Design
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This is an optical opulence. This is an eye-popping book spectacle. Eyeglass designer Moss Lipow trawled eBay, auction houses, garage sales, and flea markets worldwide to amass glasses and photographs for his massive eyewear collection. This book, which traces eyewear's journey over the past millennium, features the best examples from Lipow's collection as well as models from other world class collections. Considering the wealth of examples included herein-such as prehistoric whalebone eye guards used by Eskimos, 13th century woode... read more
This book provides perspective and information of Apple's history and designs, explains the evolution of Apple's stores, draws parallels to the industrial design development, and much more. In addition, it features a beautiful layout and Apple product images from 1997-2011. If you are a design student it deserves a place on your book shelf, if you are an Apple fan it deserves a place on your coffee table
"Encyclopedia of the Exquisite "is a lifestyle guide for the Francophile and the Anglomaniac, the gourmet and the style maven, the armchair traveler and the art lover. It's an homage to the esoteric world of glamour that doesn't require much spending but makes us feel rich. Taking a cue from the exotic encyclopedias of the sixteenth century, which brimmed with mysterious artifacts, Jessica Kerwin Jenkins's "Encyclopedia of the Exquisite "focuses on the elegant, the rare, the commonplace, and the delightful. A com-pendium of style, ... read more
Insiders' Tips on Your Favorite Design and How to Enjoy and Make Profit - Adam Lindemann's previous book for TASCHEN, "Collecting Contemporary," has been an unprecedented success, introducing the lay reader to collecting contemporary art, with tell-all interviews by the biggest players in the global art market. Where this book was mainly the outcome of Lindemann's personal fascination with the art, "Collecting Design," in similar fashion, started when he was furnishing his new house. "Art collectors like myself who hung beautiful c... read more
Design - Architecture
Forty-six Square Metres of Land Doesn't Normally Become a House: Maximising Living Space Australia and New Zealand
Stuart Harrison
Stuart Harrison writes about residential architecture again in Forty-six square Metres Doesn't Normally Become a House, this time exploring how the constraints of space often result in the most innovative results.
Truly far-ranging - both conceptually and geographically - The Future of Architecture Since 1889 is a rich, compelling history that will shape future thinking about this period for years to come. Jean-Louis Cohen, one of today's most distinguished architectural historians and critics, gives an authoritative and compelling account of the twentieth century, tracing an arc from industrialization through computerization, and linking architecture to developments in art, technology, urbanism and critical theory. Encompassing both wel... read more
Our 2006 monograph Tom Kundig: Houses was an instant critical and commercial success. Over the past five years, Seattle-based Kundig has continued his meteoric rise, collecting numerous awards, including the 2008 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for Architecture Design. Tom Kundig: Houses 2 features seventeen residential projects, ranging from a five hundred-square-foot cabin in the woods to a house carved into and built out of solid rock. In his new work, Kundig continues to strike a balance between raw and refined and modern a... read more
A condensed version of the Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture, this travel edition is pocket sized and portable, ideal for the holiday or business traveller. Organized geographically and illustrated with global, sub-regional and city maps, the buildings are easily located. The book contains over 1,000 buildings including 50 new projects, each of which is illustrated with a single image and accompanied by a brief description, with addresses, websites and telephone numbers.
Australians and New Zealanders are drawn to the coast. Whether it's a permanent abode or a simple fibro shack, the sound of the surf and the feel of sand beneath one's feet are perennially appealing. This latest beach house book by Stephen Crafti features 50 architect-designed homes along the coast. From the simple to the monumental, these homes leave a lasting impression. While many of the homes featured in the book are lavishly appointed, others simply frame the spectacular views ahead.
From the author of the bestselling, wonderfully unique and iconic book Manhattan Unfurled, comes an equally brilliant and utterly unprecedented portrait of London.
While we cannot know how much Australia will continue to grow, we can assume that it will and, as a community, we need to consider what sort of cities and suburbs we want to live in. This fascinating book will hopefully trigger debate among the broader community about the future of our cities and housing. It looks at the dwelling as the basic element of our cities, from the house to the apartment building, before going on to trace the development of suburbia from Australian urban and dwelling prototypes to the contemporary city and... read more
Visual Inventory is a selection of images from Pawson's personal archive. The photographs include buildings and landscapes with the texture, light, and space documented and annotated by the acclaimed designer, taking the reader on a journey through different times and spaces, and finding ways of seeing the detail, and beauty in everyday life.
Burly Katon Halliday has singled itself out as Australia's most dynamic architectural design studio, presenting a uniquely Australian style in a series of acclaimed projects. This book celebrates the BKH story.
A romantic vision of the finest Arts and Crafts architect. Practicing from the turn of the twentieth century to the beginning of the Second World War, Mackay Hugh Baillie Scott exerted a profound influence on English Arts and Crafts architecture and design as well as on the nascent modernist movement. As a leader of the Arts and Crafts movement in Britain, Baillie Scott adhered to the philosophy that good design should be made available to everyone and should extend from the planning of towns to the creation of dishes and doorknobs... read more
This striking new work about the evolution of urban planning in America is from acclaimed author Rybczynski.
Along with 'Contemporary Architecture & Interiors - Yearbook 201'2, this volume in a more timeless, country style showcases twenty new high end projects of leading architects and interior designers.
How and where we work and spend our leisure time has changed dramatically in recent years. The increased mobility and global networking that pervade all aspects of our lives have had a considerable impact on the spaces in which we live, meet, and work.
SpaceCraft presents projects that meet the changing spatial needs of our modern lifestyles and that are simultaneously expanding our current understanding of architecture. On the one hand, the book features flexible, fleeting structures that only exist for a limited time... read more
Diener & Diener is an international architecture office located in Basel, Switzerland. They are known for their sophisticated, subtle take on Modernism, which combines intellectually rigorous thinking about urbanism, history and materiality with an unpretentious, practical approach to design. Diener & Diener are well-known in particular for their simple yet sophisticated residential complexes. When they first begin to design these structures, postmodernism was at its height, and it is their commitment to both the aesthetics and the... read more
This book is a unique and inspirational guidebook for outdoor furniture displayed in wonderful contemporary gardens and on beautiful contemporary terraces.
