Interior Design Books
China Home: Inspirational Design Ideas
From revitalized hutongs in Beijing and lane houses in Shanghai to shiny new villas in Pudong and sleek urban apartments in Hong Kong, the best modern Chinese interior design blends the legacy of the past with a fresh appetite for the new. China Home explores this burgeoning phenomenon with images taken in more than 100 gorgeous homes, and will become an indispensable source book for everyone looking for ideas to create and re-work their living space.
Expressive Modern: The Interiors of Amy Lau
Vivid color, specially commissioned artisanal pieces, and exquisite midcentury furnishings define the work of interior designer Amy Lau. Inspired by her passion for nature and abstract art, she incorporates elements of both into every space while tailoring each experience to the personalities and lifestyles of her clients. Thirteen residential interiors, from glass-walled city apartments to demure Hamptons cottages, are presented in luscious full-color photography; lifely text peppered with design tips captures the designer's energy and explains her creative process.
The Interiors Reader
This collection of essays brings together, in one source, the key writings on interior architecture. Including a mixture of both famous writers and not so famous articles, this primer covers the spectrum of the crucial debates that have occurred within the subject over the years.
Louis Vuitton Architecture and Interiors
An exploration of the dynamic and innovative architecture and interiors commissioned by Louis Vuitton. A prescient advocate of contemporary interiors and architecture, Louis Vuitton continues to encourage innovation and playfulness in the designs of their retail spaces without losing sight of the essence of luxury central to its identity.
The New French Interior
In The New French Interior, Penny Drue Baird explores the design elements that make up the fresh, clean look - architectural details adapted from art deco, a monochromatic palette based on creams and ivories highlighted with rich browns and blacks, bold forms in furniture and lighting, and restrained tabletop settings. To illustrate the style, Baird draws on ten of her own recent projects, apartment and house installations, and presents French precedents and influences through specially commissioned photography of Parisian interiors.
Traditional Now: Interiors by David Kleinberg
KleinbergâEURs body of work is wide-ranging in style yet always modern in sensibility; each residence is calibrated to its occupantsâEUR needs and tastes. A curated mix of antiques, fabrics, textures, finishes, art, and objects is key to the striking rooms he develops.
Interior Design Review 15
Reconized as "The Bible of Interior Design" by The Times, the Andrew Martin Interior Design Review is a compendium of the world's greatest designers and their best work to date. Featuring almost a hundred designers from every corner of the globe, the volume offers a unique guide to the styles and trends of international design found in superyachts, hotels, restaurants, and an array of remarkable homes from five continents.
10 Principles of Good Interior Design
This book provides the basic rules and principles of interior design, the skeleton on which to build a successful scheme and an enjoyable living space. The ten areas outlined give direction and inspiration to those starting a scheme from scratch or reinventing an existing space.
Problem Solving and Critical Thinking for Designers
The interior design profession requires effective problem solving and critical thinking, as they impact all phases of the design project and most work activities of the interior designer. This book features real-life scenarios and design problems that guide the reader toward making correct decisions in real-life situations.
Black and White
In Black and White (and a Bit in Between), acclaimed interior designer Celerie Kemble trades in her signature vivid palette for this iconic aesthetic, highlighting the black and white work of design stars and peers, including Bunny Williams, Thomas O'Brien, Mary McDonald, Victoria Hagan, Mark Hampton, Delphine Krakoff, Brad Ford, Philip Gorrivan, Carrier and Co., and Miles Redd, and welcoming you into more than 100 spaces in every imaginable aesthetic.
Big, Easy Style
Big, Easy Style showcases rooms that make Bryan Batt smile, with pages of rich photography featuring the work of many designers - and plenty of Crescent City interiors - framed by his own entertaining maxims on color, pattern, collecting, living areas, intimate spaces, and more.
HERS: Design with a Feminine Touch
Hers offers hundreds of stylish ways for creating your own private retreat, even when your bedroom doubles as your living room or when delicate furnishings don't seem compatible with kid-friendly living. With some thoughtful rethinking of your home's layout and some imagination, you can dedicate part of a shared space to your own interests, and Jacqueline deMontravel will show you how.
Star Interior Designers
An expansive collection of world-renowned interior designers in one volume. This book is an illustrated collection of the work of the world's most talented interior design practitioners. Each project is accompanied by a colour palette that will inspire you to re-imagine each project in brilliant colour.
Where They Create
Where they Create captures thirty studios from all around the world; studios of painters, sculptors, designers, architects, advertising agencies, and many others, some very well known, others only starting out.
The 1950s Kitchen
The 1950s was the first great age of the modern kitchen: labor-saving appliances, bright colors and the novelty of fitted units moved the kitchen from dankness into light, where it became the domain of the happy housewife and the heart of the home. The 1950s Kitchen - a celebration of cooking, eating and living in the 1950s kitchen - is a feast of nostalgia, and a mine of inspiration for anyone wanting to recreate that '50s look in their own home.
Futuristic: Visions of Future Living
Futuristic introduces architects, interior- and product designers working today in a visionary way with the needs of future generations to come. The focus lies on new, groundbreaking approaches, innovative shapes and unusual materials. Futuristic: Visions of Future Living presents projects that span from utopian visions to actually realizable projects.
Marcel Wanders: Interiors
The first large-format monograph on the interiors and building projects of Marcel Wanders, one of the most original designers working today. Marcel Wanders's distinctive output combines a flair for the theatrical with a unique understanding of space that has vaulted him into the top ranks of contemporary design. The interiors developed by his Marcel Wanders Studio are drawn from a graphic tradition that combines the everyday with the ornamental, and these inspirational sources will be harnessed to create an unprecedented interior design volume.
Interior Visions
For the last two decades, Mona Hajj has been crafting interiors that combine a global vision with an American emphasis on elegance, comfort, and simplicity. Interior Visions showcases Hajj's distinct and distinctly original aesthetic voice.
Designer Apartments
Designer Apartments presents the highlights of modern living culture, designed and furnished by renowned architects and designers. Plentiful color photographs, artful and intriguing in themselves, portray apartments from all over the world, mirroring the culture and lifestyle of their occupants.
The BIID Interior Design Job Book
The BIID Interior Design Job Book is the first book to set out the professional standard for running an interior design project. It does so step by step, in a sequence designed to complement the construction industry's standard Plan of Work, providing guidance at every stage of a job from appraisal of the client's requirements through to completion.
Charlotte Moss Decorates
With her inimitable flair for style, Charlotte Moss has led a celebrated career in the interior design world. Charlotte Moss Decorates affords the reader a glimpse into the methods behind her magic. For each of the rooms featured-from a sumptuous Directoire-style bedroom inspired by the incomparable Pauline de Rothschild to a gentlemen's billiard room with rich details and a smart tailored feel-Moss breaks down the various stages of her design process, revealing her inspiration and storyboards, as well as sketches and notes she develops for every project.
Interior Design Atlas
Interior Design Atlas not only hones readers' perception of the various areas of their own homes, but also discusses principles of lighting and colour usage, as well as the design ideas of significant star designers of the twentieth century.
Undecorate
Undecorate profiles twenty homes from all over the country, revealing their owners' love of imperfection and penchant for surprise and unusual juxtapositions while inspiring readers to follow their own whimsy and practicalities in their personal spaces.
Parisian Interiors
Bursting with color and dramatic focal points, these exceptional interiors offer exclusive access into the homes of Paris's finest art and antiques aficionados.
The Art of the Interior
The first monograph on the work of Richard Gillette, a visionary designer whose elegant interiors are inspired by the works of the great artists of history.
Alberto Pinto Today
Alberto Pinto has infused contemporary flair into these-his most recent-interiors, which are the most innovative of his lengthy career. This sumptuously illustrated book features Alberto Pinto's latest and most spectacular interiors.
Interior Design: A Critical Introduction
The book highlights the key concepts behind the study of interiors in order to present an inter-disciplinary overview of the subject. Always aware that design is a practical discipline, the book is illustrated throughout with examples and detailed case studies of interior design practice.
Living in Style: Paris
Arguably the most stylish city in the world, Paris has long been known for its sleek, sophisticated interiors. This inspiring volume takes us on a tour of the French capital's most notable dwellings.
Alexa Hampton: The Language of Interior Design
Eighteen classic spaces illustrate in rich detail the elements that govern cultivated design-contrast, proportion, color, and balance. Among the residences are a landmark 1912 McKim, Mead & White restoration on Fifth Avenue in New York City; an eclectic house by the sea layered in textures, patterns, and colors; a contemporary apartment distinguished by simple geometry and clean lines; and Hampton's own apartment, filled with an exquisite collection of architectural elements.
Made to Order
This lavish color presentation of over 200 images showcases the work of Campion Platt in eighteen projects that range in size and location from demure city pied-a-terres to chic lofts and grand country estates.