Here is a celebration of the groundbreaking designers and innovative spaces that are reinventing the high-rise urban apartment complex as a desirable, luxurious and ecologically sustainable lifestyle choice for the 21st century. The `vertical village' brings people together in modern buildings with designer interiors that offer residents not just tailored personal living spaces but also the communal comforts and delights of a great hotel or exclusive club. Vertical Living offers an enticing journey through this innovative design approach, from gloriously welcoming lobbies to communal relaxation zones to fresh, open plan personal living spaces and spa style bathrooms. This is a book that reveals and revels in a quintessentially 21st-century approach to lifestyle interiors.

Gathering together the world's most celebrated interior designers under the yoo brand, this inspirational book showcases interior designs from the cutting-edge masters at the forefront of innovation in the way we live today - Philippe Starck, Marcel Wanders, Jade Jagger and Tom Bartlett, and Kelly Hoppen. With their expertise in creating bespoke environments for their clients, the yoo team imparts ideas about how to create an interior that is right for you, using the themes each of their designers has developed. Each theme shows how the furniture, products, wall and floor treatments, colour schemes and so on work together to create the overall 'palette', with case-study examples. It includes over 20 interior design projects from residences worldwide, as well as feature pages and interviews with each celebrity designer. John Hitchcox and Philippe Starck formed yoo in April 1999. Bringing together a team of leaders in their fields, they set out to create extraordinary modern living spaces.