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Packed with images of beautiful decorative objects, extravagant interiors, sumptuous fabrics and ornate furniture, this sumptuously produced book explores the enduring allure of Orientalist decor and introduces the princes and aristocrats, artists and poets who commissioned this opulent 18th and 19th-century interiors.

Architects and decorative artists of the time were constantly seeking new sources of inspiration to satisfy the demands of their rich patrons. While some revisited the canons of the classical world, others began to turn their eyes towards the East, and the 'Oriental' became a byword for spectacle and sensuality.

The result was a wave of creative expression that encompassed everything from the smallest objets d’art to entire buildings.

This sumptuously produced book explores the enduring allure of Orientalist decor and introduces the princes and aristocrats, artists and poets who commissioned these opulent interiors. Packed with images of beautiful decorative objects, extravagant interiors, sumptuous fabrics and ornate furniture, this book will transport the reader to another time and place.

Even today, the design industry of Hong Kong seems to be dominated by men between the ages of 40 and 50. It is challenging for a woman to cut a niche in the professional market, but Anita Tang is a rare exception. Her indulgence and originality has produced unique designs that carry an unspoken sophistication of elegance and extravagance. Her first collection of design projects “A touch of Anita Tang” focuses on residential designs. It contains over 10 household and model home projects which not only expresses the talents of a female designer, but also the prevailing grace and passions exclusively found in feminine practitioners.

This new A&D (Architecture and Design) Series explores the close connections between contemporary architecture, interiors and home design.

This theme is illuminated with the help of fascinating monographs on leading architects, interior designers and design companies, and also with various thematic publications.
Private residences, public projects, office buildings and shops are all featured.

This first volume is dedicated to architect Pascal van der Kelen. All of his designs (which include a lot of private homes, but also a number of offices, hairdresser's, boutiques, a notary's practice and other projects) are distinguished by an exquisite sense of serenity, and by forms and lines that are pure and clean, yet still luxurious.

This new A&D (Architecture and Design) Series explores the close connections between contemporary architecture, interiors and home design.

This theme is illuminated with the help of fascinating monographs on leading architects, interior designers and design companies, and also with various thematic publications.
Private residences, public projects, office buildings and shops are all featured.

This second volume shows the work of the young, Paris and Brussels based interior architect Olivier Lempereur.

The new A&D (Architecture and Design) Series explores the close connections between contemporary architecture, interiors and home design.

This theme is illuminated with the help of fascinating monographs on leading architects, interior designers and design companies, and also with various thematic publications.
Private residences, public projects, office buildings and shops are all featured.

This third part of the new A&D Series (A&D #3) features around ten exclusive city homes. All of the projects have been photographed in recent months: exceptional city residences, contemporary apartments, lofts with character.

The starting point was the philosophy that runs through the A&D series: the constant interaction between architecture and interior furnishing and design.

This book presents a wide variety of projects by the young Belgian architect Glenn Sestig, who founded his eponymously named studio less than ten years ago. The company has made a name for itself with the great diversity of its creations, and this book offers an opportunity to compare these designs in one place. Placing these reports alongside each other makes it possible to define the essential aspects of his style and his language of forms. Is it possible to talk in terms of ‘a Glenn Sestig style’?

Yes, in a sense, it is. Most of the interior designs he has created to date have at least two characteristics in common. The first and most important characteristic, the backbone of all his projects, is the extreme precision, the rigueur, of his work. The architectural line, the proportions, the perspective, the relationship between the surfaces: all of these are constructed with such mastery that it is easy to forget the careful consideration that has gone into their design and creation.This rigueur allows Glenn Sestig to focus on the essence, onto which he then projects the personal character of every creation. The great versatility shown by this architect during the first decade of his work is also remarkable: clients have asked him to renovate a city apartment with a design to satisfy aesthetes, and, on a different scale, he has also transformed a former bank with spectacular volumes into a temple to fashion. Glenn Sestig has clearly exhibited his ability to pinpoint the essence of a project, and also proven himself a virtuoso within another register that typifies his work: that of elegance and refinement. This feature of his work consists of several aspects. His fondness for very exclusive furniture and objects, often combined with works of art, is perhaps the most easily visible aspect. The second aspect lies in his choice of materials and the inventive way he interprets them to suit the project. One of the many examples: the use of Moroccan tadelakt on the vaulted ceiling of Molotov, a private club located in an époque building.

The way Glenn Sestig works with materials cannot be detached from the choice of colour and the interplay of light: these too are an integral part of the base material from which he creates his spaces. However, his skill is also based on a cosmopolitan vision of the world in which we live, work and travel – and this is undoubtedly the aspect of his creations that lies closest to Glenn Sestig’s heart. Hollywood, Latin America, China or Japan, Africa... different countries take it in turns to feature in his projects, perhaps in a reference to a particular weaving technique, the imaginary atmosphere of a salon where people dance the tango, or the glamorous boudoir of a 1930s star. Make no mistake, though: these references are not conventions and they are never obvious. They are distilled from the art of the moment: his virtuosity could also be seen as sensuality.

Nathalie Van Reeth was born on 18 June 1965 in Wilrijk (near Antwerp).
Today she is one of the most promising interior architects of the Low Countries: she has created some very remarkable private projects in previous years, and others for boutiques and office spaces. Newly graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts at Antwerp, she first worked abroad for a couple of years. In 1989 she started out as an independent employee at Suzon Ingber, where she looked after a lot of projects for diamond merchants.

After that Nathalie Van Reeth was active at Interni in Wilrijk, a furniture-making shop and cabinet maker where she gained a lot of experience regarding choice of materials and developed an eye for detail. She also worked with the late Jean De Meulder, where she followed up on various projects. In 1993 she started “Nine D”: a furniture shop, unique of its kind, with extraordinary, sobered down objects austerely designed furniture and rough, high-grade fabrics. Three years later the shop has been transformed into a full-service studio for interior architecture. The trend had been set for over fifteen years of creative and exclusive projects: renovations, new development and furniture design.

This book shows some of her most recent end most characteristic creations. Anyone leafing through this book one will immediately notice that Nathalie Van Reeth has her own very specific signature, an unmistakable style idiom. Her vision on interior architecture is based on a few strong power lines: modern and minimal, rough and yet warm, restful and serene, monochrome and with a preponderant sense of space, perspective and light.

Nathalie Van Reeth is a big fan of Luis Barragan (1902-1988): she loves the austerity, the openness with which this Mexican architect created volumes.
His buildings have a sacral power, yet have also been conceived in a human fashion, with a lot of attention to light, colour, texture and natural materials.
The rich use of colour by Barragan is not as present with Van Reeth – she often preaches about monochrome spaces with attention to contemporary art – but the serenity that his work radiates, was one of the major sources of inspiration for Nathalie Van Reeth.
The importance of American sculptor Donald Judd (1928-1994) for the Antwerp interior architect is also not to be underestimated.

With his minimalist, serially arranged sculptures, Judd is one of the most important representatives of the Minimal Art, which has had a major effect on (interior) architecture as well – and still has in 2009.
The monachal interiors by Claudio Silvestrin (° 1954) are equally convincing for Van Reeth. His work has an intensity that exceeds pure minimalism. For him minimalism is a result of the essence of things: searching for purity, cleanliness, presence of timeless spaces, the use of noble, honest and natural materials, and the continuous quest for perfection.

On her own form language Nathalie Van Reeth is modest; it is a self-evident extension of her personality.
Relativising and no-nonsense, and at the same time with a strong sense of harmony, refinement and serenity in an interior. Nature plays a dominant part in this: in all her designs the outside environment is at one with the client’s living environment.

In the past years Nathalie Van Reeth has become active as a furniture designer as well. After all she found it increasingly hard to find furniture for the interiors she designed herself: not a single existing collection complied with her demand for that lived-in look but in a sober design. These designs, which conclude this monograph, are the final piece in the interior philosophy of the Antwerp interior architect: they show, in a very individual sense, how much attention Van Reeth pays to the proper choice of materials, perfect proportions, and the urge for perfection in form and function. In contrast to many, more theoretically oriented, (interior) architects she is very pragmatic in this field: no “l’art pour l’art” but always creations made to measure for the client, beautiful, harmonious, sober and refined, but also user friendly, intimate and radiating warmth.

Claire Bataille and Paul ibens studied together at the Henry Van de Velde Institute where they graduated cum laude in 1962. They have been working together since 1968 – in 2009 they are still partners. The recent private projects of the frequently awarded design agency are presented in this new monograph.

Посмотреть избранные развороты книги  A&D SERIES 10 : Claire Bataille & Paul ibens – Selected Works  в pdf-формате.

Sandrine Van Eldom and Nathalie Delabye together with their colleague Dorothée Engels make up the interior architecture agency Ensemble & Associés. In just a few years time they realised a number of top projects in and around Brussels, but also by the Belgian coast and in Wallonia. This book shows recent work from one of the most promising young design agencies in Belgium, with a consuming passion for durable quality and a feel for details in serene design.

Посмотреть избранные развороты книги  A&D SERIES 11: Ensemble & Associés  в pdf-формате.

This first volume is dedicated to architect Pascal van der Kelen. All of his designs (which include a lot of private homes, but also a number of offices, hairdresser's, boutiques, a notary's practice and other projects) are distinguished by an exquisite sense of serenity, and by forms and lines that are pure and clean, yet still luxurious.

This volume shows the work of the young, Paris and Brussels based interior architect Olivier Lempereur.