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  New Terrace Design EN

  As a filter that smoothly merges interior and exterior, terraces have become one of the most important complemantary spaces in today's contemporary house. Whether cantilevered, open or covered, as a wide extension of the ground floor or as roof gardens in residential buildings, terraces maximise the sense of space by partially seizing outdoor areas. This book is a showcase of the multiple design possibilities…

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  Non Intentional Design EN

  Non Intentional Design defies all standards, is subversivley and beautiful and part of all cultures. The book shows, how people can modify very banal things due to creative use. NID deals with norms which are abnormally transformed - every day, everywhere, by everyone. It is about the use and the exploitation of objects already designed. Amazing, funny and inspiring things arise, and a totally new point of view on…

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  Package Design EN

  Despite their at times negative connotation, why do consumers love packaging so much that it has turned into one of the essential conditions for commercial success? Beyond their logistic function of protection, packaging is not only designed to seduce the client and to lead him/her to chose a particular product over another, but it has also become the extension of the brand and the value it embodies. After all, it…

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  Paris Architecture and Design EN

  It has been the French revolution that has paved the way for an inventive and creative spirit in the arts, architecture, literature, and music that enhanced the development of science and technology of the future. Even a few years back, on the 200th anniversary of the revolution, the city presented more breath-taking monuments to modern architecture, which rival any in Europe. This book presents new and innovative…

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  Patricia Urquiola EN

  In Milano, the capital of design, all designers are heroes and the heroes are all male. Except for one: Patricia Urquiola. After graduating in Design, Patricia Urquiola headed Piero Lissoni’s design department before setting up her own studio in Milan in 2001. Today she works with renowned names such as Moroso, Cappellini, Kartell, Alessi and Boffi. The concept of the Spanish-Milanese designer, which has guided her…

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  Photography Inspirations EN

  The result, a 700-page thick photographic volume subtitled The World is the Human’s Project, was produced in cooperation with the visual solution provider Corbis. It is a compact collection of artistic imagery that pays special attention to the diversity, beauty, vitality and madness of everyday human situations and actions while portraying a pulsating society whose characteristics are determined by the personal…

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  Piero Lissoni EN

  This series presents international architects and designer in monographies. Pierro Lissoni is one of Italy's most successful Designers, leading a company in Milan with over 50 Architects and Designers. So far he is known more for his furniture design rather than his architecture. He is often thought of as a minimalist, but in reality, Piero Lissoni's aim is to create a complementary cohabitation of different styles.…

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  Plastic Design EN

  During the last 50 years, the plastic industry has grown at an incredible pace until becoming part of nearly all the areas of human activity. Plastic materials moreover have made practically any architectural solution affordable to all. This book contains dozens of examples and architectural projects which have used plastic in one or various of their features: walls, illumination, roofs, facades, furniture...The…

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  Pool Design EN

  Today pools come in all shapes, sizes, materials and designs in part propelled by rapidly evolving wellness and fitness trends that has shaped the look and the function of these glittering blue bodies of water. Tranquility and relaxation from work are central themes when designing business hotels, wellness retreats and spas. Paired to these aspects are the demands for water jets and Jacuzzis as well as additional…

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  Restroom Design EN

  In many cases, restrooms are associated with poor hygiene, vandalism and perversion - a place you visit only when you absolutely have to. However together with the evolution of technology and design of bathroom equipment, the meaning of washrooms receives more and more attention by designers and architects. Different solutions are employed to meet the special needs of various groups including men, women, children…

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  Roof Design EN

  Since streets become increasingly crowded, living on the top of a building promises privacy and distance. Rooftops have become the symbol of a new lifestyle - an extension and exclusive enjoyment of an area traditionally unused: the architectural crown of a building has been transformed into a new area for work or living. Architects, designers and town planners have seen in this final section of a building their…

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  Deborah Anderson Room 23 EN

  ROOM 23 depicts a year in the life of a private penthouse suite in a hotel in Beverly Hills, California. The year is 2008. The protagonists: Hollywood's characters and elite. The host: Diana Jenkins. The photographer: Deborah Anderson. The photographs glamorously unveil the story of what takes place behind these closed doors in provocative and intimate images.

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  Gabrielle Rigon Roxanne by Gabriele Rigon EN

  For the Italian photographer Gabriele Rigon the female nude is nature’s finest gift. He is so moved by this aesthetic that he translates his feelings into still images, or “intimate moments in time”, how he prefers to describe his pictures. Gabriele Rigon never works with many models, as he gives the special working relationship with the models the top priority. For him it is the most important thing to create an…

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  Shanghai Architecture and Design EN

  Shanghai is the fastest growing city at the moment and will be one of the most important metropolitan cities in the world. The diversity of Western and Oriental influences can be seen on its streets, in the silhouettes of its buildings and in their interiors, where tradition, design and contemporary tends mingle to create a distinctive language. In a mere 10 years, Shanghai has acquired a skylight comparable with…

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  Shoe Design EN

  Shoe design today reveals a great deal of inventiveness and originality: there are elegant and more classical styles, experimental designs and uniquely individual products as well as futuristically engineered concepts. Shoes have been a crucial part of the wardrobe throughout history. The function of protection was soon amplified, and shoes took on decorative and individual forms, depending on time and culture.…

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  Shop Design EN

  About 50 architects introduce their new ideas to the subject of showrooms. Plans will be shown if available. Index with contact information.

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  Spanish Design EN

  The impressive economic and infrastructural development that has taken place in Spain over the past two decades has shaped an optimum breeding ground for unprecedented architectural revolution. The plethora of significant interventions has greatly helped alter the physiognomy of a country, which in the last 20 years has grown a democracy and developed both socially and economically into one of the main European…

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  Steel Design EN

  Architecture has advanced quickly in the field of constructive materials, which are fundamental when fulfilling dreams of raising massive buildings. Amongst these materials that have had the biggest influence in the creation of this kind of architecture is steel. As a result of a carbon-alloy, steel is ductile but at the same time resistant and tough. Today it is not only present in the structure of all types of…

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  Stephen Williams Architects EN

  This series presents international architects and designers who have not published an own book yet. Stephen Williams is one of them. With his office Stephen Williams Architects in Hamburg he focusses on corporate architecture with the ambition to relate the architecture to the companies philosophie. Expermenting with connotation and quotation in each of his projects, Stephen Williams' work is marked by literary…

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  Straulino - Playtime EN

  With the Photo Books from Schmolka, Poinsard and Babic, daab was already able to find new and young photographers with enough creative potential for coffee-table-sized books. Following the idea to support young artists, daab now discovered a new talent: Alexander Straulino, a young German photographer living in Berlin. Straulino’s photography explores the elusive void between fashion and art. His work is a unique…

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  Traffic Design EN

  Since the last century, most of the public space has been designed for and around the automobile. Gradually, a mostly undifferentiated infrastructure developed into landmark architecture, with buildings and constructions of all kinds that interpret and mark the contemporary's ”automobile way of life”. Be it parking garages, gas stations, wash-cafés, bridges or motor hotels: the subject has a surprising lot of…

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  Wall Design EN

  In this book new trends of wall design are presented by means of numerous projects. The use of new materials allows bright colours and extraordinary patterns, new forms and structures. The wall is not longer only an essential but also a creative element of interior design. As a vertical section of the building, a wall structures the interior, organizes it into private and public areas, forms lines of sight and…

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  Wood Design EN

  In the modern architecture, wood plays an especially central role, and the significance of this wonderfully diverse raw material in the design of sophisticated buildings and interiors continues to increase. Historically speaking, building without wood is practically unimaginable. Over the centuries, skills and traditions in the industrial arts harbouring an immense wealth of experience have evolved on virtually all…

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  Yacht Interiors EN

  During the last 10 years there has been a significant leap forward in the development of yacht interiors. A decisive factor here was the introduction of the computer in the production process, which has greatly shortened the design phase and allowed more freedom when simulating and visualizing models. As a result, new boat forms, as well as more aerodynamic sails, have emerged, which could be carefully designed and…