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

Toilescenic fabric originally printed from copperplateshas been a decorating sensation for over two hundred and fifty years. This comprehensive guide presents the history of toile from its beginnings in eighteenth century Britain and France. Hundreds of scenic designs are shown in 225 beautiful color photographs. Antique, vintage, and reproduction toile patterns are described with an identification and value guide.

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.

Mid-Century Modern Interiors explores the history of interior design during arguably its most iconic and influential period. The 1930s to the 1960s in the United States was a key moment for interior design. It not only saw the emergence of some of interior design's most globally-important designers, it also saw the field of interior design emerge at last as a profession in its own right. Through a series of detailed case studies this book introduces the key practitioners of the period – world-renowned designers including Ray and Charles Eames, Richard Neutra, and George Nelson – and examines how they developed new approaches by applying systematic and rational principles to the creation of interior spaces. It takes us into the mind of the designer to show how they each used interior design to express their varied theoretical interests, and reveals how the principles they developed have become embodied in the way interior design is practiced today. This focus on unearthing the underlying ideas and concepts behind their designs rather than on the finished results creates a richer, more conceptual understanding of this pivotal period in modernist design history. With an extended introduction setting the case studies within the broader context of twentieth-century design and architectural history, this book provides both an introduction and an in-depth analysis for students and scholars of interior design, architecture and design history.

“One of those designers whose interior and furniture designs look discovered, not created . . . both comfortable and exquisite, calm and eclectic.” —Apartment Therapy Designer and merchant, collector and tastemaker, Thomas O’Brien has made a career of translating cool notions of modernism into an easy and generous array of modern styles that anyone can attain. Now he introduces readers to a range of those styles—from casual to formal, vintage to urban—alongside stunning photography and charming design stories. O’Brien carefully describes the design process of his chosen projects, including a downtown New York City loft, a traditional Connecticut estate, and a converted schoolhouse in eastern Long Island. Each home explores a view on the modern design spectrum he has created, as well as the individual choices that make the design unique and its mix essentially American. He explains not only what was at work to create a given style, but how readers can import those practices to their own homes and personal design sensibilities. Important design principles such as architectural authenticity, color relationships, correctness of scale, and informed collecting are threaded through a practical narrative that reads like a master class in interior design. American Modern is an inspiring design volume that will redefine the way readers think about modern interiors. “O’Brien carefully describes the design process of his chosen projects. Beautiful imagery and a unique layout describe his approach to design in a new and innovative way.” —LIFEMSTYLE “It’s like getting a glimpse into the studio paintings of a great master . . . I especially love how all of his spaces feel so gender neutral, the perfect balance.” —Cottage Farm

An analysis of the New York professional milieu between the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and the aftermath of WWII reveals an unexpected scenario, in which diverse branches of technical culture and professional and institutional spheres often overlap, and initiatives in the field of architecture are characterised by tensions between designers and technicians, which pave the way for issues of architects’ autonomy, responsibility and social roles in the New Deal. From an initial portrayal of William Lescaze (1896–1969) as an unconventional figure “straddling two continents,” this book challenges a long-established interpretation that sees Lescaze exclusively as promoter of the International Style canons in the United States. Moving beyond it, this book focuses on the role that the Swiss architect played in defining the main features of New York social housing and in the evolution that marks the encounter between European modernity and an American federal scene still profoundly tied to local conventions. From an initially difficult status as an émigré to his involvement in decisional processes and bureaucratic organisations, Lescaze’s professional progress coincides with the gradual acceptance of European forms and models, which, little by little, became part of the institutional language related to public housing which would remain prevalent in New York City until the end of WWII. Drawing from yet-unpublished archival sources pertaining to two fields – housing and architecture – which have traditionally been separate in American historiography, this book sheds light on many crucial issues in a branch of architecture that is particularly relevant today.

First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.