Simon Upton Bücher

The treatment of windows has evolved significantly in recent years, moving away from traditional lined curtains with structured designs to more relaxed, multifunctional options. This shift has resulted in a plethora of choices and fewer restrictions, leading to stunning outcomes. This collection showcases innovative curtain designs and window treatments from homes across the UK, France, North America, and South Africa, featuring everything from decorative sheers to multi-layered solutions, and materials ranging from natural linen to luxurious silk. Expert insights from designers, fabric manufacturers, and curtain makers worldwide provide guidance on fabric selection, design, techniques, and styles to help you navigate the myriad options available for your home. Advancements in textile technology have introduced remarkable new materials, making the selection process potentially overwhelming. The book emphasizes the beauty of fabric, with chapters dedicated to various types including plain and decorative sheers, natural cottons and linens, glamorous silks and velvets, and more. It highlights exemplary window treatments for every room and window shape, focusing on headings, hardware, and intricate details. Each chapter features curated fabric palettes from leading international manufacturers, along with decorator tips on poles, finials, headings, linings, layering, borders, and trimmings, ensuring you find the perfect solutions

Step into a world far removed from mundane everyday concerns, where nature and architecture conspire to create some of the most serene holiday retreats ever. With interior-design specialist Judith Miller and interiors photographer Simon Upton, Great Escapes visits homes in mountains, hills, and woods, by water, and even in the city. Retreats range from a minimalist beach house in Malibu to a rooftop apartment high above the streets of Paris. These are homes that will continue to inspire long after you have finished reading the book.

In case you're actually taking time to read this description (and not already rushing to the bookshop), we'll fill you in on why this new Interiors installment is simply a must-have. London is the capital of cool, full of famous artists, photographers, musicians, writers, decorators, designers, architects, and film-makers- and here is a chance to sneak into their homes! These aren't your typical rich-and-famous interiors, they're the apartments, lofts, houses (and even one houseboat) that truly represent London's wonderful eccentricity. Predictable? Typical? Not exactly. The book's 300 pages of rich color photographs will send your senses reeling. From Noel Gallagher and Meg Matthews' rock-and-roll townhouse to DJ Talvin Singh's colorful Indian-inspired hideaway to painter Chris Ofili's multilevel East End home/studio, you'll find an eye-popping mix of styles. Expect to be surprised, delighted, and inspired by this wild array of interiors. Got it? Now get it!

A guide to the country style of interior design covering color and surfaces, furnishings, and rooms

Many people view ancient and modern as worlds apart and opt for one or the other when it comes to choosing an interior style. This book shows how putting the two together can create bold, dramatic effects and lead to an enriching and individual environment for the 21st century. From a modern American apartment with antique furniture to a conversion of an ancient cow-shed with salvage fixtures and fittings painted a uniform white, the book gives many examples of mixing the old with the new. It offers practical solutions for low-budget interiors and shows how to create a harmonious collection of old and new objects over time. Ancient and modern elements can be mixed throughout the home, and the book covers every type and size of living space, including both conventional rooms and contemporary open-plan areas such as lofts. Many possible aesthetic blends are explored, using old and new furniture, fixtures and fittings and key details like textiles, lighting, utensils, art and objects. The central theme underpinning the book is the continuity between ancient and modern - the fact that common forms and a shared aesthetic connect elements from different times and cultures. Accompanying text and beautiful photographs show how many ancient objects are startlingly modern in concept and design, and how many modern forms are in fact simply expressions or continuations of ancient motifs.

Cargill zeigt ihren leicht umsetzbaren Ansatz für den traditionellen Landhausstil, der von Stilen aus der ganzen Welt beeinflusst ist, einschließlich englischer Landhäuser, Shaker-Versammlungshäuser und mediterraner Bauernhäuser.

Od baroka po bauhaus a ešte ďalej - inšpirácia pre dnešné domovy.