Industrial pendant lights, vintage chairs and metal shelving and cabinets are coming back with the latest nostalgic trends. These items are dug like treasures out of junk piles in flea markets or found in factories to revive as eccentric items in modern homes. This book is filled with inspiring ideas for city dwellers living in warehouses and loft apartments to give their home a vintage and reclaimed look.

Vintage Industrial Interiors

Arts & Photography

Architecture

Booq Publishing

1000 Details in Architecture was created to be an invaluable resource for architects, designers, and constructors. With fifteen chapters organized into structures, facades, roofs and decks, horizontal and vertical connections, enclosures, finishings, framework and glassware, ironwork and blinds, installations, lighting, new technologies, miscellaneous, environmentalism and sustainability, water features, and landscape design, this book is a visual encyclopedia and a reference catalog rolled into one. Infrastructure from private and public architecture, covering homes, parking structures, commercial areas, office spaces, parks, and museums is captured with carefully curated photography that picks out hidden details or allows for space to show the overall effect of architectural techniques. Featured projects come from a worldwide selection of architectural endeavors, including a natural wooden walkway through Chilean hot springs, skylights in the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, and the colorful Agbar Tower building in Barcelona.

1000 Details In Architecture

Children's Books

Guinot, Sergio

Arts, Music & Photography

Tiny Homes features a collection of ultra-modern structures designed for maximum style at minimum size. These compact dwellings are designed to do the most possible with the only a fraction of the space available for most homes, whether squeezed into crevices in impacted urban neighborhoods or perched on the edge of a forest or river, allowing for a highly-reduced building footprint without sacrificing comfort or functionality. The book includes floor plans as well as high-quality photography of both interiors and exteriors, as well as photos that show how the minuscule constructions nestle into or stand out from their surrounding environments. Tiny Homes promises to be a huge source of inspiration for laypeople, architects and designers interested in this ongoing architectural phenomenon.

Tiny Homes

Gutiérrez, Manel

While the word "loft" may evoke impressions of echoing artists' studios and cavernous living spaces, Small Lofts reveals how the urban, contemporary spirit of the loft is evoked in downsized single-room dwellings the world over. Over 30 lofts are showcased, almost all under 1000 square feet/100 square meters, with floor plans and high-quality photography exploring interiors from every angle. All demonstrate unique architectural features, innovative furniture solutions, and tasteful, space-saving designs that maximize both utility and style. Featuring projects from Tokyo to Madrid, New York to Paris, Rome to Bratislava, Small Lofts provides ample inspiration for creating a sense of boundless space in compact quarters.

Small Lofts: Remodeling Tiny Open Spaces

Magrinya, Oriol

For many of us, our only chance to connect with nature on a daily basis happens in the garden. The inspired design ideas found within Small Home Gardens nurture this impulse by showing the reader how to create exterior spaces in a wide variety of styles. Ideas abound, from tranquil patio spaces to romantic roof plantings and water elements to herb beds and cutting gardens. Small Home Gardens puts forward practical cost-effective ideas using both traditional and cutting-edge materials that can be tailored to individual taste or to meet the demands of a particular site. Featuring hundreds of full color photographs alongside diagrams of unique projects from around the world, this volume is bound to interest gardeners, landscape designers and architects alike.

Small Home Gardens

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Abascal, Macarena

Gardening & Landscape Design

Taming clutter in the home can be a full-time job, especially in the urban environment where space is at a premium. But sometimes, there simply is not enough room to contain the accumulation of our lives. Smart Spaces showcases interiors where brilliant solutions have been found that justify the adage a place for everything and everything in its place. Clever storage options and accessories for every room of the house, whether living room, bedroom, kitchen or bathroom. Some are artfully hidden behind walls or staircases, others are in plain sight and multipurpose all are notable for resolving space problems. Relaxation is the only possible outcome.

Smart Spaces: Storage Solutions at Home

Zamora, Francesc

Much has been made of the life-changing effects of de-cluttering and organizing the home of late. Author Natalia Geci approaches the brief of tidying up from the perspective of her professional life as an architect and designer. This illustrated manual of order takes a practical approach, by first identifying common furniture and storage solutions in the home and then finding their ideal location and function with ingenuity and style. As a bonus, Geci’s own on-the-go lifestyle has informed clever solutions to help nomads bring order to their life.

Tidying Up in Style

Geci, Natalia

Interest in prefabrication arose during the Great Depression to satisfy the need for affordable housing. At that time, these systems were intended for PREfab construction methods drew the attention of modernist architects and designers. Its modularity offers flexibility. Its affordable cost appeals to a wider audience and its efficient use of materials reduces waste, responding to environmental concerns.

A House in a Week

It would be impossible to look at these and not want your own. In an increasingly crowded world, where homes must squeeze the most out of available space, the challenge lies in the search for creative solutions to meet new space requirements. The use of new technologies and strategies are essential to optimize every square foot. This book is profusely illustrated with beautiful examples offering the reader inspiring and creative ideas developed by today's most forward-thinking interior designers.

Small & Chic Interiors

The phrase "apartment building" has traditionally brought to mind, at worst, massive blocks of Soviet-era collective housing, and, at best, the rarified lofts of Manhattan's skyscrapers. But a new generation of architects and designers are working to impart to multi-unit housing the degree of care and artistry historically reserved for high-end single-family dwellings. This volume collects the work of thirty of the most recognized international architects and presents current trends in apartment design. The projects included showcase new structures and ideas and are illustrated with high-quality photographs revealing the newest, most innovative thinking in the design of exteriors, common areas, and private interior spaces in these groundbreaking buildings. Plans and sketches provide further insight into these projects, providing inspiration and guidance for a future that balances the demands of increasing population centers with thoughtful aesthetics.

Apartment Buildings

Cardelús, Cayetano

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