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Adam Hills and Maria Speake, the partners behind architectural salvage and design business Retrouvius, combine their salvage work with one of the most sought-after interior design practices in Britain. Reclaiming Style goes with them behind the scenes, from the demolition site to the salvage warehouse to the process of designing with reclaimed materials. It gives an insight into the inspiration behind the design of family homes where reclaimed materials are treated with reverence and shown to best advantage.

Retrouvius bring a distinctive eye to designing with salvage, using an intuitive sense of colour and the flow of a domestic space to combine ancient and modern elements. Reclaiming Style is an invaluable source of inspiration for anyone wanting to create a sophisticated and thoughtfully constructed living space. Charted over twelve locations, ranging from a 17th-century cottage to a 1970s towerblock apartment, the company’s style goes far beyond a mere commitment to salvage to offer a new vision for the home.

In this beautiful book, Mark and Sally Bailey of renowned home store Baileys Home and Garden share their passion for rescued, repaired, reused and recycled pieces.

The look they love is simple, stripped back and stylish, focusing on the integrity of the materials and surface quality — chipped paint revealing the layers beneath, combinations of rough textures with clean lines or old materials with sleek stainless steel or concrete. The book begins by taking a look at the many different Elements of the Baileys’ style, including Textures, Storage, Walls & Floors, Lighting and Display. Following on, a section on Rooms shows how well the look can work throughout the home, including offices and children’s rooms.

About the Authors:

The Baileys’ style has been evolving for over 25 years in their home and business, which includes a large showroom and shop in Herefordshire. They live near Ross-on-Wye.

Presents a selection of ecologically remodelled kitchens and bathrooms that show the process of transforming what were previously poorly insulated and ventilated spaces to become workshops for the senses, governed by functional and aesthetic principles. These designs show how these utility spaces become part of, not separate to, the rest of the house. Illustrated throughout with full colour photographs and floor plans of dream kitchens and bathrooms which conform to 21st environmental requirements.

The loft, which is essentially an urban construction, is an ideal way of converting one’s own home to a unique space, and even though most of them are small, all of them demonstrate how it is possible to convert what could be a small apartment into a spacious loft. 

Among the so-called “minor arts” that flourished in the Italian Renaissance, perhaps the most astounding in its virtuosity was that of intarsia, or wood inlay, in which countless pieces of wood of various species were fitted together like a jigsaw puzzle so as to form exquisite pictures. The masters of intarsia adopted the newly developed technique of linear perspective to depict their characteristic themes, namely, cityscapes viewed through an archway and illusionistic renderings of half-open cabinets filled with liturgical or scholarly equipment. At first these enchanting scenes in wood were found mainly in ecclesiastical settings - on choir stalls and altar frontals, and in sacristies - but by the later Quattrocento they were also used to decorate the studioli, or private studies, of powerful secular patrons. Eventually, in the Cinquecento, intarsists began to push the limits of their medium with figural scenes of ever-greater complexity; this ambitious yet perhaps quixotic attempt to rival the art of painting led to many technical and aesthetic innovations, but also to an abandonment of intarsia’s natural strengths and its ultimate decline as an independent art.

In this volume, a team of noted Italian art historians trace the evolution of Renaissance intarsia through a discussion of twelve of the most important intarsia cycles. These include the famous studiolo of Federico da Montefeltro in the ducal palace at Urbino; the sacristy of Santa Maria in Organo at Verona, which Vasari described as the most beautiful in all of Italy; and the choir of Santa Maria Maggiore in Bergamo, the cartoons for which were prepared by Lorenzo Lotto. Drawing on the latest scholarship and, in some cases, newly discovered documentary evidence, the authors explain the historical context and iconography of these masterpieces, as well as their connections to the painting, sculpture, and architecture of the time. Their insightful essays are illustrated with some two hundred new color images, the result of an extensive photographic campaign carried out exclusively for this work.

Admirably filling in a unique chapter of art history, Renaissance Intarsia will be essential reading for scholars and enthusiasts of art, and a powerful source of inspiration for contemporary artists and craftsmen.

The world's enthusiasm for Art Nouveau reached its apex at The World Fair in Paris in 1900. There René Binet created the main entrance, "la Porte Monumentale." To coincide with the exposition, Binet published in Esquisses decoratives (1896) the plate designs for the gate, along with other sketches of furniture, jewelry, wallpaper, lighting, stained glass windows, signs, wrought iron, and architectural details.

The entire collection of Binet's sketches for Esquisses decoratives are beautifully presented here in color and black and white. Like his renowned gate, they feature the organic structures and intricate embellishments that mirror the great variety of patterns and ornamentation found in the microcosm of nature and epitomize the Art Nouveau aesthetic. Binet credited scientist and artist Ernst Haeckel's work on radiolarians as his inspiration. Two prominent experts on art and architectural history lend their perspectives to this important work in the realm of the decorative arts.

The wide array of designs presented in this volume offers a wide and varied vision of the latest trends in renovating buildings. Reputed architects suggest ingenious solutions for giving old structures a fresh, renewed look and for creating effective spaces for domestic use. Each project includes a detailed explanation through the use of plans, sketches, notes, construction explanations, materials and photographs.

This title succeeds in providing a platform for the communication between clients, designers and the supply sources of their material. It also includes 50 outstanding home designs complete with floor plans. In total it reflects the expanding aspiration and demand in China for designers to offer higher quality living environments.

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At the end of the 20th century, the longevity of modern man and the lack of time of the younger population to take care of elderly people led to a profound analysis of the new environments and the search for a suitable habitat for the elderly. The new architectures and building technologies offer a wide range of specific solutions that help to improve the living conditions of the elderly. This book presents several models of architecture for the elderly, with details of schemes for geriatric homes, reception centres and special residential projects by architects from different countries as Toyo Ito, Mahler, Gunster & Füchs, MVRDU, Wiel Arets, Vicens and Ramos, Architecture Studio.

Citizens in retirement age are becoming an ever greater but also more active part of society.

Architects and designers have discovered that this requires a new way of thinking and detected nursing homes and senior citizens’ residences as a new area of professional interest. They apply creative concepts and intricate designs to increase the comfort and quality of life for the elderly.

The projects presented in this volume are outstanding examples of architectural and interior design solutions that meet the complex and special needs of senior citizens. It presents newly constructed and converted buildings that contradict the common perception of "old folks' homes". They show that it is possible to reconcile nursing and medical requirements with an attractive design, skillfully combining functionality and aesthetics.

• Skyline at First Hill in Seattle, USA (Perkins+Will)
• Elbschloss Residence in Hamburg, Germany (feddersenarchitekten)
• Apartments for Life in Sydney, Australia (PTW Architects)
• Aging in Africa in Lagoon Aby, Ivory Cost (HWKN)
• Sun City Park Machida in Tokyo, Japan (BAR Architects)

Design trendsetter Kelly Wearstler shares her inspirations, inviting readers into the creation of her opulent interiors.

Celebrated for luxurious interiors that capture the swankiness of old-world Hollywood with a modern pop sensibility, Wearstler is known for her decadent designs of residences and boutique hotels, such as the line of Viceroys and the tastemakers Maison 140 and Avalon. Her ornate interiors are distinctive for layers of bold textures, patterns, and rich colors juxtaposed with lustrous surfaces, adding up to a whimsical and elegant look that has been called "mod baroque."

This volume offers a look into Wearstler’s glamorous world, profiling in detail her latest residential designs (previously unpublished) and her sumptuous new hotels, as well as her creative process.

The book also follows the designer - known for her striking personal style - behind the scenes to watch her at work, creating sculpture at her metal foundry or shopping at auction houses, to reveal the myriad inspirations that fuel Wearstler’s imagination and her dazzling design work.

With beautiful images of many never-before-photographed interiors, Kelly Wearstler: Chromatic Rhapsody is an inspirational look at one of the most irreverent and fascinating designers working today, celebrating the breadth of her creations.

About the Author:

Kelly Wearstler’s interior design work has been profiled in magazines such as Elle Decor, Vogue, House and Garden, House Beautiful, and The New Yorker. She has debuted a new ready-to-wear and accessories line and recently opened a flagship boutique in Los Angeles.

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A long-established element of the fashion world, where they are used widely as trimmings, belts and tie fastenings, on shoes, clothes, hats and adorning wrists, necks and hair, ribbons also provide a wonderfully versatile way of providing a unique form of decoration in the home.

"Ribbons and Trims" is a celebration of maximalism in interiors, with a wealth of inspiring and creative ideas for adding a decorative touch to your home. With her natural flair for colour and texture, nothing is too daunting or avant-garde for Annabel.

Everything from curtains, blinds, bed covers and furniture to cushions, throws, lamp shades and photo frames can be updated, customized and given a new lease of life to create a focal point, a burst of colour, idiosyncrasy and humour.