Interior Design Books
The 1960s Home
The 1960s Home looks at the styles and fashions in domestic housing and interiors between 1960 and 1970.
Victoria Hagan: Interior Portraits
The first book to survey the work of this iconic designer, known for her serene "new American classic" look. Always looking to the view, Hagan effortlessly makes a close connection of interior spaces to the surrounding landscape.
New Bars & Restaurants 2
A follow-up to the highly successful New Bars & Restaurants, New Bars & Restaurants 2 takes us on a trip around the world, exploring the newest dining spaces in countries that range from France to Australia. The book features detailed design comments and more than 500 full-color photographs.
Staging Space
Staging Space offers new solutions for event architecture, scenography, media installations, interiors, and stage design. The diverse international work collected in Staging Space demonstrates inspirational new applications for aesthetics, information technology, and sales pitches.
Interior Design in Practice
Whether you hope to own your own company, grow your company, or rise high in the managerial ranks of a larger practice, you must have a tight grasp of business basics in order to succeed as an interior designer. Interior Design in Practice provides the vital business education an interior designer needs. It describes in detail how to plan and launch an interior design business, and how to grow that business towards success.
Interior Design Clients
Interior Design Clients is an informative yet fun read for entrepreneurial designers interested in gaining a better understanding of how to build and manage their clientele. Tom Williams, designer, author, and blogger, deconstructs the pitfalls and challenges that can waylay even seasoned designers.
Interior Design Drawing
Interior design is a multidiscipline profession blending spatial, technical, and aesthetic knowledge, and one of the key skills needed to manage these elements is an ability to properly draw interior spaces. This insightful resource explores all aspects of interior design drawing and provides both an overview of the process of interior design itself, as well as instructions on how to sketch interiors, understand main orthographic drawings, and create final presentations that communicate solutions to clients.
The Women Who Defined Interior Design
Mixing gorgeous interiors with sparkling social history, this is the first book on the visionary women whose work gave us the timeless, essential principles of modern interior decorating.
The State of the Interior Design Profession
The State of the Interior Design Profession provides an informed view of the interior design profession as it stands today and as the basis of purposeful, exciting discourse that will inspire you to consider your role and responsibility in developing the profession's future.
Interior Design Practice
Interior Design magazine has assembled some of the most notable voices in the interior design world today under editor-in-chief Cindy Coleman to define contemporary interior design and its practice. Interior Design Practice provides aspiring and practicing professionals a perspective that is as broad as it is deep, encompassing design theory and education, global professional practice, and the experiences of design firms large and small.
Apartment Therapy's Big Book of Small, Cool Spaces
Apartment Therapy's Big Book of Small, Cool Spaces features forty small, cool spaces that demonstrate hundreds of inventive solutions for creating more space in your home, and for making it more comfortable.
A History of Interior Design
A History of Interior Design tells the story of 6,000 years of domestic and public space. John Pile acknowledges that interior design is a field with unclear boundaries, in which construction, architecture, furniture, decoration, technology and product design all overlap. These topics are woven together in a fascinating narrative that runs from cave dwellings and temple architecture, through Gothic cathedrals and Renaissance palaces, to the grand civic spaces of the nineteenth century and the sleek interiors of modern skyscrapers.
Where We Work: Creative Office Spaces
Inside this volume, author Ian McCallam profiles his top picks of the world's most extravagantly designed creative office spaces within the Advertising, Media and Design industry. Spaces that not only inspire, but invite us to re-evaluate our lives from nine to five.
Bathroom Design
Innovative materials, creative finishes and inspired designs--this stunning sourcebook offers a multitide of ways to create a bathroom masterpiece. Where you're looking for the Zen ambience of a high-end spa or the fine comfort of a luxury hotel, we show the options for making your bathroom a unique and inspiring retreat.
The Way We Live With Color
The Way We Live With Color explores how varying materials and textures-open up new areas for exploring color and mood. The concluding section of the book is a rich sequence of images depicting how color is used differently around the world.
Perfect Palettes
Color is both the simplest and strongest assertion of a room's personality, and today it adorns every surface-ceilings, floors, woodwork, fabrics, accents, and more. With the limitless amount of color combinations available, how do you choose without making the wrong statement? In Perfect Palettes, Stephanie Hoppen shows just how stylish and easy color can be, and with her lovely rooms and paint samples, she proves that using several palettes throughout the home no longer has to look garish. Instead, colors are now a rich and warm base for all styles of decorating.
The Art of Living
Over 200 color images reveal a wealth of unique, personal approaches to the challenge of incorporating creative space into a home. Of interest to anyone who has wondered what the living rooms and studios of famous artists might contain, what objects inspire them, and what inventive solutions they devise to create expressive personal spaces in a domestic atmosphere, The Art of Living provides a colorful, varied look at a group of diverse artistic individuals who live and work in homes from New York and the Hamptons to Los Angeles and the Mojave Desert.
Remake It Home: The Essential Guide to Resourceful Living
Perfectly suited to the spirit of our times, this book is a spare yet stylish guide to living without wastefulness. It chimes with today's consumer and design trends toward cost-consciousness and environmental awareness, and shows how to live stylishly by reusing and repurposing rather than buying new. This book aims to inspire a sophisticated audience not yet prepared to sacrifice great design or good style by showing both exceptional designs by leading product designers as well as offering ideas for projects we all could, and perhaps should, create.
Suzanne Kasler: Inspired Interiors
Suzanne Kasler is known for her classically inspired rooms, pretty palettes, and comfortable spaces. She brings Southern charm, European sensibility, and a respect for architectural details to her interiors. Lavishly illustrated, this beautiful volume showcases a range of Kasler's projects, from a luxurious Georgian mansion in Atlanta's Buckhead to a sophisticated farmhouse in Tennessee and a beach house in Watersound, Florida.
Kitchen Design
Heart of the home or laboratory for gourmet cooking, modern kitchens have evolved in ways few could have imagined. With advanced technology, high tech materials and innovative craftsmanship, kitchen design now offers more possibilities than ever. Whatever your design sensibility or logistical specifications, this is an unsurpassed compendium of clever solutions with cutting-edge products and knowledge from market leaders.
Jacques Grange: Interiors
Combining good taste and audacity is a subtle art that interior designer Jacques Grange has perfected for over four decades. The first book on this leading interior designer who has worked with Yves Saint Laurent, Princess Caroline of Monaco, and Valentino.
150 Best Bathroom Ideas
Showcasing an extensive collection of full-color photographs, 150 Best Bathroom Ideas provides an in-depth review of exemplary bathroom designs created by internationally renowned architects and designers who have achieved innovative and stunning solutions adapted to the specific needs and tastes of their clients.
Hand Drafting for Interior Design
This book is for design students and designers wanting to improve their presentation skills in line drawings and the ability to quickly redefine their drawing/drafting skills. The author pulls from her professional and academic experience to show readers how to create beautiful detailed interior design drawings to share with clients.
The Interior Design Bible
The Interior Design Bible is the perfect book for everyone who has ever dreamed of turning their house into a home, the way they want. This comprehensive guide is filled with expert advice on planning and personalizing your new look, and shows you how to put these plans into action to create your perfect space.
Architectural Drafting for Interior Designers
For the first time, beginning interior designers can learn how to graphically communicate their ideas with a resource that is designed specifically for them! While traditional drafting books focus on architectural and engineering readers, Architectural Drafting for Interior Designers eliminates the "widgets" and irrelevant coverage that is often seen, and incorporates material and examples that are relevant and meaningful to today's interior designers. This book also addresses the specific needs of beginning interior designers by focusing on topics needed before AutoCAD is even introduced, such as how to draw a floor plan, how to use it to create an interior elevation, and how to understand the relationship between 2D and 3D drawings.
The Art of Tile: Designing with Time-Honored and New Tiles
From subtly shimmering white subway-style walls to dramatic colorful mosaics, tile is one of the most seductive ways to enhance the beauty of a space. The Art of Tile beautifully illustrates what to use, how to use it, and where to use it.
Indian Interiors
The sights, smells and sounds of India draw legions of travellers every year in awe of the changing terrain and countryside, but to truly experience the range and diversity of this huge country one needs to gaze into the many spectacular residences, as rich and eclectic as the landscape that surrounds them. Indian Interiors provides a longing glimpse into these exotic abodes.
Shop America: Mid-Century Storefront Design
In postwar America, everything pointed to a bright, shiny future. Sheer optimism and opulence informed everything from automobile design to architecture, infusing design with larger-than-life planes and curves. Storefront design of the era is particularly indicative of this phenomenon, incarnated here in an extensive collection of hand-illustrated shop window designs from 1938 to 1950.
The World's Coolest Hotel Rooms
Written by one of the world's leading trend spotters and proprietor of the widely-read www.coolhunter.net, Bill Tikos, The World's Coolest Hotel Rooms opens the doors to more than fifty of the hippest, sexiest, newest, and most unusual rooms across the seven continents. Featuring the work of today's top architects and interior designers, this book offers diverse accommodations with one thing in common: impeccable taste with edge.
Bon Appetit - Restaurant Design
What's the recipe for designing a successful restaurant? Bon Appetit: Restaurant Design reveals the secret with an exclusive look at restaurant interiors. Taking thirty-five latebreaking projects as examples, it presents restaurants from around the world, from the creative workshops of world-famous and influential design firms like Karim Rashid, Marcel Wanders, Stephan Zwicky, and Hawkin/Brown, but also from newcomers like Jason Caroline Design.