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Superbly designed modern products fill this one-stop shopping guide to the best contemporary fittings, fixtures, and surfaces available today from sources around the globe.
All around the world, warehouses, schools, sheds and factories are being reclaimed and recycled to create vast, airy accomodation with an unconventional twist. This guide reveals how to make these spaces habitable without sacrificing their original character. From industrial heritage to rural past, this sourcebook explores the possibilities and problems presented by these spaces in detail - not all in modern style, but with an aesthetic that works for modern living. Throughout the title the possibilities and the problems presented by these spaces are explored in detail.
David Tereshchuk leapt from an unpromising childhood in a small town on the English-Scottish borders to a precocious high-flying career as a TV journalist, first in London, then New York. During his working life, he has managed to extract revealing answers from tyrants and the oppressed, but never managed to coax his mother into admitting who his father was, even after her revelation to him, when he was in his 50s, that she had been raped, aged 15, by a priest. Alongside his career, the search for his mother’s abuser has haunted him, adding further layers of stress to a life already marked by alcoholism and insecurity. This is his astonishing story, and one that deserves to sit alongside those of Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings and David Brinkley. A compelling addition to EnvelopeBooks' "Media" and "Memoir" titles.
This book presents a detailed exploration into the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT), an enterprise concerned with finding and communicating sustainable ways of living, established in Wales in 1973. Playing a central role in the global green network, this study examines CAT’s history and context for creation, its development over time and its wider influence in the progression of green ideas at the local, national and international levels. Based on original archival and ethnographic research, this book provides the first in-depth analysis of CAT and uses the case study to explore wider issues of sustainability and environmental communication. It situates the Centre within current env...
To enable readers to grasp the cumulative complexity of contemporary celebrity culture, this book explores dynamics of the celebrity experience in recent centuries and up to the present day.
Looking at diverse visions of the modern house, before placing them in the context of the technological and aesthetic concerns of architects, this text features illustrations and architectural drawings for every project, covering various aspects of contemporary house architecture.
Studying works by William Blake, Walter Scott, and Jane Austen, this volume examines the extent to which Romantic literary works can be said to prefigure the ways in which readers will engage with them after the time of their creation.
A blueprint for the new decorating mood of the 1990s, Tricia Guild's restored farmhouse in Tuscany is a celebration of colour, light and traditional furnishings. This book, containing hundreds of colour photographs, takes a tour around her Italian home and four other houses which epitomize her style, and also includes a selection of recipes, table settings, flower arrangements and ideas for entertaining which sympathize with their rural setting and mood.
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