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The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia investigates global projects for sustainable development on the cutting edge of self-sufficient housing, addressing environmental, economic and social needs. The projects investigate construction techniques and processes to build houses with local means, from the intelligent application of traditional techniques to advanced digital processes and fabrication.

This book is a fascinating compilation of the most innovative projects for single dwellings and residential buildings, proposing the most creative designs and construction through the use of new materials and energy systems, and the integration of architecture into the landscape.

Based in Barcelona, the IAAC is an international centre of architectural research in territorial analysis, urban development, digital fabrications and informational environments for improving cultural, economic and social conditions.

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Senigallia Public Library is an in-depth analysis of a single project realized by Italian architects Massimo and Gabriella Carmassi in the historic center of Senigallia (located in the Marche region of Italy) to create the town’s library and archive. The renovation of this early nineteenth-century complex is an outstanding example of how the fabric of historic buildings can be used to make spectacular modern architecture. Rather than restore the buildings to some idealized original state and adapt them to a new purpose, the architects integrated existing pieces of the structures with new construction. The masterful use materials - metal, wood, concrete, glass, ancient brick - resulted in timeless spaces that have a unique combination of contemporary style and an appropriate reflective atmosphere. Echoing the architects’ creation, this handsomely produced book also uses a variety of materials - uncoated and coated paper stocks, vellum pages, and a sophisticated cloth jacket.

The book also includes an introduction by Richard Ingersoll that offers a complete description of the restoration.

Crammed with fascinating facts, expert advice and a wealth of essential information, Shades of Grey will guide you through the minefield that is choosing exactly the right shade of grey paint. 

There's no doubt about it, grey is the shade of the moment. On-trend restaurants, shops and homes are covered in it. There's not an interior decorating programme that doesn't feature it. However, despite its popularity, it’s not quite as simple as buying a pot of grey paint and slapping it on the wall. Make the wrong choice, and a grey room will be cold and dark, even energy-sapping. Get it right, however, and your home will look sophisticated and modern. So how to find the perfect hue? In Shades of Grey, Kate Watson-Smyth explores the current popularity of the shade and consults experts – scientists, paint companies and interior decorators – who reveal their favourite greys as well as other tricks of the trade. She looks at the wide range of greys on offer and, via a simple process of elimination, will help you track down the shade that works perfectly for you.

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There's no doubt about it, grey is the shade of the moment. Chic restaurants, shops and homes are covered in it. There's not an interior decorating programme that doesn't feature it. And forget 50 shades – in fact the human eye can detect more than 500. As can the average paint chart.

“Everyone wants to paint their houses grey at the moment,” says Karen Haller, a colour expert who advises clients on branding and colour psychology. “But it's actually one of the most difficult colours to get right.” Get it wrong and a room will be cold and dark, possibly even energy-sapping. Get it right, however, and your home will look chic, sophisticated and modern. So how do we go about choosing the perfect hue? In 'Shades of Grey' Kate Watson-Smyth will help you find exactly the right shade for your space.

Full of expert advice and essential information and spiced with a generous dash of humour, this book will guide you through the minefield that is choosing the perfect shade of grey paint.

Shades of White is a pure celebration of all the brilliant white hues, and how they work in harmony with different textures inside the home. 

White is magical. It can illuminate a space, or it can be a blank slate, allowing other décor in the room to shine. Whether your style is rustic, modern, romantic, vintage or classic, Fifi O'Neill will show you that there is a perfect shade of white for you. With beautiful commissioned photography, Fifi showcases twelve dazzling homes that have mastered using shades of white throughout. From fresh to cosy, sophisticated to shabby chic, white is classy, adaptable and timeless. Shades of White showcases interior inspiration for using white in any setting, pairing the infinite shades with different textures such as wood and metal, or even with other colours, to create stylish and stunning interiors. 

White is magical. It can illuminate a space, or it can be a blank slate, allowing other décor in the room to shine. Whether your style is rustic, modern, romantic, vintage, or classic, Fifi O'Neill will show you that there is a perfect shade of white for you. With beautiful commissioned photography, Fifi showcases twelve dazzling homes that have mastered using shades of white throughout. From fresh to cozy, sophisticated to shabby chic, white is classy, adaptable, and timeless. Shades of White showcases interior inspiration for using white in any setting, pairing the infinite shades with different textures such as wood and metal, or even with other colors, to create stylish and stunning interiors.

Shades of White is a pure celebration of all the brilliant white hues, and how they work in harmony with different textures inside the home. 

About the Author:

Fifi O'Neill is an editor, writer and photo stylist. She has produced numerous features on home decorating, food and gardening for American and European magazines, such as Coastal Living, Country Living (USA), Casa Romantica, Casa Antichi (Italy) and many more. Fifi's previous books are Surfside Style, Global Bohemian, Romantic Prairie Style and Romantic Prairie Cookbook, all published by CICO Books. Her popular blog, fifioneillprairiestyle.com, reaches upwards of two million followers. Fifi grew up in Paris, France, though she now lives in Florida, USA.

Studio Shamshiri’s richly layered, narrative-driven interiors are a tour de force of contemporary design, balancing a deep respect for the past with a profound appreciation for the rhythms and rituals of modern life. Under the direction of Pamela Shamshiri, the firm has garnered a loyal following among design-savvy celebrities, creative entrepreneurs, and aficionados of high design across the globe. This book, the firm’s first monograph, offers a master class in design that nourishes the soul as well as the eye.

Studio Shamshiri’s signature sensibility blends California bohemian, East Coast glamour, and classic European panache to create extraordinary spaces alive with color, texture, and unapologetic beauty. From restrained modern interiors to sumptuous fantasies, each project in this lavishly illustrated volume represents a unique, self-contained world of imagination and inspiration. The through lines that bind the studio’s wide-ranging projects are a meticulous attention to detail, a palpable sense of joy and comfort, and an emotional connection to the idea of home. 

The broad spectrum of houses — historic properties, midcentury masterpieces by the likes of Rudolf Schindler and A. Quincy Jones and daring contemporary marvels — underscores the dexterity of Shamshiri’s vision. The style of every project emerges from the context of its site as well as the dreams and aspirations of the particular clients. These homes are as delightfully different and idiosyncratic as the people who inhabit them. More than simply a voyeur’s delight, this book provides invaluable lessons on the art of decorating and what it means to live a life of grace and beauty.

About the Authors:

Born in Iran and raised in California, siblings Pamela Shamshiri and Ramin Shamshiri were two of the founding partners of the design firm Commune before they launched Studio Shamshiri in 2016. Their work has received widespread acclaim and numerous accolades, including the prestigious Cooper Hewitt National Design Award. Mayer Rus is the West Coast editor of Architectural Digest and a prolific contributor to many Rizzoli titles.

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The first monograph of highly sought-after interior designer Shawn Henderson, who is renowned for his serene and sophisticated interiors.

Collecting fourteen stunning projects by acclaimed interior designer Shawn Henderson, this monograph illustrates how the designer crafts spaces that reflect the lifestyles of his clients, while embodying the serenity and sophistication that have become Henderson’s signature.

Presenting his designs for city townhouses and lofts, historic farmhouses and country estates, and modern mountain and beach retreats — including his own West Village apartment and upstate New York country home — Henderson shares the warm, intimate, and harmonious interiors he creates through layered compositions of sculptural lighting and furniture – both custom and vintage – elegant finishes and textures, and exceptional art, all against a refined palette of clean neutrals and moody grays, with clever pops of color.

About the Authors:

Shawn Henderson studied interior design at the Rochester Institute of Technology, and established his eponymous studio in Manhattan in 2003. His interiors have been featured in Architectural Digest, Veranda, Elle Decor, Luxe, House Beautiful, Galerie, and New York Times, and appeared in the 2019 book New York Design at Home.

Mayer Rus is West Coast editor of Architectural Digest. A celebrated design arbiter, Rus has written for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Elle Decor, Vogue, Artforum, and W Magazine, and has contributed essays to recent monographs on Atelier AM, François Halard, and Robert Stilin.

Stephen Kent Johnson is a New York-based photographer whose work appears regularly in publications such as Architectural Digest, Bon Appétit, Condé Nast Traveler, Dwell, Elle Decor, New York Magazine, and WSJ Magazine.

Celebrating the beauty of Vermont’s Shelburne Farms, a National Historic Landmark on the shores of Lake Champlain.

This book tells the story of Shelburne Farms, once a magnificent Gilded Age country estate conceived by America’s leading aristocrats of the day, Lila Vanderbilt and William Seward Webb. Built between 1886 and 1905, the houses and barns, designed by architect Robert H. Robertson, include Shelburne House, the Webbs’ stunning Shingle- and Queen Anne-style residence with a formal Italianate flower garden, and the Breeding Barn, which was the largest open-span wooden structure in America. Landscape designer Frederick Law Olmsted planned the 4,000 acres of pastureland, woodlands, and trails.

Period photographs capture the Webbs’ original vision, while new photography showcases the splendid results of decades-long restoration. The property is now open to the public. Shelburne House, transformed into an inn, showcases many original paintings, furnishings, and decorative arts.

About the Author:

Glenn Suokko, a designer and photographer, is the author of Simon Pearce: Design for Living. Alec Webb is a family descendant and president of Shelburne Farms, today a charitable education organization. Megan Camp is Shelburne Farms’ vice president and program director.

The pristine interior design and residential architecture of the renowned firm Shelton, Mindel & Associates are celebrated in this first book on their work. Shelton, Mindel & Associates has been receiving international fame since its inception in 1978.

Winners of over thirty AIA awards and recipients of the 2011 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for Interior Design, founding partners Peter L. Shelton and Lee F. Mindel have had a remarkable career crafting intricate yet minimal spaces infused with serenity and intelligence.

Whether designing Sting’s London townhouse or residences for power brokers and social leaders in New York City, Palm Beach, or the Hamptons, Shelton and Mindel invoke their passion for constructing unified environments, where the elements of design and construction become more than the sum of their parts — they become comprehensive works of art.

Shelton and Mindel’s luminous aesthetic is the centerpiece of this monograph. With stunning photography of their most important residential projects, each project delves deep into the modernist roots and philosophy of this exceptional design duo, and in turn the pinnacle of architecture and design today.

This is the first book to document the highly innovative Terminal 3 at Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport in China, scheduled for completion in 2013.

Shenzhen is one China's most important industrial locations as well as a very popular tourist destination. The fast-developing city is located in the south of the Guangdong Province, neighboring the Pearl River delta and Hong Kong. In 2008 the Italian architects Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas (M Fuksas) won the international competition for the extension of the airport with the design of Terminal 3. The book contains never-before-seen sketches, models, renderings, drawings, and all-new photography of the building, as well as an interview with the architect. Collaborating with Fuksas is the engineering firm Knipper Helbig, who contributes an essay on the engineering and structural approach of the project. The design of the terminal, which resembles an airplane from above, caters to the passengers' needs while taking account environmental and socio-economic factors. The sculptural, organically shaped steel structure incorporates an innovative two-layer honeycomb skin which reduces energy consumption and allows natural light to permeate the space. Specifically designed to make the most effective use of local resources and built by local contractors, Shenzhen is the first airport terminal certified to the National Green Building Star Label in China

Why wood?

Though it is one of the world’s oldest building materials, wood is still revolutionizing the way buildings are designed and constructed today. It is imperative that everyone considers how construction practices impact climate change. Timber buildings are not only environmentally responsible — they also make us feel measurably happier, healthier, and more productive, benefiting both individuals and organizations.

Shigeru Ban Architects has innovated in wood for over 35 years, creating inspiring spaces that have a positive impact on building inhabitants, communities, and the environment. The firm has built over 65 wood and mass timber projects, from prefabricated plywood houses to parametrically modeled glulam gridshells.

Timber in Architecture presents the trajectory of 45 works from concept through construction, demonstrating the challenges and merits of wood buildings through essays, technical drawings, and photographs. Featured projects include the Centre Pompidou-Metz (Metz, France, 2010), the Aspen Art Museum (Aspen, Colorado, USA, 2014), the Mt. Fuij World Heritage Centre (Shizuoka, Japan, 2019), and Swatch/Omega Campus (Biel/Bienne, Switzerland, 2019), as well as current works.

About the Authors:

Shigeru Ban is an architect, educator, and humanitarian with a global perspective. Upon completing his studies at the Cooper Union, Ban established Shigeru Ban Architects in 1985. In 1994, Ban founded the Voluntary Architects Network, an NGO through which he has provided a wide array of relief projects for nearly 30 years. Today, his multidisciplinary practice includes offices in Tokyo, Paris, and New York, with more than 150 projects constructed across six continents. In addition to his design work, Ban is dedicated to teaching the next generation of architects, and has taught at numerous institutions, including Tama Art University, Keio University, Harvard GSD, Cornell AAP, and Columbia GSAPP. For his architectural, cultural, and humanitarian contributions, Ban has been honored as a Pritzker Laureate, and the recipient of L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, the National Order of the Legion of Honor in France, the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture, and the Mother Teresa Award for Social Justice.

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An inspiring showcase of masterpieces of the Shingle Style. 

A richly photographed presentation of some of the most important Shingle Style houses built in America, this book gives readers a privileged view into the splendid interiors of these late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century masterpieces of domestic design. Shingle Style traces the path of shingle-clad residential architecture from its Romantic beginnings to the current dizzying variety of architectural ideas — from modern to historicist, green to organic — expressed in the Shingle Style. 

David Duncan Livingston’s full-colour photographs exquisitely capture these architectural masterpieces, complete with delightful original interior details, and authors Lucia Howard and David Weingarten place these houses in their proper historical context as examples of the best American Shingle Style design.

About The Author

Lucia Howard and David Weingarten are principals at Ace Architects in Oakland, California. Weingarten has authored several design books, including Bay Area Style and Ranch Houses: Living the California Dream. Daniel P. Gregory is editor-in-chief of Houseplans.com, the nation’s largest architectural plans website, and former senior home editor of Sunset magazine. David Duncan Livingston is the photographer for numerous books on interior design and architecture, including Diane Dorrans Saeks’s San Francisco Style and California Country Style.

Shoplifter! explores innovative store concepts and provides expert insights into how brands can engage with their customers in novel ways

Disrupted by online shopping, shops and brands find themselves in a permanent battle over the most innovative store concepts, striking window displays, and genius presentation of goods, to breathe new life into the traditional retail flow.

This creative struggle has heralded a golden era of retail design.

Brand experiences now stretch far beyond the end product; the dialogue between a shop and its consumers is becoming increasingly important. Companies are tapping the talents of top designers and using them in sophisticated flagship stores or unexpected temporary venues. Shoplifter! showcases the most outstanding concepts across a number of industries, introducing the most innovative brands with rich, in-depth case studies.

Since signage systems are created to provide orientation, they must be universally legible and understood by people of all ages and culture. Signs must show the way, and also present the proper information at the proper location. By making effective use of graphics, colors and shapes, a signage system helps to create an identity for spaces.

Signage Designs showcases a great variety of current examples from across the world, indoor and outdoor, ranging from individual buildings like museums, hospitals and stadiums, to larger contexts like subway systems, town districts or entire cities. This title is an essential reference for designers involved in communications, architects, interior designers and indeed for creative persons in all sectors.

This inspiring volume takes readers on a tour of luxurious interiors that showcase the best of Italian design and architecture.

As part of the series dedicated to “Made in Italy” architecture and design (Carlo Scarpa, Piero Portaluppi), this latest book features a stunning collection of interiors by acclaimed Italian designers and architects from the second half of the twentieth century. Each of these exquisite spaces perfectly embodies the designer’s unique creative spirit, encapsulating both the essence of the designer’s personal style and taste with the trends of the era.

The ten projects, all specially photographed for the book, include such names in Italian architecture and design as: Carlo Mollino, Carlo Scarpa, Ettore Sottsass, Gae Aulenti, Osvaldo Borsani, Piero and Barnaba Fornasetti, among others. Ranging from residential to office spaces, each of these unique spaces has remained largely unchanged, and decades later they still speak for those who conceived of and inhabited them: Casa Fornasetti provides a unique testimony to the world of Piero Fornasetti, and now that of his son, Barnaba, who carries on his work and brand with strength and innovation; Casa Mollino represents the peak of architect Carlo Mollino’s ideas, beautifully serving as his aesthetic and conceptual legacy; and the vibrant, ironic, colorful Casa Quarestani perfectly sums up the poetic vision of Ettore Sottsass.

This book will be a must have for lovers of bold design and stylish Italian interiors.

About the Author:

Chiara Dal Canto was born in Turin and studied philosophy. She writes on architecture and design for numerous Italian and international periodicals. Lorenzo Pennati is an interiors and advertising photographer. He works with many specialty publications in Italy and internationally, including Elle Decoration China and UK, Wohnrevue, Architectural Digest, and Marie Claire Maison.

"Simplicity and creativity. Modernity and tradition. Bringing aesthetics to technology, elegance to color, crafting harmony and rejecting discomfort. That is my ambition."

Known the world over for her spectacular interiors for private residences and luxury hotels and restaurants, Sybille de Margerie has mastered the art of fine detail with elegance for over thirty years. Each project has its own identity, and her masterful designs generate emotions by creating spaces that are in harmony with their geographical locations and cultural origins. Inspired by history and great artists, de Margerie creates a language of textures that brings together the applied and decorative arts. Her interiors are refined yet distinctly livable, opulent and effortless, sophisticated and, at the same time, fluid and functional.

In eight breathtaking chapters, this book celebrates a way of living that blends tradition and innovation with a distinctly French eye for luxury.

About the Authors:

Sybille de Margerie is one of the world's most sought-after interior designers, with recent and upcoming projects in Épernay, Megève, Dubai, Oman, Agadir, and Moscow, for clients such as Hilton and the Four Seasons. Laure Verchère is a journalist for Elle Décoration. She is the author of several books including Infinitely Ritz, Mamounia, and Juan Pablo Molyneux: At Home.

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