The perfect room can make any trip unforgettable. Whether you’re welcoming new friends into your home or hosting family, a little thought and a lot of imagination can make your guests’ next visit a delightful experience. The guest room is more than the extra room in the house. It is a space for you to create memories, to extend warmth and comfort for another. Guest Rooms explores the most charming guest accommodations in private homes, from a luxurious Hawaiian guesthouse and a cozy room in a Nantucket cottage to an artistic and intriguing Santa Fe space. These spaces speak of their surroundings: brightly colored linens and light wood floors at the beach, thick down comforters and warm lighting in a Maine cottage. The rooms are full of special touches, sure to make any guest feel at home, including reading lamps and fresh flowers, books, and candles. Featuring homes designed by renowned architects and photography by Shelley Metcalf and Eric Roth, Guest Rooms offers inspiration for every type of home and space. The trend right now is to turn that extra space into a warm retreat for guests, a room that is entirely about luxury and relaxation. The perfect gift for your host and for anyone with an extra space, lifestyle author Anna Kasabian serves up twenty-five rooms that would make any guest wish to extend his stay.

Guest Rooms: And Private Places

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Kasabian, Anna

Crafts & Hobbies

Universe

The Fifth Taste: Cooking with Umami See how easy it is to make the most appetizing, delicious and satisfying food ever by including ingredients with umami, the fifth taste. What is umami? It's another basic taste, like sweet, sour, salty, and bitter. But it's not an ordinary taste. Umami is that rich, savory, extra-satisfying taste of mushrooms, steak, cheese, oysters, and red wine — just a few of the many foods loaded with umami. Umami is a quick and easy way to boost flavor dramatically by waking up taste buds you never knew you had. Science only recently proved its existence, and the world of food and cooking is catching on fast. In the last year, reports on umami appeared in the New York Times, Saveur, Wine Spectator, Food and Wine, The New Yorker, and numerous other publications. And every day more chefs and home cooks are wowing guests, family and friends with fabulous-tasting umami-rich food. The Fifth Taste: Cooking with Umami is the first book ever to tell what umami really is, which foods have it (and which don’t), and how to use umami every day for some of the best meals you’ve ever had. -------- With more than 50 umami-rich recipes from 25 top American chefs. Advance Praise for The Fifth Taste: Cooking with Umami “Anna and David Kasabian have not only written a scientific tell-all book about this mysterious ingredient, but they have also included amazing recipes - revealing a new genre in cooking and exciting new tastes for the palate.” Mario Batali, chef and author “Great cooks throughout the centuries have spontaneously understood the essential quality of individual ingredients and have instinctively combined these to create superlative concoctions. In this fascinating book, the Kasabians argue convincingly that this intuitive knowledge of cooks has a name: Umami.” Jacques Pepin, chef, author and educator “Finally a cookbook I've been waiting for-one that explains the elusive qualities of umami. Anna and David Kasabian are trailblazers. Not only do they explain and describe this mysterious element of flavor, they show us how to use its power in our cooking. An important and original book." Michael Ruhlman, author, The Making of Chef, The Soul of a Chef and Charcuterie “I found the book to be an excellent synthesis of what umami IS with its practical use in cooking. I believe it will be a milestone in the deliberate incorporation of umami into western gastronomy.” Dr. Robert L. Wolke, author, What Einstein Told His Cook and What Einstein Told His Cook 2, The Sequel “As exciting and intriguing a read as you’ll find in any cookbook published this year. Then there are the recipes. If umami is a good taste — and it is — what better than a cookbook to showcase it? Mark Bittman, author, How to Cook Everything (From the Foreword) Over 50 delectable umami recipes, for every occasion and for every level of cooking skill, such as: ·Spicy Chipotle Pork Tacos with Sun-Dried Tomato Salsa from Rick Bayless ·Sea Scallops with Mashed Potatoes and Red Onion Confit from Daniel Boulud ·Cornish Game Hens Braised in a Pot with Summer Vegetables from Bradley Ogden ·My Father’s Famous Shrimp Hors d’Oeuvres from Lydia Shire ·Lamb Shanks with Tomatoes from Christopher Kimball ·Spicy Sour Botan Shrimp from Nobu Matsuhisa Plus more everyday umami recipes, including ·Maxed-Out Meatloaf ·Ragumami Tomato Two Meat Pasta Sauce ·Asparagus Frittata ·Coq au Vin Nouveau ·Please-Pass-the-Umami Toasts ·Vegetarian Muffaletta Roll-Ups ·And more

The Fifth Taste: Cooking with Umami

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Kasabian, David

Cooking Education & Reference

Arts & Photography

Architecture

Rizzoli Universe Promotional Books

A renowned fashion designer and an expert on interior design join forces to present a stunning portrait of authentic New England, presenting more than two hundred full-color photographs of the region's most picturesque homes and getaways, accompanied by personal profiles and favorite New England activities and recipes. 15,000 first printing.

New England Style

Hilfiger, Tommy

Rizzoli

This striking book showcases fresh, contemporary interiors that reflect Jennifer Post’s “pure space” philosophy: a serene, meticulously organized volume that offers a peaceful break from a busy world. From lofts in New York City to Miami high-rises to Palm Beach villas, each interior is immaculately conceived, detailed, and constructed—the epitome of pure, tailored modernism. In her own words, Post demonstrates how she transforms living environments into elegantly edited spaces, using clean lines, white surfaces that reflect natural light, and open areas that allow a home to breathe. Since the age of eight, when she traveled to neighbors’ houses offering to organize their closets and rearrange their rooms, Post has been dedicated to her pure aesthetic vision, resulting in a timeless body of work. This is the first monograph on designer Post, who for a decade has been included among Architectural Digest’s coveted AD 100 list of the world’s top architects and designers.

Jennifer Post: Pure Space: Elegant Minimalism

Reference

The Design Library series is a collection of the best design work in all categories selected by designers for designers. The label and tag designs featured in this pages have been picked from the archives at Rockport Publishers and represent some of the best work from recent years. Each book in this series is dedicated to a specific area of design providing professionals, amateurs, and students with a complete and affordable library of the best design of the decade and inspiration for a decade to come. Other titles in the Design Library series include: Airbrush, Brochure, Business Card, Digital Graphics, Direct Mail, Illustration, Interface, Logo & Letterhead, More Brochures, More Business Cards, More Logos & Letterhead, Music Graphics, Packaging, Poster Art, Promotion, Retail & Restaurant, T-Shirt, Typography.

Labels and Tags

Goodman, Julie

History & Criticism

Rockport Pub

Introduces the latest design and color trends in tile, terra-cotta stone, and mosaics for interiors, and provides ideas for developing themes.

Designing Interiors With Tile: Creative Ideas in Ceramic, Stone,A and Mosaic

Quarry Books

East Coast Rooms: Portfolios of 31 Interior Designers and Architects

East Coast Rooms is your ticket to a unique design junket along the East Coast, with top designers and architects as your guides. Tour the favorite projects of 31 renowned interior designers and architects from Maine to Manhattan and beyond-from coastal, sun-splashed villages, to city lofts, to beachfront sanctuaries. 
Visit Vincente Wolf's beach house, a visual paradise with a palette that soothes and refreshes. 
Experience Jennifer Post's "castle in the sky" in Manhattan-a minimalist's dream come true. 
Wander the rooms of a breathtaking country creation by designer Jeffrey Bilhuber, where design and art become one. 
Step inside interior designer Linda Chase's Connecticut home, where lyrical fabrics, infusions of color, and collectibles work a fascinating design rhythm.

Cooking Spaces combines creative design with modern and unique ways in which to transform your old kitchen into something new. From traditional to modern, catch a glimpse of great cooking spaces that make kitchens function as a room you will enjoy spending time in. 
Featuring brief narratives-describing their careers and favorite kitchens-from ten world-renowned chefs: including Jacques Pepin, Jody Adams, Coleman Andrews, Christopher Kimball, Richard Rayment, Lydia Shire, Nic Stellino, Giles Thompson, Korby Kummer, and Ruth Rogers. 
Also learn about: Modern design schemes for cooking, mingling, and entertaining with ease Working kitchens: adaptable solutions to common design problems, overcrowding, unusually shaped rooms, lighting, built-ins, and more Cooking traditions adapted in unusual and clever designs: the open-air kitchen, the baking alcove, kitchen hearths, kitchens for grilling, the wine-lovers kitchen, and more. 
The best cooking rooms provide ample space for flipping an omelet, rolling a piecrust, or chatting with guests while preparing a cozy dinner. But creating cooking spaces can be a daunting task. Kitchens should be practical and functional, but they should also be comfortable, hospitable, and visually appealing. How can you design a cooking space to fulfill all of these needs? 
Cooking Spaces offers a bit of something for everyone, from practical hands-on tips and interesting ideas on cabinetry, lighting, flooring, storage, dining areas, and other kitchen essentials to beautiful color photographs sure to enthuse even the most reluctant kitchen designer. With over one hundred kitchens featured, Cooking Spaces provides ideas on how to shape your existing kitchen into a room catered to your needs. A cooking lifestyle quiz will give you a handle on your personal culinary needs and necessities: the rest of the book will encourage and inform you on how best to meet those needs. As an added bonus, interviews with ten of the world's most exciting and revered chefs are also included, which will give you great ideas on how to create a cooking space to inspire greatness. Cooking Spaces is a must-have addition to any chef's library: amateur or professional.

Cooking Spaces: Designs for Cooking, Entertaining, and Living

Thompson, Helen

Kids need room to grow and rooms that grow with them. Today's parents are looking for design ideas to enliven, organize, and give identity to their children's rooms that can evolve as their child grows. Here are imaginative room designs for infants, toddlers, and kids that are fun, durable, and flexible. Each chapter offers full color photos of fresh and innovative design ideas for children's bedrooms, bathrooms, playrooms, and studies. Information on fabrics, wallpapers, wall murals and other accessories like curtains, chairs, night lights, table lamps, and rugs are all presented with information on what works for kids' rooms throughout childhood. Interviews from experts in this area of design as well as insight from actual parents and children who have created successful spaces at home are included to guide parents as they create the right decorative style and elements for their child's space.

Kids' Rooms: A Hands-On Decorating Guide

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Guest Rooms: And Private Places

The Fifth Taste: Cooking with Umami

Guest Rooms: And Private Places

New England Style

Jennifer Post: Pure Space: Elegant Minimalism

Labels and Tags

Designing Interiors With Tile: Creative Ideas in Ceramic, Stone,A and Mosaic

East Coast Rooms: Portfolios of 31 Interior Designers and Architects

Cooking Spaces: Designs for Cooking, Entertaining, and Living

Kids' Rooms: A Hands-On Decorating Guide