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Designed for Kids by Phyllis Richardson
Category: Design
Responding to a burgeoning market of style-conscious and design-savvy parent-consumers, "Designed for Kids" is the first guide to products for children from nursery age to pre-adolescence. Sourced from around the world, these innovative designs are aesthetically pleasing and technologically advanced, an ...Show more
House of Fiction: From Pemberley to Brideshead, Great British Houses in Literature and Life by Phyllis Richardson
Category: Literary Reference
From the gothic fantasies of Walpole's Otranto to post-modern takes on the country house by Kazuo Ishiguro and Ian McEwan, Phyllis Richardson guides us on a tour through buildings real and imagined to examine how authors' personal experiences helped to shape the homes that have become icons of English l ...Show more
Living Modern Tropical: A Sourcebook of Stylish Interiors by Phyllis Richardson
Category: Interior Design
"Living Modern Tropical" is the ultimate visual resource for contemporary tropical living, featuring scores of glorious interiors from tropical regions where the expression of modern living has found its natural home. With ten sections divided by themed subsections that focus on the attributes most enjo ...Show more
NanoHouse - Innovations for Small Dwellings by Phyllis Richardson
Category: Architecture
Digital design tools, sustainable materials, and new prefabrication technologies have led to an explosion in innovative ideas for designing domestic spaces, particularly those in tight surroundings. All the homes inNano House are drawn from a broad array of climatic and environmental contexts, building ...Show more
Skywood House: The Architecture of Graham Phillips by Phyllis Richardson
Category: Architecture
Skywood has been called a house that turns lifestyle into a work of art and one that offers a masterclass in architectures power to excite and inspire. As a structure, it reflects rigour and attention to detail, attributes that its creator, Graham Phillips, credits both to his time at Foster & Partn ...Show more
StyleCity London by Phyllis Richardson
Category: Travel | Series: StyleCity
Style Traveller Sleep features smaller, variously priced hotels that are driven by design, flair, eccentricity, or local or historic character Eat seeks out restaurants and cafes of all varieties that celebrate local experience, high design and culinary innovation Drink presents bars, cafes and nigh spo ...Show more
StyleCity Paris by Phyllis Richardson
Category: Travel | Series: StyleCity
Placing special emphasis on the City of Light's rich culture and style, a new edition of an intricately photographed traveler's guide reveals how to render a vacation rich in local fashion, cuisine, and art by visiting recommended cult attractions and lesser-known visitor spots. Original.
StyleCity: Paris by Phyllis Richardson
Category: Travel | Series: StyleCity
A Paris guide to the total city experience, revealing where to sleep, eat, drink, shop, retreat, explore, or just hang out, in stimulating surroundings. Divided into two sections: "Street Wise" and "Style Traveller", readers are directed to places situated in seven specific neighbourhoods.
StyleCity Paris by Phyllis Richardson
Category: Travel | Series: StyleCity
This is the new, fully revised edition of the bestselling stylish Paris guide, bringing you up to date with whats happening in your favorite city. Strikingly photographed, superbly designed and produced, and yet ingeniously practical with easy-to-read maps and pacy, informed texts, each "StyleCity" volu ...Show more
Superlight - Lightness in Contemporary Homes by Phyllis Richardson
Category: Architecture
One of the most influential design philosophies of the past 25 years has been Glenn Murcutts dictum that buildings should touch the earth lightly. While architects have always sought to liberate architecture from its solid foundations through the use of new materials and spatial reconfigurations, climat ...Show more
XS Extreme by Phyllis Richardson
Category: Architecture
The third book in the highly successful "XS" series, "XS Extreme" considers buildings at the edge of possibility. Sited in remote locations, built to withstand wild climatic conditions, or conceptually daring or provocative, all the structures are original, innovative and instructive. Over forty project ...Show more