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The Vienna Workshop and the "total work of art"

Founded in 1903 by Josef Hoffmann, Koloman Moser, and Fritz Waemdorfer, the Wiener Werkstätte ("Vienna Workshop") was a collective of architects and craftsmen which aimed at fusing architecture and interior design into a Gesamtkunstwerk, or total work of art. Experimenting with various materials (gold, precious stones, and papier mâché, for example), the artists of the Wiener Werkstätte created buildings and objects which combined classical elegance with streamlined functionality.

Though the workshop lasted only thirty years, its influence is still strong today.

William Burges (1827-81) was arguably the greatest of all Victorian architects. But he was more than just the creator of a modest number of fabulous, and fabulously expensive, buildings. He dreamed of hundreds more, designed dozens, and in addition created some of the most remarkable furniture and jewellery of all time.

He was an art-architect. Rich, clever, well connected and short lived, he was uncompromising, profoundly learned, skilled in every process of design and explosively inventive. A brilliant talker, pungent critic and hilarious companion, he was one of Victorian London's great eccentrics and networkers, though he was bewitched by the Middle Ages.

The great buildings that he completed include Cork Cathedral, Cardiff Castle and the even more eccentric Castell Coch, the great Yorkshire churches of Skelton and Studley Royal, the magnificent country houses of Knightshayes in Devon, and Mount Stuart on the Isle of Bute, and his own astonishing Tower House in Kensington. His furniture, fabric and jewellery designs and his unrealised projects were also hugely influential, and the former are now enthusiastically collected.

This book was a landmark in Victorian studies when first published in 1981 and is now completely revised and re-illustrated substantially in colour.

William Morgan began his architectural education at Harvard in 1948. In recognition of Morgan's record of excellence in architectural design, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) elevated him to fellowship in 1975, and shortly after he was elected chairman of the AIA Committee on Design. For Morgan, architecture has integrity when it is inextricably anchored to its place and time, while simultaneously being ordered by principles both universal and timeless. These attributes allow us to characterise his architecture as being at once ancient and modern. The depth of Morgan's historical grounding, derived from first-hand experiences documenting ancient sites, is unequaled among his practicing peers, being more typical of professional archaeologists and architectural historians.

Through his eclecticism, William Morris (1834-1896) was one of the most emblematic personalities of the nineteenth century. He was a painter, architect, poet and engineer.

Morris created highly distinctive designs for wallpapers and textiles, many of which are still enjoying enormous popularity today. Through his company Morris & Co., he contributed to the transformation of interior design at the end of the 19th-century and gave expression to the ideas of the Arts and Crafts Movement. This highly accessible text looks at pattern and colour, as well as sources of inspiration such as nature, literature and legend. It also offers a fascinating insight into his working practices which were so different from those of many of his Victorian contemporaries. His desire to make beautiful things was at the core of his enterprise and his subtle colour schemes and evocative designs, many of which are still in production, have a timeless appeal. Specially commissioned photography captures many of his designs in situ, as well as in close-up detail, and this new introduction to the work of William Morris should provide a wealth of ideas and inspiration for contemporary homeowners.

In the history of the decorative arts, there has never been another designer who has achieved such lasting impact. While lamenting the excesses of mass-production, he set up the firm of Morris, Marshall, Faulkner and Company. Soon it was producing a range of goods, from hand-woven tapestries, carpets and printed textiles to stained glass, metalwork and furniture. What the company offered was quite simply a way of life. 

In 'William Morris and the Arts & Crafts Home', Pamela Todd celebrates Morris’s genius for decoration and design and shows how he envisaged and implemented schemes for interiors in his own homes and those of others, passionately believing that beautiful surroundings promoted creativity and happiness. 

To demonstrate how the style can be applied to our living spaces today a series of ‘Case Studies’ explores six contemporary homes – from a modern London townhouse to a traditional Arts and Crafts house in Massachusetts – that have followed and adapted Morris’s guiding principles.

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William Yeoward At Home invites you to see how he has designed and decorated his much-loved country house and chic London apartment, showcasing his faultless taste and sense of colour.

Whether relaxing in front of log fires in winter, working tirelessly in the garden in summer, or entertaining his friends in country or city, William Yeoward's interiors are truly beautiful and wonderfully welcoming to all.

The first chapter, Country Rooms for Living, features William's weekend retreat, set deep in the Cotswold countryside. Originally an old stone village schoolhouse with an adjoining cottage for the schoolmistress, William has rearranged the rooms to create an atmosphere of unique charm. The second chapter, The Guest Cottage, shows the neighbouring cottage where William's friends can enjoy his hospitality in the spaces that have been carefully decorated to reflect his passion for colour, proportion and style. Country Entertaining focuses on life lived outdoors, in the idyllic flower garden, the summerhouse and the vegetable plot, which provides delicious ingredients for his kitchen. City Living moves us to London and William's city apartment. This is where he combines a hectic working life with hosting formal dinners in the dining room and relaxed evenings playing cards and backgammon.

This is William's third book and it is the most personal, revealing two very different homes a country cottage where comfort is key and a contemporary city apartment. The settings may differ, but his signature style and vision of the interiors he creates reign supreme throughout.

About the Author:

William Yeoward has a worldwide reputation for his trademark table settings and stunning ranges of tableware and collections for the home. He has shops in London and New York and lectures on design throughout the United States, and his work is featured regularly in magazines such as Town and Country and Elle Décor (for whom he is a contributing editor). His previous books include William Yeoward on Entertaining, The Perfect Host and William Yeoward At Home. The author is based between London and Gloucestershire.

This revised Window and Bed Sketchbook has been designed to introduce decorators to a selection of basic curtain shapes for various windows. The following pages detail some of the variations that can be achieved by simply adding a trimming, some top stitching or mixing different fabrics together. Wendy has taken some classic styles and brought them up to date by using less fabric to give them a sleeker more modern twist.

Contents include:

• 300 black line sketches of design ideas for curtains/drapes
• Sketches can be reduced and added to a sample board
• Important section of passementerie (trimming)
• Alternative window coverings
• Bed coronas and half testers for traditional bedrooms
• Four-poster beds traditional and modern
• Accessories

Wendy Baker is an interior decorator with clients in Europe and the United States. She specializes in traditional heritage buildings. Her design ideas stem from her great knowledge of the industry and her world travels.

Windows serve as the direct interface between the interior of a building and its public enviroment. Visual relationships thruogh a window offer the opportunity to establish contact with the outside world and experience the widest variety of impressions. In recent architectural history, windows emphasizing seeing and being seen have melted the border between interior and exterior and led to a new interpretation of the concept of a room. This book presents a series of remarkable solutions for this issue. It focuses on a number of selected examples from various areas that document a wide spectrum, record current trends and offer inspiration. An index with the contact dates of the designers is enclosed.

Doing what no other window treatment book has done before, Window Treatments Idea Book offers hundreds of the latest ideas from hands-on experts for decorating windows of every type, including bays, bows, and unusual shapes. It also provides quick-and-easy style ideas and professional advice for modifying and embellishing off-the-shelf curtains and drapes. Whether you want to update your homes style or find fresh ideas for a new home, this book will give you the inspiration you need to get the look youre after.

Windsor Castle is the largest and oldest occupied castle in existence. It is the home of the Queen, and with its skyline of battlements, turrets and great Round Tower it is instantly recognisable throughout the world. Visitors have been admitted to the Castle since the eighteenth century, and in this flowing and well-researched account John Martin Robinson traces the building's 1,000 years of history. He describes how William the Conqueror's impenetrable fortification became in time a medieval hunting lodge, a private retreat and a magnificent State residence. His final chapter describes the official engagements that form part of the Queen's diary each year, and for this new, expanded edition he also includes a full account of the much-praised restoration work that was carried out after the fire in 1992. New illustrations have also been added to the final chapter, and throughout the book there are excellent reproductions of the priceless works of art that form part of the Royal Collection and the superb rooms in which they are displayed.

The author's lively writing style and the wide variety of the illustrations make this title both an ideal introduction to the history of the Castle and an attractive souvenir for the many visitors of all nationalities who come to Windsor each year.

Mixing glamour with modern practicality, interior designer Windsor Smith’s first book celebrates her elegant, comfortable style.

Windsor Smith’s aesthetic was once described as "unbuttoned elegance, like a taffeta dress worn with bare feet." In her first book, Smith — a traditionalist who likes to realize classic themes in a new way — shares her fresh vision for modern life. Each chapter reflects one of her unique philosophies for creating beautiful, livable spaces, expressed through the homes she designs.

Themes include how to bring balance — an essential ingredient to a beautiful, functional home — into rooms and spaces, as well as how to successfully combine new belongings with treasures from the past to create homes that reflect where we have come from, as well as where we wish to go.

Whether it is repurposing a neglected dining room or expanding the role of the kitchen, Windsor Smith Homefront will guide readers to reclaiming their home’s best spaces and remaking them to suit modern life.

About the Author

Named by Veranda as one of the top 25 design influencers in their twenty-five-year history, Windsor Smith has created iconic homes for leaders in the entertainment and business worlds. She has a wide array of licenses, including furniture, fabric, lighting, decorative accessories, and rugs, for such industry leaders as Kravet, Century Furniture, and Arteriors. Smith also started the revolutionary online decorating service Windsor Smith Room in a Box. Gwyneth Paltrow is an Academy Award-winning actress, the founder of the lifestyle website GOOP, and the author of the best-selling cookbooks My Father’s Daughter and It’s All Good.

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400 color photographs

This attractive volume covers all elements of wine and design, with a host of striking photographs, and informative text. With chapters on drinking, enjoying, growing, producing, storing, tasting, promoting, and presenting wine, you'll learn the most advanced and innovative ways design can enhance everything wine-related. After all, it's only fitting that one of the most civilized of pleasures be appreciated to the full.
* One of the few resources covering wineries and design
* Contains an introductory essay on the latest design trends in the world of viticulture