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Following the success of IMAGES' first 100 of the World's Best Houses book, we searched the globe for another collection of amazing houses. The result of this search is Another 100 of the World's Best Houses. Each house in this new volume has been selected for its unique and extraordinary qualities. The overwhelming theme is the way in which architects use their remarkable skills to relate these masterpieces to their various contexts and landscapes. Locations are as diverse as the houses themselves and include the coast of Peru, inner-city London, rugged Australian coastal sites, urban SГЈo Paulo, spectacular New Zealand alpine retreats and coastal hideaways, American prairies, frosty Oslo, the gorgeous West Indies, tropical Southeast Asia, suburban Lithuania, and Costa Rica, to name but a few.

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The savant of the visual, Anouska Hempel is revered across the world for her originality and for her influence. This is a designer who sees everything, and instinctively understands it. It might be a Japanese screen, or a Tudor portrait, an object, a fabric, a colour or a decorative technique. She may come to it innocently, but she will see exactly what it does, and how it does it.

Yet that’s just where she starts. Take an inspiration; treat it with respect; understand its disciplines. Then transform it. The sparks from creative friction and an all-encompassing imagination mark out each of her designs as unmistakably her own. A first image goes galloping on to greatness elsewhere.

As a designer, there are no limits to her domain. In her work, design becomes part of the natural order, apparently tamed at last. ‘Everything has its place, and there is a place for everything’, she says. And yet the process is never complete. Along with order, there is the mystery that comes from building the design in multiple layers and the restless creativity that is impelled to take perfection to new levels.

There has never been a designer quite like Anouska Hempel, and this volume is both a celebration of her achievement and an intimate insight into it. In this astonishing book, we find her hotel creations, such as the two Blakes, the Hempel itself and Warapuru in Brazil, her private houses, including the incomparable Cole Park, her yacht and her garden designs – all the elements of a life of design.

‘Romantic places? I live in them all the time.
Anywhere the trade routes have passed or the trade winds have blown – that’s my territory. I can dream myself into a desert tent playing footsie with Genghis Khan, or a military tent planning strategy with Napoleon. Wherever my imagination finds itself that’s where my rooms begin.’

About the authors:

Anouska Hempel, Lady Weinberg, is of Swiss, German and Irish ancestry. She grew up in New Zealand, arriving in London in the mid-1960s after extensive travels. Here, she established herself as a leading designer renowned for her sophistication and style, creating hotels and interiors as well as sensational gardens, clothes and food. Her practice, Anouska Hempel Design, works extensively in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and the Middle and Far East.

Marcus Binney studied History of Art and Architecture at Cambridge. His interest in interiors grew from writing articles for
Country Life, which were subsequently published as The Great Houses of Europe and became a 39-part television series. His other books include The Ritz Hotel London, In Search of the Perfect House, The Women who Lived for Danger and Secret War Heroes. He is Architecture Correspondent of The Times.

Belinda Harley has produced acclaimed books on Harry’s Bar and Annabel’s in London. She has a special interest in the design of hotels and restaurants.

Out of print for a while, this classic reference work on antique ironware is available once again.

Antique collectors, iron buffs, and industrial historians will welcome the opportunity to browse through its pages, which contain hundreds of photographs of fascinating items.

Architectural hardware, lighting devices, and irons, tools, toys, weathervanes, fences and gates, and kitchen utensils are all presented, with examples taken from rarely-viewed private collections as well as major museums.

Concise descriptions of each item pictured augment text that includes a great deal of historical and manufacturing information.

You'll find details on the iron works at Saugus, Massachusetts; Batsto, New Jersey; Hopewell, Pennsylvania; and more. There's a discussion of the regional products of the South, Midwest, and Northeast of the United States, along with plenty of information on influences from England and Europe.

Large quantities of leaded decorative windows were manufactured in the years surrounding the turn of the century. Glasses of many colors and textures were used to make elaborate windows for homes, creating spectacular presentations of light and color formerly seen only in churches. These windows are enormously popular on today's antiques market, varying widely in price and condition. This attractive book is a useful tool for anyone looking to bring the enchanting beauty of stained glass into their home. In this revised 2nd edition there are hundreds of gorgeous windows of many shapes, sizes, colors, and complexities are featured here, including etched, beveled, painted, and mosaic windows. Learn about the influences of some of the more prominent names in decorative windows, including Louis Comfort Tiffany, John LaFarge, and Frank Lloyd Wright. Original catalog material, a discussion of glass and leading types, values for each window, and other information will help you assess decorative windows in the marketplace. For designers and artisans, this book is a treasury of classic designs.

Antiques in Italian Interiors showcases a marvellous range of antiques - from small works of art to rare decorative objects to period furniture - housed in some of the most beautiful private residences in Italy.

The homes of princes, scholars, antiquarians, professors, and collectors are presented in over two hundred extraordinary photographs that depict intriguing objects and decor, and capture the atmosphere and character of each interior.

The residences range in scale from palatial villas to spacious apartments and are located in the grand cities of Italy.

Of particular interest is the Museo Mario Praz in Rome, home to an extraordinary collection of furniture, marble, bronze, silver, and crystal works of art. Also featured is renown art historian Frederico Zeri’s home in Mentana, which contains a priceless collection of Roman epigraphs and a vast art and photography library. Informative essays by art historian Roberto Valeriani explore the relationship between the antiques and the spaces that house them. His insights illuminate how each residence documents Italian taste in different eras.

The rich style and ambience of the collection of interiors in this volume attest to the beguiling layers of history that can be found in Italian interiors and to the special allure of antiques.

• A sumptuous, large-format photographic tour of the extraordinary antique collections housed in fifteen private residences in Italy
• The residences range in scale from gorgeous palatial villas to relatively modest homes

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Книга Antiques in Italian Interiors, Volume 2

Antiques in Italian Interiors, Volume II presents a collection of extravagant Italian interiors that house marvelous collections of artwork and antiques.

Following the success of the previous volume in the series (published by Verba Volant in 2005), this new book will open the doors to more private residences belonging to merchant princes, collectors, and royalty. The fifteen interiors selected by art historian Roberto Valeriani and architectural photographer Mario Ciampi are located throughout the Italian peninsula.

In the capital city the Galleria Colonna, with its opulent halls and parlors, contains a celebrated art collection that belongs to a prestigious Roman family. Embellished with frescos dating to the seventeenth century, the princely baroque spaces boast masterpieces from the fifteenth to eighteenth century. The book passes from one noted locale to another, from the affluence of the papal Rome to the opulence of Catania where Palazzo Biscari, the oldest baroque palace in Sicily, was the one of the settings for Goethe’s Italian Journey.

The rich style and ambience of the collection of interiors in this volume demonstrates the full power of the elegance that can only be achieved by arranging precious artwork and antiques in stunning spaces with classic Italian style.

• This book includes certain cornerstones of the history of Italian interior design
• The book includes illustrative essays by the art historian Roberto Valeriani
• Will appeal to lovers of Italian art

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Книга  Antiques in Italian Interiors, Volume 1

Albuquerque-based Antoine Predock is generally acknowledged as the premier architect practicing in the Southwest, although he also has projects in Denmark, France, Spain, and Morocco.

He is known for a philosophical ethos that does not privilege architecture over environment, but fosters a relationship in which a building is analogous to the landscape in which it is set. Predock's use of such natural materials as adobe and sand-colored stone demonstrate an appreciation for local historical precedent as well as a concern for environmental soundness; however, he is in the vanguard in his use of the most technologically advanced methods of construction. Drawing from the pulse of the land, Predock's work embraces uniqueness of site, referencing local history, culture, myths, and people.

This monograph features his latest work, including Highland Ponds, in Aspen; Austin City Hall, in Texas; the Tacoma Art Museum; and Shadow House, in Santa Fe, among others. Antoine Predock has taught at universities in Italy and Argentina, as well as at Harvard University, Southern California Institute of Architecture, and UCLA. He has won many awards for his work, including the Rome Prize of the American Academy in Rome, National Honor Awards from the American Institute of Architecture (AIA), and the Gran Premio Internacional de Arquitectura de Buenos Aires.

Spanish architect and designer Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926) is an important and influential figure in the history of contemporary Spanish art. His use of colour, application of different materials and introduction of movement in his constructions were an innovation in the realm of architecture. In his journal, Gaudí freely expressed his own feelings on art, “the colours used in architecture have to be intense, logical and fertile.”

The author, Jeremy Roe, is interested in a wide range of photography and architectural detail. This interest drives the author and enables him to reveal the context of the art of Barcelona while he guides us through an introduction to Antoni Gaudí, master of some of the most famous constructions, design objects and greatest works in Spanish architecture. This book offers a great insight into Gaudí’s work.

The first and most comprehensive publication to encompass the achievements of one of Italy’s foremost contemporary artists both in design and in architecture.

Antonio Citterio has earned a reputation for his design and craftsmanship. While he is mostly recognized the world over for his work in product and interior design, in the last two decades he has also expanded into the architectural sphere with accomplishments in the public and private.

His ability in controlling all the scales of the project has recognized worldwide as a characteristic of the Made in Italy excellence. His work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Architecture and Design Museum of Chicago.

Alba Cappellieri is Associate Professor of  History of Architecture and Design at the Faculty of Design at the Polytechnic of Milan. She writes for some of the foremost journals in the field including Domus, Abitare, The Journal of Architecture and AR2.

Apartment architecture has come a long way since the days when functionality took precedence over aesthetic conditions. Today, the two concepts go hand in hand. Each project selected for this volume has gone that extra step beyond successfully meeting basic requirements, to providing qualities which add texture and beauty to daily life. Not only do these buildings enjoy more light and color, better spatial distribution and improved community spaces, but they also have distinctive characteristics which set them apart from the rest: from the massive superimposed boxes jutting out in gravity-defying profusion to a building with entire facades of double layers of glass encasing living plants within. Photos, texts, ground plans and construction details all help provide thorough understanding of each project.

Following the success of the "Loft Bible", Tectum Publishers have created this sequel volume showcasing modern architectural design.In this enormous reference book, the reader is treated to an immense variety of flats and apartments from around Europe and the world, in a wide range of sizes and price brackets. They have all been decorated with great ingenuity and imagination, providing immediate inspiration for anyone interested in apartment living.

This collection displays the best in today’s residential architecture. A selection of the world’s most prestigious architects present their recent creations for apartment buildings, from supremely innovative and avant-garde proposals, to those that attempt to create spaces whose personalities adapt to their contents. Top names in architecture such as Alvaro Siza, Neutelings & Riedijk, Bevk Perović, Delugan Meissl and Eduardo Souto de Moura provide invaluable insight into
their work through explanatory texts, accompanied by full color photographs and floor plans. This volume is sure to delight and inspire all those with an interest in this field of architecture, whether professional or otherwise.

Step inside an exciting world of stunning apartments

* Small, dark apartment? These light, airy designs miraculously overcome obstacles
* Color photos, floor plans, and commentary from architects and designers for each project

 In styles ranging from urban chic to classic, from Asian-inspired minimalism to funky profusion, the rooms featured in Apartment Interiors are as unique as a fingerprint. This beautiful volume presents top-of-the-line case studies in the creation of magical, bright, spacious interiors--even in spaces where light and space are limited. These amazing apartments, shown with radiant color photos accompanied by floor plans and commentary from the creators, offer inspiration and ideas for any architecture or design professional.