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Our homes respond to the way that we live, reflecting the different stages in our lives and revealing aspects of our character. They need to be flexible, as space for working and relaxing, for eating, entertaining and sleeping, for family and pets.

This richly illustrated book showcases French interior design from the Baroque to Modernism, featuring original sketches, engravings, and patterns. With many designs previously unpublished, it serves as a valuable resource for contemporary designers, decorators, and craftsmen seeking fresh inspiration.

Presents original sketches and printed patterns for furniture, textiles, flooring, wallpaper, glass, ceramics and household utensils, from doorknobs to tableware and light fittings. This book offers ideas and inspiration for designers, restorers, interior decorators, and homeowners.

Presents a visual view of lifestyles in cities around the world, from New York to Cairo, from London to Saigon, in five major sections. This book takes various opportunities to make cross-cultural comparisons and connections, providing an international view of city living, and offering a compilation of ideas.

A marvelous portrayal of the delights of living alfresco. An indespensable reference for getting the best of living outdoors.

What visitor to the Caribbean has not been entranced by the beauty and spirit of its tropical islands? In Caribbean Style, more than 600 spectacular full-color photographs and an illuminating text re-create the houses, gardens, and lifestyle of this enchanting region. A trendsetting book that combines travel and design, Caribbean Style offers a previously unseen view of the islands of Guadeloupe, Martinique, St. Bartélémy, Antigua, Nevis, Montserrat, Barbados, Haiti, and Jamaica. The book includes information on island vegetation and colors, plantation houses, town houses, popular houses, contemporary houses, and gardens. In addition, the Architectural Notebook provides plans and information on different types of houses on the various islands.          These pages take you from plantation manor houses with gracious verandahs that catch the mild, cooling winds to brightly painted native dwellings adorned with imaginative wood trim; from colonial plantation gardens with rows of majestic palm trees and winding water canals left from earlier days to simple town-house gardens with bright patches of bougainvilleas. Caribbean Style explodes with an intense profusion of images and colors. With this vivid portrait of the Caribbean, you will almost feel the soft breezes, inhale the fragrance of tropical flowers, and luxuriate in the warmth of the sun.

Wire objects have worked their way into virtually every human activity. Since the eighteenth century, such occupations as housekeeping, cooking, gardening, fishing, and hunting were unthinkable without them. Shopkeepers fashioned wire into display racks, and children played with wire toys. Many pieces, such as fruit bowls, platters, and baskets of all kinds served both practical and decorative functions.With its vintage photographs, pages from early catalogs, old advertisements, and more than 300 evocative full-color photographs, Wire reveals why there is such a strong revival of interest in these pieces and demonstrates how they can be integrated into our homes today.

The authors of the International Style Library turn their attention to the land east of the Danube as they travel through Vienna, Budapest, Prague, and the surrounding countryside to find in the architecture, interiors, and folk arts of the region a host of thriving design traditions accessible again after a long isolation.Full-color photographs.

Catalogues are produced to attract and entice people to buy products they have never considered or perhaps have never seen before. This book features a collection of over 200 catalogues from around the world, selected for their excellence in photography, illustration, typography, editorial or format.

"In more than 700 photographs, from cafes to courtyards, and from fifteenth-century palacios in Ibiza to contemporary apartments in Barcelona, family homes on Mallorca and holiday villas near Segovia, Spanish Style truly captures the beauty and romance that is Spain."--BOOK JACKET.