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Stores from Harrods to Barneys to Galeries Lafayette have offered excitement to millions of visitors for more than a century.

This superbly illustrated book goes behind the window displays, eye-catching shopping bags and promotional extravaganzas to reveal the history and design of the department store in marvellous richness and detail.

Born in the Gilded Age in France, the department store grew up thanks to the Industrial Revolution, the rise of the middle class, and the invention of steel-frame architecture and the elevator.

Spectacular entrances led to marble staircases and floor after floor of merchandise and amenities. Department stores also inspired a whole new way of merchandising: shopping became an entertainment rather than a laborious grind; posters and advertisements were created by the great artists of the time; and elaborate shop windows attracted thousands of people during the holidays.

The department store quickly spread through Europe and Asia and then the New World, and leading architects were commissioned to build these temples of consumerism, where dreams were created and fulfilled.

About the Author:

Jan Whitaker is the author of Service and Style: How the American Department Store Fashioned the Middle Class and Tea at the Blue Lantern Inn: A Social History of the Tea Room Craze in America

The Design Book brings together the best in contemporary design for the home, presenting a huge range of striking new products: tables and chairs, sofas and beds, storage, kitchens and bathrooms, tableware, textiles and surfaces, lighting, electronics and more.

Works by the finest international talents, including Shin and Tomoko Azumi, Sebastian Bergne, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, Fernando and Humberto Campana, Piet Hein Eek, Jaime Hayon, Thomas Heatherwick, Javier Mariscal and Patricia Urquiola, are featured. In-depth interviews with twelve key designers explore pivotal projects and approaches to design.

Web addresses of designers and manufacturers are given for every object, along with full captions and colour illustrations, making every design easy to source.

The Design Directory of Bedding is the must-have resource for designers, workroom professionals, and do-it-yourselfers. Concise, straight-to-the-point lists, definitions, and descriptions of design fundamentals and components provide a comprehensive education on bedding design.

• Hundreds of inspirational ideas and patterns
• Expertly illustrated with 1,000 renderings that can be used repeatedly.
• Companion CD-ROM includes black-and-white line drawings of the illustrations plus detailed workroom worksheets and service request forms.

Jackie Von Tobel is a practicing interior designer with twenty years of experience in high-end residential design. She is a member of the WCAA and is certified by the WFCP and the author of The Design Directory of Window Treatments. Her interior design firm, Plush Home, is located in Las Vegas, Neveda.

The complete reference to bed skirts, covers, pillows, headboards, canopies and more

The Design Directory of Window Treatments features professional illustrations detailing every type of window treatment imaginable, and is an invaluable guide for trade professionals and consumers.

Jackie Von Tobel preformed an exhaustive search of current window treatment design and manufacturing trends to identify and name more than 350 individual components that can be mixed and matched to create an infinite number of window treatments.

Each of these elements and designs are expertly illustrated in more 1300 color renderings that can be used repeatedly.

Black-and-white line drawings of these illustrations are also included on a companion CD-Rom, along with a complete worksheet system for designer use. 

About the Author:

Jackie Von Tobel is a practicing interior designer with twenty years of experience in high-end residential design. She attended the University of San Diego and the Design Institute of San Diego. She is a member of the WCAA and is certified by the WFCP. Her interior design firm, Plush Home, is located in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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The new edition of The Design Hotels™ Book is a comprehensive overview of the most original design hotels worldwide. By presenting 220 spectacular hotels, including 30 properties that are new for 2012, the book provides insight into trends and developments in hospitality design. With its images of striking architecture and interior design, this opulent hardcover brings the experience of staying in a Design Hotels™ property to life.

The updated edition for 2015 shows design hotels from the most attractive destinations across the globe, along with exclusive information from this international network of hoteliers.

Discerning travelers who thrive on unique experiences can choose from the world’s most inspiring hotels through this book. Featuring one-of-a-kind architecture and design by the sea, in the mountains, and in the world’s greatest cities, The Design Hotels™ Book leads you to new exciting properties and the creative visionaries who brought them to life. With almost 500 pages of stunning accommodations, this is the most extensive edition of The Design Hotels™ Book to date. The hardcover showcases an exclusive selection of singular hotels from around the world, and every page is thoughtfully arranged with a perfect balance between imagery and text. The publication introduces more than 280 hotels and their makers in 185 destinations with striking architectural, landscape, and portrait photography. Detailed profiles contain information about the architecture, design, and location of each hotel as well as their distinctive features, giving readers valuable insight into the future of the hotel and luxury sectors.

Design Hotels™ represents and markets a curated selection of more than 280 independent hotels in over 50 countries across the globe.
More than a collection of hotels, the company is a collection of stories. Each property reflects the ideas of a visionary hotelier, an “Original,” someone with a passion for genuine hospitality, cultural authenticity, and thought-provoking design and architecture. All “Originals” stand for the individual, aesthetic, and service-driven experiences that their hotel provides.

The newest edition of The Design Hotels™ Book offers striking accommodations for the eye and inspiration for the spirit.

Each edition of the much-anticipated Design Hotels™ Book details the company’s stunning portfolio of one-of-a-kind, handpicked hotels. The book includes exquisite photographs of bold new hotels and design legends, and stories of the original hoteliers who brought them to life. The Red Dot Design Award and a “Special Mention” from the German Design Council are some of the honors the publication has received.

The 2016 edition of The Design Hotels™ Book showcases 296 of the world’s most extraordinary hotels. And once more its popular “Influencers” series returns — “The Influencers 2016” celebrates the work of 10 creative design and architecture geniuses changing the face of design today.

DESIGN HOTELS™ represents and markets more than 290 independent hotels worldwide. It provides them with an international platform for innovation and exchange with other member hotels, guests, and opinion leaders from relevant industries. Design Hotels™ also offers them services from concept development to sales.

A highly detailed look at the most accomplished English country house interiors, exemplifying English decorating at its best.

The English drawing room, a formal place within a house of status where family and honored guests could retire from the more public arena, is one of the most important rooms in an English country house, and thus great attention has been paid to preserving the decoration of this most elegant of spaces: the center of life in the English countryside and the epitome of English country house decoration.

This book offers privileged access to fifty of the finest drawing rooms of country houses and historic townhouses—many still in private hands—including Althorp, Attingham, and Knepp Castle.

Through these sumptuous rooms, readers experience a history of English decorating from the sixteenth century to the present day, including the work of design legends such as David Hicks, Nancy Lancaster, John Fowler, and David Mlinaric.

Specially commissioned photographs capture the entirety of each room, as well as details of furniture, architectural elements, artwork, collections, and textiles, creating a visually seductive book that will inspire interior designers and homeowners interested in the widely popular classic English look.

The Eco-Design Handbook is the most comprehensive publication to catalogue and represent the vast array of ingenious green products available to the consumer. A complete sourcebook of beautifully designed, ecologically sensitive and consumer-friendly objects for everyday use at home and in the office.

Scrutinizing every aspect of our designed world, The Eco-Design Handbook – now completely revised and updated – offers the most innovative, ecologically sensitive and consumer-friendly products for all areas of the home and office, including environmentally sound building materials. Some pieces are prototypes, while some are already classics; many others are destined to become part of the design canon.

• More than 550 detailed product listings
• 140 carefully selected building materials
• information on hundreds of designers, manufacturers and green organizations

Whether you are interested in design or the sustainability of our environment, whether you are building a house or looking for new furniture, whether your office is buying stationery supplies or looking for ergonomic chairs, The Eco-Design Handbook is the definitive resource, invaluable for both the lay consumer and the design professional.

The magnificent country houses built in Britain between 1890 and 1939 were the last monuments to a vanishing age. Many of these great mammoths of domestic architecture were unsuited to the changes in economic and social priorities that followed the two world wars, and rapidly became extinct. Those that survive, however, provide tangible evidence of the life and death of an extraordinarily prosperous age.

Originally published in 1980, long out of print and now thoroughly revised and reillustrated, this book recounts the architectural and social history of the era, describing the clients, the architects, the styles and accoutrements of the country houses. The people who could afford them - the Carnegies, the Astors, the Leverhulmes - had grown rich by exploiting the new economic opportunities of the age, and the houses they built in the years before the First World War reflect the desire for two contrasting ways of life. The social country house was the setting for the opulent world associated with Edward VII. The romantic country house was simpler, more genuinely rural, for those who wanted to be in closer contact with the countryside and the vanishing rural crafts, or who wanted an idyll of the past that did not suggest the world of the motor car. These traditions lost coherence after the war, and the period ended with a number of spectacular, and often eccentric, houses. Some of the most remarkable were those that not only replicated the look of old buildings, but used genuinely old materials and even incorporated whole Tudor buildings moved from other places.

Clive Aslet writes of the immense changes in the way country houses of this period were lived in and used. The shortage of servants, aggravated by the First World War, spurred numerous developments in the technology of the country house - vacuum cleaners, washing machines, telephones and central heating were called upon to replace the army of servants who never returned from the trenches or the factories. Interior decorators, becoming increasingly in vogue, developed the style Louis Seize into the last word in Edwardian chic. Gardens came to be seen as integral to the concept of the country house and reconciled formal planning with informal planting.

This fascinating world, so popularly depicted in Downton Abbey, can now be viewed from a new perspective. The Edwardian Country House will enlighten and entertain all those interested in glimpsing the lost life style of another age.

300 color photographs

Whether it's one room or a whole house that needs spiffing up, this comprehensive sourcebook offers design inspiration for both homeowners and renters alike. Each chapter is devoted to a specific room of the house, including a special section on outdoor spaces. With hundreds of ideas on how to create a stylish setting out of even the most stubborn spaces, The Elle Decor Home makes redefining any room in the house a breeze.

Plus, a wealth of color photographs gives you the insider's look at high-style interiors around the world by famous trendsetters such as Karl Lagerfeld and Donna Karan, as well as the homes of ordinary people armed only with an abundance of taste and imagination. Check out the late Bill Blass's neutral-color bedroom, Calvin Klein's New England-style kitchen, and Yves Saint Laurent's idyllic veranda in Morocco. The Elle Decor Home will give you all the ideas you need to start creating your own vision.