Cet ouvrage retrace l'évolution des arts décoratifs anglais du début du XVIIIe siècle à la Seconde Guerre mondiale, en s'attachant à tous les courants et aux grands créateurs qui ont influencé le design mondial : Chippendale, Liberty, Sheraton... Emanant de collections rarement exposées, tous les objets présentés dans cet ouvrage illustrent l'incroyable richesse du patrimoine anglais : papiers peints, tissus, mobilier, vaisselle, sols, etc. Une mine pour le spécialiste et l'amateur de décoration.
Wire objects have worked their way into virtually every human activity. Since the eighteenth century, such occupations as housekeeping, cooking, gardening, fishing, and hunting were unthinkable without them. Shopkeepers fashioned wire into display racks, and children played with wire toys. Many pieces, such as fruit bowls, platters, and baskets of all kinds served both practical and decorative functions.With its vintage photographs, pages from early catalogs, old advertisements, and more than 300 evocative full-color photographs, Wire reveals why there is such a strong revival of interest in these pieces and demonstrates how they can be integrated into our homes today.
This richly illustrated book showcases French interior design from the Baroque to Modernism, featuring original sketches, engravings, and patterns. With many designs previously unpublished, it serves as a valuable resource for contemporary designers, decorators, and craftsmen seeking fresh inspiration.
Our homes respond to the way that we live, reflecting the different stages in our lives and revealing aspects of our character. They need to be flexible, as space for working and relaxing, for eating, entertaining and sleeping, for family and pets.
Presents a visual view of lifestyles in cities around the world, from New York
to Cairo, from London to Saigon, in five major sections. This book takes
various opportunities to make cross-cultural comparisons and connections,
providing an international view of city living, and offering a compilation of
ideas.
What visitor to the Caribbean has not been entranced by the beauty and spirit of its tropical islands? In Caribbean Style, more than 600 spectacular full-color photographs and an illuminating text re-create the houses, gardens, and lifestyle of this enchanting region. A trendsetting book that combines travel and design, Caribbean Style offers a previously unseen view of the islands of Guadeloupe, Martinique, St. Bartélémy, Antigua, Nevis, Montserrat, Barbados, Haiti, and Jamaica. The book includes information on island vegetation and colors, plantation houses, town houses, popular houses, contemporary houses, and gardens. In addition, the Architectural Notebook provides plans and information on different types of houses on the various islands. These pages take you from plantation manor houses with gracious verandahs that catch the mild, cooling winds to brightly painted native dwellings adorned with imaginative wood trim; from colonial plantation gardens with rows of majestic palm trees and winding water canals left from earlier days to simple town-house gardens with bright patches of bougainvilleas. Caribbean Style explodes with an intense profusion of images and colors. With this vivid portrait of the Caribbean, you will almost feel the soft breezes, inhale the fragrance of tropical flowers, and luxuriate in the warmth of the sun.
Presents original sketches and printed patterns for furniture, textiles,
flooring, wallpaper, glass, ceramics and household utensils, from doorknobs to
tableware and light fittings. This book offers ideas and inspiration for
designers, restorers, interior decorators, and homeowners.
Slesin and Cliff (French Style and English Style) with their coauthor and photographer from Caribbean Style look at the richness, diversity, and never-ending romance of how the Japanese live today, as expressed through interior design. 770 full-color photographs.
