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Loft Bible
This collection demonstrates the immense variety of lofts in a wide range of buildings from all over the world. They have been converted with great ingenuity and imagination by a new breed of urban dwellers who have embraced the loft living idyll. Enthusiastically eclectic, importing ideas gathered from travel or reading, and using furniture from modern emporiums of design or found in junk shops, these loft dwellers have left the essential character and texture of their buildings intact while layering space in subtle ways so that volumetric grandeur is not lost. This tour gives the reader a glimpse of the inventiveness, vigor and pride employed in creating spectacular dwellings out of amorphous spaces.
Loft Bible 
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Spode-Copeland-Spode: The Work and Its People 1770-1970 by Vega Wilkinson, ISBN 1851493646
The fabric designers of the art nouveau style who exhibited at the Paris Salons produced a remarkable oeuvre in printed and woven fabric, silk, lace, embroidery and tapestry. Bookbinding was, and still is, a well-established French tradition, and bibliophiles commissioned unique bindings from artist-designers who, at the same time, were also creating and exhibiting non-bound leather goods -- handbags, blotters, upholstery.
The catalogues of the Paris Salons provide a unique archive of illustrations of the decorative arts at a pivotal time in their development, the five previous volumes covering Jewellery, Furniture, Ceramics and Glass, and Objets d'Art.
This volume is historically the most important in the series. Because of wear and tear, practically none of the 1,200 or so textile and leatherware pieces illustrated have survived outside museum collections or appear at auction, unlike many of the items covered by the earlier volumes.
Spode-Copeland-Spode: The Work and Its People 1770-1970 by Vega Wilkinson, ISBN 1851493646
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White Rooms
The most used color in interior design, white can open up a space, add dimension, and invoke a sense of romance, elegance, peace, and possibility. "White Rooms" is devoted entirely to decorating with this versatile color, offering inspiration and options for every room in the house—from bedrooms to bathrooms to living and eating areas and beyond. Featuring houses from around the world, it offers advice on all aspects of decorating with white and its various shades, including furniture, structural elements, objects d'art, wall coloring, and more.
White Rooms
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Neoclassicism in the North: Swedish Furniture and Interiors 1770-1850 by Hakan Groth, ISBN 0500281068
When Crown Prince Gustaf returned from Versailles in 1771 to ascend the throne of Sweden, he was determined to give his country a leading place in Europe culturally as well as politically. The style he fostered -- Neoclassicism -- was itself an international movement; there are echos in the interiors displayed here of the Louis XVI and Empire modes. Pieces of furniture may reflect French, English, or German influences, or be copied from objects discovered at Pompeii -- but all are suffused by a distinctively Swedish freshness and the northern light.
From royal salons to modest spatter-painted Biedermeier halls, Hakan Groth and Fritz von der Schulenburg open the doors on an astonishing sequence of interiors; some, intensely private, are little known even in Sweden. The evocative photographs, all specially taken for this book, present in detail the decoration and furnishings of twenty houses and apartments. The text traces the evolution of the Neoclassical style in Sweden, placing it in...
Neoclassicism in the North: Swedish Furniture and Interiors 1770-1850 by Hakan Groth, ISBN 0500281068
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