Interior Design Books
Portfolio Design for Interiors
Portfolio Design for Interiors teaches the aspiring interior designer how to create a professional portfolio. Using real examples of outstanding student portfolios, authors Harold Linton and William Engel demonstrate how to analyze, organize, problem-solve, and convey diverse types of visual and text information in various forms of historic, contemporary, and innovative styles.
Best of German Interior Design
Best of German Interior Design features fifty most renowned German designers and fifty leading German manufacturers of home interior products. This opulently illustrated coffee-table book presents numerous iconic products that demonstrate interior design "Made in Germany."
New Romance: Contemporary Countrystyle Interiors
The raw charm of rustic farmhouses, the inviting ease of country homes: New Romance features romantic interiors inspired by modernity. From country house to chalet, New Romance highlights the charm and grace of interiors. Soft classic tones and unfinished woods provide the look and feel of dreamy antiquity. Mudrooms and breezeways bring the bright airiness of rustic outdoor spaces within the walls of beautiful homes and residences. The classic lines and traditional textures nestled within a palette of pale greys and rosé tones add to the visual storyline: soft and sophisticated, nostalgic and contemporary. New Romance presents the impeccably stylized and the casually comfortable whilst providing creative insight and inspiration for established interior designers, quixotic stylists, and those undertaking their own DIY projects.
Studio O+A: Twelve True Tales of Workplace Design
In keeping with Studio O+A's unique approach to design, Twelve True Tales reimagines the traditional designer's monograph as a company self-portrait with quirky design proverbs, behind-the-scenes photos and a graphic novel insert that presents the firm's history with characteristic irreverence.
Small Homes, Grand Living
Small Homes, Grand Living's assortment of projects and homes pays homage to the iconic innovation within modest living areas and shows the creative usage of space in continually expanding urban areas. As more people across the globe move into cities, living space becomes a precious commodity. A collection of cozy cocoons shows the personality and innovation of those living inside: a home is both shelter and a welcoming reflection of the residents. Small Homes, Grand Living offers real interior design solutions directly from the occupants' imaginations.
Small Lofts: Remodeling Tiny Open Spaces
Small Lofts features over 30 lofts, almost all under 1000 square feet/100 square meters, with floor plans and high-quality photography exploring interiors from every angle. All demonstrate unique architectural features, innovative furniture solutions, and tasteful, space-saving designs that maximize both utility and style. Showcasing projects from Tokyo to Madrid, New York to Paris, Rome to Bratislava, Small Lofts provides ample inspiration for creating a sense of boundless space in compact quarters.
Best of Residential
Best of Residential is a beautiful deep dive into the most cutting-edge residential design being done in the industry today. This book is a must have for the design community interested in the culture and those looking for a valuable resource on the best residential design.
Space Works
Every room in the house presents its own specific challenges as well as presenting a plethora of choices when it comes to choosing important (and expensive) elements such as flooring and lighting. Whether it's a stylish but practical kitchen floor or plenty of hardworking bedroom storage, in Space Works hard-working expert advice is on hand from Caroline Clifton-Mogg, Joanna Simmons, and Rebecca Tanqueray. Every room is discussed in detail and the topics covered range from galley kitchens and bedroom lighting to choosing sanitary ware for bathrooms and creating children's work spaces for homework and crafting.
Revolution: Interior Design from 1950
The last half of the twentieth century saw the emergence, evolution and consolidation of a distinct interior design practice and profession. This book is invaluable for students and practitioners, providing a detailed specialist, contemporary historical analysis of their profession and is beautifully illustrated, with over 200 photos and images from the 1950s through to the present day.
Swatch Reference Guide for Interior Design Fabrics
Swatch Reference Guide for Interior Design is a complete learning tool for interior fabrics. An all-in-one text and swatch book, it is replete with 145 contemporary swatches relevant to the field of interior design. This reference offers all the pertinent information needed for fabric identification, analysis, acquisition, and usage.
Tara Bernerd: Place
London-based designer Tara Bernerd is known for creating interiors that have a very special sense of place. Committed to the utility of good design, Bernerd works on an increasingly global platform with projects around the world. From the interiors of stunning beachside villas to chic urban apartments, her intelligent use of spatial planning, keen eye for composition and detailing, and remarkable flair for color and texture made her one of the most sought-after interior designers in the world. This book captures Bernerd's intuitive ability to create luxurious interiors that possess a remarkable feeling of character and warmth.
Fabric for the Designed Interior
Fabric for the Designed Interior is a comprehensive text addressing both residential and commercial interiors. The book begins by placing fabric in a historic context, examining its connection to the growth of civilization. Later chapters take a practical approach to provide readers with the tools they need for successfully specifying fabric, dealing with environmental and safety concerns, understanding fabric and carpet-care issues, working with bids and contracts, and learning strategies for navigating showrooms and fabricating facilities. Leading designers, fabric manufacturers, and suppliers weigh in with their experiences, giving readers a clear idea of real-world expectations.
Night Fever 5
Night Fever 5 takes a grand global tour of the best in hospitality design. It showcases 130 recent and extraordinary interiors and delves into the design concepts for some of the world's top destinations to drink, dine, and dream. Readers discover how initial design ideas transform and develop as the tantalizing spaces are realized.
House of Hoppen: A Retrospective
In House of Hoppen, Kelly Hoppen, MBE takes a look back over her stellar career, which began when, as a sixteen-year-old full of drive and ideas, she was commissioned to design the kitchen of a family friend. Packed with previously unseen imagery and letters from Kelly's personal and professional archives, the book charts the course of her career and celebrates some of the many highlights. House of Hoppen features a rich mix of imagery, from unseen archive material, including personal photographs and letters, to illustrations by contemporary artists, to interior photography by acclaimed photographers such as Tom Stewart, Bill Batten, Vincent Knapp, Mel Yates and Simon Upton.
Ode to Color: The Ten Essential Palettes for Living and Design
Award-winning and internationally renowned textile designer Weitzner brings her signature aesthetic and sophisticated color sense to the page in Ode To Color: The Ten Essential Palettes for Living and Design. In ten thematic chapters, she employs her expert insight in essays, literary quotations, pop culture anecdotes, and dazzling visuals to explore the role of color in our lives and homes.
Spaces For Children
The wide range of projects presented in this volume constitutes a comprehensive study of the latest trends in the architecture and design of children's spaces. Each project presents an innovative use of materials, color, lighting and texture to form a space that is stimulating, educational and safe for young people.
Living Retro
A glorious celebration of vibrant twentieth-century design, color, and pattern, Living Retro offers a privileged glimpse into a selection of fabulous retro-inspired homes around the world, from Palm Springs to Paris.
150 Best Tiny Home Ideas
150 Best Tiny Home Ideas is a lavish, full-color guidebook showcasing the most up-to-date innovations and latest trends in efficient and successful small space design. The book offers a variety of tiny homes in natural environments as well. Each has been created using site-sensitive designs that have a low environmental impact and reflect the stunning natural beauty of its surroundings.
Global Best Interior Design
Global Best Interior Design explores various new trends and features the latest and most outstanding interior design works in the following eight categories: Dining Space, Recreation Space, Hotel Space, Office Space, Living Space, Commercial Space, Public Space and Exhibition Space.
Spaces for Innovation
Spaces for Innovation breaks down the complexities of designing working environments for future-focused organizations. Analyzing the intricate relationships between innovation, creativity, workplace strategy and people-centred design, Kursty Groves and Oliver Marlow guide readers through the process of defining new workspaces with coherent narratives and identities to support creative behavior.
Living with Wood
Living with Wood offers hundreds of photographs and floor plans of beautiful wood homes across the world. The homes depicted use wood to blend into the environment and not disrupt the natural scenery. Additionally, the interiors of the homes are styled using handcrafted wood furniture that adds to the unique ambiance created by using one of nature's greatest resources.
100 Contemporary Houses
This book rounds up 100 of the world's most interesting and pioneering homes from the past decade, featuring a host of talents both new and established, including John Pawson, Richard Meier, Shigeru Ban, Tadao Ando, Zaha Hadid, Herzog and de Meuron, Daniel Libeskind, Alvaro Siza, UNStudio, and Peter Zumthor. Accommodating daily routines of eating, sleeping, and shelter, as well as offering the space for personal experience and relationships, this is architecture at its most elementary and its most intimate.
101 Hotel Rooms: Volume 2
101 Hotel Rooms, Volume 2 from Hamburg-based interior design studio JOI-Design is now available with a new collection of inspired concepts for creating original lifestyle destinations. Informed by an intuitive, holistic approach, the book depicts how the concept of hotel rooms is continuously reimagined in keeping with the evolution of guest lifestyles. As the speed of life continues to increase and constant mobility becomes the norm, the importance of spaces that provide a home away from home is greater than ever.
Kaleidoscope: Living in Color and Patterns
Kaleidoscope features a stunning collection of expressive interiors that meld sophisticated colors and patterns to create unique urban living spaces. This book is a showcase of surprisingly different residences that range from the beautiful to the bizarre. While some of the featured examples are reminiscent of time capsules and others of film sets, all of them defy categorization.
Francesc Rife: Architecture, Interiors and Commercial Spaces
Francesc Rife: Architecture, Interiors and Commercial Spaces celebrates the very latest work of the Barcelona-based interior, commercial and industrial designer whose award-winning work is based on the adventurous use of space and its geometric proportions.
Brooklyn Interiors
Brooklyn today fosters creative communities as never before, and they have cultivated a renegade approach to style-one rooted in broad-minded eclecticism and independence. Brooklyn Interiors roams through twenty-four homes that embody this spirit-from brownstones and row houses to lofts and apartments. Each one exemplifies a knack for beautifully reconciling a respect for tradition, an embrace of modernism, and an appreciation for the handcrafted.
Contemporary Interiors: A Source of Design Ideas
Contemporary Interiors showcases a wide range of twenty-first-century residences by world-renowned architects and designers. Filled with more than 300 color illustrations, specialist Philip Jodidio compiles from around the globe fifty of the most innovative homes designed and built within the last five years.
Space Planning for Commercial Office Interiors
Space Planning for Commercial Office Interiors, 2nd Edition, provides a thorough and engaging look at the entire process of space planning, from meeting the client for the first time to delivering a beautifully rendered and creative space plan that addresses all of that client's needs. The author takes readers through a step-by-step method that includes establishing client requirements, developing and translating ideas into design concepts, drafting layouts, and ultimately combining these layouts into well-organized, effective floor plans replete with offices, workstations, support rooms, and reception areas.
Sixties House
In Sixties House, mid-century modern enthusiast Catriona Gray has drawn on the House & Garden magazine's peerless archive, curating the best illustrations and photographs to show how the use of color, pattern, homewares and furniture evolved through the decade. The homes of key tastemakers are featured including Bridget Riley, Mary Quant, David Mlinaric, Barbara Hulanicki of Biba and David Bailey.
Renovations: An Inspirational Design Primer
In Renovations, Richard Wilcock analyses a host of cutting-edge projects to examine the challenges of adapting traditional house types; retaining historic features whilst introducing modern interventions. The book brings together more than two decades of research to showcase the best examples of domestic extensions and internal remodelling in the UK today.