| Author: | Kevin McCloud |
TV's architecture and design guru Kevin McCloud shares his passion and expertise in this brilliant guide to designing and building your own home, illustrated with the most memorable houses from the award-winning Channel 4 series. The book goes way beyond the confines of the usual TV tie-in. Over the 11 years that Grand Design... read more
| Author: | Archiworld |
A new architecture series that investigates current trends in environmental design and the need to focus on integrated space, human beings and the environment. Most of the projects featured are located in Kora, and most are published with plans. Volume 1: Completed works are divided into the following sections: Apartments, Bu... read more
| Author: | DAAB |
It has been the French revolution that has paved the way for an inventive and creative spirit in the arts, architecture, literature, and music that enhanced the development of science and technology of the future. Even a few years back, on the 200th anniversary of the revolution, the city presented more breath taking monument... read more
| Author: | Linda Dannenberg |
The heart and soul of the French country home - and the source of France's legendary art de vivre - is the kitchen. Distinguished by striking craftsmanship, bold colours and vintage accents, the French country kitchen - whether a rustic retreat or an urban oasis - is always unique and inviting. In this beautiful celebration o... read more
| Author: | Alastair Fuad-Luke |
This fully updated and revised book remains the most comprehensive publication on the market today to catalogue and represent the vast array of ingenious green products available to the everyday consumer. Scrutinizing every aspect of our designed world, "The Eco-Design Handbook" offers the most innnovative, ecologically sensi... read more
| Author: | Eva Hagberg |
As the late 20th-century fascination with rounded shapes, organic influences and plastics fades, interior designers are increasingly drawn to dark colours, polished woods, velvets, furs, leather, dark metals and brick materials with a nostalgic quality that were used liberally in centuries gone by. Efforts to shape a more aut... read more
| Author: | Hans Silvester |
For thousands of years, kites have allowed human beings to possess the sky. Whether they resemble fish, dragons, birds, mythical animals or just bits of coloured paper, kites have given wings to the people that hold their strings. Over the course of his many voyages around the world, Hans Silvester has captured the flight of ... read more
| Author: | Stephen Bayley |
Design is all around us, it is impossible to avoid. Everything that surrounds us has been designed - from the paperclip and the iPod, to our homes and the way we live. "Design: Intelligence Made Visible" forms the definitive statement on design for this century. Written by Stephen Bayley, one of the world's best known comment... read more
| Author: | Anna Johnson |
Luxury living can still be achieved on a budget. "Savvy Chic" will teach you how to entertain, decorate, travel, and dress for less. In elegant prose, Anna Johnson combines a unique mix of anecdote, riff, and how-to, and shares her secrets of survivalist chic. She mixes the passionate with the practical to come up dozens of i... read more
| Author: | Eric Chan |
Producing beautiful yet functional and sustainable products is no easy task. With so much competition on the shelf, products must uniquely distinguish themselves and become "must have" items for consumers. This inspirational volume features 1000 of the best product designs in recent years, judged by award winning Ecco Design.... read more
With over 600 photographs, the book offers an extensive selection of the best kitchens with examples of different styles chosen for their size and layout: XXS, Medium, Open & View, Eat-in and XXL. Each chapter, in addition to the inspiring photos, includes a range of products related to each of the five styles, with informati... read more
| Author: | Pantone, Inc. |
Expertly curated from by Pantone, the international colour authority, these 35 palettes make colour selection easy for anyone. Brief text describes and contextualizes each palette, offering fun and practical application for colour combos ranging from 'Island Cruise' to 'Afternoon at the Metropolitan.' In a new fan deck format... read more
| Author: | Martin Wellner |
"Modern Living Accessories presents on 512 pages a retrospective of the most important developments and highlights in design of the past 100 years, beginning with the latest trends for 2011. The spotlight focuses on several individual gems of design, from the masterpiece of Italian design, Pietro Chiesa's vase Cartoccio (1932... read more