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The Interior Design Business Handbookby Mary V. Knackstedt
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2002; US$ 80.00Discover how you can run the practical side of your practice more profitably. This comprehensive guide to managing an interior design business gives you an arsenal of proven procedures and practical tools and techniques perfected over the course of some thirty years. New to this edition are sections on establishing an electronic office, the pros and cons of working alone and creating partnerships, hiring and working with off-site employees, and more. It also includes more than fifty sample forms and letters, such as an existing conditions survey and a letter of transmittal, that can easily be adapted to your own uses. more...
On Altering Architectureby Fred Scott
Taylor & Francis 2008; US$ 49.95In his new text, Fred Scott brings together ideas of what might constitute a theory of interior, or interventional design. more...
Design and the Social Sciencesby Jorge Frascara
CRC Press 2002; US$ 99.95This book explores the disciplines of the social sciences, which help investigate the relationships between people and design, in assessing the role that products and the built environment play in peoples lives and in setting product requirements. more...
The Modern Period Roomby Penny Sparke; Brenda Martin; Trevor Keeble
Taylor & Francis 2006; US$ 65.95Offers a collection of essays, considering the interiors of the modern era and their reconstructions from different viewpoints. Exploring themes and examples by prestigious architects, this book reveals the specific coding of presented interior spaces. more...
Professional Practice for Interior Designersby Christine M. Piotrowski
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2001; US$ 80.00The tools needed to create and manage a thriving interior design practice. This essential sourcebook provides all of the information needed to establish and manage a productive, profitable interior design firm. Filled with savvy business and career advice, Professional Practice for Interior Designers, Third Edition delivers updated and expanded coverage of the full range of legal, financial, management, marketing, administrative, and ethical issues faced by sole practitioners, firm principals, and managers. more...
Interior Design Visual Presentationby Maureen Mitton
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2003; US$ 45.00The new, updated edition of the successful book on interior design Interior Design Visual Presentation, Second Edition is fully revised to include the latest material on CAD, digital portfolios, resume preparation, and Web page design. It remains the only comprehensive guide to address the visual design and presentation needs of the interior designer, with coverage of design graphics, models, and presentation techniques in one complete volume. Approaches to the planning, layout, and design of interior spaces are presented through highly visual, step-by-step instructions, supplemented with more than forty pages of full-color illustrations, exercises at the end of each chapter, and dozens of new projects. With the serious designer in mind,... more...
Conservation of Furnitureby Shayne Rivers; Nick Umney
Taylor & Francis 2003; US$ 200.00This book is a comprehensive resource covering the principles and practice of the conservation and restoration of furniture, and other decorative art objects made wholly or partly of wood. It integrates theory with practice to show the principles which govern interaction between wooden objects, the environmental and conservation treatments and the factors which need to be taken into account to arrive at acceptable solutions to conservation problems. The practical knowledge and experience of a team of conservators active in the field are bought together with theoretical and reference material from diverse sources and unified within a systematic framework. Specialist conservators from related disciplines cover diverse materials often incorporated... more...
Interior Design Handbook of Professional Practiceby Coleman-Interior Design Magazi
McGraw-Hill 2001; US$ 125.00A complete guide to the practice and business of interior design, complete for each different types of practice - commercial, retail, residential, healthcare, hospitality, institutional, preservation, and facitlity management. more...
Lighting by Designby Christopher Cuttle
Taylor & Francis 2003; US$ 88.95Lighting by Design is a practical guide structured around a new theoretical approach to the design of lighting for architectural spaces. Christopher Cuttle outlines his unique three-level approach to lighting design in this indispensable text for students and professionals. Through Observation, Visualisation and Realization, the book explains how to envision, develop and produce your own lighting ideas. Architects, interior designers and specialist lighting designers will benefit from a holistic approach to the lighting process, combining technical information with a distinctive design theory. Cuttle begins with the development of observational skills, leading to the ability to visualise architectural spaces in light. The final stage... more...
Emotional Roomsby Benjamin Noriega-Ortiz
Simon & Schuster 2007; US$ 16.99emotional ROOMS the sensual interiors of benjamin noriega-ortiz Named by House Beautiful as one of "America's Most Brilliant Decorators" for ten consecutive years, Benjamin Noriega-Ortiz is recognized as one of the most stylish and influential of today's interior designers. His sensuous, glamorous, and ethereal work captures an unusual sense of openness and light through the use of color, materials, architecture, and the unexpected integration of fashion. Noriega-Ortiz has traveled the world to design spaces for such clients as rock superstar Lenny Kravitz, bestselling author Laura Esquivel, and celebrity photographer Mark Seliger. Now, with Emotional Rooms , he shares his process with anyone who may not have access to... more...









