This book is a compilation of the winning entries from the 28th Asia Pacific Interior Design Awards 2020, featuring 61 projects across 12 space types, judged by top designers such as Ho Chung Hin and Jurgen Bey. The entries showcased the latest design trends in the Asia Pacific region, and interpreted and led the spirit of Asia Pacific design, in line with 28 years of consistent quality. The impact of the 2020 epidemic has also had a profound impact on the field of design, and the direction of this year's selection captures this change keenly, looking for outstanding designs that address and interpret people's changing physical and spiritual needs in the light of the new changes. For example, new scenarios that reconfigure the way people live together in the blurring of boundaries between public and private spaces. Pushing new professional boundaries has always been the creative mission of the Asia Pacific Interior Design Awards, and this time, its professionalism is reflected in its commitment and care for people's lives and well-being.

Interior design today is guided more than ever by the need to be stylish and functional. In modern design, excessive decoration has been replaced by the well thought-out arrangement of spaces, and furniture with pure lines which meets specific needs. Whatever the size of the room, the prevailing concepts are balance and harmony--characteristics which make the home a place where people will feel comfortable.

From a converted barn in the English Cotswolds to a Mallorcan finca, and from a Russian dacha to a grand Swiss villa, the 100 interiors featured here will provide inspiration for city dwellers seeking to escape the fast pace of urban living, and committed countryside lovers comtemplating the restoration or refurbishment of their rural idyll.

Democratic in intention and approach, the book will argue that the home interior, as independently created by the 'amateur' householder, offers a continuous informal critique of shifting architectural styles (most notably with the advent of Modernism) and the design mainstream. Indeed, it will suggest that the popular increasingly exerts an influence on the professional. Underpinned by academic rigour, but not in thrall to it, above all this book is an engaging attempt to identify the cultural drivers of aesthetic change in the home, extrapolating the wider influence of 'taste' to a broad audience - both professional and 'trade'. In so doing, it will explore enthralling territory - money, class, power and influence. Illustrated with contemporary drawings and cartoons as well as photos, the book is not only an absorbing read, but an enticing and attractive object in itself.

When she discovered that nearly half of France's 44,000 heritage sites were chateaux in various states of repair, Catherine Scotto embarked on a journey to find out who, exactly, lived in these medieval fortresses and, more importantly, what they were like on the inside. From Normandy to Provence and everywhere in between the owners of these chateaux-including decorators, antique dealers, artists, and collectors-represent the epitome of French culture and taste. Each chateau is presented in double-page full-color spreads that feature alluring interiors and information about the hosts and their design journeys. There's something for everyone here-whether it's homes where simplicity and minimalism reign, rooms as exuberantly busy as a 14th-century tapestry, or interiors transformed by surprising, era-bending feats. Morel's breathtaking, naturally lit photographs of generous kitchens, cozy drawing rooms, spacious bedrooms, ingeniously imagined bathrooms, and intriguing hallways and stairwells offer endless inspiration, while Scotto's engaging text gives readers a feel for the kinds of people who take on such a daunting yet satisfying challenge.

"Abandoned, forgotten form is reborn in the arms of an all-embracing nature, an envelope within which the origin of the human being, of a society gives us a sensibility, a presence of a fertility." - Vincent Dubourg A graduate of the Ecole nationale superieure des Arts Decoratifs in Paris, Vincent Dubourg is a designer and a plastic artist. In 2004, he caught the eye of Julien Lombrail, founder of the Carpenters Workshop Gallery, where he has been exhibiting since 2006. Present at major salons and shows - the Pavillon des Arts et du Design, Paris; Design Miami Basel - he has received many public commissions from institutions such as Galeries Lafayette, Swarovski, Vienna, the musee de la chasse et de la nature, Paris, and the Sketch restaurant in London, among others. Vincent says that he feeds himself on the capitals like Paris and New York, which he regularly visits, and digests them in his isolated studio in the Creuse department in France. There, he questions contemporary furniture through the prism of nature and the five elements, like a perfect control of metal. With him, buffet, table and chairs become hallucinatory objects shifting between sculpture and functional furniture. A major exhibit will be devoted to him at the Carpenters Workshop Gallery in New York in late 2017. Solo Show, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, New York, November 2017.

* Contains beautifully illustrated profiles with fourteen important women and gender non-conforming makers, including Wendy Maruyama and Gail Fredell, Yuri Kobayashi and Sarah Marriage * It explores the history of the Arts and Craft movement, developing communities and mentorship, discrimination, social justice, and pedagogy * Includes 200 full colour images * Written for craft practitioners and students, this book is an accessible and insightful entry into the lives and practices of women in woodworking.

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Modern bathrooms are the places where we perform our daily rituals and where we often indulge ourselves in a world of sensual bliss. Some are compact, some are stunningly efficient, others expand beyond the confining walls of the room. This book shows trends, techniques and design.

This book contains over 200 examples of different lights and lighting solutions that combine with their surroundings to form a harmonious whole. Design and form are shown here in great variety.

This visual idea book is just as inspiring for interior designers and architects as it is for private designers.

As differentiated as art history is today, a major chapter has been largely neglected: the craft of the interior decorator. And this, even though the delicate aesthetic sensibilities, the sense of color, and the eye for composition required to decorate private rooms have more direct influence on our lives than any work of art in any museum could lay claim to. This richly illustrated volume is dedicated to one of the pioneering German masters of this craft: Peter Gustaf Doren. Here we encounter his work, with its surprising plasticity and liveliness. This is due not least to the versatility of Doren's works, whose aesthetics still set the (color)tone for the history of interior decoration today. Thanks to the fantastic photos and splendid color documentation Doren himself produced, this opulent book of photos makes it possible to take a trip to the world of interior decoration around 1900, while also allowing a look at the history of the reader's own four walls.

The growing variety of materials available for interior applications makes the process of selecting and sampling them ever more complex and time-consuming. This manual from the Construction and Design series provides concise information on the subject alongside a wealth of inspiration. It offers an overview of materials suited to particular components of a building - including walls, ceiling, and floors - and objects. Both traditional and new materials are described in a knowledgeable and practical manner. It is not only a mate rial itself that determines the appearance of a surface, but also the design and arrangement of the joins. After a material's surface, the chosen laying pattern is the next key aspect that influences its spatial effect. The book, therefore, includes a wide range of different laying patterns. It conveys fundamental knowledge of materials and their application, and thus serves as a reference book, a sampling guide, and a compendium for students.

Since the appearance of simplified 3D sketching programs like SketchUp, architects and interior designers have been called on to use both freehand and 3D CAD drawings, often at very earliest stages of design. Since we must often go back and forth between analytical plan views and 3D visual views, it's important that this be a seamless process, requiring little disruptive action or break in the workflow. Integrated Drawing Techniques closes the gap between creativity and geometry, teaching beginner architects and interior designers how to design their residential interiors using freehand sketching and computer-aided design simultaneously. From concept planning to 3D rendering, this book is a comprehensive guide to designing residences by hand and computer.

Improve your drafting skills and construction-documents literacy. Construction Detailing for Interior Design offers step-by-step lessons for students learning to draft interior construction details. Its illustrated tutorials feature building code references, definitions of important industry specific terms, helpful tips, and context-setting photographic support, as well as exercises enabling students to put what they have learned into practice to create their own simple interior construction details.