From intimate eateries to state-of-the-art corporate offices, casinos to hotels and resorts, museums to street lighting, this renowned design firm tackles architectural lighting challenges with visible ease, style, and flair. Through the use of concealed light sources, natural light and decorative fixtures, Lighting Design Alliance proves that lighting is the key to creating dramatic, memorable spaces. This book will appeal to lighting designers, interior decorators, architects, developers, urba...
Since its first collection of Flex lamps in 1989, to the Atman light in 2008, the image of Catellani & Smith, a company operating in the lighting sector, has spread worldwide. The TurciA' lamp took everyone by surprise since it could be manipulated to reflect the taste of its owner and because it used the 'usual' materials in an innovative way. Since then, the company has continued to preserve the magic and significance of artisanal skills in its industrial production. The unusual combination of...
Modern in the Making
by Daina Augaitis, Allan Collier, and Michelle McGeough
From the aesthetics of postwar reconstruction to the functional objects that complemented 1950s West Coast Modern architecture and the expressive material forms of the 1960s and 70s, Modern in the Making will acknowledge the many dimensions that defined British Columbia's cultural identity in the postwar era. It is the first volume to trace the evolution of Modern ceramics, weaving and fiber art, furniture, fashion and jewelry design produced between 1945 and 1975 in the Vancouver Lower Mainland...
Green products and initiatives have become a key aspect of virtually all areas of our lives, and our interior surroundings are no exception. This book presents cutting-edge lighting and lamp designs that through their use of recycling techniques, natural materials, and new technologies, are both exceptionally environmentally friendly and highly stylish. Colour illustrations
Acclaimed as one to the country's top one hundred interior designers by both Metropolitan Home and Architectural Digest, Vicente Wolf is the uncontested master of cool, luminous rooms that combine strength and sensuality. From a rich but disciplined palette of materials, he creates a signature minimalism that is simple, handsome, and eminently comfortable. In Learning to See, Wolf shares the secrets of his alchemy, insights into a design process that he says starts with taking his traveler's eye...
The right lighting can make or break a space: Professional lighting designers collaborate with architects, industrial designers and electricians to create harmony. This publication, which accompanies an exhibition at Berlin's Deutscher Werkbund, considers several projects that utilize the latest technology in a fusion of light, architecture and art.
Architectural Lighting , the latest addition to the Architecture Briefs series, provides both a critical approach to and a conceptual framework for understanding the application of lighting in the built environment. The key considerations of lighting design are illuminated through accessible texts and instructional diagrams. Six built projects provide readers with concrete examples of the ways in which these principles are applied. Short essays by architect Steven Holl, artist Sylvain Dubuisson,...
Shelter and natural light are fundamental elements of architecture. The first is concerned with protection from natural elements; the second with the creative and sometimes spiritual interaction between the man-made and the natural worlds. One is solid and static, the other illuminates and animates. Architects through the ages have preoccupied themselves with how to marry these two opposing aspects of architecture, a marriage that at its finest transforms natural light itself into a building ma...
Ever since Henry David Thoreau's described his two years, two months, and two days of cabin existence at Walden Pond, Massachusetts in Walden, or, Life in the Woods (1854), the idea of a refuge dwelling has seduced the modern psyche. In the past decade, as our material existence and environmental footprint has grown exponentially, architects around the globe have become particularly interested in the possibilities of the minimal, low-impact, and isolated abode. This new TASCHEN title, combining...
Relaxing AF Geometric Coloring Book For Grownups 30 Detailed Patterns
by Fancy Pug
Gone are the days of the traditional, ridiculously expensive kitchen remodel that's more form than function. Yes, you can have a new, beautiful, functional kitchen at a reasonable price! Camille Finan will show you how. Kitchen Love Story was written for women by a woman.
Coffe Animals Coloring Book Empowering Quotes & Stress Relief
by Mary Joy