Suzanne Slesin

Stafford Cliff

Daniel Rozensztroch

Beginning with French Style. Suzanne Slesin and her coauthors created an acclaimed series of high-quality color books that focused on international areas of cultural and domestic interest. The Little Style Books revisit this classic material in a new and reinvigorated format. Snappy anti appealing. The Little Style Books contain pictures anti text from the original edition selected and reorganized to highlight what is quintessential about the style of the country. The chapter on Living, for example, is filled with ideas for arranging rooms, placing furniture, lighting corners: the Cooking chapter shows not only how other people live, but how our kitchens might be adapted. A treasure trove of ideas, this is indeed the essence of style.

A Little Style Book

Japanese Style

English Style Postcards

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.

The Book of Lofts

Jacques Dirand

Beginning with French Style, Suzanne Slesin and her coauthors created an acclaimed series of high-quality color books that focused on international areas of cultural and domestic interest. The Little Style Books revisit this classic material in a new and reinvigorated format. Snappy and appealing, The Little Style Books contain pictures and text from the original edition selected anti reorganized to highlight what is quintessential about the style of the country. The chapter on Living, for example, is filled with ideas for arranging rooms, placing furniture, lighting corners: the Cooking chapter shows not only how other people live, but how our kitchens might be adapted. A treasure trove of ideas, this is indeed the essence of style.

French Style

1. The 18th Century: Classicism and Rococo --2. Regency and After: Revival and Eclecticism --3. Early Victorian: The Workshop of the World --4. High Victorian: After the Great Exhibition --5. The Late 19th Century: Into Arts and Crafts --6. The 20th Century: Traditionalism to Modernism.

English Archive of Design and Decoration

From the time of Louis XIV onwards, successive French political regimes made it their business to encourage and support the luxury crafts and industries of the country. The health of the applied arts was a sign of economic and social well-being: even the governments of the various Republics saw it as a reflection of their own importance. Beautifully reprinted in colour and black-and-white, here are original sketches and printed patterns representing three centuries of ideas for furniture, textiles, wallpapers, glass, ceramics and whole interiors - a French archive of design and decoration demonstrating the national fascination with elegant living. There is a wealth of material to draw on: from as early as 1685 the furniture designs commissioned for the royal collections at Versailles from Andre Charles Boulle were published as engravings; likewise the designs of the Rococo masters Meissonnier and Pineau were disseminated throughout France, while Napoleon's architects Percier and Fontaine themselves published many designs. Later on, the great international exhibitions held in Paris defined the styles of their period: Art Nouveau, Art Deco and International Modernism. The continuing vigour of the studio and small workshop traditions was seen in the work of such individuals and firms as Galle, Lalique, Guimard, and subsequently Ruhlmann, Sue et Mare, Baccarat and Christofle. Including a comprehensive resource directory making this a practical as well as a beautiful book, manufacturers, designers, decorators, retailers and craftsmen alike will find this treasury of French design heritage a unique source of inspiration.

The French Archive of Design and Decoration

Explores the many different areas in which contemporary typographers are experimenting with type, illustration and photography, from magazines and annual reports to posters and television advertising. Stafford Cliff surveys over 200 of the world's most challenging designs, showing their influences and discussing the creative process. He includes detailed research of some of the projects and traces their stage-by-stage development, from initial brief to final artwork.

The Best in Cutting Edge Typography

Elizabeth Hilliard

Paint is today's and tomorrow's most versatile and effective decorating material. To the best of our knowledge, paint has been used in very age and every culture across the world. Paint: The Fired Earth Book of Natural Colour aims to celebrate and approach the subject of paint through colour in all its sensual possibilities, taking its inspiration from the delicious images, tones and textures that surround us in our everyday world. Think colour before paint, and only then can we return to the practicalities of using it in our homes. Paint takes the landscape of nature as its inspiration. Colours are divided into families that are represented by a natural terrain to create a universe of colour: Arctic Tints explores a variety of whites, including snow, chalk and ice; Ocean Wash celebrates blues and mauves, inspired by the sea and hot azure sky: Forest Hues revels in lush leafy settings, springy moss and yellower tones of olive and mustard; rich earthy colours and deep reds form a natural family called Earth Tones; Desert Shades engage us through soft neutrals and pearly nuances, and finally, Kaleidescope creates an explosion of colour to joyfully explore contemporary bright colours.

The Fired Earth Book of Natural Colour

Paint

Gilles de Chabaneix

The third book in the hugely successful The Way We Live series is a marvellous evocation of building, designing and living by the worlds oceans, a catalogue of opportunities for getting the best out of a life by and on the sea.

By the Sea

The Way We Live

A compilation of personal anecdotes, reflections, and photographs captures the private spaces of fifty celebrities and other public figures with a rich array of design ideas and innovative philosophies from Donatella Versace, Michael Graves, Miranda Richardson, Tommy Hilfiger, Jonathan Adler, Donna Hay, Sebastian Coe, and others.

Home

'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.

Making Homes - Creating Lifestyles

"Gilles de Chabaneix was fascinated by the life of cities around the world, both as complete entities and as compendiums of urban detail in the forms of streets, houses, apartments, offcies, bars, cáfes and people. Beyond and behind the life of the streets lie the private spaces - interiors and rooms where the tastes and aspirations of individuals are reflected in the design and arrangement of myriad objects set amid a whole panoply of different colours, textures, materials and finishes. This book illustrates the ways in which people go about creating their own personal environment and the detailing they apply to it. ... Every opportunity to make cross-cultural comparisons and connections is taken, providing a truly international view of the city experience, and creating a whole book that is effectively a compilation of inspirational ideas for stylish urban living." - book jacket.

Stafford Cliff

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