The perfect room can make any trip unforgettable. Whether you're welcoming new friends into your home or hosting family, a little thought and a lot of imagination can make your guests' next visit a delightful experience. The guest room is more than the extra room in the house. It is a space for you to create memories, to extend warmth and comfort for another. Guest Rooms explores the most charming guest accommodations in private homes, from a luxurious Hawaiian guesthouse and a cozy room in a N...
From traditional drapes and curtains, to blinds and shutters and shades, to faux stained glass and architectural treatments, an abundance of options open up before you.
Bathrooms demonstrates how to use colour, texture and imagination to revitalise your bathroom.
The old rules of decorating are dead, says style maker and TV personality Christy Ferer. Whether we've wanted to or not, we've staged a revolution -- a revolution in taste and in the way we live. In today's homes, anything goes, and we're all the happier for it. In this exuberant and groundbreaking book, we discover what works and what happens to the way we live when all the rules are broken. Today we find that the dining room, once a place of fine linens and formal dinner parties, has become a...
With the help of three skilled designers, create miraculous designs to transform your windows. The enjoyable chatty trio dispense professional advice on what makes a window treatment successful; salvaging old treatments; turning windows into inside d?cor; incorporating special hardware (like horshoes and stars); using natural light - and what to do with a room with no view. And, of course, there's everything you want to know on fantastic fabrics, no-sew styles, tassels, ties and more!
This photographic book sheds new light upon the architectural and decorative elements of domestic doorways from nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Cairo. Previous studies on the subject have been few and far between, and have paid more attention to the Cairo of Khedive Ismail - the new quarter of the city. "Enter in Peace" focuses instead on those doorways of houses built in Cairo's older neighborhoods, and inhabited by Egypt's middle classes. Included here are over 150 photographs, illustr...
Frescoes (Art Periods & Movements) (Art Periods & Movements Flexi)
by Uta Hasekamp
The fresco - a painting on fresh plaster - is a technique of wall painting used since antiquity. Frescoes serve a wide variety of purposes: In churches as a Bible in pictures and for the representation of the life of saints or the truths of faith; in town halls they depict the ideals of a city government, in castles and palaces the appreciation of art and the sovereign virtues of the sponsors. This volume is devoted to frescoes and other impressive wall and ceiling paintings from the Romanesque...
'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 architectur...
Koolhaas. Elements of Architecture
by Rem Koolhaas, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Stephan Truby, James Westcott, and Stephan Petermann
Elements of Architecture focuses on the fragments of the rich and complex architectural collage. Window, facade, balcony, corridor, fireplace, stair, escalator, elevator: the book seeks to excavate the micro-narratives of building detail. The result is no single history, but rather the web of origins, contaminations, similarities, and differences in architectural evolution, including the influence of technological advances, climatic adaptation, political calculation, economic contexts, regulator...
Musee D'Orsay (Art & Architecture) (Ullmann Art & Architecture)
by Peter J Gartner
This captivating volume provides a detailed exploration into the exceptional array of art to be discovered in the Musee d'Orsay, including information on the impressive building itself. This brand new edition is in lightweight softcover which combined with the compact format makes it perfect for on-the-spot reference whilst in the museum, as well as a fascinating background read and beautiful souvenir. This is an extremely comprehensive guide covering all the most important works of art, includi...
This text provides information on using windows to best advantage. Readers will find instructions on calculating, specifying, and installing hard and soft window treatments, plus residential and non-residential treatments.
Situated beside the River Thames south-west of London, Hampton Court Palace was a centre of court life in England from 1529 to 1737 and remains one of the finest palaces in Europe. The Official Illustrated History celebrates this intriguing architectural ensemble, including the palace's original sixteenth-century building of Henry VIII's reign. It features full coverage of the famous formal gardens and also reveals the lifestyles of monarchs, mistresses and courtiers. Includes full coverage of H...
