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The Colours of...series takes you on a photographic journey through the streets of the world's greatest cities and through the landscapes of some of the most beautiful countries. But there is a key difference: you experience each place through a succession of themes that distil its essence, creating a new and evocative approach to the world's great places. With a dynamic design and attractive format the books are a must have souvenir or gift. There are 7-10 chapters, each based on themes pertinent to the city or country. Superb photography captures the theme - Flavours, Romance, Structures, Landscapes, People, Sights, Events, Culture, Reflections, Seasons, Life and Style. There are also pictorial feature spreads in each chapter bringing its best features to life.

Compact living is a necessity for some people, but for many it is a conscious choice. Not only single people, but increasing numbers of young families and dynamic older people are now choosing apartments or city homes with modest proportions. This makes it all the more important to use the available space efficiently. This book presents a multitude of useful, space-saving ideas in 18 projects created by leading interior architects and designers. Their innovations, often ingenious and sometimes also very simple, can transform a property with a limited amount of space into an exceptionally comfortable home.

"Street Furniture" offers the reader a close-up look at all of the elements that go into the design of urban space. Every item shown in the full color photographs that illustrate the projects was custom-designed for a specific purpose. The creation of each piece is explained right from the initial stages to its eventual construction and installation through original sketches and detailed lists of materials. This is surely the most thorough and complete volume of its kind, and constitutes a streetwise resource that no urban design professional should do without.

The Complete Photo Guide to Curtains and Draperies makes it easy to choose and construct todays most popular window treatments. Colour photographs present twenty styles in a variety of room settings, involving fabrics, trims and decorative hardware, and they then show how to do-it-yourself. The projects include tailored, romantic and contemporary curtains and formal draperies with all styles of pleats.

There are step-by-step instructions from start to finish, on such aspects as measuring the window, calculating yardage, cutting, sewing and installing. Following in the tradition of Windows with Style and Creative Window Treatments, Complete Photo Guide to Curtains and Draperies is an indispensable part of an all-new series of window decor books.

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Learn how to make slipcovers to fit all different styles of furniture with The Complete Photo Guide to Slipcovers, Pillows, and Bedding. From making simple seat cushions for wooden chairs to complicated covers for sleeper sofas, this comprehensive, how-to reference covers all the options and teaches all the essential skills.

Readers can easily access information with step-by-step directions and hundreds of color photos for clear understanding, and inspiring home interior photography shows slipcovered furniture pieces in real home settings.

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The Complete Photo Guide to Window Treatments, Second Edition is the most comprehensive book of its kind on the market, offering the reader both inspiring location photography plus step-by-step instructions for making 50 different projects. Window treatments include several curtain styles, formal draperies, swags, valances, cornices, various Roman shades, and roller shades. Designed for the DIY home sewer, this book is also valued by professional workrooms and trade schools because it teaches professional methods for measuring, sewing, and installing window treatments. Now updated with new photography and the latest window treatment styles, this second edition is a must-have for any DIY home sewer.

The Complete Photo Guide to Window Treatments makes it easy to choose and construct today's most popular window treatments - 20 styles of valances, swags, and cornices; 20 styles of curtains and draperies; plus 10 types of window shades.

Room photographs show each style in a variety of decorating styles, fabrics, and hardware.

Each project has step-by-step instructions from beginning to end: measuring the window, cutting the fabric with confidence, sewing or constructing the project, and installing the treatment the professional way.

Over 500 how-to photographs and diagrams make it easy to have professional results.

This is the big book of DIY window treatments!

 

 

Packed with detailed plans, drawings, and sketches plus charts

All the facts an architect needs-all in one easy-to-use reference

This work features more than 200 examples of contemporary buildings that show how the architect have implemented to evercome the restrictions of space, needs and some time regulations, and environment. From the multifunction building to the regular apartment building, the project presented in this book, have one common point, the research of concepts and innovative distribution of the space looking for optimizing at its most the possibilities of available space and the program. All plans and descriptive texts have been realized together with the architects themselves enabling in this way the best understanding of each project displayed. for each of the projects displayed. Making this a unique reference book for any professional on the architecture and construction.

 

 

Zaha Hadid is one of the most important and influential architects in the world. Educated in mathematics in Baghdad and architecture at London’s Architectural Association, Hadid is the first female recipient of the prestigious Pritzker Prize.

This is a complete monograph of Zaha Hadid’s early, unbuilt and built works, from her student years to the latest projects under development, and includes her furniture, stage and exhibition designs. The projects – constructed, in planning or under construction – are located around the globe.

An introduction by Aaron Betsky, 2008 Director of the Venice Architecture Biennale, examines the architect’s career, both in the context of architectural history and as a manifestation of the current and future state of architecture.

• The works are organized in chronological order over Hadid’s 30-year career, revealing her earliest inspirations and powerful resonances between projects.
• Prepared in collaboration with Hadid’s office
• A dazzling array of imagery, from large-scale paintings to sculpture-like models, from multi-perspective drawings to dynamic computer renderings, together with more conventional forms of architectural documentation, such as photographs, plans and drawings.

Zaha Hadid is one of the most important and influential architects in the world. Educated in mathematics in Baghdad and architecture at London’s Architectural Association, Hadid is the first female recipient of the prestigious Pritzker Prize.

This is a complete monograph of Zaha Hadid’s early, unbuilt and built works, from her student years to the latest projects under development, and includes her furniture, stage and exhibition designs. The projects – constructed, in planning or under construction – are located around the globe.

An introduction by Aaron Betsky, 2008 Director of the Venice Architecture Biennale, examines the architect’s career, both in the context of architectural history and as a manifestation of the current and future state of architecture.

• The works are organized in chronological order over Hadid’s 30-year career, revealing her earliest inspirations and powerful resonances between projects.
• Prepared in collaboration with Hadid’s office
• A dazzling array of imagery, from large-scale paintings to sculpture-like models, from multi-perspective drawings to dynamic computer renderings, together with more conventional forms of architectural documentation, such as photographs, plans and drawings.

 

A revealing look at new city living, featuring seventy of the world’s most innovative, extreme and ingenious houses

Featuring some of the world’s most innovative, extreme and ingenious urban interventions, The Contemporary House looks at the many ways in which modern residential design is integrated into the existing urban fabric. Every house represents a challenge, from new takes on traditional typologies through to radical proposals for unconventional sites. As well as the houses themselves, the book provides an insight into the conditions that shape the architecture of some of the world’s major cities, through recent history, signature styles and current conditions on the ground.

With seventy spectacular houses from around the world, including London, New York, Paris, Tokyo, Cape Town, Sydney and beyond, this is a vital look at new city living.

Contents List:

Introduction • 1. North America • 2. Latin America • 3. Europe • 4. Africa • 5. Asia • 6. Australia

About the Authors:

Jonathan Bell is an Editor-at-Large at Wallpaper* magazine. He is also the author and editor of nine books, including Carchitecture, The 21st Century House, Penthouse Living and The Modern House.

Ellie Stathaki is Architecture Editor at Wallpaper* magazine. She trained as an architect at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and studied architectural history at the Bartlett in London. She is the co-author of The New Modern House: Redefining Functionalism and Todd Saunders: Architecture in Northern Landscapes.

Block and solid wood make up one of the oldest construction methods and one that ever more people are opting for when building their homes. Not only are contemporary log homes environmentally sustainable and planet-friendly, they provide comfortable and healthy living. In addition, many of these buildings use sustainable heating and power systems, taking advantage of renewable energies and raw materials. Their natural beauty enhances the quality of life for both home and work. In over 300 photos and plans, this book offers 30 ambitious, contemporary block and solid wood houses that have been built around the globe. They show the diversity of available designs that can be achieved in today’s wooden homes. If you are fascinated with building with logs and living closer to nature, this book is for you.

Vernon Swaback, FAIA, FAICP is extremely passionate about his craft, as is evident in both his words and his own architecture. Swaback continues the Frank Lloyd Wright tradition of thoughtful and highly intelligent strategies for making homes, rather than houses. This book can be appreciated on several levels; the easiest of which is to simply enjoy its exceptional photography of resplendent homes. Going deeper the reader will find a passion and clarity that is only possible from an author who has lived his every word. At its deepest level this book is an invitation to explore our own dreams about life, made more rewarding by way of design.

Edith Wharton's The Decoration of Houses is an invaluable reference, one of the classic works on interior decoration, and a testament to the enduring style of one of America's greatest writers.

Written in collaboration with celebrated American architect Ogden Codman, Jr., Wharton's first book is a comprehensive look at the history and character of turn-of-the-century interior design, moving from historical traditions to the distinctive styles of contemporary taste. Published in association with the Mount Press, this beautiful hardcover facsimile is carefully reproduced from the first edition published in 1897 and includes all 56 original plates-illustrating furniture, moldings, and interior styles of the 19th-century-and features décollage edges as well as a new introduction from renowned scholar Richard Guy Wilson. The Mount is a magnificent estate Edith Wharton designed and built in 1902 as a writer's retreat in the beautiful Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts.