Interior Design Books
The Chamber of Curiosity
The Chamber of Curiosity: Apartment Design and the New Elegance is a captivating selection of interiors from around the world that tell compelling stories of their owner's unconventional personalities and life paths. Each page transports the reader into their eccentric, deeply personal, and consistently fascinating spaces.
Autoban: Form. Function. Experience
Autoban: Form. Function. Experience. presents a rich selection of the studio's projects of the first 10 years that are documented in striking photographs and plans. The outstanding and genuine concepts for restaurants, hotels, apartments, offices, and retail spaces collected in the book showcase Autoban's contemporary design sensibility, as well as worldview between global cosmopolitanism and its own cultural idiosyncrasies.
Design Brooklyn: Renovation, Restoration, Innovation, Industry
Design Brooklyn is a visual exploration of the unique and diverse architecture, interiors, and design of public and private spaces in today's Brooklyn, from mechanics' shops renovated into restaurants, to newly built museums, to restored brownstones and modern townhouses.
Key Interiors Since 1900
Key Interiors Since 1900 defines the history of modern interior design through the reuse of existing buildings. This approach allows the history of the interior to be viewed as separate from the history of architecture and instead enables the interior to develop its own historical narrative.
The Style of Coworking: Contemporary Shared Workspaces
The Style of Coworking explores the innovative interior design of coworking spaces and offers a unique look at a workplace revolution that's sweeping the globe.
Materials for Interior Environments
Featuring more than 550 color illustrations, Materials for Interior Environments is a comprehensive guide to everything a designer needs to know about the materials available for interiors - from aesthetic qualities to manufacturing and fabrication, applications, installation and maintenance, and specifications for materials used in commercial and residential applications.
Contemporary Living Space
Packed full of gorgeous, well photographed images, Contemporary Living Space features the best of international living spaces from luxury homes to the less-often featured but very important variety of well-designed apartment spaces.
One of a Kind Restaurant Design
Projects featured in One of a Kind Restaurant Design are impressive examples of cohesive designed dining environments from all around the world, and are paired with detailed floor and seating plans handy for industry professionals.
Oasis: Wellness, Spas and Relaxation
Oasis showcases a breathtaking selection of baths, spas, and retreats that not only cater to your well-being, but also creatively push the frontiers of hospitality, interior design, and architecture. This book brings together a rich assortment of contemporary havens where you can truly get pampered, uplifted, and rejuvenated.
Interiors Now! 3
The third book in Interiors Now! series features 34 sophisticated residences around the world, each telling a story about the place and the people who live there. The book offers a roundup of the new elite in global interior design, with projects completed both for themselves and for clients who are friends.
Colours for Hotels
Colours for Hotels is a pioneering reference guide exploring color theory for the hotel industry.
Formica Forever
Formica Forever, published to celebrate the centennial of this material, takes us on a lively, information-packed walk through the life of it: from its humble beginnings as electrical insulation; to its initial adoption by designers including Donald Deskey in the 1930s; to a golden age ushered in by the post-World War II housing boom; through global expansion in the second half of the twentieth century; to the laminate's inventive uses by designers, artists and architects such as Jasper Morrison, Daniel Buren, Frank Gehry, Laurinda Spear and Zaha Hadid; through to the present, which finds the Formica Group working with young designers to push the limits of this pioneering material.
Radical Renovations: Inspiring Architectural Makeovers
Radical Renovations presents a range of beautifully transformed homes from around the world with full-color 'before and after' photography, and detailed 'before and after' plans.
Japan Style: Architecture Interiors Design
Japan Style introduces 20 special residences. With more than 200 color photographs, this book showcases the stunning beauty of old homes, and reveals how they are cared for by their owners.
Detail in Contemporary Bar and Restaurant Design
Detail in Contemporary Bar and Restaurant Design includes a wide range of international projects and for each one there is a descriptive text, color photographs, floor plans, sections and construction, and decorative details.
Northern Delights: Scandinavian Homes, Interiors and Design
The book's stunning selection of work reveals what makes Scandinavian design so exceptional. The included examples show how the grains of different woods, the clarity of colored glass, the cheery colors of fabrics and patterns, and the overall quality of craftsmanship contribute to creating simple, inviting, and very comfortable living spaces.
Design Process Hand Sketching for Interiors
This book is designed to develop your student s hand-sketching skills. The book will enhance your students basic knowledge of drawing techniques they can use throughout the educational design process.
Bars & Restaurants
The designs presented in this volume offer a wide and varied vision of the latest trends in bar and restaurant design, selected from among the most cutting-edge winning-and-dining hotspots in the world.
100 Restaurant Design Principles
100 Restaurant Design Principles explores various aspects of restaurant design, from management concept, establishment of brand image to connection between different functional areas. It proves that the secret of a restaurant's success lies in the unique dining experience.
Designing Interior Architecture: Concept, Typology, Material, Construction
The design of interiors, alongside the other design disciplines, is a vital task in the shaping of our built environment. In this book, an international and interdisciplinary team of authors gives an extensive account of today's main areas of work in interior architecture and design.
Materials and Components of Interior Architecture
Materials and Components of Interior Architecture offers a unique look at interior design, fully covering the exciting breadth of nonstructural materials available to interior designers.
Best of Residential Architecture and Design
Best of Residential Architecture and Design recognizes superior design in the broad reaching and exciting world of residential, and shares that with the design universe.
The Language of Luxe
The Language of Luxe showcases award-winning designs of AB Concept for exclusive brands such as The W, Four Seasons, Mandarin Oriental and Marriott International.
A Topology of Everyday Constellations
In A Topology of Everyday Constellations, Georges Teyssot considers the intrusion of the public sphere into private space, and the blurring of notions of interior, privacy, and intimacy in our societies. He proposes that we rethink design in terms of a new definition of the practices of everyday life.
Beginnings of Interior Environments
Beginnings of Interior Environments provides a practical approach to introductory interior design. The text addresses interior design holistically, stressing the importance of commercial and residential environments equally.
Foundations of Interior Design
Foundations of Interior Design is a comprehensive introduction to the creative, technical, and business knowledge required by the interior design profession. The book encompasses color theory, design history, architectural elements, finishing touches, trend forecasting and the basics of running a business.
Materials and Interior Design
Materials and Interior Design examines every aspect of the the use of materials in interior design, from initial concept and selection to visual representation and practical application. The book includes useful step-by-step sequences, information on properties and sustainability, and a list of resources, online archives, and samplelibraries.
Interior Design Review 16
Interior Design Review 16 presents the world's best interior designers and their stunning work. Exquisite interiors found in private homes, hotels, restaurants, and super yachts are presented in this volume, with designs that vary from classic to extravagant, providing an insight into clean and modern Scandinavian style, classic American style, as well as Asian style.
Meanings of Designed Spaces
Meanings of Designed Spaces is a collection of articles by - and interviews with - renowned design academics and professionals exploring how people make meaning using design today, and how "designed space" both shapes and is shaped by technology, business, ethics, culture, sustainability and society.
Living in Antwerp
Living in Antwerp offers an inside view of inspiring Antwerp interiors and their inhabitants.