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Dostępność: na zamówienie Designer and merchant, collector and tastemaker, Thomas O’Brien has made a career of translating cool notions of modernism into an easy and generous array of modern styles that anyone can attain. Now he introduces readers to a range of those styles—from casual to formal, vintage to urban—alongside stunning photography and charming design stories. O’Brien carefully describes the design process of his chosen projects, including a downtown New York City loft, a traditional Connecticut estate, and a converted schoolhouse in eastern Long Island.
Dostępność: na zamówienie The use of light and illumination in architecture and design is currently evolving and making an increasingly significant impact on various creative disciplines. Today, architects use light installations to create a different nighttime identity for their buildings that allow for additional functions and presentations. Light is also important for interior designers, who use it to give the impression of a room where there isn t one or make a space seem bigger or smaller. Others use light to conjure works of art, forms and images out of nothing or to give entire city centres a whole new look.
Dostępność: na zamówienie This beautifully illustrated book, a companion volume to the best-selling En passant par la demeure (published by Verba Volant in 2005), presents three new extraordinary residences decorated by noted French interior designer Jean-Loup Daraux. Located in the south of France, these homes showcase the designer's ability to create rich compositionsexecuted in with ageless furniture, antiques, contemporary artwork, and imaginative finishings that synthesize tradition and innovation. All the spaces in By the Light of the Sea resonate with the spirit the Mediterranean and are unmistakably French by design.
One of the world’s most important collections of twentieth-century design—the Stewart Collection in Montreal—celebrates its thirtieth anniversary in 2010. The Stewart Collection incorporates iconic furniture, ceramics, textiles, posters, graphic art, jewelry, and everyday objects from the 1930s to today. This book presents items chronologically, highlighting contrasts and parallels between works including posters by Max Bill and an armchair by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Bridges, the least known and understood of China's many wonders, are one of its most striking and resilient feats of architectural prowess. Chinese Bridges brings together a thorough look at these marvels from one of the world's leading experts on Chinese culture and historical geography, Ronald G. Knapp.
Dostępność: na zamówienie Market research shows that attractive designs and graphics are as important as charming copy for a successful greeting card or direct mailing. This book presents those distinguished and successful direct mailings and greeting cards which are mainly used for business occasions, grouped by the purpose of the cards: invitation, greeting, promotion, and others. Presented works are all designed by professionals, and selected from various countries throughout the world. Each design is stylish, innovative, colorful and visually stunning, and some are made of unusual materials: some are 3-dimensional, and some have a trick or two that may surprise you.
Since leaving a career in classical music to focus solely on architecture in 1979, Libeskind's highly unconventional approach to design has riveted the interest of architects and designers around the world. Perhaps the leading architectural theoretician of our time, Libeskind is now receiving numerous commissions for new buildings, including the Jewish Museum in San Francisco. The Victoria and Albert extension in London, and the Felix Nussbaum Museum in Germany. His work has been the subject of more than 140 exhibitions and he travels and lectures constantly. This book on Libeskind's extraordinary work-eschews, in true Libeskind fashion, ,the traditional monograph format.
Design for Life: The Architecture of Sim Van der Ryn surveys the work and principles of Sim Van der Ryn, a world leader in the field of sustainable architecture. Sharing his years of experience as a teacher and using his building designs as examples, the author shows us that buildings are not objects but organisms, and cities are not machines but complex ecosystems.
Dostępność: na zamówienie A recognized world leader in high-end textiles, furniture and accessories, known for designs that balance classic and contemporary, East and West, luxury and comfort, the award-winning Donghia studio has come to symbolize sensual, unstudied elegance and a simple design philosophy: to make people look good and feel good in their environments. Sherri Donghia discusses the every day inspirations that can enliven and personalize your environment, which can be gathered from nature, travel, fashion, film, art, and almost anything that touches your senses. The importance of particular colour combinations and mixing them with tactile elements such as sumptuous textured fabrics, rich woods, delicate glass, and luminous metals is also taken into account.
Dostępność: na zamówienie Eastern modernist architecture of the 60’s and 70’s is moving away from the specialized focus of international architecture debates and becoming a subject of discussion within the broader context of general interest. The excellent photos in this book convey the flair of an era in which planning was obviously the product of a collective vision, more so than is the case today.
A new direction is being created in the design and architecture of educational spaces. This full-color book showcases over 80 projects featuring the most creative and innovative projects done in the field of education. This volume illustrates how today’s best educational projects are exceptionally functional, economical, energy conserving, and easily maintained, while at the same time being both adaptable and appealing. Educational Environments No. 3 is an invaluable planning and design resource for individuals who must preserve, enhance and convey America’s intellectual leaders. Highlighted are public and private primary and secondary schools, colleges, universities, libraries, and much more.
