Presenting the brilliant artistry and creativity of leading European design firms, this publication concentrates on commercial spaces, hospitality and restaurant spaces, leisure and art centers, public spaces, and retail spaces. Projects are represented

Presenting the brilliant artistry and creativity of leading European design firms, this publication concentrates.intensively on commercial spaces. Projects are represented in full color and biographical information is given on participating firms.

Architectural Space in Eighteenth-Century Europe: Constructing Identities and Interiors explores how a diverse, pan-European group of eighteenth-century patrons - among them bankers, bishops, bluestockings, and courtesans - used architectural space and décor to shape and express identity. Eighteenth-century European architects understood the client's instrumental role in giving form and meaning to architectural space. In a treatise published in 1745, the French architect Germain Boffrand determined that a visitor could "judge the character of the master for whom the house was built by the way in which it is planned, decorated and distributed." This interdisciplinary volume addresses two key interests of contemporary historians working in a range of disciplines: one, the broad question of identity formation, most notably as it relates to ideas of gender, class, and ethnicity; and two, the role played by different spatial environments in the production - not merely the reflection - of identity at defining historical and cultural moments. By combining contemporary critical analysis with a historically specific approach, the book's contributors situate ideas of space and the self within the visual and material remains of interiors in eighteenth-century Europe. In doing so, they offer compelling new insight not only into this historical period, but also into our own.

Beautiful design improves the quality of our lives and photographer, Gianni Franchellucci has captured the best in international interior design with the all new second edition of, INTERIORS: Europe & the Americas II. This book is the ultimate global celebration of over 30 interior design and architect firms. Gianni, is also the author of Interiors, providing interesting and in- depth text about each project. The book showcases the details of rooms, such as, layered textured and patterns, collected pieces and designer vignettes and providing gorgeous photography for the reader. This book presents never-before-published spaces by these design firms. Successful interior design is built from layer upon layer of color, texture, pattern embellishment, and more. Prominent photographer and author Gianni Franchellucci provides an incisive exploration of the essential aspects of interior design. INTERIORS: Europe & the Americas II features over 400 color photographs in 272 pages showcasing 32 projects. This is a book to be treasure and enjoyed by readers with a passion for interior design. The locations include: New York, Boston, Washington DC, Palm Springs, Palm Beach, Moscow, London, Paris, Rome, Amagansett (Long Island), San Francisco and many more. Successful interior design is built from layer upon layer of color, texture, pattern, embellishment, and more. Prominent photographer and author Gianni Franchellucci provides an incisive exploration of the essential aspects of interior design. Interiors: Europe & the Americas II features over 400 color photographs in 272 pages showcasing 32 projects. This is a book to be treasured and enjoyed by readers with a passion for interior design. The locations include: New York, Boston, Washington DC, Palm Springs, Palm Beach, Moscow, London, Paris, Rome, Amagansett (Long Island), San Francisco and many more. Partial list of design firms: Lucinda Loya Interiors Monica Ballesio Interiors Martyn Lawrence Bullard Design Doble Oficio Arquitectos Roberto Barbero / Jose Maia Rodriguez Lopez Studio Riviello Architetti Amathea Ltd. Maurizio Pellizzoni Adam Cassino Design Studio Todd Raymond Katerina Koroleva Interiors

Publisher Description

Delivers the inside story on 6,000 years of personal and public space. John Pile acknowledges that interior design is a field with unclear boundaries, in which construction, architecture, the arts and crafts, technology and product design all overlap.