The Ultimate House Book: For Home Design in the Twenty-First Century

by Sir Terence Conran (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2006

  $3.25

  The ultimate home reference book for the 21st century, The Ultimate House Book provides all you need to know about building, decorating and furnishing your home, as well as offering an inspirational blueprint for planning a home to suit your lifestyle. This is the only book that you will need to plan, design and decorate your home whether you are buying your first, one-bedroom flat or moving your family into a restored Victorian house. It is designed specifically to adhere to the demands of a modern lifestyle and as such the versatility and flexibility of space are central to its philosophy. The Ultimate House Book is a comprehensive compendium providing everything you need to know from buying to building, improving to decorating, furnishing to fitting out. Combining inspiration with practical advice, in-depth case studies with hundreds of illustrated examples, this is the bible for modern living spaces, their design and the way in which we use them.

• Used

  Hardcover
  2003

  $3.25

  Three years into the new millennium, Sir Terence Conran has once again reinvented his concept of home design, now a harmonious blur between public and private living with a soupcon of professionalism. The Conran movement (stores and style) began in 1974 with The House Book and was updated as The New House Book in 1985 and The Essential House Book in 1994. The significance of the newly added word home in the title should not be overlooked, as the author has gravitated toward LeCorbusier's 1927 statement: Everybody, quite rightly, dreams of sheltering himself in a sure and permanent home of his own. Ultimate appeals to this primal notion of belonging, starting with an aspirational, visual introduction before separating ideas into three distinct sections: home life, or the different stages of design, from first house to empty nest; home work, exploring all options for decorating, from paint versus plaster to remodeling versus new construction; and compendium, the nitty-gritty information so necessary to understanding and making design choices. A feat worthy of any bookshelf. Barbara Jacobs