A Year in the French Style: Interiors and Entertaining by Antoinette Poisson by Vincent Farelly, Jean-Baptiste Martin
Category: Architecture | Design
The founders of Antoinette Poisson take readers inside their historic townhouse on the Atlantic coast to discover a style and art of entertaining rooted in French tradition and elegance. Maison Lescop in Port-Louis, Brittany-the historic residence of an eighteenth-century French importer for the Indian ...Show more
House Cat: Inspirational Interiors and the Elegant Felines Who Call Them Home by Paul Barbera
Category: Architecture | Design
Cats can be divas or devoted friends. Cats can be homebodies or intrepid explorers. Cats can love or loathe their canine counterparts. But one thing they all share is a natural affinity for a comfortable home filled with sunshine, art and books. House Cat features fifty charismatic cats in the incredibl ...Show more
Midcentury Houses Today by Michael Biondo, Jeffrey R. Matz, Lorenzo Ottaviani, Cristina A. Ross
Category: Architecture | Design
This expanded and updated edition of the 2014 classic focuses on the concentration of midcentury houses in New Canaan, Connecticut, built by noted architects including Marcel Breuer, Eliot Noyes, Philip Johnson, John Black Lee, and Edward Durell Stone. This new edition addresses the issue of preservati ...Show more
Through the Cellar Door: Australia's Beautiful Wineries and Vineyards, their Design and Architecture by ALISON WEAVERS
Category: Architecture | Design | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Wineries across the globe now regularly engage leading architects to create extraordinary, original constructions that complement the winemaking and tasting experiences. In Europe, world-renowned studios have rejuvenated winery and cellar-door architecture for some of the biggest names in the wine indus ...Show more
New Shelters: Sustainable Buildings Systems by ANNA MINGUET
Category: Architecture | Design
Sustainable Architecture or Bio-construction. Living as close as possible to a green or natural area is highly recommended for mental health. Good architecture is considered to be that which blends in perfectly with the surrounding area. Nature can be integrated into architecture indirectly with environ ...Show more
Paris Art Deco by ARNOLD SCHWARTZMAN
Category: Architecture | Design
The art of its architectural details. With the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Moderne, the city of Paris heralded in the New Era. Paris was the cradle of Art Deco, a style that emerged in the 1920s as a reaction to the sinuous tentacles of Art Nouveau in the early 1900 ...Show more
DAVID STARK DESIGN by STARK,DAVID
Category: Architecture | Design
David Stark is one of New York's most creative and sought-after event designers. This book explores forty of Stark's elaborate yet eco-friendly events--corporate, non-profit, and private--with 200 exquisite photographs and descriptive text. Organized according to the designer's quirky phraseology--"Anim ...Show more
Wood Works - Sustainability, Versatility, Stability by Chris van Uffelen
Category: Architecture | Design
Whether strict and orthogonal or undulating and curved, whether rough and natural or polished and elegant...Wood is nature's greatest resource, embedded in the history, culture and life of humans worldwide. And it is ingenious as building material: remarkably malleable and at the same time resilient, re ...Show more
India Hicks: Island Style by India Hicks
Category: Architecture | Design
From India Hicks, a beautifully illustrated guide to achieving her famously undone, gloriously bohemian decorating style. Born from British and design royalty, India Hicks has forged a design empire from her family's enclave in the Bahamas. In India Hicks: Island Style, she invites readers into her worl ...Show more
Dirty Janes Vintage Style by Jane Crowley
Category: Architecture | Design
The Dirty Janes Vintage Style emporiums in Bowral and Canberra are a much treasured destination for lovers of antiques and old wares, both a treat for the eyes and the soul. With over 50,000 Instagram followers, and thousands more ardent fans, the vast yet intimate emporiums host stalls which showcase ...Show more
Windows in Architecture by CHRISTOPHER MASTERS
Category: Architecture | Design
This new study explores the development of the window, showing how it both transformed human experience by increasing access to light and air and changed our perception of architectural space Christopher Masters celebrates the multiple roles of the window in architecture by providing engaging commentari ...Show more
Still: The Slow Home by Natalie Walton
Category: Architecture | Design
Still invites readers to take on the philosophy of the SLOW movement: Living Sustainable. Local. Organic. And Whole. Our homes are ideally placed to support and promote this philosophy, through everything from the materials we source in construction to how we fit-out and furnish them. The choices we mak ...Show more