Many people view ancient and modern as worlds apart and opt for one or the other when it comes to choosing an interior style. This book shows how putting the two together can create bold, dramatic effects and lead to an enriching and individual environment for the 21st century. From a modern American apartment with antique furniture to a conversion of an ancient cow-shed with salvage fixtures and fittings painted a uniform white, the book gives many examples of mixing the old with the new. It offers practical solutions for low-budget interiors and shows how to create a harmonious collection of old and new objects over time. Ancient and modern elements can be mixed throughout the home, and the book covers every type and size of living space, including both conventional rooms and contemporary open-plan areas such as lofts. Many possible combinations of old and new are explored, using old and new furniture, fixtures and fittings and key details like textiles, lighting, utensils, art and objects. The central theme underpinning the book is the continuity between ancient and modern - the fact that common forms and a shared aesthetic connect elements from different times and cultures. Both text and photographs show how many ancient objects are startlingly modern in concept and design, and how many modern forms are continuations of ancient motifs.

Ancient and Modern

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Inions, Cynthia

Crafts & Hobbies

Jacqui Small LLP

We are all born collectors. In childhood we hoard marbles, ribbons, toy soldiers, postage stamps - all manner of knick-knacks - and experience an instinctive thrill in finding the next and better one. This stays with us through our adult life and this book looks at collectors around the world, and the things that they have graduated to collecting. The book is not only about the various types of things that people collect, but also the innovative and stylish way that they choose to display their collections for the world to see. The collectors are broken down into 10 categories, from passionates to junkies, through beachcombers, inheritors, dreamers and more. There is also a section at the back of the book on the many ingenious ways that they use to display these collections.

A Passion for Collecting

Influential Styles : From Baroque to Bauhaus - Period Styles in Today's Interiors

There is perhaps no style of garden more emotive and evocative than the cottage garden - imbued with a sense of romance, idealized by writers and painters, and so alluring to garden makers all over the world, it has been fashionable for nearly two centuries. But today we often think of it as outdated, old-fashioned, past its sell-by date. The author argues that, in fact, with the hustle and bustle of today's frantic lifestyle, the cottage garden has never been more appropriate. It is the distillation of the essence of what a garden should be - it is a place of beauty, repose and tranquillity. It enables us to get back in touch with the soil, to enjoy the hugely rewarding, but simple pleasures of sowing seed and taking cuttings, of caring for plants and watching them grow and thrive, of harvesting and eating home grown produce. When the work is done, we can relax in a beautiful, sweetly scented floral retreat. The book includes designs and artwork that help fulfil the dream and should inspire readers to create a beautiful and practical cottage garden, in whichever style they prefer.  It also features a catalogue of specific plants to achieve each look, with horticultural guidelines, and a list of stockists and suppliers.

Cottage Gardens

Unknown, Author

Designed to be informative, as well as visually stimulating, this book offers the best and latest solutions to both old and new interior design problems and queries. By featuring real-life locations and clear detailed photographs, the book shows how people have actually tackled projects, such as re-fitting or re-designing a room, or selecting the light fittings or door handles to suit a scheme. They also give an indication of how the owners planned and executed the task. The text also gives guidelines as to what the people involved in the project have learned in the process and pointers to possible pitfalls and danger areas to avoid. With photographs of beautifully designed interiors, this guide explains and shows how to tackle the development and styling of a room.

Attention to Detail

Suzanne Trocmé

Home Improvement & Design

What is "kitchen culture"? Life that revolves around the activities, feelings and ideas associated with the use of a space at the centre of home, from where food is prepared and hospitality emanates. Our lives are physically lived in our kitchens more than any other room. Therefore, a room for this range of uses needs to be carefully planned. There is a return to valuing family life where quality time between family members is suddenly considered to be vital for a healthy and happy life. The new interest in food now valued as a culture also helps us to create a new focus upon the role of the kitchen. The amount of input that can go into the planning of a kitchen can be as light or thoughtful as you care for. The more you investigate the culture of the kitchen the more you realize what a huge role it plays in making a house become a home. Its value is potentially great for enjoyment and function. It reflects the society and culture in which we live in a fascinating way, particularly in the field of design, but also in many other cultural aspects. The design of houses in the future will be most affected by the way we view the kitchen. Each generation recreates their senses of what a

Kitchen Culture : Reinventing Kitchen Design

johnny-grey

Celebrity author and TV presenter of 'Changing Rooms', Linda Barker is renowned for her prolific and contemporary ideas in creating perfect interiors. Wall to Wall contains a range of liveable and relaxed chic interiors, which are both elegant and balanced. Linda offers practical guidelines on how to achieve a diverse range of wall finishes using unique, simple but stylish ideas.

Title: Wall to Wall: 100 Great Treatments for Vertical Su

LINDA BARKER

Best-selling interiors and antiques author Judith Miller looks at how country traditions from around the world have continuously influenced the decoration of homes everywhere. Judith explores the origins and development of each style, the natural resources and design elements used, their characteristics, and the different strands that make up the fabric of the individual country styles - from the rustic simplicity of an American shaker interior to the comfortable clutter of an English cottage.

Country

Arts & Photography

Judith H. Miller

Architecture

Perfect Neutrals by Stephanie Hoppen (2006-10-24)

HOPPEN, Stephanie

Steak

Gayler, Paul

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