Showing posts with label modern design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label modern design. Show all posts

Thursday, September 6, 2018

100 Houses


100 Houses
English |  2004 |  480 pages | JPG | 348 MB

The greatest challenge in designing homes is negotiating the delicate balance between aesthetics and the personal desires of the occupants. While it’s important for the structure to reflect the vision and style of the architect, the client must ultimately feel at home beneath the roof. It is particularly interesting, therefore, to examine the homes that architects create for themselves. If houses reflect their owners’ personalities, then architects’ own homes are like autobiographies. Location, layout, style, lighting, artwork, furnishings—every detail adds color to the story. Each of these 100 dwellings, presented A-Z by architect, speaks more about its designer than any other building possibly could.


Sunday, May 13, 2018

Domus - projects


Domus - projects

Reproducing the pages as they originally appeared, each volume is packed with articles that bring to light the incredible history of modern design and architecture. A truly comprehensive lexicon of styles and movements, the volumes are accompanied by specially commissioned introductory texts that not only outline the history of the magazine but also describe what was happening in design and architecture during each era covered.

These texts have been written by many of the magazine’s renowned past editors: Mario Bellini, François Burkhardt, Cesare Maria Casati, Stefano Casciani, Germano Celant, Manolo De Giorgi, Fulvio Irace, Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani, Alessandro Mendini, Lisa Licitra Ponti, Ettore Sottsass Jr., Luigi Spinelli, and Deyan Sudjic.

The volumes have also been thoroughly indexed, allowing the reader easy access to key articles —many of which have been translated into English for the first time.
 

Sunday, April 22, 2018

Oriental Style Hotels


Oriental Style Hotels
Collection of Hangzhou Chen Tao Interior Design Ltd.
English/Chinese | 2012   | 271 pages | PDF | 187,3 MB

The book presents Chinese top designers hotel works, which elaborate not only the dissimilation and assimilation between Chinese traditional culture and modern design styles but also the characteristics of neo-regionalism.