This updated revision of the best-selling resource for interior designers offers comprehensive coverage of all of the visual design and presentation skills that interior designers need to know, from initial sketches and drawings to final rendering and presentation models. It devotes discrete chapters to the topics of manual, freehand, and digital drawing and features updated content throughout,…
Feng Shui Style is a striking design book from Stephen Skinner, the man instrumental in focusing Western attention on the ancient art of feng shui. Discussing various common themes of feng shui—such as water, alignments, mountains and wind—Skinner demonstrates these concepts in 26 houses, restaurants and galleries in London, Hong Kong and Malaysia.
Interior design touches the lives of all of us in a very direct way. We all live in interiors, and most of us work, study, shop, and travel inside buildings, vehicles, and other enclosures. At one time or another, almost everyone has been an interior designer on a limited scale, when choosing a paint color or a rug, when buying furniture, or when arranging furniture in a new living place. For t…
A comprehensive handbook of all the crucial information interior designers need to know on a daily basis. In the world of interior design, thousands of bits of crucial information are scattered across a wide array of sources. Color, Space, and Style collects the information essential to planning and executing interiors projects of all shapes and sizes, and distills it in a format that is as eas…
Never Too Small explores this question through the lens of five small-footprint design principles and a showcase of 30 apartments and houses form around the world, all smaller than 50m2 / 540ft2.
A must-have reference for anyone working with color The Complete Color Harmony Workbook takes the essential elements of Rockport's Complete Color Harmony and turns them into a hands-on workbook for anyone working with color. This book not only provides the tear-out color swatches and hands-on color advice available in Complete Color Harmony, but also offers new metallic and fluorescent color in…
Printed textiles are an exciting and dynamic design area, with new mechanical and digital technologies opening up a wealth of creative possibilities for designers. Witty, hyperreal, and luxurious print designs are being used by fashion designers and in interiors, while artists are harnessing the technology in their work to stunning effect. This showcase of the best printed textiles from around …
"This book aims to demonstrate that Indonesia's woven textiles can be developed and applied to interior design and lifted out of their traditional context to become relevant in the modern world. It covers its traditional meaning, its journey from the traditional context into the world of modernity and also the exploration of new ideas. Hopefully, it will motivate more people to pay greater atte…
“The guru of vintage in Jakarta is none other than Luthfi Hasan, author of the Jakarta Vintage blog. He now designs high quality mid-century style teak armchairs using a mix of recycled, used, and new fabrics. Many of the designs are one-of -a-kind, so you won’t see it anywhere else…” -TheHoneyCombers.com “Luthfi Hasan, who is, by reputation, the city’s foremost authority on vintage…
A handbook for making a home that will stand the test of time; take knocks and scuffs in its stride; and where lives can unfold, children grow up, and dogs run wild.
This essential reference provides insight into the world of commercial design; it is valued as the
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Since the appearance of simplified 3D sketching programs like SketchUp, architects and interior designers have been called on to use both freehand and 3D CAD drawings, often at very earliest stages of design. Since we must often go back and forth between analytical plan views and 3D visual views, it's important that this be a seamless process, requiring little disruptive action or break in the …
"Interior design is a multidiscipline profession blending spatial, technical and aesthetic knowledge. The skill involved in manupulating these elements to solve specific design problems is intrinsically linked to drawing. Interior Design Drawing explores all aspects of this vital design skill, from sketching to record information, through orthographics and development to analyse the problem, to…
Describes how colors interact to affect the ambiance and atmosphere of a room.
Offers step-by-step tutorials to guide readers through the design process and provides a photo gallery of finished examples by professional designers.
Perspective for Interior Designers offers an easily accessible and quickly learned method that will serve every interior designer's drawing needs. Beginning with a section on the fundamental technique of two-point perspective, which is presented through 14 sequential steps, the author moves on to cover special situations (including one-point perspective, circular forms, reflective images, views…