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Title: The New City Home: Smart Design for Metro Living by Leslie Plummer Clagett, Leslie Clagett ISBN: 1561584614 Publisher: Taunton Press Pub. Date: 09 April, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5
Rating: 5
Summary: Home, or something like it
Comment: Young people today aren't keeping to the small-town or suburban lifestyles of their parents. They're going to the cities to rent studio apartments. Once there, they're likely to end up moving into family-size spaces.
City planners and administrators are taking this back-to-the-cities trend into consideration. They're trying to make city living appeal to young future owners. One way is by business building up a neighborhood around it, in brownstones; floor-through flats; high-rise apartments; lofts; offbeat converted places such as autoshops and stables; rowhouses; and townhouses.
Likewise, architects are thinking about the loss of peace, privacy and quiet that usually comes with city living. They're coming up with designs that meet young needs for shelter and express young personalities. The result really is personal space inside, even with such impersonal space outside as "shadowy" concrete buildings.
This is done by clearly-defined lines, hand-worked materials, soothing planes, and unusual details indoors. It's also by putting in balconies and terraces and opening up roofs and windows to light and views onto deliberately planted small, green spaces. Similarly, not much space inside looks bigger, for example, by using the same materials in and out, such as cedar flooring, fencing and decking.
THE NEW CITY HOME even brings working spaces inside, while keeping them attractively and cleverly separate from living spaces. In one case, for example, the outside has cottage-style clapboard cladding for the first floor. Indoors, the kitchen and living spaces have a cozy look, what with simple cabinetry, low ceilings and boldly painted colors. The second floor has plywood panels on the outside. Inside, spotlights, skylights, and high ceilings show the upper level to be for work.
What if the two can't always be separated, as in bathrooms or kitchens? Space isn't clearly personal or work, if it brings in universal design. This means, for example, lever handles to doors and faucets, rocker-panel light switches, and textured non-slip flooring.
Leslie Plummer Clagett's book is organized and written in an understandable, user-friendly way. Her choice of illustrations works perfectly with what she says. This practical help to city living is rounded out with Elizabeth Franklin's THE FRANKLIN REPORT, NEW YORK CITY 2003: THE INSIDER'S GUIDE TO HOME SERVICES.
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the best in this class
Comment: I've browsed about twenty different contemporary interior books, and I've found this to be most interesting and slightly more inspiring.
One piece of advice: I don't think any of the contemporary interior books have as much variety as one might expect. Make sure to browse the physical books before making a final decision - don't base you decision on these reviews alone. I've done this with many book on interior design and I've been disappointed.
Rating: 5
Summary: Wonderful
Comment: This book has wonderful photography and covers a broad range of city homes including renovations and lofts. The style of this book is modern and contemporary. Very nice ideas!
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Title: Interior Details by Fay Sweet ISBN: 1564968030 Publisher: Rockport Publishers Pub. Date: 2002 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: Concrete Countertops: Design, Form, and Finishes for the New Kitchen and Bath by Fu-Tung Cheng, Eric Olsen ISBN: 1561584843 Publisher: Taunton Press Pub. Date: 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The New American Townhouse by Alexander Gorlin, Paul Goldberger ISBN: 0847821412 Publisher: Rizzoli Pub. Date: 2000 List Price(USD): $60.00 |
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Title: Loft Style: Styling Your City-Center Home by Dominic Bradbury ISBN: 0823028402 Publisher: Watson-Guptill Pubns Pub. Date: 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Patterns of Home: The Ten Essentials of Enduring Design by Max Jacobson, Murray Silverstein, Barbara Winslow ISBN: 1561585335 Publisher: Taunton Press Pub. Date: 27 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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