified by contemporary Dutch interiors.

With a carefully curated collection of interiors, including historic canal houses, restored farms, and green homes, belonging to interior designers, product designers, architects, and artists, this book showcases creative and resourceful living. These properties have been created or renovated and brought into the twenty-first century with typical Dutch style and sensibility — environmentally friendly, imaginative uses of space filled with color and charm and never to be taken too seriously.

Each home in the book reflects the personality and spirit of the people who inhabit it. From furniture designer Valentin Loellman’s handcrafted interiors in a traditional worker’s cottage on the Maas river to fiber artist Claudy Jongstra’s farmhouse in Friesland where indigo dye plants grow in the biodynamic garden, Coming Home illustrates fun ideas and easy ways to incorporate individual style into your surroundings. Whether it’s the traditional “lowlands” aesthetic of combining old and new, faded and inviting, into a casual chic or a quirky reinvention of a space that reveals a touch of eccentricity, this book illustrates why the Netherlands is truly loved by so many and can be an inspiration to us all.

About the Author:

Barbara de Vries was born in Amsterdam. She has spent most of her career as a designer in the fashion business and in 1991, she created the CK collections at Calvin Klein and subsequently had her own collections in the U.S. and Japan. In 2009, Barbara and her husband, author Alastair Gordon, founded Gordon de Vries Studio, an imprint that publishes illustrated books on design and lifestyle. She is also a passionate anti-plastic-pollution activist. When her twin daughters moved to the Netherlands to study design, Barbara saw her home country through their eyes and realized that the Dutch way of life had never really left her.

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Пролистать книгу Coming Home: Modern Rustic: Creative Living in Dutch Interiors

This groundbreaking work provides an overview of the whole creative realm of contemporary landscape architecture and open space design. Every aspect of the creation and production of these public and private spaces is thematized and elucidated. These spaces encompass an enormous variety, ranging from classic garden design and golf courses to greened façades, from guerilla gardening and pedestrian zones to large-scale ecological interventions.

Comprehensive introductions to each of the 30 chapters chart the various tasks and challenges. Illustrated case studies from around the world offer concept, ideas and suggestions to inspire the design process. Whether conservative in style and requiring little explanation, or striking, even ostentatious, these projects are always inventive, unique and compelling – and always seeking to redefine the relationship between human beings, the built environment and the natural world.

 - Times Square in New York City, NY, USA (Snøhetta)
 - Binh Housein Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (Vo Trong Nghia Architects)
 - Thermal Orchards in Caldes de Montbui, Spain (Gardeners Association of the Orchards)
 - Aalborg Waterfront in Aalborg, Denmark (C. F. Møller Landscape )
 - Jubilee Gardens in London, UK (West 8 urban design & landscape architecture)

Paul Jackson‘s major new title Complete Pleats is the most comprehensive book about pleating on the market.

It explains how pleating systems can be stretched, compressed, flared, skewed, multiplied and mirrored, showing how from simple ideas, a huge number of original pleat forms can be created. Each technique is explained with a series of step-by-step photographs and line illustrations, enabling the designer to work through the basic principles of pleating and then adapt them to their specific needs. Complete Pleats also features more than 60 examples of pleats from the worlds of architecture, fashion and product design.

Paul Jackson has taught pleating techniques to students of Fashion Design for 30 years, in both paper and fabric. Complete Pleats is the definitive practical guide for anyone wishing to create and make pleats

The book includes 23 videos of pleating techniques.

About the Author:

Paul Jackson is the author of more than 30 books on paper arts and crafts. He has taught the techniques of folding on more than 150 university-level design courses in the UK, Germany, Belgium, USA, Canada and Israel. Courses include Architecture and Graphic Design to Fashion Design and Fine Art.

DISCOVER FOUNDATIONAL CONCEPTS AND THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS IN INTERIOR CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTS

In the newly revised Fourth Edition of Construction Drawings and Details for Interiors, distinguished interior design professors Rosemary Kilmer and W. Otie Kilmer deliver a comprehensive and practical perspective on the preparation and understanding of construction documents. The authors use a highly visual presentation and offer extensive sample drawings and details, as well as photographs, to show readers the fundamentals of drafting, drawing types, plans, and schedules, and computer-aided design.

The Fourth Edition includes new sections on contract administration, field measuring tools, safety and security, and smart systems and controls. A companion website offers PowerPoint lecture slides, an instructor’s manual, activities, test questions, and solutions.

New appendices feature examples of interior design projects and common symbols for construction drawings. The book also includes:

- A thorough introduction to drawing communication, equipment, and classification systems, including information about Building Information Modeling and building certification programs for sustainability
- A discussion of green building certification programs
- An exploration of the design process, including concept development, hand sketching, design development, preliminary designs, sketches, and presentations
- A practical review of contract documents, including specifications, contracts, construction drawings, as-built drawings and demolition plans, and floor plans
- An in-depth examination of structural, mechanical, and plumbing systems

Construction Drawings and Details for Interiors is perfect for interior design students, early-career professionals hoping to improve their understanding of project drawing conventions, or anyone studying for the NCIDQ exam.

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Пролистать книгу Construction Drawings and Details for Interiors на Gogle Books.