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- Good profile of practical Neoclassical decorating
- Great decorating ideas
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Neoclassical (Architectural & Design Library)
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Judith Miller Guide to Period Style Curtains and Soft Furnishings
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Rooted in the graceful forms of antiquity, the dignified lines of neoclassical style offered a restrained alternative to the flowery opulence of rococo in the late 1700s, and its timelessness has made it a favorite again today. "Like fashion's little black dress," says this informative guide, "Neoclassicism is ever in style." The idea-filled text and lovely photographs of striking modern interpretations of neoclassical design serve as tremendous inspiration for evoking the style in your own home. Create an arched, columned room entryway; add a trompe l'oeil frieze in paint or wallpaper; swag a subtly striped fabric over a side table; stencil a Greek key design; install some dentil crown molding; or choose from among the vast array of attractive contemporary furnishings patterned after the classical style. Neoclassical offers a nice overview of the style's origins and a great deal of practical advice for re-creating the look, even on a classically restrained budget. --Amy Handy
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Good profile of practical Neoclassical decorating.......2000-12-28
I have come to be a lover of Neoclassical art and architecture and asked for this book as an X-mas gift for decorating ideas. It has excellent photos with tips ranging from the formal to the casual, the decadent to the simplistic. It shows exterior housing designs as well as interior furnishings (bathrooms, dining areas, couches, kitchens, etc). If you are looking for a book strictly on the history of Neoclassicism, go elsewhere. But, if you are looking for a compilation of decorating ideas with great photos, this is what you need.
Great decorating ideas.......1999-02-08
This book contains many pictures and gives great ideas for decorating. As of Feb 7, 1999, I don't know why Amazon says it is not published yet. I bought mine at Home Depot Expo.
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Not So Spectacular Kitchens.......2006-10-11
Don't waste your money on this book. The kitchens featured are completely ordinary and really present few new ideas on how to use your limited space. I mean, leave the trash can in the center of the kitchen? Well, I guess you could say that _is_ a novel idea. Beyond the issue of the kitchens, many of the pictures are pretty low-grade. Several of the featured kitchens are almost too dark to see, more like you went in with your digital camera and clicked off a few shots as opposed to staging the room professionally. All in all, this is a few dollars I wish I had back.
Waste of money!.......2006-07-22
Well... I know kitchens in the USA are usually larger than the ones in Europe but even then... most kitchens shown in this book are 3 to 4 times bigger than my current kitchen. The book does NOT give you planning tips, no clever cabinet interiors, just pictures of finished kitchens, not even info on how that finished kitchen came to be.
So if you are looking for clever ideas for making the most of small kitchens, DO NOT buy this book!
Petra
A big help for kitchen renovations.......2005-02-07
Small can be efficient and practical yet quite charming as we see in Ashley Rooney's Spectacular Small Kitchens: Design Ideas for Urban Spaces. Almost 40 designers address in eye-catching color images the functionality and aesthetic considerations of a small kitchen. They balance the desires of the interior architecture and the client's desires and come up with myriad design solutions: from the Feng Shui Kitchen to the integrated kitchen to the long thin kitchen. The book includes an intriguing narrative by Susan Aiello, ASID, CID, about the exciting opportunities and demanding challenges involved in designing small kitchens in large cities. I was lucky and got to see this book before it is out. With so many wonderful and colorful ideas, it is one that anyone ought to have before starting a kitchen renovation.
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For over 25 years, Tricia Guild has been at the cutting edge of contemporary design. Her ability to mix vibrant color and pattern and her imaginative use of modern arts and crafts translates particularly well to city living. With the help of Elspeth Thompson’s stimulating essays and Gilles de Chabaneix’s luminous photos, Trisha Guild in Town presents a blueprint for modern urban living.
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I wish Tricia Guild would get out of town!.......2002-12-12
I was not impressed with this book, and I like color. The text was not useful. If there are no tips or they are not informative, I will still buy a book if it has beautiful pictures. However, I was not creatively inspired by this book. I think the design choices are boring. I'm glad I did not buy this book.
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Another of Tricia Guild's books titled Think Color is so much better. Her bold use of color in this book is both refreshing and inspiring.
a challenge.......2000-03-26
BEAUTIFUL! , this book encouraged me to transform my old house without necessarily changing the beauty of it. Tricia Guild made me dare to bring new colors to my house and giving my family a bright place to live. THEY LOVED IT! .
Delicious book.......1998-07-28
Much better than her other books in her use of bold, imaginative color. Not for the timid. Don't worry about the urban bit, good design is welcome everywhere :-)
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Sullivanesque: Urban Architecture and Ornamentation
Ronald E. Schmitt
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At Home on the Prairie: The Houses of Purcell & Elmslie
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Sullivanesque offers a visual and historical tour of a unique but often overlooked facet of modern American architecture derived from Louis Sullivan. Highly regarded in architecture for inspiring the Chicago School and the Prairie School, Sullivan was an unwilling instigator of the method of facade composition--later influenced by Frank Lloyd Wright, William Gray Purcell, and George G. Elmslie--that came to be known as Sullivanesque. Decorative enhancements with botanical and animal themes, Sullivan's distinctive ornamentation mitigated the hard geometries of the large buildings he designed, coinciding with his "form follows function" aesthetic.
Sullivan's designs offered solutions to problems presented by new types and scales of buildings. Widely popular, they were also widely copied, and the style proliferated due to a number of Chicago-based interests, including the Radford Architectural Company and several decorative plaster and terra-cotta companies. Stock replicas of Sullivan's designs manufactured by the Midland Terra Cotta Company and others gave distinction and focus to utilitarian buildings in Chicago's commercial strips and other confined areas, such as the downtown districts of smaller towns. Mass-produced Sullivanesque terra cotta endured as a result of its combined economic and aesthetic appeal, blending the sophistication of high architectural art with the pragmatic functionality of building design.
Masterfully framed by the author's photographs of Sullivanesque buildings in Chicago and throughout the Midwest, Ronald E. Schmitt's in-depth exploration of the Sullivanesque tells the story of its evolution from Sullivan's intellectual and aesthetic foundations to its place as a form of commercial vernacular. The book also includes an inventory of Sullivanesque buildings.
Honorable Mention recipient of the 2002 PSP Awards for Excellence in Professional/Scholarly Publishing
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Louis Sullivan's Vernacular Influence.......2003-10-25
This is an excellent, scholarly work by University of Illinois professor Ronald Schmitt. This book is a study in which the author traces the development of ornamentation influenced in nature patterns. The book shows how Sullivan's ornamentation was passed down to his former employees (an excellent study in its own right). And finally how terra cotta ornament became massed produced and used by lesser-known architects for the development of a Chicago "Sullivanesque" Vernacular.
This is a very thorough book that will appeal to students of The Arts & Crafts/Prairie School and "vernacular urban architecture" which has all but been ignored by architects and academics. The book contains numerous photographs. There is a great chapter on Sullivan's disciples, and, as mentioned before, the work of lesser-known "blue collar" architects whose background buildings are great contributions to the city of Chicago. There is also an appendix which contains an exhaustive, state by state inventory of Sullivanesque buildings.
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London Living
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Lively narrative directs readers to the most interesting interiors found in New York City's diverse neighborhoods, including the residences of gallery owner Holly Solomon, artist Julian Schnabel and Giorgio DeLuca of Dean and DeLuca. 260 color illustrations.
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New York Living.......2000-06-24
This book offers a fascinating glimpse of the private world of many New Yorkers. The photography of the various homes and lifestyles, is exquisitely detailed. The anonymity of the streets of the Big Apple is juxtaposed with views of these personal, creative interiors.
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In America alone, nearly 70 million people live in urban areas. Fortunately, cities offer as much variety in living spaces as the people who inhabit them young or old, single or family, super-rich or everyday Joe. Yet many of these unique dwellings, from walk-up studios to narrow brownstones to open lofts, present perplexing design challenges.
City Living takes readers to every corner of the world to explore some of the most creative and unique design approaches to city living. Paul Wiseman's tiny San Francisco pad offers space-saving solutions for small apartments. A Krueck & Sexton designed childproof duplex in Chicago shows that style and kids can coexist. A London townhouse with dark, narrow rooms is creatively designed to change with the seasons. A New York designer's cherry blossom-filled terrace brings gardening to high-rise living.
City dwellers the world over will find inventive ways to make their own cityscape both comfortable and beautiful.
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Features inventive and stylish interiors.......2004-06-08
Gorgeous color photography showcases urban interiors drawn from international domestic dwellings ranging from New York, Paris, Milan, and Bangkok, to Tokyo, Brussels, Miami, Rome, and Marrakech in City Living: Creative Urban Design Ideas For The New Urban Homes by interior designer and urban stylist Sharne Algotsson . Visually impressive, City Living well serves as a source of practical inspiration, features inventive and stylish interiors, offers imaginative ideas for creating versatile living and working spaces, provides resourceful guidelines for maximizing available space, and presents inventive solutions stretching the very boundaries of urban interior design and decoration. City Living is a seminal and welcome addition to personal, professional, academic, and community library Interior Design reference collections and supplemental reading lists.
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'Urban Design: Ornament and Decoration' focuses on decorating the city and how ornament has been used to bring delight to the urban scene.
The authors show how the pattern and distribution of street and square and other major elements in the city can be enhanced by the judicious use of decorative surface treatment and by the careful placing of hard and soft landscape features.
This second edition, updated by Cliff Moughtin and now available in paperback, includes a new chapter on mud architecture. Case studies of city decoration are also outlined to bring together the ideas discussed and to show how ornament and decoration can be used to emphasize the five components of city form: the path, the node, the edge, the landmark and the district.
*Generously illustrated with case studies
*New chapter on mud architecture
*Part of the successful Cliff Moughtin urban design series
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good.......1999-03-26
My Grandad wrote a good book. Well done Grandad. Love Rachel and Matthew
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How do you make the most of your apartment space? What can you do to transform your apartment or condominium into a beautiful home that you can cherish? How do you pare down decorations and furnishings to create a clean, modern apartment interior? Apartment Living offers solutions to just such design dilemmas. Photos and tips provide clear and innovative solutions to typical problems facing both apartment dwellers and interior designers. Features concrete advice on how to think up new uses for old pieces, how to add color to enlarge small spaces, how to position furniture and carpet for maximum effect, and more.
--Reveals economical yet inventive methods to decorate your living spaces.
--Includes ingenious ways to rethink your apartment layout.
--Gives advice about expanding apartment space through design.
--Provides over 100 photos of loft apartments, small urban pied-a-terres, big urban co-ops, and chic nests for designers and artists.
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The ideas are good, but the taste is bad.......2007-01-22
Like the last reviewer, I favor a more modern pared-down aesthetic than most of the examples in this book. However, I realize that most people have a hard time living so minimally. For those of you with kids, or a lot of stuff, or expansive collections - you may want to check out this book. Unlike the majority of books in this genre, whose only real suggestion seems to be "hide your stuff behind massive built-in storage," Buchholz gives some creative ideas on how to display your possessions creatively and cohesively. The majority of the apartments in this book pack A LOT of stuff and some OVER-THE-TOP design into some relatively small spaces. Even more impressive is that they do it successfully.
The book focuses on four basic apartment types - small studios and pied-a-terres, lofts, family-size apartments, and large spaces - and offers design advice for each. However, some of the principles can be applied to any size apartment. The one that I think deserves the greatest emphasis is to maintain a cohesive design element throughout the space. Each room or space can have it's own look, but a recurring color, texture/material, shape, or theme will make the apartment feel whole.
As someone who lives in a rather small space, I was looking for ideas on how get a lot out of (or rather, a lot into) a little area. Some of the suggestions are nothing new, but some offered unexpected insights. Here are some of the easiest suggestions from the book:
*Look for multi-use furniture (side tables that double as extra seating, day-beds that double as a couch)
*Use rooms for more than one purpose (a well-lit dining room with bookshelves along one wall can double as a study, for reading and work)
*Make a small space seem larger by emphasizing height (hang shelves, art, and drapes high on the wall)
great concepts behind the photos.........2002-10-24
At first glance, as someone who prefers open space to crowded rooms, the photographed apartments in this book appeared busy, and often gaudy. However, when I actually read it, I understood the subtle concepts behind the design choices. So while I would not personally chose to mix leopard print, neon pink, and baroque furniture in a small space, I understand what the owners were going for. (And I actually took a liking to that room. It has a lot of personality!) In the end, this book inspired me to rethink my entire living space! I am usually a visual person who prefers photo inspiration to text. But in this case, it was the little bits of writing and advice that sparked my creativity.
I'd recommend it to anyone with a sense of fun about their living space, or anyone willing to look a little deeper than the photos. :)
APARTMENT LIVING falls short of it's new design promises.......2001-12-02
I've lived in apartments for the last decade. Always on the lookout for books that guide oneself to small home perfection, I bought this book in hopes of learning something new.
A collector of mid century modern furniture, the cover caught my eye. Hmmm, a hip looking couple with even cooler looking furniture. Why not? Flipping through, I noticed the book had delightful pictures nicely detailing wishful scenarios. What it lacked, I later found was serious content. Apartment Living promised new designs for urban living yet failed to deliver anything NEW.
The book takes the reader through different kinds of apartment spaces: pieds-a-terre, empty nester retreats, lofts, larger apartments and then offers solutions for apartment living (making the most of your small space). The promise to transform your dull home into a chic living space is not realizable for most living with a reasonable budget. The solutions offered were recycled from the best books of the past.
Apartment Living: New Designs for Urban Living is really more a look book than anything else. You look a few times and then forget about it.
Try again.......2000-10-26
There's not much I can say about this book. I did not approve of the design style (think contemporary meets traditional), so this may be a book for those who like that style. The text is far from inspiring. Let's just say I expected something completly different. Try again rockport publishing.
suprisingly large examples of small spaces.......2000-09-27
i would recommend this book to anyone interested in contemporary interior design, storage ideas or just small living space inspiration. unlike many of the modern "style guides" on the market, this book shows real livable spaces, full of peoples junk and shows that it can work for you, not against you. i would have liked to have seen some floor plans, actual details of how big these small apartments were, i also found much of the examples a little bit crowded though i am speaking as a john pawson admirer so im biased towards minimalism, yet despite that i found the presentation of the apartments and the wide range of examples given (such as how to fit a whole family into two bedrooms and still have floor space) very useful and very clearly written and stylishly presented.if you want something smaller on smaller spaces there is a series called stylish ideas that has a book on small living spaces. i was also suprised at how large this book on small living spaces was. overall a lovely reference and point of inspiration.
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- Lofts New Designs for Urban Living
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Lofts: New Designs for Urban Living
Felicia Isenberg Molnar
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The Smart Loft
ASIN: 1564965791 |
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Lofts, by definition, are former commercial spaces that have been converted for residential use and living/work environments. But lofts, by design, are vast silent expanses, soaring arches, stalwart steel girders, massive beams, and all the powerful drama of a curtain-time stage set. Lofts are a designer's dream. The importance of urban loft design for the architectural and design world is highlighted in this collection of the finest, most dramatic of these transformed spaces. Lofts: New Designs for Urban Living takes you on an intimate tour of residential lofts in the major cities of the world including New York, Los Angeles, Sydney, London, Toronto, Paris, and Tokyo. Projects include work from cutting-edge designers: Roto, Fred Fisher, Peter Anders, Neil Frankel, Briggs/Iacucci, Peter Tow, Kar Ho, Moneo/Brock, Belmont Freeman, Lotek, Brayton & Hughes and more. Complete with informative text, Lofts features full-color photographs, plans, and a valuable resource guide for anyone who has every dreamed of converting a commercial building into a residential loft.
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Rather excellent.......2001-03-11
I have only really studied 3 loft books and this would be my second favorite.
The author looks at Manhattan lofts exclusively for one half of the book and uses the other half for projects all over the world. All in all, her selection is good in that the reader gets a fair sense of what is currently happening in the design of these spaces (lofts). You usually get about 3-4 color photos per loft, a short description and floor plan.
Overall, a great book and source of inspiration if you find yourself with an abandoned, urban space and about a million dollars.
Nothing new here.......2000-10-26
The good thing about this book is that it does show pictures of lofts....that's about it. It showcased some lofts that have been pictured in other books before, and the picture quality is not always the best(at times the photographs look as though they were taken twenty years ago or with bad film). I usually read my design books but after about halfway through, I just looked at the pictures. Save your money for something else.
Lofts New Designs for Urban Living.......2000-03-14
I bought this book on the strong recommendation of the other reviewers and was disappointed. I have bought 8 books on the subject of lofts and this is my least favorate. The photos are generic architect shots, the layout bland and the printing is flat and sometimes fuzzy, and just unappealing.
Check out Living in Space and the International Book of Lofts.
I have to wonder if the other reviewers are friends of the author...
(Just my opinion, your milage may vary...)
Lofts New Designs for Urban Living.......2000-03-14
I bought this book on the strong recommendation of the other reviewers and was disappointed. I have bought 8 books on the subject of lofts and this is my least favorate. The photos are generic architect shots, the layout bland and the printing is flat and sometimes fuzzy, and just unappealing.
Check out Living in Space and the International Book of Lofts.
I have to wonder if the other reviewers are friends of the author...
(Just my opinion, your milage may vary...)
well worth the money.......2000-01-09
the author, Felicia Eisenberg Molnar, mirrors the clean minimalist sense of design in some the photographed loft spaces in her text. ms. molnar's words explain the realized mission of architect, designer, and client devoid of the fuzziness and fussiness of many books on interior design. the reader is walked and talked through converted industrial spaces and shown how they have been transformed for the humans fortunate to inhabit them.
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Six More English Towns
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