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From London and Milan to New York, we visit the houses, apartments and studios of people who all inhabit very different creative worlds.

Amongst others, we glimpse inside the contemporary townhouse of renowned fashion designer Betty Jackson, the family home of Gisela Garcia-Escuela, one of the leading lights behind the Anthropologie stores, and are given a tour of the combined studio-archive-home of Italian designer Barnaba Fornasetti.

Divided into chapters on Individual Eclecticism, Art-Loving Modernists, Living with Pattern and Colour, Modern Industrialist, Carefully Curated Purists and The Archivist, their very titles give an inkling of the different styles and treasures to be found within the four walls of each property.

The home owners range from well-known names from the worlds of art, design and fashion, to private individuals, and range from a compact London flat to a farmhouse in upstate New York, but all have one thing in common their living spaces are inspired and inspiring, unique, individual, personal, and never, ever run of the mill.

About the Author

Geraldine James started her career in fashion as a contemporary designer buyer, and from fashion she moved to home and gift. Geraldine soon developed a passion for collecting and finding the most unusual and beautiful things. She now works as a home buying manager at Selfridges and, as part of her role, spends time travelling extensively to find exciting new products for the store. The author is based in Putney, London.

Any wall is perfect for display, whatever its size, shape or style. In this inspirational guide, Geraldine James, veteran collector of all things beautiful, shows ways to organize and display your valuables to celebrate their uniqueness and your creativity.

A collection of fans, teapots or clocks will illuminate a little corner, whereas a teenager's bedroom will transform instantly when hoarded football memorabilia makes the leap from the floor to the wall in a bold, clever arrangement.

Look for unusual spaces and items: line up a series of themed prints above a picture rail, set heaps of floral china plates in grand style above the fireplace or simply add a mirror into a display to instantly create another in its image.

Chapter by chapter, discover how to arrange virtually anything from scratch, rearrange the collections you treasure to best effect and begin a journey into colour, texture and themes to create elegant displays that give a home character and charm.

From a memory wall of sepia family photographs to witty collections of kitsch art, this clever guide shows how to create a look that will bring any space to life.

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This series will bring together unique, inspiring interiors by renowned photographers worldwide and is made in cooperation with photo agency Taverne Agency.
A unique book that showcases the homes and interiors of artists from all over the world. Be inspired by very personal and original ideas on interior design, from some of the world's most creative people.

• Explains the complex interactions between creeping bentgrass and abiotic stresses in easy-to-understand language
• Describes the major diseases and maladies of creeping bentgrass
• Focuses on the most practical cultural, chemical, and biological approaches to stress and pest management
• Discusses cultural practices for greens, why they are needed, and how and when they should be accomplished
• Offers practical guidance to help you select and use fungicides, herbicides, and plant growth regulators
• Summarizes key points at the end of each chapter
• Includes more than 200 color photographs

Creeping bentgrass is considered the premier turfgrass species grown on golf courses, and there is a growing demand for an understanding of its maintenance and management practices. Still the only comprehensive reference on the subject, Creeping Bentgrass Management, Second Edition helps you identify the factors that contribute to summer bentgrass decline and guides you in selecting the best approaches for stress and pest management.

This full-color book delves into all aspects of modern approaches to creeping bentgrass management on golf courses. It describes the nature of mechanical, physiological, and environmental stresses and how they influence growth and management of creeping bentgrass. The book covers the selection of creeping bentgrass cultivars; cultural practices, including mowing, irrigation, and topdressing; the deleterious effects of organic and inorganic layers in golf greens; and ways to limit injury due to mechanical or physical stresses. It also discusses recent advances in the management of selected diseases and soil-related maladies of creeping bentgrass—from Pythium-incited root dysfunction to dollar spot, yellow tuft, and blue-green algae. The focus is on common disease symptoms, predisposing conditions, hosts, and cultural and chemical management strategies. Advances in biological disease control are also reviewed.

The book offers practical guidance in selecting and using fungicides, herbicides, and plant growth regulators. It also discusses the use of non-selective herbicides and fumigants for the renovation of creeping bentgrass and outlines strategies for dealing with selected invertebrate pests. Throughout, color photographs help you identify diseases and stresses that may be affecting your own golf course.

Fully revised and updated, this second edition of a bestseller features three new chapters, new photographs, and expanded information about diseases. Drawing on the author’s more than thirty years of experience and research, it brings together a wealth of information on how to optimize creeping bentgrass health and performance.

Famed interior designer Vicente Wolf is known for a modern and elegant design sensibility that is guided by integrity and simplicity. He is also a photographer of note, capturing images of his own design work and of his travels. Crossing Boundaries is a fascinating combination of the two, a spirited approach that pairs travel and design based on visits to Ethiopia, Myanmar, Syria, Madagascar, and Borneo.

Wolf is an adventurous voyager, and he is captivated by how people express themselves: in the colors and patterns of clothing, the forms and features of architecture, and so on. These influences are incorporated into his own designs, sometimes directly - a collection of brightly colored woven caps that add personality to a Wyoming log cabin - and sometimes indirectly - a composition of gray-blues and gray-greens drawn from succulent plants in a dry riverbed.

About the Author:

Admired for his impeccable eye and unique vision of the world, Vicente Wolf has been at the top of the design industry for over forty years. He is the author of Learning to See, Lifting the Curtain on Design, Crossing Boundaries, and The Four Elements of Design.

Restaurants cover a wide geographical area: Dubai, Japan, China Taiwan, China Hong Kong, Mainland China...
Chain restaurant, such as nobu, South Beauty, reveal its beautiful presence across Asia!
 - Phoenix pavilion
 - Dongpo restaurants
 - Gonggeng College
 - White Pagoda make past and present feelings and inspiration have a good communication and blend!
Multiplied and ordered photo shoots can more clearly reveal the designer's design intent and essence!

'Cultural Architecture' presents 27 projects by the best Chinese architects and architectural design firms. Featured buildings were created with innovative concepts and unique architectural languages for cultural events, such as museums, art galleries and memorials.

Retail merchandising is not just about garments hanging on a rail in isolation or displaying items on shelves

Leading fashion retailers and luxury lifestyle stores now rely heavily on conceptual interior and space design to reflect the whole image and philosophy of their label or brand, not just to showcase their collections. The connection between store space and product is organic one defines and enhances the other. Curated focuses on the current minimalist, gallery/store trend in commercial design and decoration, and its increasing presence in new shopping spaces.

Contemporary boutiques, bookshops, bars and concept stores now seek to create a unique environment where innovative minimal design, art, lighting, styling and music are as much of an integral part of the shopping experience as the merchandise itself. The traditional retail store has now involved into an evolving platform of meticulously curated ideas, where limited edition pieces sit elegantly beside bespoke-designed furniture like gallery installations. Abstract art pieces and objects are juxtaposed with clothes, interacting in a seamless aesthetic harmony.

Curated offers a visual journey of contemporary design and explores the close affinity between fashion and art in a modern, utilitarian minimalist setting. An exquisite visual reference book of some of the most cutting-edge in-store spaces across the globe, this book presents innovative retailing ideas and minimalist inspirations from the hottest international design studios such as the conceptual Phillip 3.1 store in Seoul, Camper in London, Issey Miyake in Shibuya, Swarovski in Ginza, Merci Pop-up store, Aesop in Singapore, the uber-minimalist Muji in Milan and so much more. Here visual merchandising is taken to a whole new level, elevating the products into objects of beauty and works of art and blurring the boundaries between fashion and design.

This work features information and interviews with the designers, technical drawing plans as well as an explanation of the concept and creative process and personal vision behind the design of each space.

Features the following shops and designers:

Earl's Gourmet Grub- Free Land Buck; Aesop, Singapore- March Studio; V2K Designers, Istanbul- Autoban; Boutique Runway, Vietnam- CLS Architetti Lik+Neon- Gitta Gschwendtner; Folk Clothing- Iya Studio, London; YOUR Concept Store- Iya Studio, London; Et Vous- Joseph Dirand Architecture; 3.1 Phillip Lim, Seoul, Korea- Leong Leong Architecture; Korchiro Kimura Aoyama- International; Japanse winkeltje- Nezu Aymo Architects; Lodge, Hiroshima, Japan- Philipp Plein; Duras Daiba, Tokyo- Chikara Ohno; Entrance, Buchares- Square One; Camper in Malmo, Sweden- TAF; Eva New York Fashion Store- Volido; Comme des Garcon Aoyama- Studio Toogood.

With 30 brand new contemporary designs for modern window treatments and 26 updated illustrations, this revised and expanded fourth edition of The Curtain Design Directory offers even more ideas and solutions than ever before. Browse through the book and create your own beautiful window treatments, drawing inspiration from more than 400 hand-drawn black-and-white illustrations. This edition provides even more essential information; including a helpful window measuring sheet, detailed information about positioning fittings, how to determine the correct proportions for top treatments and estimating fabric quantities.

The Curtain Design Directory is the must-have handbook for every interior designer and curtain maker.
Описание: Provides 30 contemporary designs for modern window treatments and 26 illustrations. This book offers information about positioning fittings, how to determine correct proportions and estimating fabric quantities. It is aimed at interior designer and curtain maker.

- Real solutions for real windows
- A celebration of curtains in all their forms
- Specially commissioned photographs of curtains and window treatments
- Easy-to-read, clear format. Every picture has its own helpful explanation
- Useful tip boxes to solve practical problems
- Written by authors with direct, hands-on experience

This is a lavishly illustrated photographic book providing inspiration for a wide range of curtains and window treatments. From drawing rooms and dining rooms to bedrooms and bathrooms, from pelmets and valances to poles and shutters, this is a comprehensive look at a variety of styles and approaches that can be used in your home.

The settings are hugely varied too, from the classic English country house, to chic town houses and flats.

The photographs provide a context for the window treatments, showing how a particular style will work. It is arranged in four sections: room settings, window types, curtain styles and blinds and shutters. There are also detailed pictures, revealing the intricacies that go into achieving the look. Invaluable descriptions and tip boxes, explaining how to tackle the technical problems involved are included as are two comprehensive glossaries - one for the US and one for the UK.

Contents include:
Children's rooms
Dining rooms and kitchens
Pelmets
Swags and tails
Doors and French windows
Simple curtains and sheers"

Catherine Merrickand Rebecca Day run the well-known Merrick & Day curtain workroom, making curtains for interior designers. They run regular courses on curtain making and have distilled their years of knowledge into several authoritative books on curtain making, including the curtain maker's essential companion Encyclopaedia of Curtains and the stimulating Blinds, Curtains & Cushions.

Let there be...shade! This new and expanded edition of a Sunset bestseller breezes in like a breath of fresh air, with everything you need to know to create gorgeous curtains, draperies, shades, and valances.

Practical as well as inspirational, Curtains, Draperies & Shades guides you through the process of choosing fabric and hardware, provides easy-to-follow sewing instructions, and gives clear directions for installing your beautiful window treatments, from hanging curtains to rigging shades.

More than 100 projects help you select the right window treatments to dress up every room in the house. And new designer touches--from fanciful clips to edge details--will have your friends exclaiming, “ Wow, you made those? “

Features:

- New and expanded Sunset classic with more than 100 window treatments

- Updated format with fresh photography and step-by-step directions

- Covers the entire process: planning, measuring, sewing, and installation

- New section on designer details for tiebacks, cascades, swags, edge details, and embellishments

Curtains, Shades, Pillows & Covers is the one-stop reference guide to making every kind of soft furnishing for the home. Inspirational image galleries provide hundreds of ideas for fabric, shapes, design details, and more. Every category has practical workshops that give step-by-step instructions for techniques and items, plus essential troubleshooting, design advice, and professional tips. Also included is a review of window shapes and what options for covering them—taking into account needs such as privacy, light, etc. A special section, “Essential Techniques,” ensures readers that sewing expertise is at their fingertips when they need it.