Today, what we require in our living spaces has led us to rethink the way we use and design the interiors of our homes. We’re more likely to need large areas to create a home office, play area, storage space, or display for the latest home entertainment equipment. While many of us have good ideas, we can’t always see the ways to carry them out. This magnificently illustrated text leads you through the process and supplies clear and understandable examples demonstrating just how easy it can be to transform your home into a space that fits the way you want to live today.

Renovated Home, The

Arts & Photography

Weaving, Andrew

Architecture

HarperDes

Tapping into today’s trend to return to unstructured playtime and move away from over-scheduling and electronic games, Playful Home is perfectly suited to the times. Andrew Weaving celebrates the best of childhood, from his favorite games and crafts projects to the whimsical décor that kids love. The result is kids’ rooms designed to feed and inspire the imagination, as well as to hold fabulous collections of toys and books. With the philosophy of integrating play into our daily lives, Playful Home looks at twelve family homes designed with children in mind, from the foyer to the back door, which stylishly embrace kids’ activities and interests. The featured spaces are the kids’ rooms, which combine flair and fun so successfully that they end up being the hub of the entire house. Including design ideas for displaying toys and collectibles, plus clever ways of storing them, as well as great tips on how to make murals and unique wall decorations, Playful Home inspires creativity as well as good design.

Playful Home: Creative Style Ideas for Living with Kids

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

Rizzoli Universe Promotional Books

Architectural modernism was revolutionary when it first appeared in the 1920s, and its innovation showed the world just what twentieth-century design could bring. Living Modern is a grand showcase of classic homes by such design luminaries as Mies van der Rohe, Charles and Ray Eames, Alvar Aalto, Richard Neutra, and many more. With over 200 detailed photographs of both entirely new work and remodeled originals, as well as numerous historical images, the true trademarks of modernism and of each designer are revealed. Ranging from materials and color to lighting and floor plans, Living Modern is an excellent primer to modern home style from its inception to the timeless features applied to the interiors of today.

Living Modern: Bringing Modernism Home

Freedman, Lisa

Chronicle Books+

Sarasota in the 1950s was a small community graced with an alluring natural beauty. What set it apart from so many Florida beachfront towns was the concentration of artists, writers, and architects who gathered there—including author MacKinley Kantor and architects Paul Rudolf and Ralph Twitchell—a unique confluence of talented and daring architects coupled with a hip crowd willing to take risks. Sarasota was a place in which innovation and experimentation were the order of the day, a place where an architect might run into the local watering hole to shout: "I just invented the sliding glass door." Such was the confluence of art and architecture that laid the groundwork for the Sarasota School of Architecture, so named after the fact by architect Gene Leedy at an American Institute of Architecture (AIA) conference in the 1980s to refer to the unique architecture of this region, an architecture that is wonderfully responsive to Sarasota's sub-tropical environment and which has achieved international importance for its beauty, intelligence, and style. Today, Sarasota's treasures are being rediscovered by lovers of innovative architecture, who are buying and restoring these prized homes; but also, unfortunately, by developers, who are recklessly knocking them down. Sarasota Modern, the first book of its kind to focus exclusively on this vibrant community, offers the reader an intimate look into the stunning houses as they are lived in today.

Sarasota Modern

Photography & Video

Rizzoli

High-rise architecture has provided some of the most technically innovative and aesthetically interesting buildings of recent years, despite its checkered-and often controversial-history. It has also become some of the most desirable property available in cities throughout the world. Andrew Weaving hands you the entrance keys to twenty-five different apartments-with-a-view in this rich collection of fabulous, spare photographs that capture unique views of these buildings and their highly livable interiors. High-rise Living features architecture and interior living spaces for high-rise condominiums and apartments in Europe, Asia, Canada, Australia, and the United States, divided in three categories: Classic, Now, and Future. An engaging introduction recounts the highlights of high-rise architecture from its genesis in "ideal socialist cities" to its contemporary ideal as a solution to environmental and world population housing issues, and covers the work of such architectural greats as Louis Sullivan, Auguste Perret, Frank Lloyd Wright (yes, he did towers!), Le Corbusier, Richard Neutra, Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, Erno Goldfinger, Bertrand Goldberg, I. M. Pei, the Archigram Group, Kisho Kurokawa, and others. High-rise Living is a fresh look at modern, architecturally designed spaces in which to live, right in the heart of the city. Andrew Weaving is a true high-rise aficionado who lives in one himself in London's Canary Wharf.

High-Rise Living

Gibbs-Smith

Retro Revival: Living with mid-century design

RYLAND, PETERS & SMALL

In recent years, mid-century modern furniture, glass, ceramics, and textiles have become hugely popular among those who appreciate the stylish contribution these pieces make to the contemporary home. Modern Retro will inspire you to create a look that combines modern classics by such visionaries as the Eameses, Bertoia, and Aalto with thrift-store finds and the best contemporary design. Created by modern classics dealer Andrew Weaving and design commentator Neil Bingham, with photography by Andrew Wood, Modern Retro is not about slavishly recreating a period feel. Instead, it shows how to take the best designs of the 1920s through 1970s and use them throughout your home in a relaxed and individual way, allowing you to make the most of the gloriously eclectic forms, colors, and patterns available.

Modern Retro: Living With Mid-Century Modern Style

Bingham, Neil

"Modern Retro" will inspire you to combine modern classics by names such as Eames, Jacobson, and Aalto, with flea-market finds and contemporary designs. The book begins with an introduction to key design innovations of the mid-twentieth century. Ingredients of the Retro Look explores the elements of the style: furniture, lighting, textiles and rugs, ceramics, and glass. Creating the Retro Look, the third part of the book, shows how to combine these elements to create a stylish home. -This bestselling title sold over 65,000 copies in hardcover. -By mid-century experts Neil Bingham and Andrew Weaving.

Modern Retro: Living With Mid-Century Modern Style (Compact Paperbacks)

Home Improvement & Design

In recent years, mid-century modern furniture, glass, ceramics, and textiles have become extremely popular among those who appreciate their stylish contribution to the contemporary home. "Modern Retro" will inspire you to create a look that combines modern classics by such visionaries as the Eameses, Bertoia, and Aalto with yard-sale treasures and the best of contemporary design. Created by modern clasics dealer Andrew Weaving and disign commentator Neil Bingham, "Modern Retro" is not about slavishly recreating a period feel. Instead, it shows how to take the best designs fromt he 1920's to the 1970's and use them throughout your home in a relaxed and individual way, making the most of the gloriously eclectic form, colours, and patterns available. *An inspiring guide to using mid-20th-centry furniture and decoration in your home. *Beautiful photography by Andrew Wood.

Modern Retro: Living With Mid-century Modern Style

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Books by Weaving, Andrew

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Renovated Home, The

Playful Home: Creative Style Ideas for Living with Kids

Living Modern: Bringing Modernism Home

Sarasota Modern

Playful Home: Creative Style Ideas for Living with Kids

High-Rise Living

Retro Revival: Living with mid-century design

Modern Retro: Living With Mid-Century Modern Style

Modern Retro: Living With Mid-Century Modern Style (Compact Paperbacks)

Modern Retro: Living With Mid-century Modern Style