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Everyone has a different opinion about the way the ideal family home should look.
The different reports in this book reflect this variety of opinions: they range from historic country houses to recently built, distinctive homes for young families with lots of children.

The same theme keeps emerging from these very different backgrounds: the sense of conviviality, the warm welcome, the informal, timeless character that each of these family homes exudes.

These are houses that are not just there to be looked at – first and foremost, they are places where people really live: ideal environments for parents, children and guests.
In these havens, architecture and interior are never purely aesthetic, but always have a functional role, helping to make life more enjoyable for the people who live there.

Family Houses presents a compilation of examples of the emerging residential architecture, which are linked by the manner in which they propose innovative and experimental solutions. Refinement in the selection of finishes, restraint in the distribution of rooms, and pains taken in integrating these spaces into their surroundings represent just some of the skills exercised by their designers. Although each of the houses featured in this selection heads in a unique direction, stylistically speaking, they all surprise us technically and with the repertoire of sensations they provoke. In all of these houses, the architects have paid special attention to the dynamics that arise when different family members live together, and they have thus oriented their efforts towards finding a balance between designing for design's sake and making houses that are liveable.

Family Houses in the Country takes us to real homes imbued with the spirit of the families who delight in living in them.

Author Alexandra d’Arnoux and photographer Gilles de Chabaneix travel through the United States, England, Scotland, Italy and France to find remarkable houses with beautiful, comfortable interiors where decorative detail combines with family tradition to create a memorable and timeless atmosphere.

We visit a family homestead in California’s Napa Valley, a place of eternal summer. We experience the isolated but welcoming manor of Kerdaoualas on a hill in Brittany, and find that an intriguing home in the heart of Shropshire once housed a medieval abbey.

Far more than just an interiors book, FamilyLifeStyle Home is a bible for living with children in domestic environments that are as effortlessly stylish as they are educational, as comfortable with the hurly burly of family life during the day as they are elegant for evening entertainment.

The first in a new series that celebrates how parents can live, entertain and travel in style just as much with children as before having children, FamilyLifeStyle Home is fresh, fun and friendly.

• Breathes real life into interiors and lifestyle for a new generation of parents and their children
• Modern home-owners want the best of both worlds: stylish contemporary living alongside the rich and unpredictable mêlée of family life
• Explores the different areas of the house and how they can be made flexible to allow a range of fulfilling activities when children are and aren’t around

From the aspect of functional space, the book is divided into five parts: hotel space, business & office space, restaurant space, leisure & entertainment space and exhibition space. In the hotel space, this book selects hotels designed by well-known international design groups. You can comprehend the design classics of big groups through drawings of the hotel's public areas, lobby, banquet hall, rooms and so on. In the exhibition space, popular 2010 Shanghai World Expo pavilions are the main selection. The pomp of the 2010 Shanghai World Expo is recreated by displaying pavilion’s external shape, entrance and internal structure. In other spaces, you can learn about the building process of business environment by displaying functions of shopping malls, office decoration, stores, restaurants, KTV, leisure clubs and so on.
From the aspect of CAD drawings design, all selected drawings are domestic and international first-class drawings, and even built drawings. In addition, there are also corresponding real and effect maps. These drawings are very detailed and from big companies, including HBA, Gold Mantis, the United States Wilson, Tdi Associates (Shanghai) Pte, Ltd, and famous designers, including Gao Wenan, Xie Yingkai, Zhang Xing and so on. You can not only refer to their design but also quote something inside the drawings. For example, you can adjust the size of hardware structural elements to standard size for the next need; at the same time, it’s worth for you to collect some detailed and standard methods such as identification methods of icons, illustration, material and process. All these can enrich your own map storage or perfect your company’s storage.

In "Famous Interiors", Vandertol uses inspiring international interior - photos of eight celebrities as a starting point. The reader peeps into Easy Rider Dennis Hopper's steel barn in Los Angeles, is invited into the home of the founders of the Missoni fashion house, known for their outstanding blend of colourful creations and modern art, discovers the interior of the Italian fashion designer Donatella Versace in the famous Park Plaza, and many more. He then gives numerous styling tips and tricks and shows the reader how to recreate the same luxurious and stylish look within his own home. The reader looks over the shoulder of a renowned interior designer, as van der Tol explains the reader step by step how to create a stylish, modern home. What colours do you use? What do you look for when shopping? How do you blend different styles and materials? How do you create that look of luxury?This book tells all.

Vandertol studied fashion and design at the Rietveld Academy and art history at the University of Amsterdam. As interior-photographer his works are published in international and leading magazines as Design, O at Home, Vogue Living, AD Germany, Maison Francaise and Madame Figaro. He journeys around the world and artistically renders the homes and interiors of diverse celebrities, artists and famous designers.

Historical farmhouses, quadrangular farms and castle farms form an important part of the heritage of the Low Countries.

More and more interior designers, architects, restorers and private individuals with a passion for old buildings are realising that this heritage must not be lost.

Now that there is a constant decrease in the number of active farms, more ancient farmhouses are finding new owners. They are being restored to make contemporary residential farms, with all modern comforts and luxury, but with the authentic character and the surrounding natural landscape as additional bonuses.

This book is a plea for a reassessment of this rich, rural architectural history. Whether it’s a seventeenth-century convent farm, a nineteenth-century long-fronted farmhouse, or the stylistically faithful reproduction of an authentic eighteenth-century farm complex, these unique creations all combine the past and the present, the house and its rural surroundings in a stunning way.

Iconic brand Farrow & Ball began in the 1940s as a small firm of craftsmen paint-makers, specializing in paints made in the traditional way with traditional ingredients. Despite its global success, Farrow & Ball has stayed true to these origins. It is the quality of its eco-friendly paints, with their exceptional depth and subtlety of colour, that has made the company famous. They look as good on the walls of a contemporary bathroom or slick Soho flat as they do in a period ballroom and are as perfect for a cottage as in a castle.

Divided into chapters according to style, including Classical, City, Modern Country, Country House and Cottage, the first part of the book shows Farrow & Ball paints and wallpapers used in a wide range of interiors. All the homes are British and share a sense of style, and an appreciation of the visual and emotional power of paint and colour. Part Two is devoted to colour. From the themes of All White and In Neutral to Softly, Softly, Dark and Handsome and Bright and Beautiful, each chapter explores a particular palette and shows how colour can be used to create atmosphere, character and charm.

Farrow and Ball: Art of Colour

Farrow & Ball: Decorating with Colour

Contents:
CORPORATE
ART & CULTURE
COMMERCIAL HOTEL EDUCATION
ENTERTAINMENT & LEISURE
OTHER
INDEX

Contents:
006-011 Lakeview Residence
012-017 Craticule House
018-021 Villa Roling
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304-309 EDDI'S House
310-315 Summer House
316-319 Index

In the 21st Century when choice is taken for granted, consumers demand creative and unique shopping venues. For savvy fashion boutique owners, it’s ‘experience design’ or concept design that makes the difference between success and failure.

The examples presented in Fashion Décor reveal the passion and innovation of designers in every detail — from a store logo constructed from a cascade of hanging crystals to an abstract tree sculpted out of plastic pipes, all are intended to awe and attract customers.

Included are the Camper Shop and Diesel Denim Gallery, plus a host of other masterful projects created for Marni, Stussy, Alberto Ferretti, Issey Miyake, Swarovski and Nike. Featured contributors include international architecture and design giants such as Pentagram (UK), Tokuijin Yoshioka Design (Japan), Universal Design Studio (UK/Australia), Marcel Wanders (Netherlands), and Studio Arthur Casas (Brazil). All are accompanied by detailed floor plans.

Is dressing a home the same as dressing a body? Fashion Designers at Home attempts to answer that question by looking inside the homes of over twenty of today's hottest fashion designers, revealing them to be incredibly talented interior designers as well. Perfect for both the fashion and interior design enthusiast, Fashion Designers at Home shows that the talents behind the worlds most fashion-forward clothing and accessories artists who place so much importance upon the choice of a cut, the nuances of a colour, and the feel of a certain material have also created some of the worlds most lavish and inspiring interiors.