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Discover over 40 different caravans of all vintages, from across the world
Celebrating the wave of interest in modern-retro caravanning, this is a visual voyage into this stylish world and an idiosyncratic sourcebook for the design-conscious. Featured caravans include retro classics as well as mass-produced models from the 1960s onwards.
This beautifully illustrated book gives you inspirational ideas on
how to create your own affordable, super-stylish kitchen, which
will become the heart of your home. Nowadays, kitchens serve as the
hub of the house and family life, where everyone gathers to talk
and to share food, friendship and love.The kitchen of your dreams
isn't always the instant model found in an upmarket designer
catalogue; it's often the result of a creative journey, touched by
the familiar objects, colours, materials and textures you love and
which make you feel happy. The high-quality photography reflects
the personality of each featured kitchen, the owner's lifestyle and
the style of cooking. my cool kitchen features approximately 30
kitchens in many shapes and sizes. These range from a tiny Parisian
kitchen that turns out gourmet dinners, to a London converted flat
that is transformed into a weekly supper club and an original 1970s
kitchen still in use today. Chapter breakdown: First homes: Student
flats, customised existing kitchens. Tiny kitchens: Parisian
kitchen, New York, boat/galley style, social housing.Architectural:
Designed and considered spaces, and kitchens in architecturally
important buildings. Free form kitchens: Truly individual spaces,
taking references from a wide range of sources. Retro/vintage:
Genuine vintage kitchens that are still in use, and re-created
kitchens using vintage styling. Eco-recycled: Customised and
second-life kitchens, using reclaimed or eco materials. Simple
spaces: Just that - kitchens that have a pared-down considered
elegance.
My Cool Campervan celebrates a new wave of interest in modern-retro
campervans. Join Jane Field-Lewis and Chris Haddon as they set off
on a 3500-mile trip to locate campervans and proud owners, sharing
their memories of family holidays under candy-striped pop-top roofs
and of sunny days and simple pleasures. Delve into a world of
road-tripping as Jane and Chris introduce us to a succession of
distinctive campervans, memorable locations and classic models, at
times beautifully restored, and at others well-loved and well-used.
My Cool Campervan reveals a world beyond the stereotype, of vintage
vans from another era, forgotten rarities and beautifully restored
mass-produced models. Chapters include: Old Retro: In the 1970s and
80s as the motor industry turned its sights towards the global
market, campervan designs began to change. Simple Life: Exploring
functional campervans where styling doesn't overwhelm function and
where vans are so well designed in the first place, there's nothing
more to add than the journey. Weird and Wonderful: From a converted
French fire truck, to an 'extension' to a regular saloon car, these
campers are customized, unusual and have been created to provide
space. American Beauties: The large American Recreational Vehicles,
or RVs, fulfill just about everyone's expectations of a comfortable
life on the road. The enduring appeal of the RV lies in its iconic
design and long association with the romantic notion of the great
road journey. Classics: Some vehicle designs last longer than
others. The VW T2 campervan is, without doubt, the front runner.
New Retro: Reflecting owners' unique styles and interest, the
vehicles here function as an artist's workroom or as a
photographer's studio; these are not only places to camp out or
chill out, they are happy extensions of creative lives.
About 15,000 people live permanently afloat on canals, rivers and
coasts in Great Britain alone, but thousands more enjoy holidaying
on boats or own them as weekend retreats in the UK and abroad. This
book will feature not only static residential boats and floating
dwellings but also those used as holiday homes and funky modern
businesses - houseboats can range from canal boats, riverboats,
narrow and wide beam boats, barges, Dutch barges, static houseboats
and even seaworthy cruisers moored in marina. The book will cover
stylish boats from the UK, North America, Europe and Australia. The
houseboats engage the reader through their history and owners'
stories, which are told in lively text and colourful images. People
fall in love with boats and own them for a variety of reasons: out
of affordability and necessity; a love of the water; closeness to
nature and the environment; or just because they yearn for a
different and more relaxed style of living/working space. This book
shows how houseboats can offer an attractive, practical and
alternative solution, as well as amazing and often idiosyncratic
solutions to living successfully in a small space. My cool
houseboat covers the following themes: stylish architectural, from
San Francisco to Prague; thrifty and eclectic, as an affordable
solution to conventional city dwelling; businesses, using
houseboats as unusual workspaces, from a book barge to an
allotment; modernist, from a Finnish floating office to an
Amsterdam watervilla; recycled, ranging from an Ellis Island ferry
houseboat to a converted minesweeper; and soulful, covering
alternative ways of life, relaxation and recreation, from a New
York City houseboat to a stylish Paris home. Word count: 25,000
Treehouses have always been a symbol of imagination and adventure,
but despite the traditional stereotype, treehouses are not just for
children and children's stories. Well built and in the right spot,
they can add real value to your home and lifestyle. Beloved for
centuries as ramshackle palaces of backyard escape and fun, the
modern-day treehouse has evolved from more traditional structures,
in the process morphing and expanding its agenda to capture the
heart and soul of a new breed of acolytes. Versatile and endlessly
adapting, it gives us a unique opportunity for creative expression
and an individualistic challenge. It enables us to build on
'unbuildable' plots, create unusual business models and even use it
as a form for art installations. Using high-end interiors,
landscape and lifestyle photography and styling in the specially
commissioned images (photographed in all seasons and weather
conditions), the book includes 35 treehouses with different budgets
and styles, from the rustic that seem to disappear into the foliage
to the futuristic made out of contemporary materials. Embracing a
world-wide approach, the seeds of inspiration in this book come
from far and wide: from contemporary minimalist treehouses,
recycled urban structures in backyards, bespoke Welsh hideaways and
glass walls in the African wilderness to cabins perched on trees in
the scented lavender fields of southern Italy. Creativity and
vision definitely anchor each and every one of them firmly to the
ground. The accompanying narrative for each of these projects will
give information about the location, the owners and their
inspiration as well as style notes. Word count: 25,000
Sheds are no longer neglected buildings at the end of the garden.
As shown in this book, they have become an area of our home to be
discovered by creative designers who see the garden as an
extendable space of the home, whether in the heart of the city or
in a larger rural setting. Today's sheds are stylish, innovative
and elegant and can be used for a multitude of purposes. They can
be artists' studios, writers' retreats, children's playgrounds or
teenage dens, entertaining spaces, log cabins or garden rooms, or
even just a traditional humble shed used for storage and plants but
revamped with more stylish and decorated overtones. Using over 50
real examples from around the world, some simple and modest and
some really extravagant, this book helps inspire and instruct the
reader on how to create your own special space. The owners
themselves describe how they have created their own private
hideaways and Jane Field-Lewis provides insightful style notes and
comments based on her conversations with the owners, architects and
designers. She tells you how to create your shed depending on how
you want to use it, and then how to make it stylish as well as
useful. An intrinsic part of their charm is that normal decorating
rules don't apply and this gives the owners the freedom to express
themselves in a different way without necessarily following any
fashion or trends. Recycled, vintage and precious items are mixed
with new, functional and practical ones. Jane Field-Lewis covers
all these aspects in a warm-hearted way. The stunning photographs
are accompanied by informative captions to help the reader design
and decorate their shed on a more practical level. This is the book
to help you create an inspiring space. Word Count: 40,000
This beautifully packaged book celebrates the humble and not so
humble shed - from artists' studios to beach huts, My Cool Shed
outlines the diverse ways of these small spaces and the unique ways
in which owners are styling them make this title a delight for
anyone interested in design. My Cool Shed features 35 sheds,
including small cabins, garden rooms, beach huts. Modern
architectural mini masterpieces and other small spaces are given
purpose by their owners to pursue their hobbies, careers, creative
endeavours or just to find some peace and solitude. The book
includes high-quality, stylish photography to show a wide range of
well styled and elegant sheds, cabins, dens and hidewaways in
attractive locations. The owners' stories and accompanying style
notes offer insight as well as inspiration. This is not a 'how to'
book, although a sourcebook will be included, but more of a 'feel
good' book and provider of design and lifestyle inspiration.
The treehouse in its most simple and fundamental form enables us to
escape from the everyday pressures of modern life and feel closer
to nature. It can also be an architectural wonder, showcasing the
most creative of small space design and engineering solutions. This
beautiful book shows how the treehouse can be many things: from
simple structures based on centuries-old woodworking skills to
modern geodesic forms strung high up above the treeline. There is
something magical about treehouses - whatever your age. These
boltholes perched above the ground appeal to those of us who want
to get close to nature without forgoing any creature comforts...
there are treehouses with wood-burning stoves, some with copper
baths and some with elevated linking walkways obscured by the
canopy of trees above. Then there are the handmade simple
structures using recycled materials and the branches of the trees
for both internal and external support and design. There are also
free-standing structures on stilts inspired by the physical tree
but not attached in any way. The book offers both visual
inspiration from the specially commissioned photography but also
the human stories behind the creation and design of these
treehouses. The text covers topics such as the plan, structure,
materials and decoration, colour palette and texture, and style
notes to bring to life the personal and interesting story behind
each treehouse featured in the book.
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