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The loft as we know it today is quite different from its original conception during the 1960s, when this typology of residence became popularized to reconvert warehouses that artists maintained with very few means. Today a loft can simply imply an op...

The patio is an outdoor space situated within a house that can have a number of uses, although in the past it served merely as a distributor of space of for ventilating and illuminating the parts furthers away from the facade with natural light. Nowa...

To live in a penthouse is to enjoy an exceptional place. The advent of the elevator, invented in the mid 19th century, brought with it a change in priorities when choosing where to live. Without the need for any physical effort to reach the top floor...

A more flexible lifestyle, increasing rents an a greater number of single-person homes have all meant that apartments, especially in big cities, have been reduced to a single room. This does not necessarily have to be a disadvantage however. The use ...

As a filter that smoothly merges interior and exterior, terraces have become one of the most important complemantary spaces in today's contemporary house. Whether cantilevered, open or covered, as a wide extension of the ground floor or as roof g...

The Big Apple, cosmopolitan city par excellence, capital of the world; these are some of the adjectives that have defined New York over the course of history, although words are never quite enough to describe this fascinating and vibrating city. Its ...

The skyline of the Big Apple is and always has set the standard for innovative architectural projects. The city’s zeitgeist is manifested in the constant erection of new extraordinary constructions. This book features the latest architectural develop...

RARE is the very first publication on Nicole Maloney. The photographer lives in Los Angeles, home to the celebrities she captures on film. In Rare she portrays members of the glitterati together with a exotic animal, a juxtaposition that evokes surpr...

Non Intentional Design defies all standards, is subversivley and beautiful and part of all cultures. The book shows, how people can modify very banal things due to creative use. NID deals with norms which are "abnormally" transformed - every day, eve...

Bernd Obermann has been living in New York for several years, in the part of the city historically known as Hell’s Kitchen. He is intimately involved with his surroundings, and so he hardy betakes himself to the fundamental New York to lead us to the...

At the beginning of the 19th century, Charles Fourrier observed that citizens’ lives were marked not by the home but by the office; 200 years later, this somewhat eccentric statement expresses the reality of post-industrial society: In Western countr...

Despite their at times negative connotation, why do consumers love packaging so much that it has turned into one of the essential conditions for commercial success? Beyond their logistic function of protection, packaging is not only designed to se...

In her prizewinning creations Milanese artist Paola Navone welds together the opposite tastes of Eastern and Western cultures into a global, multi-cultural mix of styles. She is an architect, a designer, an art director, an interior decorator as well...

It has been the French revolution that has paved the way for an inventive and creative spirit in the arts, architecture, literature, and music that enhanced the development of science and technology of the future. Even a few years back, on the 200th...

After graduating in Design, Patricia Urquiola headed Piero Lissoni’s design department before setting up her own studio in Milan in 2001. Today she works with renowned names such as Moroso, Cappellini, Kartell, Alessi and Boffi. This monograph presen...