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Moss is an extraordinary plant — it grows without roots, flowers, or stems. Despite being overlooked, in many ways, moss is perfect: it provides year-round color, excels in difficult climates, prevents soil erosion, and resists pests and disease. In The Magical World of Moss Gardening, bryophyte expert Annie Martin reveals how moss can be used in stunning, eco-friendly spaces. The beautifully illustrated guide includes basics on designing and planting a moss garden, and an inspiring tour of the most magical public and private moss gardens throughout the country.

About the Author:

Annie Martin has studied and grown mosses for many years. She owns a moss gardening nursery in North Carolina.

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Featuring bathrooms as never seen before, Magnificent Baths celebrates the most striking and eccentric bathrooms beautifully presented through the photography of Massimo Listri, whose travels have taken him to the most luxurious and idiosyncratic homes, palazzos, and hotels around the world.

Each space represents its own decorative aesthetic and style. Some follow in the tradition of Roman baths and Grecian spas, while others are minimalist and modern, art deco and decadent, Zen-inspired, eccentrically romantic, or art-centric sanctuaries. The incredible bathrooms are made more intriguing by their unexpected trimmings, such as Roman statuary, Renaissance paintings, Baroque fixtures, modern art, and incredible views.

Ever romantic and wonderfully indulgent, Magnificent Baths visits the lavish bathrooms of writers, artists, fashion designers, and other notable figures who have added their own personal touch to create sensuous, dreamlike spaces.

About the Author

Massimo Listri is the photographer of Tuscany: Vistas, Churches, Museums, Art, Villas, & Gardens (Rizzoli, 2010). He has exhibited his work at Palazzo Pitti in Florence and Palazzo Reale in Milan. Annetta Hanna was the editor-in-chief of the design magazine ID before joining Random House as a senior editor. She writes and edits design and lifestyle books, most recently Preston Bailey Flowers.

Showcases the private sketchbooks of the world’s most visually inventive architects, revealing just how much drawing by hand informs great contemporary architecture

Making Marks follows up on the highly successful Architects’ Sketchbooks, which presented, for the first time, the rich breadth of sketches being created by contemporary architects following the digital revolution. Taking a post-digital perspective, the sixty renowned architects whose work is collected here show how drawing and new forms of manual presentation have been refined since the reawakening of this basic technique. Notepads, stacks of paper, pencils and fine-point pens are as present in the architect’s studio as phalanxes of screens. Revealing why and how hand-drawing still matters, this global survey presents the freehand drawings, vibrant watercolours and abstract impressions of rising talents and well-known names, including Jun Igarashi and Brian MacKay-Lyons. Will Jones’s introduction reviews the importance of the physical sketch and its vital part in the architect’s creative process.

Spanning diverse approaches, styles and physical forms, Making Marks is not merely a compendium of the preoccupations and stylistics of current practice, but also a rich and varied insight into architectural creativity

About the Author:

Will Jones is a journalist and writer specializing in architecture and design. His articles have appeared in the RIBA Journal, the Financial Times and Blueprint, and he is the author of several books including Architects’ Sketchbooks.

An invitation to enter the residences of some of the top interior designers in the world -- see their style and practicality in action, and adopt some of their winning ways.

With pillows fluffed and curtains pulled back, design secrets are revealed. From established masters of the field (Jamie Drake, Stephen Sills, Tom Britt, Jeffrey Bilhuber) to comparatively newer talents, the reader will learn about diverse approaches to decoration and the art of fine living from some of today's most successful interior designers -- with wit, candor, and passion. Other featured subjects include Alex Papachristidis, Robert Couturier, Howard Slatkin, and Katie Ridder.

From suggestions on entertaining and creating noteworthy tablescapes to practical advice on storage and displaying collections, the text guides readers to live full and savvy lives. Decorators' own residences -- ranging from townhouses to studios -- show design in action and often reflect concise principals for living efficiently and stylishly. Join New York Social Diary and many of the top interior designers of today to get a behind-the-scenes look at how the professionals live in their private (and refined) worlds. A book for decorating professionals and lovers of interior design and life in the great city.

About the Authors:

New York Social Diary is a Web site that publishes articles about and photographs of the socialites of New York and other cities. The site is maintained by David Patrick Columbia, who founded it in 2000.
David Patrick Columbia is a widely read social columnist for over twenty-four years. He is the former editor-in-chief of Avenue magazine, and is the editor-in-chief of Quest magazine and writes the monthly New York Social Diary column for Quest magazine.
Jeff Hirsch is a co-founder of newyorksocialdiary.com together with David Patrick Columbia. Hirsch is the photographer for the entire New York Social Diary "House" series, in addition to being the Web site designer and manager of newyorksocialdiary.com.
Sian Ballen, co-author of New York Social Diary "House," has conducted hundreds of interviews within the design community over the past decade for the column.
Lesley Hauge is a senior writer for New York Social Diary and co-author with Sian Ballen of New York Social Diary "House." She is the former associate editor of Avenue magazine.

- A superbly presented coffee-table book featuring an outstanding collection of contemporary residential architecture from among the most-celebrated international architects practising today
- Featuring stunning residential designs from architecture's best and brightest, Masterpiece offers a tantalizing glimpse inside some of the world's most stylish houses, each with a distinctive 'wow-factor' - the hallmark of these icons of architecture.

With an intrinsic ability to see the big picture, today’s master architects are creating inclusive, responsive residential designs that embrace building, site and interiors with subtlety and style. Their talent, ambition, attention to detail, and flair for fusing art and architecture combine to produce houses of unparalleled style and comfort.

This compendium of truly spectacular houses features the work of architecture’s brightest contemporary stars – including Lord Norman Foster, Allan Greenberg, Glenn Murcutt, Eric Owen Moss, Mario Botta, Helmut Jahn, Steven Ehrlich, and Ken Yeang.

The stunning photography is complemented by informative plans and project summaries containing unique insights into the personal design philosophies of these master architects. Project locations range from the USA to France, Italy to Dubai, the UK to Australia, and from Hong Kong to Spain.

Masterpiece is an up-to-the-minute collection of residential work from the world’s top contemporary practitioners, who consistently prove that architecture can always be re-imagined.

Featuring stunning residential designs from architecture’s best and brightest, Masterpiece offers a tantalizing glimpse inside some of the world’s most stylish houses, each with a distinctive ‘wow-factor’ – the hallmark of these icons of architecture.

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The growing variety of materials available for ­interior applications makes the selection and sampling process evermore complex and ­time-consuming. This book in the Construction and Design Manuals series offers an overview of all materials suited for walls, ceilings, and floors, as well as stand-alone objects. Trad­itional and new materials are described in a knowledgeable and practical manner, providing information and inspiration for creating interiors.

It is not only the material itself that determines the appearance of a surface, but also the design and arrangement of the joints: next to the ­mate­rial surface, the chosen laying pattern is a key aspect that influences the spatial effect. This sampler therefore includes a large array of patterns. It conveys fundamental knowledge of materials and their applications, and thus serves as a reference book, a sampling guide, and a go-to compendium for students.

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Растущее разнообразие ассортимента материалов для создания интерьеров делает процесс их отбора все более трудоемким. Это практическое пособие содержит профессиональный обзор многочисленных типов материалов, необходимых для оформления различных поверхностей и объектов.

Авторами книги детально проанализированы как традиционные, так и современные материалы, а также способы их сочетания и технологии отделки, в итоге определяющие качество поверхностей. Фактура материала и рисунок его укладки также играют важную роль в воплощении задуманного образа и достижении конкретного пространственного эффекта. Именно поэтому книга включает большое количество шаблонов, данных о свойствах материалов и методах их применения. Издание призвано восполнить недостаток информации по этой теме, стать источником вдохновения для дизайнеров и архитекторов и, конечно, настольной книгой и студентов.

A celebration of the recent work of McAlpine, the award-winning architectural and interior design firm, with a collection of residences embracing modernism, classicism, and romanticism.

The work of renowned firm McALPINE has always communicated the power of romanticism, speaking directly to the heart through the beauty and poetry of the home. Tapping diverse influences, the residences draw from architectural languages ranging from Elizabethan and Dutch to colonial Caribbean and agrarian American. The book opens with Bobby McAlpine’s own newly designed house, featuring exquisite spaces that are modern in expression but classical in order and balance. Other projects include a white-on-white neoclassical pavilion-by-the-sea in the Bahamas; a masonry dwelling in the rolling hills of Virginia; a quintessential American country house in Tennessee that combines the familiarity of a farmhouse with crisp minimalism; and an exuberant house sited on the edge of a pastoral golf course in Alabama. Freely choosing from architecture’s treasury, the assembly of houses is familiar, bold, and surprising, all at the same time — reflecting the complexity of the human experience.

About the Author:

Bobby McAlpine is an architect, romantic, poet, and entrepreneur. In 1983, he founded his architectural and design practice, McAlpine. Susan Sully has authored numerous books, including McAlpine’s best-selling titles The Home Within Us and Poetry of Place. Simon Upton is one of the foremost names in interior photography.

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The stained glass collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum is the largest in the world, making it possible to chart the development of the art in detail from the middle of the twelfth century to about 1550.

One hundred colour plates, and selected details, show the collection to full advantage, while commentaries on each of the pieces will reconstruct the original context of the panels, explain the imagery and give details of further reading thus also providing an indispensable introduction to the subject. The text will touch on the techniques of stained glass, the major centres and monuments and the themes depicted in the pieces illustrated. Taken together, images and text illuminate a golden age of stained glass production.

A spectacular survey of site-specific works by contemporary landscape architects, designers, artists, sculptors and gardeners who have taken inspiration from the ancient landscapes of the Mediterranean region

With hundreds of exceptional photographs by award-winning photographer Clive Nichols, and drawing on thirty years of exploration by Louisa Jones, this book offers a fresh vision of the Mediterranean, linking gardens, landscape design, literature, art and architecture.

Creative talents from many contexts meet here, such as Gilles Clément and Andy Goldsworthy, Nicole de Vésian and Ian Hamilton Finlay, Arnaud Maurières and Eric Ossart, Mary Keen, herman de vries and Paolo Pejrone.

Today’s artists, designers, architects and gardeners explore vernacular materials, skills and sites to produce extraordinary landscape art that affirms an ideal of partnership with nature. Whether in France, Greece, Italy, Morocco or Spain, the logic of place is determined by climate, geology, flora and fauna, architecture and land use.

About the Author:

Louisa Jones has lived in southern France for nearly forty years. She is the author of many books on gardens and landscape. She is the author of many books on gardens and landscape, including Kitchen Gardens of France, The French Country Garden, Reinventing the Garden and The Garden Visitor’s Companion. Clive Nichols is one of the world’s most successful flower and garden photographers, and in 2005 was voted Garden Photographer of the Year by the Garden Writers Guild.

Based on the French Riviera in Mougins Village on the heights of Cannes, Francobelge Interiors founded in 2016 is specialized in the realization of construction, renovation and decoration projects. 

With more than 15 years of experience and a passion for decoration, Francobelge Interiors creates organic interiors inspired by natural colors and elements of nature. 

Francobelge Interiors is the alliance of noble and authentic French materials subtly mixed with warm Belgian interiors. Inspired by numerous trips around the world, their team has been able to take advantage of the different harmonies and styles to create timeless, sober and elegant custom interiors. 

In close collaboration with teams of qualified craftsmen, Francobelge Interiors accompanies its clients in projects from Monaco to Saint-Tropez as well as abroad, in the Netherlands, Belgium, the United States, Switzerland... Their field of vision is limitless. 

In this first monograph, Francobelge Interiors shows ten recent houses and apartments at the French Riviera, in Monaco, Monte Carlo and in Los Angeles.

Going through a journey of more than a thousand year, coffee is destined to be not just a cup of beverage. This book gives a glimpse of coffee’s influence on customs, food, arts, philosophy, trade and finance through historical fragments. A thorough infographic of coffee timeline as well as the three waves of coffee display the steps coffee has taken from Ethiopia to the world. Based on the awareness of coffee’s cultural properties, this book goes on with a large number of branding and interior works, showing how designers from around the world combine the cultural and practical side of coffee.

Bursting with beautiful ideas for bringing a signature mid-century look into your own space, as well as practical advice on what will work where, this is an essential guide for any lover of interior design and mid-century style. In this beautifully photographed book, Mark and Keith of Mini Moderns show you how to create a timeless mid-century look in your own home

Known for their striking use of pattern and colour, Mark and Keith’s designs are inspired by everything from childhood memories to commentaries on popular culture, and through this lens they explore how different influences and designers have created key mid-century looks. They delve into the cornerstones of mid-century style, from colour and pattern to materials and curation, and share their secrets on how to bring together the things you love to create your own look. They also include inspirational case studies to demonstrate particular looks, from Beatnik Beach House to Scandi Rustic, Seaside Modern to Studio Townhouse.

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Traces the evolution of midcentury houses and demonstrates how they are experienced and lived in today

This expanded and updated edition of the 2014 classic focuses on the concentration of midcentury houses in New Canaan, Connecticut, built by noted architects including Marcel Breuer, Eliot Noyes, Philip Johnson, John Black Lee, and Edward Durell Stone. This new edition addresses the issue of preservation and adaptive reuse as a sustainable architectural strategy.

A representative group of 17 houses reveals an evolving legacy, now adapting to contemporary life. Each is examined in detail, with plans, timelines, and both archival and new photography, capturing the clean, minimalist look of the initial construction and re-imagining by significant architects of our time. Today preservation and renovation of older buildings has new visibility as a sustainable approach. As the National Trust for Historic Preservation has said, “The greenest building is the one that is already built.”

About the Authors:

Cristina A. Ross is an architect and preservationist, based in New Canaan, and a board member of Preservation Connecticut.

Lorenzo Ottaviani is the creative director of Lorenzo Ottaviani Design.

Jeffrey R. Matz is a practicing architect in Stamford, Connecticut.

Michael Biondo is an architectural photographer whose work has appeared in numerous design publications.

Від А до Zen, ознайомтеся з вичерпним довідником про ідеальні місця світу, щоб знайти свій внутрішній спокій.

Свіже літнє повітря, листя, що шелестить на тлі чудового заходу сонця, легкий вітерець, що пестить вашу шкіру, поки ви тихо медитуєте – якщо це щось схоже на ідеальну відпустку, Mindful Places to Stay – саме для вас книга.

Завдяки захоплюючим фотографіям і легкому читанню, візуальні сторінки розкривають найдивовижніші йоги та медитації та історії, що стоять за ними.

Приєднуйтесь до Mindful Places to Stay у відкритті тиші та спокою в захоплюючих місцях, розкиданих по всьому світу.

З моменту своєї першої публікації в 1982 році, Modern Architecture Since 1900 утвердилася як сучасна класика. Воно поєднує в собі чіткий історичний план із майстерним аналізом і тлумаченням. Технічні, економічні, соціальні та інтелектуальні розробки об’єднані у всеосяжний наратив, який створює умови для детального вивчення будівель. У цій книзі автор зосереджується на окремому архітекторі та на якостях, які надають видатним будівлям їхню довговічну цінність.

Для третього видання текст було радикально переглянуто та розширено, включивши багато нового матеріалу та свіжу оцінку регіональної самобутності та різноманітності. Сім розділів абсолютно нові, включаючи розширене висвітлення новітньої світової архітектури.

Описана Джеймсом Акерманом з Гарвардського університету як «незмірно найкраща праця, що висвітлює цю галузь, яка існує», ця книга представляє глибокий аналіз сучасної традиції та її витоків, простежуючи творчу взаємодію між старим і новим, яка породила таке дивовижне багатство архітектурних форм у всьому світі та протягом століття.

Про автора:

Вільям Кертіс отримав всесвітнє визнання за свої архітектурні твори. Його книги включають Le Corbusier: Ideas and Forms та Denys Lasdun,, обидві опубліковані Phaidon.