Interior Design Monographs

The first book from celebrated interior and furniture designer Kate Hume. Kate Hume's passion for interiors stems from her lifelong love affair with color and her respect for anything artisanal. Color, light, and texture inform all of Hume's projects to create a distinctive style that is casually luxurious; bold patterns are expressed in rich, elemental hues.

-Whether design preferences tend toward the traditional or the contemporary, the richly illustrated projects in this book include luxurious exotic textures, fine details, refined materials, and artisanship that extends into art.

Because the work environment has a huge impact on employees’ performance, many successful companies value how they design their workplaces to keep their employees happy and productive. For example, an open space where people can gather and communicate can motivate and inspire them to come up with new ideas. A meditation room allows employees to calm down and recover their concentration, leading to positive benefits for everyone in the company to work in harmony. This second title in the Renovation Graphics series showcases those creative and unconventional renovations of offices. In this book, “office” is defined as “workspace” and includes not only a room in an office building but also an atelier, a workshop, a vacant house and a school renovated into an office. Unlike other books, this collection presents spatial design along with graphic design, introducing many graphic design tools such as company logos, signage, business cards, brochures, letter head and package design. This book is the best inspirational reference book for professional graphic designers, space designers, and architectural designers.Productive work comes from a creative workplace environment! Because the work environment has a huge impact on employees' performance, many successful companies value how they design their workplaces to keep their employees happy and productive. For example, an open space where people can gather and communicate can motivate and inspire them to come up with new ideas.

In this timeless and beautiful book, renowned architectural and interior designer, writer, shop-keeper and blogger Ben Pentreath presents a fresh and insightful overview of the classic English style.