This study explored the physical and social characteristics that encourage gathering behavior in coffee shops. The study is primarily qualitative using the techniques of visual documentation, observation, behavioral mapping, interview, and survey research. The findings are presented in four categories including preferred physical attributes of the coffee shops, characteristics of the people who frequent the coffee shops, the activities that took place there, and the feelings and attitudes of the patrons. The most important physical characteristics include cleanliness, appealing aroma, adequate lighting, comfortable furniture, and a view to the outside. Regarding the people and their activities, feelings, and attitudes, findings showed people valued the opportunity to linger, interact with regular patrons and staff. Patrons enjoyed the social environment of the coffee shop, and the support that was afforded them by other patrons and staff. The coffee shop became a home away from home for many. Overall, a strong sense of place attachment existed for those who frequented the coffee shop.

The Architecture of Light makes lighting design approachable. This vivid, image packed text of lighting concepts and techniques serves as the perfect companion for lighting design students and professionals alike. Built around a successful teaching curriculum, this text provides a logical step by step progression through the phases of conceptualizing, refining, drafting and presenting lighting design. Written by a practicing professional lighting designer who is also an award winning design instructor, The Architecture of Light presents a perfect blend of visual design tools and fundamental lighting knowledge. In addition to theory and discussion, The Architecture of Light also provides complete chapters of common lighting details, case studies and a catalog of specific lighting tools. Every architect, interior designer and design student deserves a working knowledge of lighting design and this single book makes it possible.

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 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. Suzanne Trocme is a writer and journalist specialising in interior design. She is Architecture and Design Editor of Wallpaper* magazine. Her previous books include Hot Homes, Classic Chic, she lives in London.

The illustrated volume Work. Best of Interior Design focuses on the design of modern office spaces and buildings. Starting with traditional cubicles, on to custom designed work environments, and ending in open team spaces and interaction areas, Work presents all kinds of new space concepts. Creativity is given no limits: An exciting interplay of color and light, strict steel-and-glass structure or the self-aware building of the natural material wood - on 400 pages you will find 40 projects in the most contrasting styles and designs from around the world.

First published in 1937, Woodcraft In Design And Practice contains a wealth of designs for 1930s furniture. Working from solid design principles, Rodney Hooper sets out plans for practical, modern furniture to suit the changing lifestyles of the time. Considered as part of an overall interior, his tables and chairs, shelves and cabinets, boxes, sideboards and light fittings are examples of clean, bold period design that would still sit comfortably in today's houses and flats. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs and detailed line drawings, Woodcraft In Design And Practice is of interest both as a fascinating piece of design history and as inspiration for today's interior decorator or DIY enthusiast.

From the nineteenth-century Arts and Crafts movement to the present day from Art Nouveau, Bauhaus, the Modern Movement, and Art Deco to High-Tech and green design every style of interior design since 1900 is charted in this wide-ranging survey. Design in the twentieth century saw many changes in direction, including the emergence of professional "interior decoration" and its evolution into interior design. Interiors, domestic and other, are explored and placed within their social, political, economic, and cultural context. This revised and expanded edition is brought into the twenty-first century with a new chapter on sustainable design that focuses on public spaces such as hotels, offices, factories, and shops."

With over 700 vivid images and illustrations along with the wisdom of numerous practicing designers, this book provides a practical approach to introductory interior design. Covering the profession for both commercial and residential environments, the edition introduces readers to the history, design fundamentals, and building systems (construction, electrical, mechanical) of design. Exploring topics such as the space planning process, environmental sensitivity, and multicultural design, this book contains both the necessary information and applications readers need to be fully prepared for the field. For professionals with a career or interest in design, interior decorating, architecture, construction, carpentry, and environmental design.

Dedicated mailing and e-mail campaign to targeted design and style related media. 'There's not a great deal of difference between living and working for those of us who one day decide to make a living by creating the world, for those of us who perceive architecture as something more than just work and the negative aspect associated with this word, but rather like a window through which to see the world. And a means of transforming this world'. This is the vision of Octavio Mestre and this is the book that celebrates that maxim. Over 240-pages and more than 180 full-colour photographs, plans and drawings, reveal the stunning contemporary work of this much-admired practitioner.

Now students of architecture and interior design can get a full introduction to interior architecture and its history in one authoritative volume. "The Fundamentals of Interior""Architecture, " the first in a series on the subject, is also the only book on the market that approaches the topic in a detailed, educationally focused way. Whether "home" is the simplest railroad flat or the halls of Versailles, interior architecture reflects our times. Discover the intriguing past and the exhilarating present of architectural interiors and furnishings, drafting and presentation skills, space planning, materials, lighting design, professional practices, 2D design, color theory, 3D design, drawing and illustration skills, and the use of CAD. A great price and handy paper binding make this book a must-have for everyone interested in how we live and work today.

This stunningly illustrated book features over 40 vacation homes from around the world, reflecting a wide range of cultures, styles and ways of life. From Sweden to South Africa, New England to Mexico and Provence to Lamu, "Vacation Homes and Perfect Weekend Hideaways" reveals the extraordinary variety of places where people go to get away from it all. While some of the properties are highly sophisticated, others are altogether more vernacular or even 'shabby chic', their individuality a testament to each owner's unique sense of style. Elegantly written by interiors expert Karen Howes, and illustrated throughout by today's top interiors photographers, this book will appeal as much to the armchair traveller as to those wishing to do up their own home-away-from-home in the sun. It features over 40 inspirational homes from around the world that perfectly capture the essence of vacation living. It is stunningly illustrated throughout with more than 500 images by leading interiors photographers. It includes the homes of such celebrated designers as Jasper Conran, Liza Bruce, Carolyn Quartermaine and Ou Baholyodhin. It is an armchair escape and an essential sourcebook for anyone passionate about interior design and global travel.

Pargeting is the decoration of plastered and rendered finishes on the outside of a building. Today it is associated mainly with East Anglia, but there is a revival of interest in the technique. This study describes how craftsmen are being commissioned to renew their acquaintance with pargeting.

Down South 2 - More homes and interiors from around South Africa, again bringing together a diverse and fascinating selection of South African homes all around the country, from high-flyer city homes on the Highveld to enviable Plettenberg Bay beach houses and Cape Dutch homesteads in Cape Town and the Winelands. This is a title featuring many homes never seen before in print - celebrated historical homes include Groote Schuur, Stellenberg and Morgenster; there are modern architectural classics from Johann Slee and Andrew Makin; top game lodges, including the newly opened Samara in the Great Karoo and the Waters at Royal Malewane in the bushveld, world-class decorating from Graham Viney, Boyd Ferguson and Tessa Proudfoot.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

This book has been written from the conviction that general statements about the philosophical position taken by Theophrastus in this small but extremely difficult treatise, can only be made on the basis of a detailed interpretation of each and every sentence of the text. This resulted in a full commentary, which evades no philological or philosophical question that should be asked in order to elicit from the text a maximum of information. The outcome is a cautious but nonetheless explicit and determinate characterization and evaluation of Theophrastean metaphysics as a biologist's metaphysics, which deserves the attention of philosophers in its own right.
The author has paid special attention to questions of Peripatetic idiom and terminology, thus increasing the value of this book to students of Peripatetic thought in general. The information brought together has been made easily accessible by full indexes.

Ethan Allen and HGTV may have plenty to say about making a home look right, but what makes a home feel right? In House Thinking, journalist and cultural critic Winifred Gallagher takes the reader on a psychological tour of the American home. By drawing on the latest research in behavioral science, an overview of cultural history, and interviews with leading architects and designers, she shows us not only how our homes reflect who we are but also how they influence our thoughts, feelings, and actions.

How does your entryway prime you for experiencing your home? What makes a bedroom a sensual oasis? How can your bathroom exacerbate your worst fears? House Thinking addresses provocative questions like these, enabling us to understand the homes we've made for ourselves in a unique and powerful new way. It is an eye-opening look at how we live . . . and how we could live.

1928. With 200 Illustrations. From the Foreword: By the practical method here adopted of illustrating and treating the furniture of each style by itself and in proper chronological order it becomes easy to distinguish the characteristics of each furniture-group, and so quickly to place, by the recognition of those qualities, any piece of furniture that one sees. These consecutive styles soon lie out in the mind like a map, upon any location in which a mental finger can unhesitatingly be set down. Transition pieces then cause no difficulty, for the characteristics of two styles in the one piece are recognized, and the article is assigned to its natural place between the two modes. To a degree that did not obtain in England, there was sometimes here the persistence of certain features of one style into the next, and this makes it all the more necessary to understand which features belong to each. Contents: The Colonial Styles: Jacobean or Stuart; William and Mary; Queen Anne-Early Georgian; Chippendale. The Federal Styles: Hepplewhite, Shearer, and Early Sheraton; American Directoire; American Empire. Decoration: Interior Architecture; Decorative Accessories. Due to the age and scarcity of the original we reproduced, some pages may be spotty or faded.

Making the changes maps the representation of jazz music and the occasions of its performance in South African literature and reportage. Throughout its history, South African jazz has been formed from complex transactions with other black Atlantic cultures, identities and political possibilities. The tactics these transactions have entailed and their effects on the cultural imaginary in the appropriation and manipulation of the music's meaning by creative writers, biographers and journalists are traced. By considering how South African writers participate in the global symbolic flows of jazz discourse, what emerges is how local contingencies have been managed through elaborating a relational history that has meaningfully cut across the categories and hierarchies of colonial and apartheid ideology. Making the changes maps jazz discourse from the legendary elan vital of the Sophiatown writers, through the King Kong reportage and white writing, to the agonised poetics of exile. The study then considers the role of dissonance in resistance writing of the Soweto poets of the 1970s and the Staffrider generation of the 1980s. In the final chapter it traces the contemporary use of jazz in a poetics of healing. The chapters are divided by 'solos', each of which discusses either a particular writer's engagement with jazz or the representation of a specific musician.

1928. With 200 Illustrations. From the Foreword: By the practical method here adopted of illustrating and treating the furniture of each style by itself and in proper chronological order it becomes easy to distinguish the characteristics of each furniture-group, and so quickly to place, by the recognition of those qualities, any piece of furniture that one sees. These consecutive styles soon lie out in the mind like a map, upon any location in which a mental finger can unhesitatingly be set down. Transition pieces then cause no difficulty, for the characteristics of two styles in the one piece are recognized, and the article is assigned to its natural place between the two modes. To a degree that did not obtain in England, there was sometimes here the persistence of certain features of one style into the next, and this makes it all the more necessary to understand which features belong to each. Contents: The Colonial Styles: Jacobean or Stuart; William and Mary; Queen Anne-Early Georgian; Chippendale. The Federal Styles: Hepplewhite, Shearer, and Early Sheraton; American Directoire; American Empire. Decoration: Interior Architecture; Decorative Accessories. Due to the age and scarcity of the original we reproduced, some pages may be spotty or faded.

This comprehensive text examines the technical, practical, and aesthetic aspects of lighting design. With its focus on quality, it demonstrates how lighting designers provide functional, safe, and aesthetically pleasing designs for both residential and commercial interiors. The author's extensive research integrates developments in the field with an introduction to lighting systems, giving readers a foundation for applying design principles to lighting projects.

The essential guide for anyone entering or considering the field of interior design

This highly visual career resource is ideal for anyone who is thinking about, or embarking upon, a career in interior design. It provides an overview of the profession and offers in-depth material on educational requirements, design specialties, finding a job, and the many directions a career in interior design can take.
A concise, practical guide, this richly illustrated book features informative interviews with designers working in a variety of specialty areas, including samples of their work and expert tips for getting hired.

Christine Piotrowski, ASID, IIDA (Phoenix, AZ), is the owner of Christine M. Piotrowski and Associates and a former professor of interior design at Northern Arizona State University in Flagstaff. She is author of the bestselling book Professional Practice for Interior Designers.