Shows 'how to plan and build exciting prpojects that can be tailor-made to your own special needs.' Sections on Tools, Materials, and Techniques. More than 250 full-color photographs and B&W illustrations. Out of Print.
It's an all-encompassing design encyclopedia! Whether it's tiling kitchen surfaces, building a bedroom wardrobe, or installing a bubbling water sculpture in the backyard, these projects will revitalize your home, indoors and out. Hundreds of photographs present new ways to work decorating magic. Improve every room with practical and beautiful ideas, like display shelving, folding screens, new cupboard doors, or brilliant lighting; then enhance the garden with a bench, summerhouse, pond or patio. "If this book doesn't inspire you to DIY, then nothing will."--Elle Decoration.
(4)Terence Conran, master of interior design, casts his gaze on what is arguably the most intractable home design issue: how to keep your stuff from overwhelming your space. Conran shows how to reduce clutter, edit our belongings, and store them so they are still accessible. Room by room, he breaks down particular storage requirements and approaches, all the while offering glimpses of stunning homes and ingenious storage solutions. Short on space for books? Here are ideas for using your stairway as a library. Love collecting? There are unique ways to display your treasures. Whether you prefer old-fashioned coziness or a clean minimalist sweep, and whether your home is a bachelor pad, family home, or empty nest, this beautifully photographed guide will prove invaluable.
The ultimate garden design book: a visual delight covering all aspects of working and living in your garden with stunning photographs of gardens from around the world.
The contemporary garden carries a profound connection both to the environment and to the range of activities—relaxing, entertaining, working—that characterize today's lifestyle. A collaboration between a distinguished style setter and a noted garden designer, Outdoors presents the principles of imaginative and innovative landscape design, providing readers with useful knowledge and also with inspiration from diverse sources: history, media, fashion, architecture.
Thematic chapters present a wide variety of successful gardens developed for specific purposes. Formal urban gardens on rooftops are explored, as are free-form rural landscapes, backyards devised to encourage children's imaginations, and spaces planned primarily for al fresco entertaining. Extensively illustrated case studies demonstrate inventive design on a grand scale as well as the creative detailing that sets one garden apart from another. In these sections, professionally designed gardens are explored methodically to reveal techniques behind planning and layout, planting choices, intended uses, and relation to the larger landscape. A special focus on conservation philosophies addresses wildlife, recycling, and water-wise gardening. Also included are a step-by-step guide to planning a garden, advice on selecting and working with a garden designer, and an extensive catalog of plants, with scientific names, foliage and bloom descriptions, and planting suggestions.
The authors engage in a lively dialogue, discussing their personal insight into the early and main influences on their work, how garden design has evolved, its current place in design as a whole, and the journey that it will take throughout the century. Their very different styles provide readers with both practical knowledge and confidence to seek inspiration for their gardens.
Terence Conran's life has been extraordinarily full and varied, with several consistent interwoven strands established when he was a very young man. He helped design several projects for the 1951 Festival of Britain, worked as a plongeur in a Paris restaurant, and opened his first shop, Habitat, in 1964. There are now Conran Shops in Britain, France, Germany, Japan and the USA. Conran restaurants are also to be found in far-flung places. Conran & Partners, his architecture and design practice, has an international reputation. This illustrated autobiography of one of the world's most best-known designers and entrepreneurs includes insights into his successes (and occasional failures), and questions contributed by members of Conran's family, friends and peers.
(1)Cell phones, watches, coffee cups, grand pianos, light fixtures, even a dog house. Consumer products are brought to life through designers’ imagination and ingenuity, and Terence Conran and Max Fraser present some of the biggest names in the business and the items they’ve created.
Between the covers of Designers on Design are interviews with more than a hundred designers, who answer such questions as:
What was your big break?;
What or who has most influenced your work?;
What elements of the design process do you find particularly frustrating?; and
To what level will you compromise to satisfy your client?
This beautifully illustrated book shows key pieces from each designer, along with a timeline that highlights major developments in the field from the early 1900s to the beginning of this century. Designers on Design provides a rare insight into the creative thought processes of today’s leading designers in their own words.
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(4)A decorating book full of unique ideas for updating your home.
(1)Every single thing that has been made by man or woman has been designed. We are quick to recognise the designer's imprint in the cut of a couture dress, in the outline of a landmark building or in the shape of the latest motor car. Less visible are those designers who shape and fill our daily lives with everything from the paperclip to the personal stereo, the flatpack shelving unit to the supermarket label. In fact, design is all around us, but we very rarely notice it. In this book, Terence Conran makes us open our eyes and address the ways in which we encounter and relate to design on a daily basis. A fascinating text full of information and anecdote, along with stimulating photography, makes this book an indispensable reference book for all those interested in the subject.
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This book develops the principles of basic home improvement to show how to build essential fixtures that combine economy and style. Each section of the book begins with a selection of photographs and advice, and then provides full instructions for a range of original Conrad-designed projects that include a serene "Japanese screen" wardrobe, a kitchen, a tiled bathroom, a bed and wall of display shelving.
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(11)Marrying practical living with attractive home design ideas, Sir Terence Conran offers a big, beautiful compendium of expert solutions for today's house or apartment dweller. His vision is an all-new, commonsense approach to making the place you call home a place where you can feel both comfortable and in style. Includes complete instructions and practical information.
(1)A collection of 100 of the very best of Quaglino's recipes adapted for use in the domestic kitchen by Head Chef Martin Webb. Accompanying the recipes is text by award-winning food writer Richard Whittington.
(1)Terence Conran's name is synonymous with stylish home design. In this book, he presents a wide range of options for designing and decorating rooms and spaces in the modern home for babies and toddlers, to school age children and teenagers. From planning and design to furniture, fittings, décor and details, practical information and inspiring visual examples demonstrate that whatever size your space, children's rooms can be stylish too.
(3)World-famous and bestselling design expert Terence Conran provides a comprehensive guide to creating or revamping a bathroom, along with a discussion of this small room’s expanding role as the ultimate refuge from the stresses of everyday life. He offers a full range of options for planning, design, and decoration, along with plenty of inspiration and advice on how to integrate the many practical, decorative, structural, and technological elements needed to create a bathing sanctuary. Such crucial issues as waterproofing, heating, and lighting receive in-depth attention, and there’s also a detailed guide to fittings and fixtures, all well-illustrated. Large and lush photographs throughout featuring everything from bathroom pods to lavish spas will feed the home decorator’s imagination.
Essential Color is the perfect guide for anyone wanting to introduce color into their home, but unsure of where to begin. Following the success of the four previous Essentials titles, the book harnesses Terence Conran's wealth of design expertise to guide you through the first steps of working with color. Including sections on understanding how color works, using accents and focal points to create a color scheme, and practical color effects with materials, textures and finishes, this book is all you need to create a harmonious interior in your home.
