Juan Montoya
Written by Juan Montoya
Text by Elizabeth Gaynor
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $75.00
Always on the cutting edge, Juan Montoya's work exudes refinement and simplicity. Each of his designs features an exquisite juxtaposition of textures, colors, and volumes; an attention to scale, lighting, and spatial qualities; and objects that reflect an interest in a variety of cultures. In addition to creating beautiful, eclectic rooms...
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The Art of Living
Text by Claudia Steinberg
Photographed by Barbel Miebach
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $65.00
To artists and designers, a home is a canvas on which they can project themselves, a testing ground for creative impulses, a place to display the objects that inspire them, a venue for experimentation with forms and materials that later appear in their own work. In this unique volume, photographer Bärbel...
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The Architecture of Natural Light
Written by Henry Plummer
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2009
Price: $65.00
Shelter and natural light are fundamental elements of architecture. The first is concerned with protection from natural elements; the second with the creative and sometimes spiritual interaction between the man-made and the natural worlds. One is solid and static, the other illuminates and animates.
Architects through the ages have preoccupied themselves with...
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Dark Nostalgia
Written by Eva Hagberg
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2009
Price: $45.00
As the late twentieth-century fascination with rounded shapes, organic influences, and plastics fades, interior designers are increasingly drawn to deep colors, polished woods, velvets, furs, leather, dark metals, and brick that have a nostalgic quality—materials used liberally in centuries gone by. Efforts to shape a more authentic, less austere present by...
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Rooms to Remember
The Classic Interiors of Suzanne Tucker
Written by Suzanne Tucker
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2009
Price: $65.00
In the work of interior designer Suzanne Tucker, art and artifact collections are displayed to best advantage for daily enjoyment by their owners, custom-mixed wall colors are set off by richly sensual textiles and forms, and inherited pieces are blended with newly found treasures to bestow a subtle aura of age...
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Marketing Interior Design
Written by Lloyd Princeton
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: July 28, 2009
Price: $24.95
Why struggle to market interior design when you can get specialized advice from a top-notch consultant? In
Marketing Interior Design,
Lloyd Princeton offers you the same high-quality insights that he gives to his clientele. Drawing on his professional expertise as well as the experiences of his clients, he provides detailed guidance...
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Vogue Living
Houses, Gardens, People
Written by Hamish Bowles
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: May 20, 2009
Price: $75.00
This unique book of thirty-six spectacular houses and gardens—whose owners come from the worlds of fashion, music, art, and society—draws not only on stories that have appeared in the pages of
Vogue and
Vogue Living over the past two decades but also on images that have never before been published.
Vogue...
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Modern Luxury
Written by Richard Mishaan
Foreword by Pamela Fiori
Format: Hardcover, 216 pages
On Sale: May 19, 2009
Price: $50.00
Interior designer Richard Mishaan believes that all good furniture and art can be combined successfully regardless of style, period, or price. Drawing on his international background and love of travel, he combs the world to find exquisite, unique pieces for his clients. Mishaan skillfully brings together furnishings and objects from myriad...
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Starting Your Career as an Interior Designer
Written by Robert K. Hale and Thomas L. Williams
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: May 19, 2009
Price: $24.95
Starting Your Career as an Interior Designer contains all the necessary tools and strategies to successfully launch and grow a professional design business in the competitive world of interior design. Drawing on the authors' extensive experience, this book includes case studies, and personal anecdotes that help teach you how to:
- choose...
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Monochrome
Written by Paula Rice Jackson
Introduction by John F. Saladino
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: October 28, 2008
Price: $50.00
More than any other element of interior design, color sets the mood of a room. Once the palette is limited to a single color, the effect can be dramatic and powerful or sublime.
Monochrome features projects by more than twenty internationally known interior designers who have created rooms based around one...
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Bringing Paris Home
Written by Penny Drue Baird
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: October 7, 2008
Price: $45.00
Bringing Paris Home invites the reader to re-create the panache of French interior style in an American setting. Author Penny Drue Baird shares her love and knowledge of French history and decorative arts and describes the design elements essential to an elegant French interior—architectural details, furniture, paint and wall covering, fireplaces...
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Naomi Leff
Written by Kimberly Williams
Preface by Paige Rense
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: May 29, 2008
Price: $60.00
One of the most influential American interior designers of the twentieth century, Naomi Leff is best known as the creator of the flagship Ralph Lauren store in Manhattan. There she established the brand image, combining a distinctive architectural form with feminine grace, patrician elegance, and luxurious comfort. Those elements inform Leff's...
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Vogue Living
Houses, Gardens, People
Written by Hamish Bowles
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: October 30, 2007
Price: $75.00
This unique book of thirty-six spectacular houses and gardens—whose owners come from the worlds of fashion, music, art, and society—draws not only on stories that have appeared in the pages of
Vogue and
Vogue Living over the past two decades but also on images that have never before been published.
Vogue...
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Also available as an
eBook.
Working
20 Projects in Process
Written by Enrique Norten
Introduction by Dejan Sudjic
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2007
Price: $45.00
Since
TEN Arquitectos was first published in 1998, the firm founded by Enrique Norten has soared to a position of international renown. In addition to important competition-winning proposals--the Visual and Performing Arts Library in Brooklyn and the Guggenheim Guadalajara, among others--Norten and his firm have a rich variety of projects on...
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Crossing Boundaries
A Global Vision of Design
Written by Vicente Wolf
Format: Hardcover, 232 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2006
Price: $50.00
Good design knows no boundaries.—Vicente Wolf
Famed interior designer Vicente Wolf is known for a modern and elegant design sensibility that is guided by integrity and simplicity. He is also a photographer of note, capturing images of his own design work and of his travels.
Crossing Boundaries is a fascinating combination of...
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Flowers that Wow
Inspired Arrangements for the Floral-Impaired
Written by Jonathan Fong
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2006
Price: $19.95
Author/designer Jonathan Fong wowed everyone with his first book,
Walls That Wow. Now he turns his wow-power to flower arranging! Try the witty “Gung Hay Fat Choy,” flowers in a Chinese take-out container. Or the cheery “Warhol Daisies,” based on the artist’s flower paintings. Or the “Do Not Disturb Sign,” with...
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Rustic Revisited
Innovative Design for Cabin, Camp, and Lodge
Written by Ann O'Leary and Andrew Wellman
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: July 1, 2006
Price: $39.95
• Rich, warm, relaxed, natural—Adirondack camps, Western lodges, much more
• Glowing photos of dozens of unique rustic homes from across North America
• Spotlights craftspeople and creative forces in construction and décor
• Great idea book for anyone looking to design
or decorate a primary or second home
Used to be that “rustic”...
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Celebrating Home
Decorating for the Holidays and Seasons
Written by Seasons Of Cannon Falls
Format: Hardcover, 144 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2005
Price: $29.95
More than ever, the home is the emotional focal point of the American family. We’re spending more time and money repairing, expanding, making the home the expression of our values and our dreams.
Celebrating Home celebrates that ideal as it shows how to decorate and entertain for holidays all year round...
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The Interior Designers Guide to Pricing, Estimating, and Budgeting
Written by Theo Stephan Williams
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: March 1, 2005
Price: $19.95
Provided here are practical guidelines on how to value the cost of designing commercial or residential interiors. From the designer's creative input to the pricing of decorating products and procedures, this guide allows interior designers to establish prices and budgets that satisfy their clients and make their business profitable. Interviews with...
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Ming Furniture in the Light of Chinese Architecture
Written by Sarah Handler
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: January 19, 2005
Price: $50.00
An ideal commingling of exquisite and often rare materials, perfection in craftsmanship and exceptional purity of line are what place Ming design, particularly in furniture, at the zenith of Chinese art. MING FURNITURE IN THE LIGHT OF CHINESE ARCHITECTURE is the first book to show the essential kinship between Ming furniture...
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Millennium House
Peggy Deamer Studio, 2000-2001
Written by Nina Rappaport
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: September 23, 2004
Price: $40.00
In the academic year 2000-2001, Yale professor and New York City- based architect Peggy Deamer led two innovative courses: a focused seminar on the state of contemporary residential design and a creative studio offering house designs that drew on the discoveries of the seminar. This book combines work from both courses...
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A Master Course in Feng-Shui
Written by Eva Wong
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: July 17, 2001
Price: $29.95
This fully illustrated, comprehensive workbook is designed primarily for homeowners, renters, architects, and business owners who want to put feng-shui to practical personal use—to choose a home, build a house, select an office, or find a retail space. Real estate agents, interior designers, and architects will also find it useful as...
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