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Luxury adventure travel pioneer Melissa Biggs Bradley and fashion photographer Guido Taroni present a stunning photographic volume showcasing the interior décor of Africa’s foremost luxury and eco-safari lodges—and celebrates the role that photographic safaris have played in preserving threatened species and wilderness areas.

Safari Style unveils Africa’s new generation of camps and lodges in a lavish volume of spectacular photographs. The book captures the astonishing settings and design ingenuity of the 21st-century eco-safari destination in seven countries—from the classic lodges of Kenya to the indulgent resorts of South Africa and the inspired eco-designed camps of Rwanda.

Handpicked for their outstanding locations in wildlife enclaves, distinctly regional architecture and interiors, and their essential focus on sustainability and conservation, these special properties represent the ultimate African encounter. Drawing on the early 20th-century tradition of the safari, they have reinvigorated the experience with access to parts of Africa previously out of bounds, notably Rwanda, Namibia, and Zimbabwe. These new camps and lodges reinvent the safari and represent a fresh approach to wildlife conservation involving local populations.

About the Author:

Milan-based interiors and fashion photographer Guido Taroni is a regular contributor to Architectural Digest, Town and Country, and Cabana. He began his career at 17 at the Sancassani Studio of Architectural and Interiors Photography in Milan, before working as assistant to renowned fashion and interiors photographer Giovanni Gasteli. His books include Inside Tangier.

Melissa Biggs Bradley is a pioneer of luxury adventure travel, experiencing her first safari at the age of 12. After graduating from Yale and Columbia Universities, she worked as travel editor for Town & Country before launching Town & Country Travel. In 2007, she founded specialist travel company Indagare, which curates transforming travel experiences around the world. It has been named one the fastest growing companies in the US by Inc. and Crain’s.

First survey of modernist and contemporary architecture and interiors in the richly layered architectural history of Santa Fe

Santa Fe Modern reveals the high desert landscape as an ideal setting for bold, abstracted forms of modernist houses. Wide swaths of glass, deep-set portals, long porches, and courtyards allow vistas, color, and light to become integral parts of the very being of a house, emboldening a way to experience a personal connection to the desert landscape. The architects featured draw from the New Mexican architectural heritage–they use ancient materials such as adobe in combination with steel and glass, and they apply this language to the proportions and demands exacted by today’s world. The houses they have designed are confident examples of architecture that is particular to the New Mexico landscape and climate, and yet simultaneously evoke the rigorous expressions of modernism. The vigor and the allure of modern art and architecture hearten each other in a way that is visible and exciting, and this book demonstrates the synergistic relationship between art, architecture, and the land.

About the Authors:

Helen Thompson is a nationally known writer on interior design and architecture. Formerly a food writer and editor for Texas Monthly, she was the Texas city editor for Metropolitan Home and has written and produced articles for Elle Decor, Architectural Digest, House Beautiful, Martha Stewart Living, Western Interiors, Traditional Home, and Veranda. She is also the author of Marfa Modern and Texas Made, Texas Modern and a contributor to Hocker 2005-2020 Landscapes, all Monacelli titles, as well as The Big Texas Steakhouse Cookbook, and The Mansion on Turtle Creek Cookbook. She lives in Santa Fe.

Casey Dunn is an Austin-based architectural and landscape photographer whose work has appeared in Dwell, the New York Times Magazine, Interior Design, Architectural Digest, Architectural Record, and Paper City Magazine. He is the photographer for Marfa Modern, Texas Made, Texas Modern, and Oasis (Potter, 2020).

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Sasaki Associates is one of the world’s leading interdisciplinary design firms. The firm’s work touches every aspect of the built environment – Architecture, Planning and Urban Design, Landscape Architecture, Eco-Technologies, Interior Design and Graphic Design. Clients include the world’s leading universities, major development organizations, corporations and cities across the United States and throughout the world. Sasaki designed the master plan for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Green and has been honored by more than 500 awards across all disciplines.

Sasaki: Intersection and Convergence is a comprehensive, richly-illustrated publication that describes the depth and geographic breadth of the firm’s work. The book’s “Spaces and Learning” section details plans, buildings and landscapes that capture future possibilities of universities. “Regenerative Cities” focuses on transformative new uses and neighborhoods from Ho Chi Minh City to Chicago. “New Social Realities” chronicles designs informed by contemporary changes in human habitation, technology and lifestyle.

Born as a unique interdisciplinary firm at the height of the modernist era in the early 1950s, Sasaki has evolved into a firm that thrives on collaboration amongst the disciplines. At once global and cosmopolitan, sustainable and strategic, Sasaki’s projects are as varied and multi-layered as the clients and communities they serve. “(The firm’s) projects pay close attention to the natural and cultural environments they occupy” writes Susan S. Szenasy in her foreword.

The first book from SawyerBerson illustrates the award-winning firm’s quintessential pairings of modernism and classicism in seaside houses, metropolitan residences, and spectacular garden retreats.

Treating architecture, landscape, and interior design as complementary endeavors, Brian Sawyer and John Berson have been ahead of their time and influential in the world of design since the founding of their eponymous partnership in 1999. SawyerBerson’s prodigious use of traditional and modern vocabularies has gained the firm widespread recognition and many notable clients. Meticulous attention to detail and versatility combine to create a wide variety of projects.

In the Hamptons, a modernist house of stone and glass lets in the sun and sea views while secluded by the dunes and drifts of native grasses. Another residence is built according to the pinwheel floor plans of early twentieth-century houses by Mies van der Rohe and Frank Lloyd Wright to accommodate four primary suites around a central common area with plenty of space for entertaining and individual relaxation. Yet another project, equally arresting, is a Colonial Revival cedar-shingled house and seaside landscape built for multiple generations. Whether restoring a historic Georgian Revival town house in Manhattan, designing a modernist residence in the country, or planning a garden by the ocean, the practice embraces traditional and contemporary styles with equal distinction.

About the Authors:

Brian Sawyer and John Berson — whose backgrounds are in landscape architecture and architecture, respectively — met when both were working at Robert A.M. Stern Architects. Their combined design philosophy guides SawyerBerson, an AD100 firm. Mayer Rus is the West Coast editor of Architectural Digest.

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Scandinavian Modern was the most influential and enduring design movement of the 20th century, dominating the international scene in the 1950s and continuing to shape the way we live today. Architects and designers from Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Finland, were responsible for a range of contemporary homes, furniture, textiles, ceramics, glassware, and other products that defined an entire approach to modern post-war living. What characterizes Scandinavian Modern is its approachability; the use of natural materials and organic forms combined with clean lines and attention to basic practicality and comfort. Scandinavian Home demonstrates this elegant, yet informal design at its best and most accessible.

About the Author:

Elizabeth Wilhide is the author and co-author of many acclaimed books on design and interiors. She has also contributed to many of Terence Conran’s books, including The Essential House Book, The Ultimate House Book, Plain, Simple, Useful and Conran on Colour. Her own books include Surface and Finish, Eco and New Decor. Her first novel, Ashenden.

In Scandinavian Modern, Magnus Englund and Christina Schmidt of design store Skandium trace the development of the Scandinavian style, introduce key designers and take a look at some of the most stylish homes in Scandinavia.

The first section, Elements, takes a lively look at Scandinavian designers and design in the context of materials: wood, glass, textiles, ceramics and so on. The second section, Living, offers an in-depth visual survey of 12 outstanding homes in Denmark, Sweden and Finland, ranging from modern country houses to sophisticated city-centre apartments.

The accompanying text provides a fascinating insight into each home, describing its design, planning and evolution.

School building architecture has greatly gained in pedagogical significance during the last years. Students of the 21st century have access to increasingly more workspaces customized for various studies, rooms for teamwork and cafeterias. Multi-functional communal spaces, exhibition spaces and sports facilities also play an important role in education.

Creating spaces that take into account both students' educational needs and their well-being is one of the most exciting and challenging tasks of contemporary school building design. School presents international projects which set themselves apart not only with their modern architectural vocabulary but also with their architects’ hope of being their contribution to the improvement of educational standards.

From the contents:

* The Calhoun School in New York, USA (FXFOWLE ARCHITECTS)
* FDE – Public School in Sao Paolo, Brazil (Forte, Gimenes & Marcondes Ferraz Arquitectos)
* Bamboo School in Luong Son Village, Vietnam (THESKYISBEAUTIFUL)
* Aying Elementary School, Germany (Allmann Sattler Wappner Architekten)
* Het 4e Gymnasium in Amsterdam, The Netherlands (HVDN architekten)

A stunning volume that gathers the California designer's most impressive works to date, from coastal sanctuaries to modern country farms.

A master of his genre, Scott Mitchell is celebrated for his warm approach to connecting the built and natural environment. Sought after for their minimalist, material-driven aesthetic, Mitchell's houses are studies in space, materiality, and light. Emphasizing an elegant spatial order, his projects respond to the natural appeal of their locations, be they bucolic retreats on Long Island or resplendent beach houses overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

The first volume on his work, Scott Mitchell Houses is a sublime exploration of the architectural designer's impressive portfolio of projects. Dynamic compositions of light and shadow with a masterful use of concrete, Mitchell's monolithic forms draw on the surrounding environment via floor-to-ceiling windows that open onto vistas so cinematic that Tom Ford utilized one of Mitchell's homes in his neo-noir film Nocturnal Animals.

Through previously unpublished photographs, readers are given an exclusive view into eight pivotal projects that span the globe from the Hamptons to Melbourne, featuring images by Ross Bleckner, Scott Frances, Trevor Mein, and Steve Shaw. Sure to appeal to fans of architecture and interiors, this book is an ode to a becalming modern luxury.

About the Author:

Scott Mitchell is an acclaimed Los Angeles-based architectural designer. Paul Goldberger is a Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic. Calvin Klein is an American fashion designer.

Dreamy estates from the island of Menorca come alive in this lively collection of images presented by Spanish tastemaker Susana Gallardo.

This exquisite volume showcases the signature bohemian-chic interiors and architecture of the Spanish island of Menorca — offering a glimpse into the vacation retreats of the artists, creatives, and other sun-seeking spirits who escape to this paradisiacal place. Author Susana Gallardo accompanies readers through the gates of Menorca’s most breathtaking private homes into a world of Mediterranean sophistication.

From an Art Deco palace in the heart of Mahón, the island’s capital, to charming fincas in the interior countryside and spectacular beach villas, these houses radiate Spanish style and spotlight the island’s breezy lifestyle. With an eye for the Mediterranean light, Karel Balas beautifully captures the vibrancy of these lush locales in his photographs — making this book inspirational for island and sunbelt lovers everywhere.

About the Author:

Susana Gallardo is a Spanish political scientist and entrepreneur. Karel Balas is a French photographer and artistic director. His work has been published in MilK Decoration, Elle Décor Italie, Living, and The Sunday Telegraph, and he has worked for Chloé, Dior, Fendi, Kenzo, Lacoste, and Tommy Hilfiger, among many others.

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Beautifully illustrated with line drawings and photographs, engagingly presented, and richly detailed, this charming guide traces the architectural and social history of Manhattan one building at a time. The island of Manhattan has been through remarkable architectural and social change throughout its history. Organized roughly by neighborhoods, this book explores the seemingly never-ending depths of architectural, personal, and social history of Manhattan, building by building. Follow the family feud that led to the construction of the luxurious Waldorf Astoria, or trace the decay of a once proud home to an increasingly humble storefront, delving into the surprising, sometimes scandalous, often touching stories of the people who lived there along the way. Alongside the details about each architect, dates, and styles, author Tom Miller reveals the joys, tragedies, and scandals of those who lived within. In addition to iconic structures, the book includes many off-the-beaten-path buildings that most guidebooks overlook, as well as notable buildings that no longer stand but remain key to Manhattan’s architectural history. Beautifully researched, engagingly presented, and richly detailed, Seeking New York is truly a must-read for anyone interested in the story of New York and how it got that way.

About the Author:

Tom Miller moved to New York City in 1979 from Dayton, Ohio, bringing with him a passion for buildings. He currently holds the rank of deputy inspector within the NYPD’s Auxiliary Police Force. In 2009 he started a blog, Daytonian in Manhattan, which has now reviewed over a thousand buildings, statues, and other points of interest.

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Пролистать книгу Seeking New York: The Stories Behind the Historic Architecture of Manhattan--One Building at a Time

The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia investigates global projects for sustainable development on the cutting edge of self-sufficient housing, addressing environmental, economic and social needs. The projects investigate construction techniques and processes to build houses with local means, from the intelligent application of traditional techniques to advanced digital processes and fabrication.

This book is a fascinating compilation of the most innovative projects for single dwellings and residential buildings, proposing the most creative designs and construction through the use of new materials and energy systems, and the integration of architecture into the landscape.

Based in Barcelona, the IAAC is an international centre of architectural research in territorial analysis, urban development, digital fabrications and informational environments for improving cultural, economic and social conditions.

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Пролистать книгу Self-Fab House: 2nd Advanced Architecture Contest

Selina starts by showcasing her Outside Inspirations in the form of flowers, lighting, fabrics, furniture and decorations. She then focuses on beautifying every aspect of outdoor living, providing ample inspiration and practical suggestions for transforming a garden, deck, terrace or even just a balcony into a lush outdoor room that’s perfect for lounging, relaxing and entertaining. Selina also goes further afield, with dozens of ideas for simple yet stylish picnics, BBQs and summer fetes. Parties are also covered, with inspiring suggestions for weddings, barn dances and other celebrations. Throughout, imaginative ‘DIY ideas’, insightful ‘Style Tips’ and ‘Selina Loves...’ sections are full of inspiring suggestions for how to recreate the look at home.

Senigallia Public Library is an in-depth analysis of a single project realized by Italian architects Massimo and Gabriella Carmassi in the historic center of Senigallia (located in the Marche region of Italy) to create the town’s library and archive. The renovation of this early nineteenth-century complex is an outstanding example of how the fabric of historic buildings can be used to make spectacular modern architecture. Rather than restore the buildings to some idealized original state and adapt them to a new purpose, the architects integrated existing pieces of the structures with new construction. The masterful use materials - metal, wood, concrete, glass, ancient brick - resulted in timeless spaces that have a unique combination of contemporary style and an appropriate reflective atmosphere. Echoing the architects’ creation, this handsomely produced book also uses a variety of materials - uncoated and coated paper stocks, vellum pages, and a sophisticated cloth jacket.

The book also includes an introduction by Richard Ingersoll that offers a complete description of the restoration.

Crammed with fascinating facts, expert advice and a wealth of essential information, Shades of Grey will guide you through the minefield that is choosing exactly the right shade of grey paint. 

There's no doubt about it, grey is the shade of the moment. On-trend restaurants, shops and homes are covered in it. There's not an interior decorating programme that doesn't feature it. However, despite its popularity, it’s not quite as simple as buying a pot of grey paint and slapping it on the wall. Make the wrong choice, and a grey room will be cold and dark, even energy-sapping. Get it right, however, and your home will look sophisticated and modern. So how to find the perfect hue? In Shades of Grey, Kate Watson-Smyth explores the current popularity of the shade and consults experts – scientists, paint companies and interior decorators – who reveal their favourite greys as well as other tricks of the trade. She looks at the wide range of greys on offer and, via a simple process of elimination, will help you track down the shade that works perfectly for you.

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There's no doubt about it, grey is the shade of the moment. Chic restaurants, shops and homes are covered in it. There's not an interior decorating programme that doesn't feature it. And forget 50 shades – in fact the human eye can detect more than 500. As can the average paint chart.

“Everyone wants to paint their houses grey at the moment,” says Karen Haller, a colour expert who advises clients on branding and colour psychology. “But it's actually one of the most difficult colours to get right.” Get it wrong and a room will be cold and dark, possibly even energy-sapping. Get it right, however, and your home will look chic, sophisticated and modern. So how do we go about choosing the perfect hue? In 'Shades of Grey' Kate Watson-Smyth will help you find exactly the right shade for your space.

Full of expert advice and essential information and spiced with a generous dash of humour, this book will guide you through the minefield that is choosing the perfect shade of grey paint.

Shades of White is a pure celebration of all the brilliant white hues, and how they work in harmony with different textures inside the home. 

White is magical. It can illuminate a space, or it can be a blank slate, allowing other décor in the room to shine. Whether your style is rustic, modern, romantic, vintage or classic, Fifi O'Neill will show you that there is a perfect shade of white for you. With beautiful commissioned photography, Fifi showcases twelve dazzling homes that have mastered using shades of white throughout. From fresh to cosy, sophisticated to shabby chic, white is classy, adaptable and timeless. Shades of White showcases interior inspiration for using white in any setting, pairing the infinite shades with different textures such as wood and metal, or even with other colours, to create stylish and stunning interiors. 

White is magical. It can illuminate a space, or it can be a blank slate, allowing other décor in the room to shine. Whether your style is rustic, modern, romantic, vintage, or classic, Fifi O'Neill will show you that there is a perfect shade of white for you. With beautiful commissioned photography, Fifi showcases twelve dazzling homes that have mastered using shades of white throughout. From fresh to cozy, sophisticated to shabby chic, white is classy, adaptable, and timeless. Shades of White showcases interior inspiration for using white in any setting, pairing the infinite shades with different textures such as wood and metal, or even with other colors, to create stylish and stunning interiors.

Shades of White is a pure celebration of all the brilliant white hues, and how they work in harmony with different textures inside the home. 

About the Author:

Fifi O'Neill is an editor, writer and photo stylist. She has produced numerous features on home decorating, food and gardening for American and European magazines, such as Coastal Living, Country Living (USA), Casa Romantica, Casa Antichi (Italy) and many more. Fifi's previous books are Surfside Style, Global Bohemian, Romantic Prairie Style and Romantic Prairie Cookbook, all published by CICO Books. Her popular blog, fifioneillprairiestyle.com, reaches upwards of two million followers. Fifi grew up in Paris, France, though she now lives in Florida, USA.