Keep current with the latest trends in interior design today with this informative and inspiring guide in the 150 Best series, packed with 500 pages of color and black-and-white photography. Discover how internationally renowned architects and designers are revitalizing modern design in this must-have compendium showcasing 150 full-color living spaces. In 150 Best New Interior Design Ideas, Macarena Abascal Valdenebro curates the most attractive, functional, and one-of-a-kind design ideas for a diverse range of living spaces. Renowned architects and designers from around the globe experiment with arrangement, color, texture, material, and finishes to create personalized spaces to suit every aesthetic preference. With full-color photographs, diagrams, and detailed descriptions, this exciting volume in the 150 Best series is a fount of ideas that will inspire students, young professionals, and seasoned pros alike to create beauty in everyday surroundings. A gorgeous, up-to-date chronicle of current design trends, 150 Best New Interior Design Ideas is an essential reference for designers, decorators, architects, and homeowners.

Slow living is a fashionable lifestyle idea emphasizing a slower approach to all aspects of everyday life. This beautiful book brings the slow living concept to home design and shows a wide selection of relaxed home interiors, designed as a reaction to the discomforts of busy working lifestyles where work and commuting creates stress. The book illustrates interiors designed and organized around natural materials, friendly furniture and gentle layouts to create a pleasant atmosphere in modern living spaces. 300 beautiful colour photographs showcase ideal homes featuring warm fireplaces with real fires, cosy leather sofas and soft cushions, lots of exposed wood beams and panelled ceilings, natural light and calming creamy colours.

Rich in art and history, characterized by a Mediterranean climate and breathtaking landscapes--probably no other region in Italy embodies the Dolce Vita as much as Tuscany. This book shows the most beautiful places, the most important sights and provides interesting background information.

This is a lavishly illustrated resource for homeowners and interior designers. Over 600 colour photographs showcase the world's most beautiful interiors based on modern design at its very best. Good design integrates furnishing with architecture and function. The popular ""open plan"" designs that combine living room, dining room, kitchen, and home office create numerous challenges when it comes to combining practicality with decor and personal taste in harmony with architecture and the natural setting. The challenge calls for thoughtful furnishings, colour, materials and lighting in order to meet the homeowners' needs within the space and financial limitations. This volume presents beautiful solutions to such design challenges. Captioned photographs point out room details and explain what influenced the design and decor decisions. The designs range from expansive homes to smaller homes with space limitations. Every room in the house is covered.

Discover the best of the best in house design with this comprehensive guide in the highly successful 150 Best series, featuring hundreds of inspiring color and black-and-white photographs. 150 New Best of the Best House Ideas is a stunning visual feast that explores the latest in innovative home construction, decoration, and design. This outstanding volume showcases an extensive collection of single-family houses from all over the world, created by distinguished international architects and designers who have worked to achieve practical and functional solutions adapted to the specific needs and particular tastes of their clients. Each of the 150 houses profiled demonstrate the newest trends and various influences on home design, from cottage-type houses to minimalist geometric constructions. Using technological advances in construction and material use, these homes are energy-efficient, have a low environmental impact, and are stunningly attractive, appealing to all tastes and styles. This essential reference encompasses the diversity of current trends in house design and is an inspirational creative resource for builders, architects, designers, stylists, interior decorators, and students.

In our modern built-up world, we are constantly looking for a connection to nature through our gardens. Inspired design ideas reveal how to create exterior spaces in a variety of styles, from a classic urban roof garden with romantic garden plantings, to clean, modern and tranquil spaces. Using traditional and cutting-edge materials that are practical, cost-effective and environmentally friendly, the ideas in this book featured can easily be tailored to the individual's tastes or needs of a particular site or project. Featuring 600 full colour photographs and diagrams of unique projects from around the world by well-known and up-and-coming architects and landscape designers, this is an essential resource for garden planners, outdoor and architecture enthusiasts alike.