This essential sourcebook showcases the unprecedented scope and quality of today’s state-of-the-art vases.
As the vase has become one of the most universal home accessories, contemporary designers have pushed boundaries, making vases that are not only functional objects, but also works of art and conceptual statements. Their creations defy gravity and spatial logic, and captivate with unusual forms.
In the hands of experienced art and design historian Agata Toromanoff, Vases showcases the unprecedented scope and quality of today’s state-of-the-art vases. From Ted Muehling’s sleek, gilded “Goose Egg” to Glithero’s botanical cyanotypes on ceramic and Joogii’s color-shifting prisms covered in dichroic film, there are no limits to what contemporary designers can make out of what is fundamentally a container for holding flowers.
An essential sourcebook for collectors, designers, and anyone with an interest in interior decoration, this book includes important mid-century to late twentieth-century vases and focuses primarily on the twenty-first-century scene, with a wide international selection of emerging designers from the younger generation. These designers translate their original visions into a variety of forms, blurring the lines between design, sculpture, and architecture. The pieces featured in Vases are contemporary works of art, worthy of inclusion in museum collections―where many already reside. 400+ color illustrations

Vases: 250 State-of-the-Art Designs

Arts & Photography

Toromanoff, Agata

Architecture

Thames&Hudson

A generously illustrated celebration of the sofa and its place in the modern home from timeless design icons to future classics. 
To many, the sofa encapsulates everything one associates with home―a place of relaxation, comfort, and calm. The sofa often plays more than one role in the home: it can be serve as a decorative centerpiece, a child’s play area, and a bed all at once. As a result, we have become demanding about every aspect of its design.
This generously illustrated volume celebrates the creativity of more than 150 designers, bringing together the very best in sofa design from the 20th and 21st centuries. In addition to showcasing design icons like Josef Hoffmann and Le Corbusier, the book presents the most inventive creations of recent years from designers who continue to redefine and expand this field.
With profiles arranged alphabetically by designer, the book includes practical advice on buying a sofa and styling a living space, and a timeline of sofa design. This treasure trove of exciting creations and handy tips will appeal to anyone in search of inspiration for their own home, or with an interest in furniture design in general. c. 220 color illustrations

Sofas: 340 Iconic Designs

Revealing pairings of a chair and a building by each architect―featuring fifty-five stars from Calatrava to Hadid
Does an architect’s style always come across, regardless of medium? Pairing great buildings with great chairs by the same architect, Chairs by Architects demonstrates how the defining qualities of a building’s style can also be evident in that architect’s furniture designs. Pieces of furniture, like manifestos, become signatures of architectural style. The fifty-five architects featured here include early modern architectural pioneers such as Otto Wagner, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Antoni Gaudí, and Walter Gropius, together with more recent modern masters such as Oscar Niemeyer, Santiago Calatrava, Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry, and Daniel Libeskind.
The book contains interviews on Designing (in conversation with David Adjaye), Manufacturing (with David E. Bright, Knoll, Inc.), Selling (with Zeev Aram), Collecting (with Richard Wright), and Preserving (with Susanne Graner, Vitra Design Museum). This is essential reading for everyone concerned with design, architecture, and the relationship between creators and their creations. 125+ illustrations in color

Chairs by Architects

Product Description This stylish book presents some 250 designs for children, both iconic pieces of furniture, furnishings, and toys, and more recent creations based on the latest technological advances.As many parents know, decorating and furnishing a child’s room can be both a pleasure and a problem: you have somehow to find a balance between practicality, playfulness, comfort, safety, originality, and making the most of the space available. Some of the world’s best-known designers and design companies have risen to the challenge of creating furniture and accessories specifically for children. Rather than being merely scaled-down adult designs, the best designs for children should respond to their express needs: as well as being durable, safe, and easy to clean, they should nurture a child’s development and encourage creativity and the use of imagination.From Charles and Ray Eames, Eero Aarnio, and Nanna Ditzel through to Marcel Wanders and Javier Mariscal, and from Knoll and Artek to Alessi, MDF Italia, and Magis, the biggest names in design have produced beds, tables, chairs, storage, rugs, cutlery and playthings that can be used from children’s earliest days through to the start of adolescence.With a fresh, appealing layout, the book is divided into three main sections – furniture, accessories, and toys – within which the designs are further arranged into such categories as cribs and cots, bookcases, mirrors, mobiles, and rocking horses. Throughout, concise descriptions are accompanied by colorful and lively illustrations. Whether you are a style-conscious parent seeking ideas for a functional yet fun nursery, bedroom, playroom, or study, a design professional, or simply a fan of contemporary design, this is an enchanting survey of excellent, clever, child-friendly design. About the Author Agata Toromanoff is an art and design historian who has curated numerous contemporary art projects. She has written features for the art press and is the author of several books, including Chairs by Architects (2016), Sofas: 340 Iconic Designs (2018), and Vases: 250 State-of-the-Art Designs (2019).

Designs for Children: Furniture, Accessories & Toys

Decorative Arts & Design

Merrell Publishers

Japandi is the newest and hottest trend in interiors: aharmonious combination of functionality, comfort, and the minimalist look thatcharacterizes Scandinavian design, with the purest elegance of traditionalJapanese craftsmanship. &nbsp; Japandi harmoniously blends Scandinavian hygge with wabi-sabi,a concept derived from Zen Buddhism that advocates peaceful sobriety andinvites us to admire the beauty hidden in slight imperfections in nature. Thisfirst major survey of Japandi style will introduce the reader to thefundamentals, and to iconic objects that will transform and interior into aJapandi-inspired retreat. &nbsp; Chapter one of the book examines the converging principlesthat have contributed to the emergence of Japandi Style such as functionality,neutral colors, the importance of organic materials, and the thoughtfulsimplicity of shapes. Chapter two presents some of the most emblematic works ofJapandi Style, and the design studios behind them. Chapter three gives examplesof how to decorate and furnish rooms - the living room, dining room, bedroom,bathroom, winter garden, or home office - in Japandi Style.

Japandi Style: When Japanese and Scandinavian Designs Blend

Toromanoff, Pierre

Many modern gurus, life-style magazines, TV programs and books promote slowing down and resisting the relentless tempo of daily life. We are offering a carefully selected set of objects and accessories that will not only show you how to relax again, but also how to refuse the crazy pressure for speed.\nTake back control over your life and make it enjoyable again. Let this book be your guide on the way to escape the hurly-burly of everyday life and get rid of the stress it generates. Back to basics, discover the beauty of the slow mode that will make your life more rewarding, whether you are relaxing, enjoying the moment, sharing them with your loved ones or practicing a hobby. Thanks to our inspirational collection of tools for slow living you will connect with reality, with others and, most importantly, with yourself.

Tools for Slow Living: A Practical Guide to Mindfulness & Coziness

Religion & Spirituality

Eken Press

A to Z of Art for Kids

Children's Books

Arts, Music & Photography

This collection of remarkable pictures from photographers around the globe will tease your eyes and challenge your perception of things by crossing the boundaries of rationality and reality. Striking compositions, often humorous, dreamlike, or ironic, offer truly stunning visions one would never expect. As much as these images intrigue the senses, they also challenge the mind. By provoking rational conventions and meanings, their works question our vision of reality and attitude towards photography as a media capturing the true instant, which initiate a captivating dialogue with viewers. Manipulated pictures create a surreal, psychedelic world that mixes dreams, utopia, advertising tricks and irony. Impossible photography invites us to look with a fresh, and critical eye at what photographs tell us.

Impossible Photography: Surreal Pictures that Challenge our Perception

Individual Artists

Wood has undergone quite an image change - as future and trend researcher Matthias Horx puts in a nutshell: "Wood is Style". It has come out of the corner of the traditional and rustic and moved to the top of high-tech building materials. In addition to the well-known ecological and building biology aspects, innovative timber construction technology allows a great deal of design freedom, is extremely precise, and at the same time manages to enrich even very daring architecture with the factors of warmth and coziness.Using wood in combination with or in contrast to other materials such as metal, glass, bricks or exposed concrete is an option that architects and designers are increasingly choosing for their designs. The planners' willingness to experiment is now also evident in the color scheme of wooden houses and interiors. This publication offers a unique overview of its use for residential buildings from all over the world, including the United States and Canada and introduces architects, interior designers, and builders to the diversity of contemporary timber architecture.

Surrounded by Wood: Contemporary Living Styles

History & Criticism

Braun

The impressive wealth of Scandinavian interiors: locally inspired and international successful Nordic home design has long won over aficionados of clean lines, cozy and functional furniture, and bright spaces. This richly illustrated, inspirational book celebrates the Scandinavian interior design scene and its spectacular momentum in recent years. It offers a unique insight into the latest trends, such as the use of more contrasting colors, mixed sustainable textures, and the quest for the ultimate comfort of both body and mind. The pages in this book invite readers into vibrant, intimate, and elegant interiors that illustrate the great diversity and creative atmosphere prevailing in the home decoration style of northern Europe. It is set to become a sourcebook for interior designers, architects, and anyone looking for fresh ideas for introducing the Hygge lifestyle to one's own home.

Inside Nordic Homes: Inspiring Scandinavian Living

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