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nytimes style section - bookcase, originally uploaded by ooh_food.

I love bookcases… How lovely to see bookcases in a Modern interior. Love the shag rug.

New Ikea Modern Bookcase/Bookshelf/Book Shelf Case
US $24.95
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nytimes style section - floating staircase, originally uploaded by ooh_food.
I love the artistic aesthetics of this staircase.

COLLIDOSCOPE NIGEL COATES NEW INTERIOR DESIGN HB BOOK
US $29.72 (0 Bid)
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The Endless City (2008) edited by Ricky Burdett and Deyan Sudjic
Phaidon Press
Hardcover, 512 pages

The stats on the cover of Phaidon’s recent tome to expanding global urbanism paint a picture of what many people know but what many people don’t want to believe: the world is primarily urban and it’s becoming more so every day, from [...]

Building London: The Making of a Modern Metropolis (2008) by Bruce Marshall
Universe
Hardcover, 304 pages
Paris 2000+: New Architecture (2007) by Sam Lubell
Monacelli Press
Hardcover, 240 pages

These two image-drenched coffee table books focus on what can be seen as Europe’s two most cosmopolitan cities, using photographs to tell the story of London and Paris, each in its own [...]

It is hard to find the words to express what a fraudulent, pathetic excuse for an energy policy President Bush’s new plan is.
read the whole AMAZING article here

St Thomas - George H.W. Bush Souvenir Sheet ST7119b
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Some more kitchens to add to the Kitchen Love files above! I love the pretty celadon green and white china collection in the cabinets in the first image and the little vintage painting leaning against the splash back and I also love the little bench seat breakfast nook in the last image - so gorgeous!!
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A new "paperless" architecture book featuring facades from around the world.
This book is the result of two years of architectural research. Dynamic facades, ventilated, high-tech or traditional composites with new features. This book shows that currently new skins not only act as an isolating element, besides interact with the environment, optimizing energy exchange with the [...]

One of our most popular posts here at L+L is the Finland Summer House posted by James back in January 2005. If exploring summer houses in Finland is your raison d’être, then we have a book for you. Finnish Summer Houses by Jari & Sirkkaliisa Jetsonen is a new book from Princeton Architectural Press [...]

HOLLYWOOD LIFE MAGAZINE COVER
ROOM WITH JORDAN CAPPELLA OTTOMAN page 46
Hi,
If you get the chance check out the latest issue of HL magazine. Page 46 has a room designed by Vanessa De Vargas, and features a picture of the Jordan Cappella Lucite based ottoman upholstered in a black ostrich vinyl.
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No Look Too Expensive to Knock Off
The 2008 Kips Bay Decorator Show House, open through May 22, is a good source of inspiration, even for those on a modest budget. Although most of the designers used expensive materials and accessories, an enterprising shopper could adapt many of the looks for a reasonable price.
Some decorators juxtaposed [...]

When he’s not living in his West Village loft, performer and photographer Joel Grey (Cabaret , Wicked , Brothers & Sisters ) resides in a 650-square-foot former surf shack in Venice, California. The New York Times takes a peak into the simple, pared-down space that was built in the 1920s. True to its beach roots, [...]

LoftLife believes that, in the words of urbanist Jane Jacobs, "in order for a society to flourish, there must be a flourishing city at its core." The desire for open space, good design, and adaptive reuse combined with the cultural and community benefits of living in the city are the main reasons readers [...]

Here is my husband, Kurt Wenzel’s third and latest novel’s book jacket, Exposure: A Novel . I love it! Can you guess who it is? I won’t give it away in case you read it some day. But I just love the way Little, Brown & Co’s design team pulled this off. The squares [...]

"Behind Bars" in Japanese , originally uploaded by designshrine .

This was my favorite cover of all of the versions for my book, Behind Bars: The Straight-Up Tales of a Big-City Bartender . It really captured my experience as a bartender on the Bowery before the rich folks took over. They captured my old look, [...]

Another design blogger publishes a book, this time it’s David Carlson of the David Report blog with Designboost 07, “the first in a series of books that in words, pictures and moving media describes the work of Designboost. Designboost is a knowledge company that helps companies and organisations to learn more about design in general [...]

Green Roof - A Case Study: Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates’ Design For the Headquarters of the American Society of Landscape Architects (2007) by Christian Werthmann
Princeton Architectural Press
Hardcover, 160 pages

The roof of the book’s title sits atop the American Society of Landscape Architects’ (ASLA) headquarters in Washington D.C. It is a relatively small roof of 3,300 [...]

Pocket Gardens: Contemporary Japanese Miniature Designs (2007) by Michael Freeman
Universe
Hardcover, 224 pages

The term “pocket garden” brings to mind pocket park, those roughly lot-size public spaces scattered about Manhattan that are small in stature yet have a wider impact that makes them successful urban design elements. Perhaps the most well-known is Paley Park in Midtown Manhattan. [...]

Pentagram Papers 37 presents Forgotten Architects, a look at 43 Jewish architects working in Germany before 1933. Exhaustively researched by “Haifa-born architect Myra Warhaftig—who died on March 4 at the age of seventy-eight—[she] spent twenty years piecing together the stories of these architects, publishing her findings in They Laid the Foundation: Lives and Works of [...]

Corrugated Iron: Building on the Frontier (2007) by Adam Mornement and Simon Halloway
W. W. Norton
Hardcover, 224 pages

When one hears the term corrugated iron (or the more contemporary corrugated metal or corrugated aluminum) a few conflicting images pop to mind: large industrial buildings, third-world shanty towns, Quonset huts , and the houses of Glenn Murcutt . [...]

I’m not sure how accurate this ebook is, but it seems pretty straight forward. So I got it for you guys. Maybe someone will find it useful.
Here’s the write-up on it:
“Are You Ready To Start Your Career In The Interior Design Industry?”
I bet you love to rearrange the [...]

Goodness, I am absolutely adoring these images by the ever-wonderful Fifi Lapin from the Winter issue of Small Magazine. They are too sweet for words.

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Scott Gustafson Pat-A-Cake Nursery Rhyme LTD ED Print
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Elle Magazine partnered with eco-friendly company SIGG to create one-of-a-kind limited edition bottles by some of fashions top designers. The bottles are to be auctioned off and benefits will go to Laurie David’s organization, Stop Global Warming. Unfortunately these bottle designs leave something to be desired…um maybe these designers should [...]

I came across this cool typographic chapter opener for a new do-it-yourself book called Craftivity. The book was designed by Holly Gressley for Design firm Flat.
Design Muse Blog
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PRINTING Mind of Man, presses, typography, books, [...]

APARTMENT THERAPY COVER
VANESSA DE VARGAS/FLOOR PLAN pg.238
JORDAN CAPPELLA MENTIONED ABOVE pg.240
JORDAN CAPPELLA LUCITE BASE OTTOMAN/BLACK FAUX OSTRICH COVER & RED LUCITE TRAY pg.241
ABOVE JORDAN CAPPELLA BLACK LUCITE TRAY pg. 239
Hello,
Be sure to check out the new APARTMENT THERAPY hardback coffee table book real homes, real people hundreds of real solutions. It has so many great [...]

PRE FAB NOW BOOK COVER
PAGE 50
PAGE 52
PAGE 53
PAGE 54/55
Hello,
If you get the chance please check out PRE FAB NOW written by James Grayson Trulove and
Ray Cha, Published by HarperCollins.
In this book is a six page spread on Jennifer Seigal’s prefab display home, for which
Jordan Cappella (me) did the interior/furniture design for. See images above.
You can [...]

The March 2008 issue of House Beautiful - saw it on the stands - had to have it right then eventhough one would be coming in the mail shortly! This is one of the best issues of HB. I had my concerns a couple of years back when things started getting [...]

Woo hoo! My copy of the AT book was waiting for me when I got home Friday afternoon! It’s soooo neato. Ok, not that I’m in any way biased (er… not that my place just happens to be in it, or that I happen to blog for them too, hehe) but it’s such a fun [...]

It’s snowing here again, in April!, and frankly I’d rather be somewhere warmer, somewhere like say, Silver Lake, CA (aka Willamsburg West). Bohemian Modern is the illustrated guide to Silver Lake, a creative enclave in the midst of Los Angeles and the birthplace of BoMo. As a guide, it touches on the community spirit there [...]

Renzo Piano Museums (2007) by Renzo Piano, with an essay by Victoria NewhouseMonacelli PressHardcover, 214 pages

In a piece in Bloomberg News last month, critic James S. Russell laments Italian architect Renzo Piano’s dominance of museum commissions in the United States. Citing timid museum trustees and an embrace of “architecture serving art” as reasons for this [...]

Cost-Effective Building: Economic concepts and constructions (2007) edited by Christian SchittichBirkhauserHardcover, 176 pages

The latest in Detail Magazine’s in DETAIL series presents what could be called “un-Bilbao” buildings; those commissions not blessed with the almost limitless budgets that allow for expensive materials, formal invention, and a HUGE scale. Where previous books in the series looked at [...]

Another wonderful book to add to the wish list which we now have in at Black & Spiro is Coastal Style. The book features lots of beautiful beach house pictures and also a few pictures of India Hicks’ Harbour Island house.

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A special edition (hard cover) book to add to my wish list - Portraits de la Renaissance by Nathalie Mandel (an Assouline book).

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I miss House and Garden already. The news of the House and Garden closing disappoints me just as much for the magazine’s departure from newsstands as it does because the houseandgarden.com website will be shut down as well. At the end of the month or so, H&G’s online content, like these beautiful photos of Chloe [...]

This book titled A Catalog of Type: Handjob has some great inspiration for hand drawn type. Available at Amazon.
Design Muse Blog

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The No. 1 selling kids’ almanac becomes a fun educational tool in these portable decks tailored by age and subject. …

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