Offering numerous ideas to help save sewing enthusiasts time and money, this reference features architectural drawings, organization and storage ideas, and plans to optimize ergonomics. Special attention is also paid to lighting and shelving to increase accessibility and ease use of space, as well as energy-saving options. Including 25 floor plans that are compatible for a range of budgets, this updated edition, which features new information on green living and sustainable products, will delight homemakers and professional seamsters alike.

In an exquisite volume, the illustrious French interiors house Liaigre takes us inside its latest cosmopolitan residences. For over thirty years Liaigre has solidified its signature excellent craftsmanship, precise aesthetic, and luxurious simplicity with a subtle eye for details; the house embodies elegant understatement, reminiscent of the most refined art de vivre. Following the departure of its visionary founder in 2016, Liaigre has been infused with new energy. Throughout the book s pages, readers will delve into character-filled interiors that speak to its vision for the future. A Japanese house overlooking hot thermal springs; a modernist palace in New Delhi (Liaigre s first project in India); a delicate renovation of a traditional local villa in St. Moritz; an update to a glamorous Parisian villa from the early twentieth century; and a modern reinterpretation of a Bavarian-style mansion in Munich all of these projects and more represent manifestos of the Liaigre style. Furthermore, a visual immersion into Liaigre s Paris studio offers a behind the- scenes glimpse into the house s creative know-how. Featuring exceptional images from specially commissioned photoshoots and an engaging essay by French art historian Francoise Claire Prodhon, this tome will delight new and old fans of Liaigre s designs as well as interiors aficionados everywhere.

Furniture Marketing, 2nd Edition, contains an overview of how furniture products are developed, marketed, and presented to targeted retailers and consumers. Bennington focuses on developing an appreciation for furniture as a functional art form. This new edition covers the entire industry, including types of furniture, design periods, product development, and manufacturing. The text also explains how to sell furniture through pricing, promotion, and distribution. Residential furniture is the main focus of Furniture Marketing, but there is a chapter on contract furniture. This book can serve as a helpful reference for students as well as beginning and experienced employees of manufacturers, retailers, and wholesalers.

- Provides designers and non-designers with new ideas and tools for creating useful, energy-and-resource-efficient product designs and systems - Offers a critical perspective on the impact of new technologies and product designs - Includes historic and contemporary examples, such as thermostats, electric lighting, air quality sensors, domestic maintenance, and methods of transportation - Written in an engaging, accessible tone for professionals and students.

Interior design can be considered a discipline that ranks among the worlds of art, design, and architecture and provides the cognitive tools to operate innovatively within the spaces of the contemporary city that require regeneration. Emerging trends in design combine disciplines such as new aesthetic in the world of art, design in all its ramifications, interior design as a response to more than functional needs, and as the demand for qualitative and symbolic values to be added to contemporary environments. Cultural, Theoretical, and Innovative Approaches to Contemporary Interior Design is an essential reference source that approaches contemporary project development through a cultural and theoretical lens and aims to demonstrate that designing spaces, interiors, and the urban habitat are activities that have independent cultural foundations. Featuring research on topics such as contemporary space, mass housing, and flexible design, this book is ideally designed for interior designers, architects, academics, researchers, industry professionals, and students.

Hailed as an icon in Hollywood, Madeline Stuart s work is exceptional. AD wrote, in a city driven by artifice and spectacle, Madeline Stuart celebrates understatement, authenticity, and elegance without affectation. The daughter of Mel Stuart, who directed Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (in which Madeline had a cameo) and a decorator mother whose work was favored by film stars, Madeline grew up part of the Hollywood elite. Her client list has included Larry David, the late Nora Ephron, Fleetwood Mac s Lindsay Buckingham, art collectors David and Susan Gersh, and many more. In No Place Like Home, Stuart shares eight recent houses, from her renovation of Cedric Gibbons s LA house to a newly built Montana ranch to a Mediterranean-inspired home on the coast of La Jolla, CA. All have been newly photographed for the book, with oversized detail shots mingling with full rooms and exteriors. Stuart shares her design process for each home, from her initial vision through execution. Committed to the notion of timeless design, be it modernist or traditional in inspiration, Stuart brings her extensive knowledge base to every home she designs. Her skill with scale, proportion and balance, along with her unexpected combinations of furniture and elements and keen sense of history and craftsmanship, result in richly layered residences that feel authentic to their period and place, while remaining always relevant, modern, and beautiful.

This comprehensive text introduces the reader to the entire process of planning residential interiors. Extensive full-color photos and diagrams augment the text to explain what an interior designer should know to work with other professionals, such as architects, electricians, and plumbers, to meet clients' housing needs. The focus on contemporary American housing trends is enriched with references to interiors from the past and from other countries.

Ian Bruce has written this book with the aim of helping the amateur grasp the concepts of this ancient Chinese ideology. It includes an introduction about the philosophy of Feng Shui and explains terms such as Ch'i in easy to understand language. Each room of a house is given its own chapter and includes ideas for creating ideal living space. It is fully illustrated throughout and includes colour pictures to help you make the most of your home.