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La Casa Loca: Latino Style Comes Home 45 Funky Craft Projects for Decorating & Entertaining

La Casa Loca: Latino Style Comes Home 45 Funky Craft Projects for Decorating & Entertaining

by Kathy Cano-Murillo

Latino style is a huge and growing trend in home decorating and fashion. Latina personality Kathy Cano-Murillo takes the explosive colors and iconography of Latino style and merges it with pop art to create an inspirational craft book with a hip, contemporary sensibility. The twist: readers can create their very own casa loca crazy house by hand. Cano-Murillo offers a fabulous array of easy,... (more)

In Praise of Shadows

by Junichiro Tanizak

An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and even toilets, combining an acute sense of the use of space in buildings. The book also includes descriptions of laquerware under candlelight and women in the darkness of the house of pleasure.

50 Favorite Rooms By Frank Lloyd Wright

by Diane Maddex

Any admirer of the creative talent of Frank Lloyd Wright should not be without this excellent book, which records 50 of his domestic interiors. Diane Maddex, who has written several books on Wright, has assembled a photographic collection of his living and dining rooms as well as playrooms, libraries, and a few public spaces, including Wisconsin's Johnson Wax building and the Guggenheim Museum in New York.... (more)

MNM 2: Minimalist Interiors

by Laura O'Bryan

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the minimalist trend and the influence it has had upon decoration and interior design. The projects chosen, although they cannot always be labeled as "100% minimalist," do clearly reflect the impact of this movement on architecture, art, fashion, and design. As the modern movement gradually began to fade out, minimalist art came into its own and then went on to become... (more)

Annie Dunne

by Sebastian Barry

It is 1959 in Wicklow, Ireland, and Annie and her cousin Sarah are living and working together to keep Sarah's small farm running. Suddenly, Annie's young niece and nephew are left in their care. Unprepared for the chaos that the two children inevitably bring, but nervously excited nonetheless, Annie finds the interruption of her normal life and her last chance at happiness complicated further by the... (more)

Kelly Hoppen Home: From Concept to Reality

Kelly Hoppen Home: From Concept to Reality

by Kelly Hoppen, Helen Chislett

Kelly Hoppen is an avatar of hip, high-end interior design, celebrated in the pages of Architectural Digest , In Style , and the New York Times . Her cool, modernist aesthetic is at once timeless and at the cutting-edge of style today and KELLY HOPPEN HOME offers readers a chance to learn from the world-renowned British designer's chic design philosophy. Giving a clear picture of her approach at every... (more)

The Budget Guide to Retail Store Planning and Design

The Budget Guide to Retail Store Planning and Design

by Jeff Grant

The perfect learning tool for opening a store or renovating one, this book is a nuts and bolts approach to the planning and design of a new store, covering budgeting store design, working with designers, store layout and colors, ceilings and spaceframes, interior signage, lease analysis and negotiation, storefronts and signs, retail floor coverings, wall and floor fixtures, and putting it all together. The author... (more)

Tectonic Faults: Agents of Change on a Dynamic Earth (Dahlem Workshop Reports)

Tectonic Faults: Agents of Change on a Dynamic Earth (Dahlem Workshop Reports)

Tectonic faults are sites of localized motion, both at the Earth's surface and within its dynamic interior. Faulting is directly linked to a wide range of global phenomena, including long-term climate change and the evolution of hominids, the opening and closure of oceans, and the rise and fall of mountain ranges. In Tectonic Faults, scientists from a variety of disciplines explore the connections between... (more)

AUTHENTIC DECOR: DOMESTIC INTERIOR, 1620-1920PETER THORNTON

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