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Country houses and town houses from Southern Italy with their collected, poetic, intimate spaces.

Salento is located in the south-eastern extremity of Italy - located in the 'heel' of the Italian 'boot'. This book captures, in glorious photographs, the incredible interior design style of the region. Slowly becoming internationally recognised - just as 'Tuscan Style' before it - Salento Style encompasses an eclectic mix of fashions: at once simple, but sophisticated, rural and aristocratic, antique and contemporary.

Introduction Town Houses Amazing Salento style - Casa a corte Aristocratic Salento style - Villa antica Classical Salento style - Palazzetto Ethnic Salento style - Casa con agrumeto Minimal Salento style - Casina Poetic Salento style - Stanza di paese Sophisticated Salento style - Casa con ortale Country Houses Artistic Salento style - Deposito degli attrezzi Charming Salento style - Ricovero agricolo Modern Salento style - Casa di campagna Precious Salento style - Masseria Romantic Salento style - Casina antica Rustic Salento style - Lamia Secret Salento style - Pajara

Coastal dwellings around the globe that will inspire your life and dreams

"We would like to take you with this book on a journey to some of the most beautiful and purest places on the globe. Skies are cerulean blue. Follow us as we set sail for distant, dreamy shores."
Diane Dorrans Saeks

Once a fishing town nestled on the banks of the Yangtze River Delta on the east cost of China, Shanghai is now the country’s largest city and one of the world’s busiest ports. The city has been the cultural and economic center of eastern Asia for over a century and has become synonymous with all that is modern in China. This book adventures through Shanghai, giving readers a cross-section of the city’s loveliest and most exceptional interiors, such as a penthouse loft in a converted hardware factory with a rooftop greenhouse, controversial writer/superstar Mian Mian’s conceptual “art apartment,” the painstakingly restored “dream house” of a French archaeologist in the French Concession, and the sprawling, flamboyant apartment of art world diva Pearl Lam.

This surprising and multi-hued collection of interiors ranges from Dutch colonial to traditional wood and thatched-roof houses, townships, modern city apartments, and funky artist homes, reflecting the country`s tumultuous political history while celebrating its rich culture.

Spanish interior design has been influenced over the centuries by a multitude of styles, which have contributed to a variegated but specific interior design culture. Such a rich heritage does not just represent an opportunity for contemporary interior designers and designers: it poses a real challenge for them.

This volume shows the results of this creative potential, which characterizes the Spanish interior design of today – a collection of different ideas, concepts and styles. The best projects are on display from different categories, from living and work settings, to restaurants, hotels, commercial and cultural spaces.

From the contents:

_InDret office in Barcelona (Francesc Rifé)
_La Terraza del Casino in Madrid (Hayon Studio)
_House in a former barn in the Alt Empordà (Habitan Arquitectos)
_Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Barcelona (OAB)
_Pharmacy in La Puebla 15 in Palencia (Buj+Cólón Arquitectos)

From Aragon, Galicia, and the Basque regions in the north to the central cities of Madrid and Toledo, from the fabled Andalusian cities of Seville and Granada in the south to the Catalan capital, Barcelona, more than thirty enchanting and historically significant properties are visited in this landmark volume.

The lavish illustrations depict the wide range of design styles embraced by Spaniards over the centuries, reflecting the fascinating motifs of the numerous cultures that have contributed to the Spanish aesthetic. Imposing medieval castillos, fabulously detailed Moorish-influenced country casas, and beautifully furnished, art-filled city palacios are included in this tour of the country's grand and historic private residences and buildings

Spain is a country as extraordinarily diverse in its architecture as it is in its landscape. Ranging from the lush green Pyrenees to the arid vineyards of La Rioja, and from traditional Andalucian haciendas to the creative hive of contemporary trends in Catalonia, Spanish Style provides a luxurious, often dramatic tour of 23 hand-picked homes and boutique hotels across the country, showcasing a superb array of design ideas. Kate Hill’s expressive text captures inspirational spaces as varied as Frank Gehry’s landmark hotel for the Marqués de Riscal winery and the tiny family cabañaof artist Moisés Tibau, while Tim Clinch’s photographs reveal a treasure-trove of textures and colours, where blue-washed ceilings and blood-red tiles contrast with brocade-darkened rooms burnished with shuttered sunlight.This dazzling sourcebook will appeal to all lovers of Spain, interior design professionals and anyone seeking an armchair escape to this fascinating land. 

Presents a rich and inspirational variety of interior design styles

This book brings together a warm and colorful selection of cozy, quaint country interiors in the land of northern lights and white nights, from seaside cottages to traditional farmhouses and royal manors.

Swedish Interiors is the first book to share the history, progression, and key elements of Swedish style and how to use it in many different styles of homes. From the white- and blue-hued images of the familiar Gustavian style to the gold accents and luxurious patterns found in the Swedish Baroque, Rococo, and Biedermeier periods, the secret to Swedish design is in having the confidence to mix old and new while maintaining a clean and simple aesthetic.
Emphasizes light, comfort and elegance.
Is found throughout the world, proving its wide appeal and the ease with which it blends with other design styles.

France and Italy have long been the go-to spots for fashionistas, serious foodies and design mavens. Rich patinas, satisfying earthen hues and myriad natural materials - translate into timeless, unabashedly elegant yet livable rooms appropriate for our times. Award-winning designer Betty Lou Phillips shows how the best from two European countries combine to create la dolce vita - the good life.

Easily the most recognizable architectural style in America, with its brick or shingled facades trimmed in white and ornamented with restrained classical detail, the Colonial Revival emerged in the late nineteenth century and is still the basis for classical design today. The American Style surveys the evolution of the Colonial Revival from the 1890s to the present, focusing on the period from 1900 to the 1930s when New York City was a major center of architecture and decorative arts. Leading architects, including McKim Mead & White, Delano & Aldrich, and Mott B. Schmidt, used its vocabulary for private residences and clubs as well as institutional buildings - banks, schools, churches, and museums.

Richly illustrated with archival photographs and objects from the collections of the Museum of the City of New York and other major institutions, The American Style will be the definitive record of an enduring aesthetic in architecture and decorative arts.

Once in every generation comes a scholar who is a master of both the documentary evidence and the buildings themselves. Such a man is Christoph Luitpold Frommel who, after winning a world-wide reputation, here distils his learning into a new synthesis that is both up-to-date and securely based on primary sources.

The book is not only illustrated throughout with photographs, drawings, plans and reconstructions, but social context, technical innovation and aesthetic judgement are all given due weight, with particular emphasis on the way in which each architect balanced individual inspiration with the accepted canon.

Christoph Luitpold Frommel was born in 1933 and has held academic posts in Germany (Bonn University), the USA (Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, and the University of California, Berkeley) and Italy (La Sapienza, Rome). He was Director of the Bibliotheca Herziana, Rome, from 1980 to 2001.

• A definitive account of the most innovative and most influential 150 years in the history of architecture
• A work that brings scholarship in English into line with the most advanced continental research
• Over 300 photographs, architects’ drawings and plans
• Authoritative, readable, deeply considered
• The fruit of a lifetime’s study

Until the early 1990s the southern and eastern towns of Yemen were extremely difficult to access. The result of nearly two decades of research, this is the first book to offer an in-depth investigation into the characteristic architecture of the region. The authors first hand research provides detailed insights into building techniques and methods, though still practised, are little known outside the area.

Refreshingly, the book moves out of the more familiar major cities into the hinterlands and explores regions that could be said to be the last strongholds of traditional Arab architecture. The author was allowed to visit locations and sites that had previously been closed to architectural historians. As a result of this privileged access, the text and images combine to convey unique insights and viewpoints: those of the master builders and house owners who actually create and inhabit the buildings.