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'The Way We Live' transcends all other style books to reveal global connections and patterns in home decoration. This world tour of interior design elements is lavishly presented in more than 1,000 colour photographs; fabrics, textures and ornamental details reflect the complexity of different spaces and lifestyles, offering countless ideas for self-expression. Beautiful and practical, 'The Way We Live' is much more than a decorating guide - it is a design for living.
A profusely illustrated guide to every aspect of decorating provides ideas and techniques for increasing the beauty and comfort of homes of all styles and sizes
Innovative design ideas that will inspire and delight. The home decorator, whether amateur or professional, must first resolve several challenges before beginning any project: How can original features be saved or enhanced? How can individuality be added? Should the design be simple or ornate? Classic or modern? How can colors be coordinated? This unique sourcebook provides answers to these questions and countless others. Lavishly illustrated with more than 800 stunning color photographs, 1000 Home Ideas features innovative design solutions for: Walls Flooring Steps and banisters Doors and windows Cupboards and shelving With beautiful photos and engaging text, 1000 Home Ideas will appeal to the designer/interior decorator inside every home owner's heart. It also offers better value than an armful of magazines.
"Originally published in larger format as: The French archive of design and decoration"--Colophon.
Ornament and furniture styles and architectural treatments and decor reveal the essence of Indian culture in more than 500 full-color photographs.
With more than 600 spectacular full-color photos and an illuminating text, "Caribbean Style" brings home the houses, gardens, and buoyant lifestyle of this enchanting region.
This text presents examples of residential lofts in London, New York, Paris, Chicago, Berlin, Los Angeles and Milan. Whether in former warehouses, converted schoolhouses, suites of offices, or one-time woodworking shops, the lofts all represent contemporary design and living. Confronted by the challenge of dealing with hundreds or often thousands of feet of raw space, loft dwellers have responded by devising some interesting design solutions. Here are lofts with open, free-flowing spaces, loft divided into rooms or arranged on different levels, artist's lofts, and lofts that function as home offices.
Captures the elegant simplicity of Greek interior design, the lively diversity of contemporary Greek culture, and the sights, landscapes, attractions, and colorful people that have made Greece immensely popular to travelers
People say that the most successful homes are the most sustaining and invigorating to live in, or even just to visit. This is true of Barton Court, the house in Berkshire where Terence Conran has made his country home since 1977. It has been a family home, a center to his Habitat Design business, a factory and studio for producing commercial and domestic furniture, a laboratory for testing his recipes and writing cookery books and has a working fruit, vegetable and herb garden, supplying produce for his restaurants. Through the objects that Terence has collected, and the things he finds on his travels, we can learn, not only about the man behind a multi-million dollar empire, but the processes that stimulate his creativity and the sources of his inspiration. In this part visual biography, part guided tour Terence Conran explains what he sees and what he should look for in good design and just what has inspired him through his varied career.
Of all the materials we use to enhance our interiors, none is more pleasing to our senses than fabric. From nubby linens to silky sheers,Fabric: The Fired Earth Book of Natural Texturewill lead you deep into the sensuous world of textiles. Designers Elizabeth Hilliard and Stafford Cliff urge the reader to look at decorating with a fresh eye, and their book is brimming with new ideas. Each chapter is organized by texture:Naturallooks at cottons and knits;Luxuriousexplores suedes and velvets;Translucentcovers sheers and lace. Also taking the reader through satins and metals, as well as embossed, quilted, and printed fabrics, the authors then move on toColor: Simple and Exotic,exploring important color themes and explaining dyeing techniques. Drawing on striking and unusual imagery from the world around us, and filled with exquisite design images, including contemporary interiors, this gorgeous book will forever change the way you think about fabric in your home.