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Cities don't have to be faceless lines of gray boxes. City Embellishments Barcelona presents dozens of fresh ideas for bringing big cities back to a human scale. Small details like a carved facade, a tiny green space, benches, touches of bold color, a sheltering doorway, planters, and more. Each of these warm, distintive touches is expertly explained by the best authority available: the designing architects themselves.

300 color photographs

* Sports or cocktails, shopping or sightseeing, this handy volume covers everything that this Mediterranean hotspot has to offer…
 * Contains sections on the most interesting landmarks, restaurants and bars…and the top accommodations

300 color photographs 

    Living in the city offers a series of advantages: public transport, proximity to amenities, schools and work places, museums, sports centres, restaurants, etc. The city attracts an increasing number of young people, as well as the elders who return after having lived in the countryside or quiet suburbs for decades.
    This book presents a series of recently renovated and remodelled urban residences: majestic master houses that are restored to their original glory, as well as contemporary island houses, exclusive villas, and new
apartments, lofts and penthouses.
    A similarity lies in this range of diversified works: the inspiration of architects, interior designers and the residents into a spatial unity, serenity and quality of life that are reflected in the structure of each house, and in the selection of materials and colours.
    This publication serves a source of inspiration for those who currently reside in the city, or are aspiring to purchase or rent a house to soak in the glorious sights and sounds of city life.

To say that the city has once again become the preferred habitat of humans would be stating the obvious. It has been calculated that in the next few years nearly 80% of humanity will live or work in the city. Inevitably, people feel a powerful and rather inexplicable attraction for the masses, modernity, and technology. The city holds our strongest desires and highest achievements, but also our toughest challenges and greatest uncertainty. The modern city imposes a rhythm on our lives that is reflected in our homes and in how we want them to be. Beyond its surface area, a house, as an extension of our own bodies, is and should be a mirror of our habits, customs and tastes; the entire urban space, from tiny flats to spacious lofts and single-family homes, must have a certain grandeur that its occupant can identify with. Just as the uniformity of a media-driven society searches for what's new and for style of its own, the need is similarly emerging to personalize our homes.

An interior design authority and a famed Angeleno photographer team up to present thirty of the most exceptional homes and gardens in one of the world’s most design-savvy cities

Los Angeles’s dramatic setting, Mediterranean climate, and outdoor lifestyle have long attracted creative individuals to its diverse neighborhoods. The thirty houses and gardens featured in City of Angels, designed by renowned architects, interior designers, and garden designers, offer a rich mix of quirkiness, elegance, glitz, and Hollywood pizazz. Expertly guided by author Jennifer Ash Rudick and photographer Firooz Zahedi, we visit Kelly Wearstler’s beach house in Malibu, Hutton Wilkinson’s exotic ranch in the Santa Monica Mountains, a midcentury modern Schindler house, John Lautner’s vertigo-inducing modernist glass box in the Hollywood Hills, and Richard Shapiro’s overgrown gardens surrounding a magnificent Hispano-Moorish house in Holmby Hills

About the Author:

Jennifer Ash Rudick is the author of Palm Beach Chic and Out East, a contributing editor to Veranda, and a producer of documentary films, including Iris, with Maysles Films, and Diner en Blanc. Firooz Zahedi was born in Tehran, Iran. After moving to the US, he became a photographer for Interview magazine and Vanity Fair. His work has appeared in Vogue, GQ, Town & Country, Architectural Digest, Elle Decor, and House Beautiful, and has been exhibited in galleries around the world.

Contents:
 Africa
P10 Green Corridor-- Tripoli Green Belt
P14 The Orchard Restaurant
Asia
P26 Campus Valley-- Ewha Womans Unversity
P30 Greenbelt-- Landscape Design for Tokyo Midtown
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Oceania
P60 Daughter of the Sea-- Re-developed Kumutoto
P72 Landscape Design for Darlington Public Domain, University of Sydney
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Europe
P108 A Big World on the Other Side of the Wall--The Walled Garden at Marks Hall Arbortum
P116 Back to Nature-- Potters Field Park in London
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South America
P230 Green Residence -- Helga and Thomas Jetter Residence
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North America
P250 Safari Drive
A Flower in the Desert-- Safari Drive
P258 A Theatre for the City-- Nathan Philips Square Revitalization

While The Images Publishing Group has established a reputation over the past two decades for publishing work of the world's most revered and eminent architects, the dawn of the twenty-first century has brought a new generation of architects whose work is yet to reach a wide audience. IMAGES is delighted to introduce the Neo Architecture series, which focuses on the work of this next generation of master architects. Featured works vary widely, from concepts to built projects, elaborate models and competition entries to modest buildings. All are provocative, and represent the vanguard of international architectural practice.

This lavish book presents the distinguished fabrics of Clarence House, one of the world’s most renowned textile houses, with inspiring applications for interiors.  For the past fifty years Clarence House, founded by Robin Roberts in 1961, has been infusing the textile industry with luxurious and inventive fabrics. From Mark Hampton to Robert Couturier to Charlotte Moss, interior designers have long relied on the firm’s superb fabrics to add just the right note to their decorating schemes. This book presents some of the most imaginative textiles available today and provides an array of inspirational fabric applications and ingenious choices for upholstering furniture, creating dreamy window treatments, and adding finishing touches such as tassels and other trims.  The heart of the book, however, illuminates Kazumi Yoshida's creative process and his ideas for use of fabrics in the home. Whether he is interpreting historical documents or drawing in the studio he is always concocting modernist abstractions, contemporary prints, or new interpretations of eighteenth-century patterns.     

About the Authors:  

Kazumi Yoshida has been the design director for Clarence House since 1981. Francois Halard is an acclaimed photographer who has contributed to numerous lifestyle publications and books. Jacopo Etro oversees Etro’s fabrics division and supervises the company’s Home Collection. Pierre-Alexis Dumas is the artistic director of Hermes. Bob Appelbaum is the president of Clarence House. Sabine Rothman is the style director of House Beautiful.

School buildings are constantly evolving to meet the needs of the next generation of teachers and students. This book presents more than 40 projects from the USA, showcasing leading elementary and secondary school design. Featured projects factor in important design elements including security and safety, new technology, resource centres and energy conservation. They must also accommodate flexible learning environments for a range of student groups. Full-colour photos, plans, drawings and descriptive text accompany the projects. The book was complied and written by architect and critic Michael J. Crosbie, author of best- selling Architecture for the Gods.

‘I admire Suzanne Trocmé’s attitudes, words and ideas. I respect and admire that she can see so many things clearly that apparently contradict each other, but which are for me the keys of today’s and tomorrow’s sensitivity.’ – Andrée Putman

Classic chic is timeless, the interior-design equivalent of the ‘little black dress’. And just like the LBD, sophisticated accessories can add drama, whilst natural lines and classic beauty shine through when a space is unadorned. However it’s presented, classic chic exudes a sense of quality and durability, unaffected by fashion and fads. Classic chic is a class act. So what distinguishes it, and how can it be created?

Suzanne Trocmé’s fascinating exploration of these questions weaves together analyses of design principles and their practical applications, as well as profiling a selection of exemplary interiors – each a hymn to order, elegance, comfort restraint or drama – from some of the worlds best designers and architects.

Classic Chic discusses the principles of such design in depth, examining architecture and space, shape, colour and texture, and investigating the specific elements of the style, including furniture fabric, details and ornaments. Drawing on inspiration both modern and historical, as well as her own creative understanding, the author distils the very essence of chic.

Featuring more than 300 specially commissioned photographs, and a directory of resources and designers, Classic Chic is an essential read for hopeful homeowners, armchair enthusiasts and, of course, hands on designers.

Classic Design Styles is a beautifully illustrated chronology of European and American period styles from the medieval to the end of the nineteenth century. Top interior designer, Henrietta Spencer-Churchill shows us room-by-room, how elements of classic decorating styles can be adapted and used in the home today. Over 200 new photographs of previously unseen interiors accompany insider decorating tips and practical advice on how to recreate period living in your own home.

In Classic Design Styles well-known author and interior designer, Lady Henrietta Spencer-Churchill turns her attention to the history of American and European classic interior design traditions including: Victorian, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Colonial, Federal Style, Queen Anne, Georgian, Empire, and Arts & Crafts. Spencer-Churchill outlines the enduring decorating movements of these classic styles, explaining and illustrating the distinguishing characteristics of each one. She show how elements of these classic decorating styles can be adapted and used today to recreate period living in your own home.

The first section is a richly illustrated chronology of period styles and a guide to the history of European and American interiors from the medieval to the end of the nineteenth century. In the second section, Spencer-Churchill takes us on a room by room tour of one spectacular house decorated in each style. She explains in detail the theory and methods behind each look, how to interpret traditional styles for your own home, and the enduring value and allure of each period. Illustrating how to work with an existing room, Spencer-Churchill includes a section on architectural and furnishing details like walls, windows, fabrics and paints. Beautiful and practical, Classic Design Styles is an insider's guide for decorators and enthusiasts of period living.