With a move to smaller and more flexible spaces, architects and designers are pushing the parameters of available space. This book shows what can be done with a small space, using a combination of ingenuity and style.
ISBN: 978908944-038-9
Издательство:
Beta-plus
Дата выхода: август 2011
Fresh perspectives on how good design can create stylish yet ecologically sound living spaces in small-scale homes. Anyone who has faced the challenges of limited living space will find inspiration in this survey of the latest trends in environmentally sensitive, small-scale residential designs. More than fifty residential spaces are profiled - from woodsy houses and repurposed barns to cool apartments and urban lofts - both inside and out. Most of the projects were designed by up-and-coming architects, and each design proves that small-scale efficiency as well as beautiful, thoughtful design can overcome the apparent constraints of a small setting. Environmental impact is a growing concern, so each project was chosen because of its...
It`s America during Prohibition and shy young George Finch is setting out as an artist - without the encumbrance of a shred of talent. George falls in love with Molly, whose imperious tepmother Mrs Waddington insists he`s not the man to marry the stepdaughter of one of New York`s most fashionable hostesses. Poor George - he doesn`t seem to stand a chance. How George eventually triumphs over the bossy Mrs Waddington makes for a dizzying plot featuring some of Wodehouse`s most appealing minor characters - Mullett the butler and his light-fingered girlfriend Fanny, Beamish, author of the dynamic Beamish Booklets, Officer Garroway the poetic policeman, and Sigsbee , the hen-pecked husband who longs for the wide open spaces of the West....
ISBN: 978-0-09-951414-5
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
In recent yea`s, the trend toward smaller homes has become not only a necessity but also an alternative lifestyle. Many architects and designers as well as a growing number of buyers who could certainly afford a bigger residence are now opting for a home of limited dimensions, because they have learnt to discover the pleasures and recognize the potential of living in a small space. Nowadays, the new contemporary lifestyle revolves around such spaces, in the form of apartments, duplexes, lofts and houses propitious to countless innovative solutions for reduced dimensions: multifunctional furniture, combined areas, rooms with a double function, built-in closets, movable tables, sliding doors, etc. Moreover, technological advances have...
ISBN: 978-3-8228-5139-5
Издательство:
TASCHEN
Дата выхода: январь 2000
Think big, design small. This is the rallying cry of a new generation of architects and artists who aim to improve the lives of city-dwellers through small-scale public design projects. Using the city as an open-source platform for ideas, these visionaries create urban interventions to address problems specific to urban life. Small Scale presents fifty ingenious yet simple projects ranging from the purely conceptual to the fully realized. From a bridge that curls up into itself when not in use, to a stacked rental car dispenser, to a bus-stop like shelter that uses bright lights to treat seasonal affective disorder in the winter, these projects energize our cities leftover spaces and help us imagine the future of our urban...
ISBN: 978-1-56898-975-4
Издательство:
Daedalus
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Small Pig likes to eat, to sleep and to run. But most of all he likes nice, soft mud. Everything is fine on the farm until the farmer`s wife cleans up everything - even Small Pig`s mud puddle. Then he runs away to the city - sure that since it is so dirty he will find a puddle there. Illustrated.
In the beginning was the Word And the Word was: Hey, you! For Brutha the novice is the Chosen One. He wants peace and justice and brotherly love He also wants the Inquisition to stop torturing him now, please.
ISBN: 978-0-552-15297-6
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: январь 2013
Philip Swallow, Morris Zapp, Persse McGarrigle, the lovely Angelica - the jet-propelled academics are on the move, in the air, on the make, in Small World.
This volume presents a number of small shops from around the world. These boutiques have created a distinctive identity while reflecting the latest trends.
ISBN: 978-84-96823-38-9
Издательство:
Monsa
Дата выхода: июль 2011
In this delicately wrought and profoundly moving, multi-award winning novel, Andrea Levy handles the weighty themes of empire, prejudice, war and love, with a lightness of touch and a generosity of spirit that challenges and uplifts the reader. It is 1948, and England is recovering from a war. But at 21 Nevern , the conflict has only just begun. Queenie Bligh`s neighbours do not approve when she agrees to take in Jamaican lodgers, but with her husband, Bernard, not back from the war, what else can she do? Gilbert Joseph was one of the several thousand Jamaican men who joined the RAF to fight against Hitler. Returning to England as a civilian he finds himself treated very differently. Gilbert`s wife Hortense, too, had longed to leave...
Philip Swallow, Morris Zapp, Persse McGarrigle and the lovely Angelica are the jet-propelled academics who are on the move, in the air and on the make in David Lodge`s satirical Small World. It is a world of glamorous travel and high excitement, where stuffy lecture rooms are swapped for lush corners of the globe, and romance is in the
ISBN: 978-0-09-955416-5
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012
Children`s bedrooms constitute the space where the smallest members of the family grow up and where different phases of their development unfold, a place where they play, learn, sleep and dream. The setting should be attractive and inviting, with a design corresponding to the age of the child. In fact, every age range is marked by special needs, so the layout of a child`s bedroom should be carefully thought out from the start. Thus, the best idea is to choose furniture that "grows with the child" and can be adapted to their needs by changing the existing components or by later buying additional pieces. The following pages present ideas of renowned designers, interior architects and manufacturers from all over the world, for babies, small...
ISBN: 978-3-8228-2788-8
Издательство:
TASCHEN
Дата выхода: январь 2000
