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Book Novel Interiors

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lisa Borgnes Giramonti
  • Publisher : Potter Style
  • Release : 2014-12-02
  • ISBN : 038534600X
  • Pages : 290 pages

Download or read book Novel Interiors written by Lisa Borgnes Giramonti and published by Potter Style. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For those who have ever lost themselves in the stylish worlds of novels like Sense and Sensibility, The Age of Innocence, Wuthering Heights, The Picture of Dorian Gray and countless others, this design book embraces the fantasy of time and place, showing you how to bring some of those elements into your own home. Lisa Giramonti inspires a new approach to decorating: by teaching us through the lens of worlds we may already know and love. With gorgeous photographs by World of Interiors photographer Ivan Terestchenko, aspirational quotes, and tailored reading lists, Novel Interiors reveals the essence and details of interiors mentioned in great literary works. This is a stunning, photo-driven book that shares enchanting and timeless ways to live more elegantly.

Book New Classic Interiors

Download or read book New Classic Interiors written by Alessandra Branca and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Alessandra Branca, living means living comfortably. Growing up in Rome, Branca was always surrounded by exquisite art and architecture. She learned early on that beauty is meant to intermingle with everyday life, and to this day her interior designs, while abiding by classical principles, comfortably accommodate her clients’ lifestyles. “You can’t just do something that looks pretty,†? she says. “It has to work.†? In this book, the designer—based in Chicago—generously reveals her step-by-step creative process, offering invaluable guidance to anyone who wants a home that is both gorgeous and livable. Beginning with her own Chicago townhouse and interweaving insights drawn from several other prominent projects, she shows how she assesses each space’s form and function, selects foundation elements, chooses furniture and lighting, and, finally, incorporates decorative elements that reflect the resident’s personality. Illustrated with 200 lush photographs, the book offers a welcomes introduction to Branca’s enchanting and livable interiors.

Book Interior Chinatown

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charles Yu
  • Publisher : Pantheon
  • Release : 2020-01-28
  • ISBN : 0307907198
  • Pages : 289 pages

Download or read book Interior Chinatown written by Charles Yu and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOW A HULU ORIGINAL SERIES • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • “A shattering and darkly comic send-up of racial stereotyping in Hollywood” (Vanity Fair) and a deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced to play. Willis Wu doesn’t perceive himself as the protagonist in his own life: he’s merely Generic Asian Man. Sometimes he gets to be Background Oriental Making a Weird Face or even Disgraced Son, but always he is relegated to a prop. Yet every day, he leaves his tiny room in a Chinatown SRO and enters the Golden Palace restaurant, where Black and White, a procedural cop show, is in perpetual production. He’s a bit player here, too, but he dreams of being Kung Fu Guy—the most respected role that anyone who looks like him can attain. Or is it? After stumbling into the spotlight, Willis finds himself launched into a wider world than he’s ever known, discovering not only the secret history of Chinatown, but the buried legacy of his own family. Infinitely inventive and deeply personal, exploring the themes of pop culture, assimilation, and immigration—Interior Chinatown is Charles Yu’s most moving, daring, and masterful novel yet.

Book Interiors Beyond Architecture

Download or read book Interiors Beyond Architecture written by Deborah Schneiderman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ***Winner of the 2019 IDEC Book Award*** Interiors Beyond Architecture proposes an expanded impact for interior design that transcends the inside of buildings, analysing significant interiors that engage space outside of the disciplinary boundaries of architecture. It presents contemporary case studies from a historically nuanced and theoretically informed perspective, presenting a series of often-radical propositions about the nature of the interior itself. Internationally renowned contributors from the UK, USA and New Zealand present ten typologically specific chapters including: Interiors Formed with Nature, Adaptively Reused Structures, Mobile Interiors, Inhabitable art, Interiors for Display and On Display, Film Sets, Infrastructural Interiors, Interiors for Extreme Environments, Interior Landscapes, and Exterior Interiors.

Book The 100 Best Contemporary Interiors

Download or read book The 100 Best Contemporary Interiors written by and published by Beta Plus. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative new series documents, through the use of stunning colour photographs, 100 of the very

Book Wild Interiors

    Book Details:
  • Author : Hilton Carter
  • Publisher : Ryland Peters & Small
  • Release : 2020-04-14
  • ISBN : 1782499199
  • Pages : 467 pages

Download or read book Wild Interiors written by Hilton Carter and published by Ryland Peters & Small. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We work with Hilton because he's both a plant stylist and an incredible plant-care wizard. Hilton doesn't just teach you how to get your plants to thrive – he teaches you how to bond with them." - Apartment Therapy Bestselling author Hilton Carter brings his unique eye and love of plants to show you how to create luscious interiors that not only look amazing but are good for your well-being, too. Hilton first guides you through his own plant journey, his inspirations, and his top ten favourite house plants. He then takes you on a Journey in Greenery where he showcases the homes of 12 inspiring plant parents that demonstrate the versatility of decorating with plants. From a tiny house in Venice, California and a light-filled loft in New York City, to a Berlin apartment decorated with vintage finds, and the Barcelona home of a ceramic artist, there are ideas for all types of spaces and budgets. Hilton then sets you off on your very own plant journey, taking you room by room, profiling the plants that are most suited to each: those that thrive in the tropical humidity of bathrooms, the erratic heat changes of kitchens and plants that can live happily in the indirect light of an entryway or bedroom. Packed full of interior design advice such as using 'statement plants' like Fiddle-leaf figs to create a focal point, how to layer your greenery by using hanging baskets, and how to assemble the perfect plant shelf, Hilton shows you how bringing houseplants into your home creates instant impact. Be inspired to create your own Wild Interiors with Hilton's expert styling advice, plus his hints and tips on plant care that take the mystery out of looking after your green friends.

Book Interior Design Illustrated

Download or read book Interior Design Illustrated written by Francis D. K. Ching and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-02-20 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a concise and accessible presentation of important concepts for beginning designers, and experienced practitioners will appreciate its insightful and practical coverage of the relationship between building structures and interior spaces. A broad range of rich illustrations communicates visual information and ploughs fertile ground for creative ideas and inspiration.

Book Jacques Grange

    Book Details:
  • Author : Pierre Passebon
  • Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
  • Release : 2009-09-08
  • ISBN : 2080301128
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Jacques Grange written by Pierre Passebon and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2009-09-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book on this leading interior designer, who has worked with Yves Saint Laurent and Valentino, and was named one of the world's most influential designers by Time magazine. Combining good taste and audacity is a subtle art that interior designer Jacques Grange has perfected for over four decades. This volume is an all-access pass inside the luxurious homes created by this master interior designer. From rococo opulence to modern chic, and with Oriental and North African influences blending with Western styles, Grange's touch is unique.

Book Design Thinking for Interiors

Download or read book Design Thinking for Interiors written by Joy H. Dohr and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-06-24 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a holistic approach to contemporary interior design. The interior design process is changing. In order to create truly engaging work, designers are developing a deeper and broader understanding of how design theory, research, and existing practice can help them make better decisions. This inquiry provides answers on how design is experienced, and its impact over time. At the same time, the profession is becoming increasingly collaborative. Designers today work closely with other professionals—such as architects, landscape designers, product designers, anthropologists, and business consultants—in new ways, engaging an expanding network of experts in the design process more than ever before. Written by renowned scholars Joy Dohr and Margaret Portillo, the book brings interior design theory and research to life utilizing a narrative inquiry approach that offers highly accessible coverage of the interior design world as it exists today. By looking at real-life stories that demonstrate what makes a memorable design, coupled with photographs and drawings to further illustrate these concepts, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in keeping abreast of interior design in the twenty-first century.

Book Interiors

    Book Details:
  • Author : Min Hogg
  • Publisher : Clarkson Potter Publishers
  • Release : 1988
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book Interiors written by Min Hogg and published by Clarkson Potter Publishers. This book was released on 1988 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photgraphs by The World of Interiors Archives. The eight major decorating styles seen in today's most fabulous rooms, presented by the most acclaimed magazine of interior design. More than 300 full-color photographs.

Book Slightly South of Simple

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  • Author : Kristy Woodson Harvey
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2017-04-25
  • ISBN : 1501158066
  • Pages : 400 pages

Download or read book Slightly South of Simple written by Kristy Woodson Harvey and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER *Glitter Guide’s “Must Reads for April” *PopSugar’s “Ultimate Summer Reading” *Bustle’s Books to Read and Discuss With Your Mom and Grandma *New York Live’s “Ashley’s A-List” Pick “One of the hottest new Southern writers.” —Parade From the next “major voice in Southern fiction” (Elin Hilderbrand, New York Times bestselling author) comes the first in an all-new series chronicling the journeys of three sisters and their mother—and a secret from their past that has the potential to tear them apart and reshape their very definition of what it means to be a family. Caroline Murphy swore she’d never set foot back in the small Southern town of Peachtree Bluff; she was a New York girl born and bred and the worst day of her life was when, in the wake of her father’s death, her mother selfishly forced her to move—during her senior year of high school, no less—back to that hick-infested rat trap where she'd spent her childhood summers. But now that her marriage to a New York high society heir has fallen apart in a very public, very embarrassing fashion, a pregnant Caroline decides to escape the gossipmongers with her nine-year-old daughter and head home to her mother, Ansley. Ansley has always put her three daughters first, especially when she found out that her late husband, despite what he had always promised, left her with next to nothing. Now the proud owner of a charming waterfront design business and finally standing on her own two feet, Ansley welcomes Caroline and her brood back with open arms. But when her second daughter Sloane, whose military husband is overseas, and youngest daughter and successful actress Emerson join the fray, Ansley begins to feel like the piece of herself she had finally found might be slipping from her grasp. Even more discomfiting, when someone from her past reappears in Ansley's life, the secret she’s harbored from her daughters their entire lives might finally be forced into the open. Exploring the powerful bonds between sisters and mothers and daughters, this engaging novel is filled with Southern charm, emotional drama, and plenty of heart.

Book The Memory Palace

    Book Details:
  • Author : Edward Hollis
  • Publisher : Catapult
  • Release : 2015-07-28
  • ISBN : 1619025620
  • Pages : 363 pages

Download or read book The Memory Palace written by Edward Hollis and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant, ambitious follow–up to The Secret Lives of Buildings, in which Hollis turns his focus from the great architectural constructions of the past to the now–vanished chambers they once contained. The rooms we live in are always more than just four walls. As we decorate these spaces and fill them with objects and friends, they shape our lives and become the backdrop to our sense of self. one day, the structures will be gone, but even then, traces of the stories and the memories they contained will persist. In this dazzling work of imaginative reconstruction, edward Hollis takes us to the sites of great abodes now lost to history and piecing together the fragments that remain, re–creates their vanished chambers. From Rome's palatine to the old palace of Westminster and the petit Trianon at Versailles, from the sets of MGM studios in Hollywood to the pavilions of the Crystal palace and the author's own grandmother's sitting room, The Memory Palace is a glittering treasure trove of luminous forgotten places and the alluring people who lived in them.

Book The Bourgeois Interior

Download or read book The Bourgeois Interior written by j Brown and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2012-10-05 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Robinson Crusoe’s cave to Henry Selwyn’s hermitage, the domestic interior tells a story about "things" and their relation to character and identity. Beginning with a description of a typical middle-class interior in America today—noting how its contents echo interiors described in literatures of the past—Julia Prewitt Brown asks why certain features persist, despite radical changes in domestic life over the past three hundred years. The answer lies, Brown argues, in the way the bourgeois interior functions as a medium, a many-layered fabric across which different energies travel, be they psychological, political, or aesthetic. In this way, objects are not symbols but rather the materials out of which symbols are made--symbols that constitute the very soul of the bourgeois. In a wide-ranging analysis, moving from works by Daniel Defoe, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and Henry James to those by Virginia Woolf, Ingmar Bergman, John Updike, and W. G. Sebald, Brown shows that what is at issue is less the economic basis of class than the bourgeoisie’s imagination of itself. The themes explored include the middle class’s ever-increasing desire for more wealth, as well as Victorian women’s identification with the domestic interior and the changes that took place when they began working outside the home. Brown also examines the ambivalence of economically determined objects both as repositories of memory and dreams and as fetishized commodities that become detached from everyday reality. Does the bourgeois possess the interior and its objects, or do the interior and its objects possess the bourgeois?

Book Timberframe Interiors

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dick Pirozzolo
  • Publisher : Gibbs Smith Publishers
  • Release : 2005-01-18
  • ISBN : 1586857436
  • Pages : 187 pages

Download or read book Timberframe Interiors written by Dick Pirozzolo and published by Gibbs Smith Publishers. This book was released on 2005-01-18 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designers looking to capture the unique appeal of timberframe construction receive a definite resource illustrating a variety of styles, with specifics on color, patterns, lighting, and room arrangements, complete with breathtaking full-color photography. Original.

Book Interiors  Green Edition

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  • Publisher : Phaidon Press
  • Release : 2021-09-09
  • ISBN : 9781838663865
  • Pages : 448 pages

Download or read book Interiors Green Edition written by and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phaidon's acclaimed breakthrough into the glorious world of global interior design - now with an elegant green velvet cover Phaidon's much-lauded Interiors: The Greatest Rooms of the Century is the ultimate global celebration of residential interior design and decorating. With 400 rooms organized by designer from A- Z, the book goes beyond decorators, designers, and architects to highlight exquisite interiors designed by fashion designers, artists, style icons, and film stars, each of whom has made a unique contribution to the world of interior design. Ranging from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day, the book features everything from chateaux, town houses, and penthouses - to desert ranches, beach houses, and tiny apartments in more than 25 countries. This is the essential inspirational source book for design aficionados, anyone who is interested in beautiful rooms, and for everyone who cares about the spaces in which they live.

Book Antiques for Today s Interiors

Download or read book Antiques for Today s Interiors written by Genevieve Weaver and published by Sterling Publishing Company Incorporated. This book was released on 2000-05 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even the most modern home can become the perfect setting for antiques! Take a new look at ways to use furniture, decorative items, and artwork from bygone times to visually stunning effect. Often made of beautiful materials rarely used nowadays, they'll add texture and focus to any room. Make an exciting interior with the most unlikely mix of pieces, blend styles with confidence, and base design schemes around a single, special artifact. Includes insiders' tips on purchasing.

Book Vogue Living

Download or read book Vogue Living written by and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2007-10-30 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique book of 36 spectacular houses and gardens - whose owners include Madonna, Donna Karan, Christian Louboutin and Karl Lagerfeld to name a few - draws not only on stories that have appeared in Vogue and Vogue Living over the past two decades, but also on previously unpublished images. These dazzling photographs take readers into the style-makers' private realms - bringing to life interiors and exteriors that are both inspiring and transporting. Features photographs by Mario Testino, Cecil Beaton, Annie Leibovitz and many more!