Interior Design Books

On first flick I thought Yeah Great! the stuff in this book really nice and I'd love to have most of it somewhere in my house...where can I buy them!! On second read I soon started to relise that producing great finishes on furniture, lamp shades, curtains, floors and walls is not as hard as it looks and even someone like ME can achieve it. This book is fantastically laid out with big colourful, basic pictures which take you through the procedures step by step from start to finished product. It's an excellent book if you want some great, and visually stunning effects around the house without needing a degree in interior or graphic design. There are even templates in the back if you want to use the patterns straight from the book. There are also many different colour samples if you're not to sure of what colours go well together. It's also great for making gifts too! If you like to dabble in a little bit of art and craft then this book should definately make it to your bookshelf.

Quilting The Great Outdoors is a collection of inspirational quilt projects that evoke an outdoors atmosphere. Skilled quilt designer Debbie Field offers needlecraft enthusiasts full-sized patterns and instructions for quilts, wall hangings, appliqued wildlife blocks, enhanced simple illustrated instructions. Indeed, more than 140 full color photographs enhance this fun and useful supplemental specialty resource which is especially recommended to the attention of the more adventurous quilter!

Don't be fooled by the misleading title. This is a collection of hundreds of the best books ever written, condensed into two page summaries. Very very handy, entertaining, and just fun to read. Browse from topics such as literary classics to health and fitness, it includes everything from "Hamlet" to "The Stand" to trivia and quotes and anecdotes. Sports, business and leadership, self-help, little-known facts and fictions, perfect for any occasion.

Great Houses of Ireland is a wonderful book for the Irish, architecture, or home design enthusiast. It is filled with lots of great pictures of some of Ireland's most extravagant castles and houses, both inside and out. The book also includes history and interesting facts about these monumental abodes. If you enjoy European architecture, lavishly decorated homes, and lots of beautiful photography, this would be an excellent book to own. It would also make a great coffee table book with it's hard covers and large size.

Beautiful book. Absolutely gorgeous pictures. I poured through it to get ideas for window treatments in our new traditional-style home. Very inspirational.

This book is a collection of Emanuel Tov's essays on the Septuagint. The collection displays remarkable breadth, as well as methodological rigour, making the end product an indespensible tool for anyone wishing to seriously study the Septuagint.

Gregor Schneider is one the most important artists working in the sculptural field today. This book details his work for the Venice Biennial but is not exclusive to it. We recieve little insight to the personal impetus Schneider has in creating his environments. But I don't think that would be helpful considering the types of works that he creates. I'm just obsessed with artists personal lives. Indeed, Schneider creates rooms within rooms, doors over doors, houses within houses within galleries, recreations of industrial buildings inside normal buildings, ambiguous plastic bags in corners, mannequins or people lying in the middle of galleries, replica houses, replica families. He does all of this, but with a sinister air of the uncanny. His replication differs from that of Warhols or Koons, his suggestive replications are actually a deeper search into something so ambiguously evil and psychological that it's massiveness can only be represented by the simplicity and blank slate of his work. Things fall apart. There's a terrific essay in this book comparing Freud's idea of the uncanny with Schneiders work, it does much to explain the atmosphere that Schneiders installations create. The photos in the book are small, black & white, and grainy and very suitable for the documentative aesthetic he has created for himself. It's a very small book, probably because at the time of it's publication Gregor Schneider wasn't as internationally known as he is today. But I can't wait for larger publications dealing with this thought provoking and eerie creator. Enjoy.

I received this book as part of a training program for sterilization design. I am so impressed with the well thought schemes and ideas of Dr. Tholen and it's paramount coming from a dentist. Thank you so much for this great tool. I use it almost every day in my consultations.

As a professional Industrial Designer and a huge fan of the Bauhaus I stopped into the Bauhaus Archive in Berlin earlier this year during a vacation. I was surprised to see an exhibit honoring the work of Gunter Kupetz who I had never previously known through education or research. I really enjoyed the exhibit which was well presented however I was left wanting to know more about the man and his contributions. When I returned to the United States I looked for a book that would satisfy my thirst to know more. None were really available that didn't have a specific focus on one of Gunter's works such as the famous "Water Bottle". Then just a few months later this book was published and I ordered it immediately.

Once I received it I was not able to put it down for hours. It draws you in right from the forward which has some really interesting personal perspectives from Gunter on ID at various points throughout his career. Points that I think could stand to be reinforced in design schools today. Then the book dives right into his work in metals, glass and plastic while giving you a fairly comprehensive biography along the way. There are loads of images and descriptions throughout. Even the glossary has a wealth of info which was unexpected. Bonuses include a chronicle of German design history that cross references to Gunter's personal history and short bios on contributors.

Even the book design from a typography and graphic arts perspective is done well. It's a dual German/English layout that is creativly done for an easy read. I could go on and on but there is just too much that's good about this book to write it here.

On that note I suggest you purchase a copy if you are a student of Industrial Design. You will not be disappointed! Few books on ID are done this well at this cost.

Peter McKenzie has sifted through the field notes, diaries, and other archival materials of tourists, adventurers, missionaries, military officials, and others to paint a picture of Orisha worship as it was practiced in Yoruba speaking territories in the mid-nineteenth century. It is very interesting that by comparison it seems that the rituals of veneration of the Orishas on THIS side of the Atlantic in modern times bear more in common with the Orisha worship of the past than the practices in modern day Nigeria. It is as if a snapshot of Orisha worship was taken by the people who would be torn from their homes and enslaved in the "new world" and that it has remained faithful to their socio-religious heritage and, in contrast, the forces of missionary Christianity and Islamic proselytization in Nigeria have birthed a very different form of veneration in the cradle of its own origin.