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Tropical Houses: Living in Nature in Jamaica, Sri Lanka, Java, Bali, and the Coasts of Mexico and Belize
Tim Street-Porter
Clarkson Potter, 2000
Beautiful and Exotic
The cover is just a teaser to the exciting tropical houses Tim Street-Porter captures in this wondeful book. A real treat to exclusive tropical living around the world. Also an excellent reference to decorate in the tropical look. Street-Porter does it again as he ...
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Rooms to Inspire: Decorating With America's Best Designers
Annie Kelly
Rizzoli, 2007
Absolutely gorgeous book!
This book is a feast for the eyes. I purchased it initially because I love Kelly Wearstler's decorating and it features one of her homes, but the whole book is amazing & full of wonderful interior decorators, from traditional with a twist to modern & minimalist. A ...
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Los Angeles Mini
Rizzoli, 2008
Los Angeles in all its Glory!
What a lovely compact collection of gorgeous images of all the wonderful and varied architecture of Los Angeles. I have stopped off here several times now when enroute to or from New Zealand and made my way around just a few parts of the city, but now that I have seen ...
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Modern Tropical Garden Design
Made Wijaya, Tim Street-Porter (introduction)
Periplus Editions, 2007
greatest book on tropical modern garden design, I have ever seen
I love it. Absolutely inspiring for everybody who loves tropical gardens. The best book on garden design I have ever seen. There are a lot of striking photos with many new and really modern ideas.
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Florence de Dampierre French Chic: The Art of Decorating Houses
Florence De Dampierre
Rizzoli, 2008
French Chic Totally Inspiring
I found this book TOTALLY INSPIRING. First of all there is so much detail in each photo and in Ms. de Dampierre's home to study and learn from....light fixtures, color, I just go back and look at the photos again and again. I love her tips on French Chic because I ...
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Modernist Paradise: Niemeyer House, Boyd Collection
Michael Webb
Rizzoli, 2007
One of the best book i've even bought
This is one of my favorite book on my shelves at home. I flipped through this book at the bookstore and couldn't wait to order it from Amazon and get it home. The photographs are amazing and the writing is superb. As a mid-century modern furniture collector for the ...
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Casa Mexicana Style
Annie Kelly
"Stewart, Tabori and Chang", 2006
Unbelievable guide to Mexican design
I am an interior designer and have always been fascinated by the use of color in Mexico. This book is eye candy for any designer. The pictures are amazing and the photography wonderful. I have picked up this book so many times I have bookmarked almost every page for ...
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Casa San Miguel: Inspired Design and Decorations
Annie Kelly
Rizzoli, 2008
A refreshing twist and treatise for Spanish Colonial aficionados...
I was personally relieved that this was NOT a book filled with terracotta walls and Day-of-the-Dead memorabilia or brightly colored Talavera pottery and tiles. There are other design books available to fulfill this niche - although frankly, the vivid primary-colored ...
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L.A. Modern
Rizzoli, 2008
From Metropolitan Home magazine
"Tim Street-Porter, a frequent Met Home contributer and one of the leading architecture photographers in America, offers up this handsomely formatted goody (perfect for an Isamu Noguchi coffee table): L.A. Modern (Rizzoli), with text and images by the British-born ...
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The Los Angeles House: Decoration And Design In America's 20th Century City (California Architecture and ...
Hennessey & Ingalls, 2005
Great Real Estate Read
The pictures in this book are fantastic! Unbelievable what these architects were able to accomplish. I was a little disappointed that more movie star history was not part of the book. The author did indicate if there were movie props in the homes-lots from Marie ...
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Mid-century Modern: Furniture of the 1950's
Cara Greenberg
Thames & Hudson Ltd, 1989
MODERN 1950'S DESIGN
This is a wonderful coffee table book, a joy to browse through. It is profusely illustrated and contains a wealth of information.
If you like modern design I also suggest to visit the wonderful online archive about George Nelson at WWW.GEORGENELSON.ORG and also the ...
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Rooms to Inspire: Country: The Infinite Possibilities of American House Design (Rooms to Inspire)
Annie Kelly
Rizzoli, 2009
Country living evokes bucolic landscapes and picturesque villages?rolling Connecticut countryside, verdant farmland, the sun-drenched hills of Malibu?and the architecture that echoes these idyllic settings. These houses, ranging from family estates to weekend retreats, are the personal homes of decorators and tastemakers, including Jonathan Adler, ...
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Hollywood Style
Diane Dorrans Saeks, Tim Street-Porter
Rizzoli International Publications, 2005
so perfect and idyllic
Even if you do not particularly follow the Hollywood film star scene, this book offers a fascinating glimpse at some unique houses in Los Angeles. Mostly in Hollywood and the nearby suburbs. Each house also has a perfectly manicured garden, often with a pool.
The ...
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Los Angeles: Deluxe
Rizzoli, 2006
Luxuriously, Los Angeles!
Weighing in at nine pounds and a huge lap full at 18" X 15" X 2" LOS ANGELES, the book, is as spectacular and huge as the city it emulates! This is a splendid spectrum of photographic views of all that is Los Angeles.
Diane Keaton provides the spunky introduction ...
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Casa Mexicana
Tim Street-Porter
Harry N. Abrams, 1989
It is a great book!!
I am a Mexican woman studying in the USA. I read a commentary above saying that these are European houses, they are not. We were conquered by the Spaniards centuries ago and thus the architectural style blended creating a "Mexican Style". This so called Mexican style ...
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