Download or read book Collectables 20th Century Classics written by Scala Quin and published by Fox Chapel Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 20th century was a rich and influential period of beautiful, innovative design and many classics from that era have influenced and inspired modern designers. "Collectables: 20th-Century Classics" features more than 90 of the most desirable and iconic pieces from the last century. Beautifully illustrated and organized by category (furniture, household, lighting, glass and ceramics) each entry has: a double-page spread, featuring a short essay on the classic under discussion with an accompanying photograph of that object; top tips on what to look out; a price guide; and, key websites to direct the reader on where best to make a purchase or pick up a bargain. Clear and concise, this book provides all the information you need to make an informed decision when investing in a piece of classic design, whether it be an Arne Jacobsen Egg chair, a Clarice Cliff tea cup or a Poul Henningsen PH lamp. This gorgeous book is a must for anyone interested in style, design or interiors.
Download or read book Making Prestigious Places written by Mario Paris and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08-16 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making Prestigious Places investigates the spatial dimension of luxury, both as a sector involving activities, operators and investments, and as a system of values acting as a catalyst for recent urban transformations. Luxury shares a well-established connection to the city, as a place of production, consumption and self-representation, and continues to grow despite economic difficulties. This edited collection includes case studies from Europe, North and South America, Asia and the Middle East to create a dialogue around these developments and the challenges presented, such as the tension between the idea of prestige and current values in urban planning, the discussion between academic reflections and operational practices, and how these interact with the long-term economic and social dynamic of the city. With rich analysis and a preface written by Patsy Healey, this book will be an important addition to the discourse on luxury for urban planners and researchers.
Download or read book Interior Design written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dwell written by and published by . This book was released on 2003-06 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At Dwell, we're staging a minor revolution. We think that it's possible to live in a house or apartment by a bold modern architect, to own furniture and products that are exceptionally well designed, and still be a regular human being. We think that good design is an integral part of real life. And that real life has been conspicuous by its absence in most design and architecture magazines.
Download or read book The Articulate Surface written by Ben Pell and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-11-05 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ornament is currently acquiring a renewed status in architecture. As contemporary technologies of design and fabrication introduce unprecedented opportunities to intertwine the constructive logics and expressive articulations of buildings, ornament has re-emerged as a means to explore the interactions between function and decoration, volume and surface, structure and envelope. This book gives a systematic account of the technologies employed in the production of ornament and the strategies of its application today, examining a range of international built examples. Architects with particularly advanced approaches to the question of ornament contribute reports and reflections on their experiences: Sam Jacob of Fashion Architecture Taste (FAT), London; Andreas Hild of Hild und K Architekten, Munich; and Alejandro Zaera-Polo of Foreign Office Architects (FOA), London.
Download or read book Metropolis written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Architecture Mobility written by Gino Finizio and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication focuses on the delicate relationship between the city and mobility through the works of some of the most important contemporary international architects such as Jean Nouvel, OMA, Massimiliano Fuksas, and Alessandro Mendini; the book also deals with how thinking and experiencing the urban car is changing.
Download or read book Progressive Architecture written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Antonio Citterio written by Alberto Bassi and published by Electaarchitecture. This book was released on 2005 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Milan-based Antonio Citterio (1950- ), architect and product designer, is known internationally for his product designs for B&B, Vitra and Kartell. This book presents an overview of Citterio’s architecture, including the interiors he designed by Esprit in the 1980s when the clothing manufacturer was one of the first to commission a younger generation of emerging architects, as well as a detailed analysis of his product designs. Included are well-known pieces like his office chair for Vitra and his colourful plastic rolling carts for Kartell as well as his concept for the interior of a sports car for Alfa Romeo of 2000, which was never realized.
Download or read book Minimalist Spaces written by Aurora Cuito and published by HBI. This book was released on 2001 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating journey through minimalist architecture and interiors, featuring 30 stunning examples from buildings all over the world. Includes introductions by John Pawson and Claudio Silverstrin, important contemporary leaders of this movement.
Download or read book Modern Tropical Garden Design written by Made Wijaya and published by Editions Didier Millet. This book was released on 2012-01-16 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Made Wijaya guides readers through fantastically imagined and designed, stylistically diverse outdoor environments exploring various theories of Modernism and its current expressions."--Veranda
Download or read book Polyedra Presents Italian Design is Coming Home to Switzerland written by William Georgi and published by ACTAR Publishers. This book was released on 2011 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is a collection of the work of a group of artists who accepted Polyedra's invitation to celebrate the past, present and future of the close collaboration between Swiss and Italian designers"--P. 5.
Download or read book The Modern Landscapes of Ted Smyth written by Rod Barnett and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-01-06 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modern period in landscape architecture is enjoying the fascinated appreciation of scholars and historians in Europe and the Americas, and new themes, new subjects and new appraisals are appearing. This book contributes to the conversation by focusing on the work of a singular designer who spent his entire career in a province of the North Island of New Zealand. Ted Smyth practiced an assured landscape modernism without ever seeing the designs of his forebears or his contemporaries working in the UK, Europe and the United States. Designing in isolation from the mainstream of modernism, and a little after its high tide, Smyth produced a series of gardens that provoke a revaluation of the diffusionist model of influence. The book explains and describes the evolution of Smyth’s design vocabulary and relates it to the development of tropical landscape modernism in other Asia-Pacific sites. It shows how a culture of garden modernism can be generated from within a particular locale, and highlights Smyth’s engagement with Māori design traditions in search of a specific expression of the high modern essentialism of place.
Download or read book Architectural Record written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The International Design Yearbook 2001 written by Michele De Lucchi and published by Laurence King Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The editor has grouped together objects in catagories which illuminate current developments in design, such as home-office furniture; the work of leading architects, ranging from Norman Foster and David Chipperfield to Zaha Hadid and Kazuyo Sejima; new treatments of traditional forms like wickerware; minimalist designs; and innovations from leading companies like Apple, Philips, Sharp and Siemens".--BOOKJACKET.
Download or read book Hotel Spec written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Trends in Commercial Spaces written by Carles Broto and published by Structure. This book was released on 2005 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architecturally successful public spaces fulfill a dual task: they make their identity representative (which at times is to entertain and please the user), and they offer the visitor a rapid and clear reading of their functions and services. This is of particular importance with hotels, restaurants, shopping malls, supermarkets, cinemas and theatres, which despite their great typological diversity, must respond to both premises. This brilliant publication presents an array of superbly designed public and commercial spaces where people undertake a range of activities from the deeply serious to the light and playful. Those that also involve a business activity of commercial exchange present elements of functionality that are strongly impregnated with creative expression.
