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Sourcebook of Modern Furniture, Third Edition by Jerryll Habegger, Joseph H. Osman (W. W. Norton & Company) is the definitive sourcebook for those interested in modern and modern classic furniture. A comprehensive guide to the most influential furniture and lighting designs of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, updated and expanded.

Over 2,000 important pieces arranged by type of furniture or fixture make this book the go-to guide for students and historians of modern furniture, as well as an essential tool for interior designers. Each entry gives the details of the design: date, model name or number, manufacturer, materials, and dimensions. 1892 photographs. 

Interior Design Portable Handbook: First-Step Rules of Thumb for Interior Architecutre, 2nd Edition by Pat Guthrie (McGraw-Hill Professional) Handy on-the-job answers.
Architect Pat Guthrie's convenient pocket reference helps interior designers, decorators, and architects create workable, on-the-spot design solutions by putting the latest codes and standards, costs, materials, and specification information at their fingertips. Completely updated for the latest code changes, this new Interior Design Portable Handbook features:

• Comprehensive reference information in a pocket-sized guide
• Materials and specifications checklists that make interior design decisions lightning-fast and easy
• Coverage of the entire process, from initial planning and estimating through design and construction/installation
• Quick reference to applicable codes and the latest standards, including the IBC and NFPA
• CSI MasterFormat® organization that follows the job step by step
• Updated unit costs for furnishings, fixtures, finishes, and other interior components and systems
• Many examples and design details illustrating key techniques and procedures

The Interior Design Portable Handbook provides just the right level of detail to help you with everyday design challenges. Perfect for in-the-field estimating as well as licensing exam prep, it is an indispensable, time-saving tool.

San Francisco Style: Design, Decor, and Architecture by Diane Dorrans Saeks, David Duncan Livingston (Chronicle Books) Style expert Diane Dorrans Saeks has an eye for design and she's setting her sights on the City by the Bay. This lavishly photographed book opens the doors to exquisite Bay Area dwellings, inviting readers of all tastes into just-so apartments, grand houses, light-drenched lofts, and cozy bungalows. Enter the graceful abode of San Francisco luminary Ann Getty, whose unique vision is reflected in a multitude of textures unrestricted by style or period. Visit designer Steven Volpe's South of Market loft, converted from a 1916 printing factory. A tour of Dr. Paul Turek's hillside home pays homage to classic contemporary Italian design (and the art of crafting the perfect surfboard). With more than 200 inspiring color photographs, this collection captures the scope of homes and lifestyles that make the northern California region unique. And with Diane Dorrans Saeks's list of where to shop, view art, and truly get an inside look at the city notorious for stealing hearts, this is the perfect guide for interior designers, accomplished home stylists, and anyone looking to create San Francisco style.

From Publishers Weekly: Architecturally, San Francisco style encompasses elements ranging from Victorian to modernist. Aesthetically, it varies, yet some driving forces persist; namely, "personal style, individuality and dream-fulfillment." In this lush volume, Saeks, California editor of Metropolitan Home, explores some San Francisco homes that are perfect examples of that variety and sense of distinctiveness. She begins with a Pacific Heights residence that overflows with historic grandeur (think museum-worthy giltwood mantles and a sumptuous George II armchair) and then moves on to a South of Market loft that epitomizes the "polished ideal of city living": refined raw silk shades, a "chandelier" made of paper and wire, a bathroom floored in teak decking. There’s also a Nob Hill apartment, accented with a calm and subtle décor; a charming Sausalito cottage; and an Oakland Hills home stocked with furniture and decorative accessories created by its owners. The interiors Saeks chooses to highlight are overwhelmingly high-end yet, regardless of readers’ aspirations, the book will surely remind them of the rewards of taking an innovative approach to design. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

 

Lighting Design & Installation (Creative Publishing International) Well designed and safely installed lighting systems make a home safer, more practical, and more enjoyable to live in. This book is a comprehensive guide to using natural and artificial light in the home and landscape. Lighting Design & Installation is divided into two main sections. The design portion of the book teaches the principles used by interior designers to create lighting schemes that are not only practical, but serve to unify the overall look and atmosphere of a home. In addition to traditional wired lighting, this section also examines how fabrics, surfaces, and windows impact the lighting scheme of a home.

Then, an in-depth installation section shows the detailed step-by-step processes for installing all types of lighting fixtures and systems, including traditional incandescent and fluorescent lighting fixtures, track lighting, recessed lighting, low-voltage accent and undercounter lighting, and outdoor low-voltage and solar-powered lighting. The book also presents information on programmable, automated lighting systems.

Lighting Design & Installation is a refreshingly new kind of lighting book, bringing together the very best, most current information on lighting design and do-it-yourself installation.

The Everything Home Decorating Book: A Room-By-Room Guide to Making Your Home Beautiful by Cheryl Kimball (Everything: Sports and Hobbies Series: Adams Media Corporation) How you decorate your home is one of the most personal forms of expression. But getting started is not easy, especially if you are facing tight budget constraints.

From choosing a personalized decorating style to putting a detailed plan into action, to incorporating feng shui for harmony and balance, The Everything Home Decorating Book, written by Cheryl Kimball, editor of a national home improvement magazine, is the perfect handbook. Whether you’re a do-it-yourself home—or apartment—decorator, The Everything Home Decorating Book takes you room by room through your living space, providing you with a wealth of creative ideas and simple instructions on how to make it come alive.

The Everything Home Decorating Book tells new decorators how to spruce up:

• Ceilings—with or without ceiling fans
• Walls—choosing paint, wallpaper, or both
• Floors—rugs, carpet, and linoleum
• Windows—curtains or blinds?
• Lighting—with style and practicality
• Specific rooms—bedroom, bathroom, and beyond

Packed with dozens of photographs and featuring an eight-page color insert, The Everything Home Decorating Book shows you how to create a home that becomes the envy of the neighborhood.

Mary Gilliatt's Complete Room by Room Decorating Guide by Mary Gilliatt,, John F. X. Knasas, with photography by Andreas Einsiedel (Watson-Guptill) Transform your home into a place of beauty and comfort using Mary Gilliatt's Complete Room by Room Decorating Guide. Internationally recognized interior designer Gilliatt takes you room by room through the entire household, providing guidance to decorate or redecorate with confidence and style. Living rooms, dining rooms, kitchens, home offices, playrooms, baths, bedrooms, entryways, and children’s rooms are discussed, with essential information on color, lighting, storage, window treatments, finishes, furnishings, and every other aspect of interior design. Creative, practical, and inspiring ways to decorate anything from a whole house to a simple corner of a room are covered.

The easy-to-follow text, accompanied by more than 250 full-color illustrations taken by Andreas von Einsiedel, one of the world’s top interior photographers, walks readers through an assortment of enchanting interiors. The book also includes advice on assessing a home’s unique needs with an in-depth resource section on various decorating materials. Mary Gilliatt's Complete Room by Room Decorating Guide is a great idea and reference book for anyone decorating any or every part of a home.

Sicilian Twilight by Gerard Gefen, photography by Jean-Bernard Naudin (Vendome) is about the eccentric, high living, cultivated and mostly idle Sicilian nobility that was immortalized by Guiseppe di Lampedusa in his best selling book "The Leopard". Old photographs, period documents, especially photographed grand palaces, landscapes, the accoutrements of daily life- jewels, dresses, tableware, succulent food-all contribute towards a vivid visualization of the world Lampedusa came from and wrote about. Until the end of the 18th century, the Sicilian nobility conserved the ownership or at least the sovereignty over their entire island paradise. They spent their large incomes on making a bella figure at the Bourbon court in Palermo, in receiving their peers in the most lavish style possible in gambling, womanizing, attending the opera, promenading in elegant carriages, and maintaining not only grand palaces in town, but equally extravagant and formal villas in the countryside. Theirs was also a world of elaborate religious processions, marriages and funerals, glittering parties and balls until well into the 20th century, when the ratio of servants to population was the same as in Louis XIV's France. But finally war, revolution and idleness brought the Leopards to extinction.

Civilized by the Greeks, under the domination of the Romans, invaded by the barbarians, occupied by the Normans, the Angevins and the Swabians, handed over to the Spaniards, then the Bourbons , before being united into the Kingdom of Italy in 1860, the Sicilians inherited an extraordinary variety of traditions and mannerisms. As of the eighteenth century, there was an extremely rich and powerful aristocracy who, thanks to their distinction of spirit and their manners, were equal to the people the most elegant and accomplished royal courts in Europe had turned out. The chronicles of this Sicilian nobility, the literature they inspired, the art they gave rise to, and the amazing lifestyle they carried on until the first half of the twentieth century are the subjects of this book.

They were also the subject of a literary masterpiece; Guiseppe di Lampedusa's "The Leopard," which was largely responsible for bringing back this somewhat distant island into the public consciousness. This book is, indeed , the description of the lifestyle of the last of his leopards. These people who made up the Sicilian aristocracy owned nearly all the island's land, which they generally rented out at usurious rates, so that they could spend their lives in the capital, Palermo, in palaces of extravagant Baroque luxury. Here they were part of the Bourbon court and competed in the opulence of their carriages, the richness of their balls, in receiving important foreign visitors, attending one of two large opera houses and banqueting in state on splendid meals created by chefs called "monsu," the Sicilian adaptation of "monsieur".

This beautiful, all-color book shows the most magnificent town palaces, as well as the equally grand country villas, where the aristocracy escaped from the heat of the city for large parts of the year. It describes and illustrates the great religious processions, the rigid system of primogeniture whereby daughters were mostly placed into convents and the eldest son inherited everything. Extraordinary picture research has turned up amazing photographs of the members of these great families, their clothes, jewels, porcelain, glass and other objects of daily life, and even the elaborate food that made up their fare in town and country. We are taken through the lovely, arid landscape where they farmed, hunted and picnicked, and we even meet the very last leopard, Duke Fulco di Verdura, who left this society in decline to work with Coco Chanel and become one of the finest jewelers of our time. This enchanting publication is a nostalgic reminisence of a lost world, and will delight everybody interested in Italian history and lifestyle.

The photography is positively stunning as it provides a peek at the lavish and ornate interior design.

Color Harmony for Interior Design: A Guidebook for Creating Great Color Combinations for Your Home by Maratha Gill (Rockport) guides readers through eighteen color styles with more than 500 color combinations for creating atmosphere with color. This book is the ultimate resource for selecting colors that create style and mood whether the desired effect is a romantic room, a calm space, or an energized interior. Stunning four-color photographs of interiors and decorative elements illustrate each mood, and chapters include the trademarked Color Harmony color palettes, mood associations, plus oversized swatches and lifestyle associations of colors. Design tips and color-use tips provide solutions for applying the right color combinations to the right rooms whether the project is a single wall or an entire floor plan. This essential color tool offers palettes for every mood, design checkpoints for weighing color with patterns, textures, and shapes, and expert advice on how to combine and use beautiful infusions of color.

The Nature of Ornament: Rhythm and Metamorphosis in Architecture by Kent Bloomer (Norton) is an important polemical text that attempts to address the meaning and purpose of architectural ornament, a subject much neglected this last century. Bloomer ties a design and historic look at ornament with a argument for universals of human aesthetics. Likely to challenge the common wisdom of architectural practice.
Is ornament dead? This book offers a passionate argument for its vitality and meaning in modern architecture. The purpose of ornament--to articulate a realm of the imagination--is as important as it is misunderstood. An outstanding sculptor and ornamenter whose work adorns the Harold Washington Library in Chicago, the National Airport in Washington, D.C., and many other buildings, Kent Bloomer maintains that ornament is neither pure "art" in the contemporary sense of the word nor mere decoration, but rather a category unto itself, with its own unique language. Illustrated with the author's evocative line drawings and photographs of ornament from ancient Greece to the modern cityscape, the book is a hymn to the riches of architectural ornament.

From the borders of ancient Greek temples to the top of New York's Chrysler Building, ornament speaks to us and speaks about us in its own figurative, rhythmic language. An article of culture for thousands of years, orna­ment is as important as it is misunderstood. Vitruvius, in the first century A.D., regarded ornament as an essential property of architec­ture; in the fifteenth century Alberti, the father of the architectural profession, devoted four of his ten books on architecture to ornament. In the following centuries, ornament flourished both in theory and practice until, in the nine­teenth century, it became an obsession. Yet during the twentieth century, ornament was scorned (Adolf Loos famously called it "crime") and its study all but eliminated from art and architecture curricula. What happened-and must we live with the result? Is ornament dead?

In The Nature of Ornament: Rhythm and Metamorphosis in Architecture, Kent Bloomer, who has taught a unique course in architec­tural ornament at Yale University for twenty­five years, investigates this mystery. He offers a synopsis of seminal moments and remarkable features of ornament, analyzes its language and intricate rules of composition, and shows that ornament is a nature-based and universal system of human communication.

Illustrated with the author's evocative line drawings as well as photographs of examples from the ancient world and the modern cityscape, this book celebrates the marvelous accomplishments of ornament and argues for the continued value, vitality, and potential of ornament in architecture today.

About Author:
Kent Bloomer's ornament enriches public archi­tecture across the United States: a bas relief at the Rodef Shalom Temple in Pittsburgh; lumi­naires in Central Park, New York, and at Yale University; the monumental roof sculpture on the Harold Washington Library Center in Chicago; a foliated trellis upon an endwall of the Ronald Reagan National Airport, Washing­ton, D.C.; and the crowning ornaments of the Great Platte River Road Archway Monument in Nebraska, among many others.

The coauthor (with Charles Moore) of the classic Body, Memory, and Architecture, Kent Bloomer teaches a course in the theory and design of ornament at Yale. He has lectured to design audiences internationally, in the United States, Mexico, Canada, Ireland, and England, as well as to the British Psycho-Analytical Society and the International Association of Philosophy and Literature.

THE ARTS AND CRAFTS LIFESTYLE AND DESIGN by Wendy Hitchmough, photography by Martin Charles

A grand tour of grand estates shows the classic lines, exquisite craftsmanship, timeless beauty, and sublime color that exemplified the revolutionary Arts and Crafts movement at the dawn of the twentieth century. Its impact on home furnishings of the day is fully detailed in this gloriously illustrated volume-a timely release in view of the current huge revival in popularity of the movement's artistic ideas and standards, including today's trend toward clean, uncluttered interiors. In radical reaction to strict Victorian dictates and grandiose home interiors, visionary designers, led by William Morris, urged a return to the simpler vernacular traditions and emphasis on craftsmanship that had been submerged by the industrial age. The movement spread from England and became international in scope, challenging mass production by substituting simple elegance, originality, and superior quality in all areas of home design. This book takes readers on a room-by-room inspection of the movement's foremost examples, visiting such signature estates as the Gamble House in Pasadena, California, and Standen in East Grinstead, West Sussex, England. Diverse domestic spaces are explored through outstanding original photography and compelling text, revealing how a room's function determined the selection and placement of furniture, textiles, wallpaper, ceramics, and other objects. Profiling the works of Morris, Green and Green, Edwin Lutyens, Gustav Stickley, C.F.A. Voysey, Philip Webb, and Frank Lloyd Wright, among others, this handsome volume explores the individual interpretations that gave the style its enduring substance.

Wendy Hitchmough, a writer and architectural historian specializing in early twentieth-century design, lectures frequently in the United States and Europe. Martin Charles has photographed architecture and historic interiors for many books and magazines. Both the writer and photographer live in England.

GRAND ILLUSIONS NEW DECORATING: Techniques, Ideas and Inspiration for Creating a Look by Nick Ronald, David Roberts ($29.95, hardcover, 144 pages,  180 color photos, Trafalgar Square; ISBN: 1570761221)

From the authors of Grand Illusions, offer new decorating ideas and projects, introducing a fresh fusion of styles into the home. Featuring 180 color photos and 40 projects for furniture, fabric, walls, floors, and accessories. This is a book for the way we decorate today, drawing inspiration from a wealth of sources to create a rich, innovative style of our own. Mixing and matching with exhilarating flair, Nick Ronald and David Roberts capture the essence of this new eclecticism. Using color as a starting point, they focus on four distinct decorating styles--Mediterranean, Eastern, Scandinavian, and Natural. Within each style, they offer marvelous ideas and projects, from hand-stamped muslin, cane shelving, and Indian-style shutters to color-washed walls, mosaic table tops, and a faux terracotta floor. Throughout, Nick and David debunk complicated techniques, offering clear, simple instructions for painting, finishing, and fabric treatments. Brimming with vibrant color photos as well as templates and motifs, this is a glorious guide to new decorating.

THE HEALING HOME Creating the Perfect Place to Live With Color, Aroma, Light and Other Natural Elements by Susy Chiazzari ($24.95, hardcover, 128 pages, 70 color photos, Trafalgar Square, ISBN: 1570761043)

When we walk into a room for the first time, we often have an immediate reaction to its atmosphere. The natural energies created by our environment highly influence the way we feel. By enhancing positive elements, such as light, color, and scent, we can create a harmonious sanctuary that engenders health and well-being and nurtures all that is best in the human spirit. Environmental designer Suzy Chiazzan draws from a variety of cultures and philosophies to reveal the many ways in which we can easily improve the vital energy in our home. By using natural materials, full spectrum lighting, energy balancing sounds, as well as the healing properties of water, plants, sunlight, scent, color, and placement or feng shu, we can charge our home with "an energy that connects us to the earth, the air, and each other to sustain us in perfect health.’’

A new, holistic approach to natural designing and decorating for a home that is healthy for the mind, body, and spirit. Beautifully illustrated with color photos. THE HEALING HOME offers a new and highly accessible approach to natural designing and decorating.

Suzy Chiazzari is a color consultant and therapist who runs the Holistic Design Institute in Devon, England. For many years she ran her own interior design company in London, specializing in creating healing interiors for hospitals, clinics and offices, as well as the homes of private clients. Her consultancy work takes her all over the world and she has written for numerous magazines and newspapers.

 

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