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This stunning book offers insider access to Lake Maggiore's Borromeo Palace, a resplendent achievement of baroque Italian architecture. This is a perfect volume for classic Italian art and architecture lovers.

In a unique natural setting--the Isola Bella island on Lake Maggiore, surrounded by the Alps -- stands the sumptuous palace built, and still owned, by the Borromeo family. Photographs guide the readers through the halls of the palace, which overlooks the lake and offers charming views. The halls and rooms are furnished with luxury furniture, marble, and stucco decorations, and enriched with ancient sculptures, armory, and a valuable collection of six Flemish tapestries woven in gold and silk. A large painting collection can be admired in General Berthier's gallery.

About the Authors:

Stefano Zuffi is an independent art historian focusing on art of the Renaissance and baroque periods. Massimo Listri is an Italian photographer who specializes in architectural photography. Already a longtime collaborator of FMR magazine, he has published several books and exhibited his photographs in Italy and abroad.

Alberto Botti and Marc Rubin graduated from the architectural school of the Mackenzie University in São Paulo, Brazil. They soon formed a partnership and have since been responsible for hundreds of projects, ranging from single family homes to high-rise buildings, in addition to their urban planning work. In the 1960s, Botti Rubin designed the first exposed concrete high building. Today, they are responsible for the highest South American office building clad in glass and granite, whose unusual silhouette is already a landmark in the São Paolo skyline. Featured projects include among others the Hospital Alemão Oswaldo Cruz (German Hospital), British Brazilian Center in São Paulo and the Centro Empresarial Naçies Unidas.

Design stands for a kind of sign that is a bridge between the ideas and creative philosophies. Whatever we design must involve two parts: the bounded part and the unbounded one. Any bounded thing in the world, influenced by factors of idea, conception and culture, will form into a concrete one, something bounded. The same sense applies to architectural design.

Bounded & Unbounded carefully selects over one hundred hotels from all over the world, classifying them according to architectural style and offering a discussion about the architecture for designers.，introduces a detailed creative process from the concept to the space design, showcasing a serious of hotel buildings in accordance with diverse culture and local conditions.

This book is a demonstration of unbounded creativities based on architectural designs blended into the background of multi-component cultures. You will find 56 hotels and resorts from over 20 countries under management by world famous hotel groups, such as intercontinental, Accor, Shangri-la, Hilton and Starwood. Categorized into ten popular styles, those hotels feature cultural elements from south Eastern Asia, India, Arabia and Middle East. Ingenious design strategies applied in the projects are showcased through 2,000 high res images in perspectives of architecture, landscape and interior.

When a hotel is located within a city, there is limited space for advertising design and attracting business. It is difficult to make the hotel stand out from the fierce competition. The way it can be done is found in this book, which includes 49 luxury hotels from over 20 countries. Those representated are inspiring hotels, newly opened members from hotel groups, such as Accor, Marriott, Inter Continental, Shangri-La, Mandarin Oriental, Kempinski, Jumeirah. To illustrate designs within limited spaces and trends within the hospitality industry, this book is divided into four categories: Making use of the Local Culture and Traditions Combining Unique Themes with Avant-garde Creativity When Minimalism Meets Art Aesthetics Application of Energy-saving Technologies and Eco-friendly Materials These topics represent design trends found in diversified business hotels, employing full colour photographs which will inspire endless designing possibilities.

Although most people consider the home the place where they get the best night’s sleep, people who have stayed at the hotels in this book might disagree. After an exhausting business trip or a long day of shopping, true pleasure is not at home, but in an impeccable room where a basket of fruit and a bottle of champagne, a soft bathrobe, and a new bar of perfumed soap await you. You can log onto the internet, videoconference with your loved ones, or miss them while relaxing in the Jacuzzi. You can sit on a sofa by Antonio Citterio, next to a Philipe Starck stool, by the light of an Ingo Maurer lamp. Who wants to feel as though you’re in the home you’ve always dreamed of?

The art of fine dining has evolved over the years. Restaurants that were once hailed for their grandiose banquets have taken a back seat to some of their smaller cousins.

Boutique Restaurants is a collection of some of the most creative restaurant designs in the world, from edgy and modern to traditional and laid back. Including work from some of the industry's most exciting architects and designers, this book explores store fronts, wall décor, place settings, lighting, and furniture. With beautiful full-color photographs throughout, this compilation gives examples from all over the artistic spectrum of how to create or update a boutique restaurant to make it stand out from the rest.

The use of extraordinary designers, architects, artisans and chefs have created the thirty-four boutique restaurants in this book that are shaping the evolution of the food industry as we know it, by limiting their seating, and raising the bar.

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008 Vanke  Gongwang  Forest Villa-Mediterranean Style

024 Vanke  Gongwang  Forest Villa-British Style

040 Vanke  Gongwang  Forest Villa-Spanish Style

054 A Journey of Discovery Villa, Type K

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316 Waterfront Mansion Villa

330 A Comfortable Village

340 Poly Oak Villa Project

350 Kong

Bracket is a new book series structured around an open call for entries that highlights emerging critical issues at the juncture of architecture, environment, and digital culture. It is a collaboration between InfraNet Lab and Archinect.

Conceived as an almanac, the series looks at emerging thematics in our global age that are shaping the built environment in radically significant, yet often unexpected ways.

“On Farming” looks at the capacity for architecture to address ideas and issues of productive landscapes and urbanisms. Once merely understood in terms of agriculture, today information, energy, labour, and landscape, among others, can be farmed.

Farming harnesses the efficiency of collectivity and community and represents the local gesture, the productive landscape, and the alternative economy.

The processes of farming are mutable, parametric, and efficient. Farming is the modification of infrastructure, urbanisms, architectures, and landscapes toward a privileging of production.

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This book has chosen more than 130 remarkable brand image design programmes of catering services all over the world. From the perspective of the industry’s character, the book has combined it with the culture and requirements’ differences among various countries and areas as well as social groups, showing readers the most forward-looking and practical brand image designs of catering services. According to the types of catering services, the book has been categorised into five sections, including restaurants, bars, cafes,fast food restaurants and fruit parlours, involving the design of logo, business cards, envelopes, menus, related articles, souvenirs, packing cases, web pages, and indoor and outdoor environments, etc.

Here, each programme is special and inspiring. We believe it will provide readers with distinctive and exciting visual experience, and invite you to ponder the future of the industry’s brand image design.

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More than four centuries on from its first publication, discover one of the jewels of urban cartography and civic studies.

This quality reprint includes the most enchanting colour plates from the Civitates orbis terrarum, a magnificent collection of town map engravings, produced between 1572 and 1617.

Featuring plans, bird’s-eye views, and maps for all major cities in Europe, plus important urban centers in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, this masterwork in urban mapping gives us a comprehensive view of city life at the turn of the 17th century. It was edited and annotated by theologian and publisher Georg Braun and largely engraved by Franz Hogenberg, but also involved over a hundred different artists and cartographers who contributed not only town views, but additional elements, such as figures in local dress, courtroom scenes, and topographical details, to help convey the situation, commercial power, and political influence of each city.

TASCHEN's reprint contextualizes the plates with selected extracts from Braun’s original texts on the history and significance of each urban center as well as detailed commentaries to place each city map in its cartographical and cultural context.

About the series:

Bibliotheca Universalis — Compact cultural companions celebrating the eclectic TASCHEN universe at an unbeatable, democratic price!

Since we started our work as cultural archaeologists in 1980, TASCHEN has become synonymous with accessible, open-minded publishing. Bibliotheca Universalis brings together more than 100 of our all-time favourite titles in a neat new format so you can curate your own affordable library of art, anthropology, and aphrodisia.

Bookworm’s delight — never bore, always excite!

Brave New Houses showcases thirty of the most exciting new houses and five daring projects from southern California, a region that has always been a crucible for experimentation in residential design. They express the needs of courageous individuals who decided to please themselves, flout conventional wisdom and collaborate with talented architects. Brave New Houses will appeal to everyone who has thought of making a fresh start by designing, or buying, a one-of-a-kind house.

These architects respond to varied sites – from the canyons of Santa Barbara south to the mountains of San Diego County. Modest or grand, expansive or tightly compressed, angular or sensuously curved, their solutions offer a cross-section of the best of contemporary design and are linked only by their openness to nature and the benign climate.

Here are the successors to Richard Neutra and R.M.Schindler, John Lautner and Frank Gehry: architects who break out of the box to create houses that express their vision for clients and, sometimes, themselves. They are sensitive to environment – there's no wasted space, no striving to impress. They speak to the present and offer an appealing alternative to claustrophobic historicism.

In 1956, Time magazine called him one of the “form-givers of the 20th century“: with his invention of steel-tube furniture, Marcel Breuer (1902-1981) has made his mark in the history of design at the tender age of 23. He started his architectural career as one of the Bauhaus’s most influential architects with the 1932 Harnischmacher House. Even Breuer’s earliest work was marked by the search for a symbiosis between local and global, big and small, smooth and rough. His sparse use of materials emphasized the balance among textures, colors, and shapes. In 1943, he conceived the “binuclear” house concept - the splitting of living and sleeping areas into separate wings - which he first applied to the Geller House I (1944-1946), and which would attain great popularity. After designing the UNESCO headquarters in Paris (1953-1958), reinforced concrete, with its formal plasticity und structural elasticity, continued to give monumental character to buildings such as the Abbey and Campus of St. John’s University in Minnesota (1953-1961), the IBM Research Center in France (1960-1962), and the Whitney Museum of American Art (1963-1966) in New York City. With his keen sense of proportion, shape, and material, Breuer is one of the most important Modernists and is still very much central in the discussion of contemporary architecture.

About the Series:
Every book in TASCHEN's Basic Architecture Series features:

• approximately 120 images, including photographs, sketches, drawings, and floor plans
• introductory essays exploring the architect's life and work, touching on family and background as well as collaborations with other architects
• the most important works presented in chronological order, with descriptions of client and/or architect wishes as well as construction problems and resolutions
• an appendix including a list of complete or selected works, biography, bibliography, and a map indicating the locations of the architect's most famous buildings

The complete monograph on Marcel Breuer (1902 – 1981), the last of the first generation of Modernist architects.

The most comprehensive book on architect and designer Marcel Breuer (1902-1981), looking in detail at all the houses, furniture, and public buildings he designed In Europe and the United States–from his beginning at the Bauhaus through his collaboration with Walter Gropius, and the establishment of his own practice in the USA.

About the author:

Robert McCarter is a practicing architect and has been Ruth and Norman Moore Professor of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis since 2007. He previously taught at the University of Florida, where he was Director of the School of Architecture from 1991–2001, and Columbia University, among other schools. He has written for numerous international publications, and his books include: Carlo Scarpa (2013); Understanding Architecture, co-authored with Juhani Pallasmaa (2012); Louis I Kahn (2005); On and By Frank Lloyd Wright: A Primer of Architectural Principles (2005); Frank Lloyd Wright (1997); Unity Temple (1997); and Fallingwater (1994), all by Phaidon Press. McCarter is based in St Louis, Missouri.

In 1956, TIME magazine called him one of the defining "form-givers of the 20th century." 

Today, Marcel Breuer (1902-1981) remains a locus classicus of modernism for architects and designers alike. As a Bauhaus pioneer, even his earliest work was marked by a material restraint; the balance of texture, colour, and shape; and a symbiosis of local and global, big and small, rough and smooth. In this essential introductory monograph, we survey Breuer's complete career through some of his most influential projects and ideas, from his landmark tubular furniture to the MoMA Research House to his innovation of "binuclear" housing, splitting living and sleeping areas into separate wings. 

Along the way, we follow Hungarian-born Breuer's journey to international acclaim, with featured projects from Germany, France, England, Switzerland, and across the United States contributing to his global status as a modernist maestro.

About the series:

Each book in TASCHEN’s Basic Architecture series features:

- an introduction to the life and work of the architect 
- the major works in chronological order
- information about the clients, architectural preconditions as well as construction problems and resolutions
- a list of all the selected works and a map indicating the locations of the best and most famous buildings
- approximately 120 illustrations (photographs, sketches, drafts, and plans)