Loft Style by Dominic Bradbury
(Watson-Guptill)
Excerpt:
"With any loft conversion or period home it pays to look at just what materials your building might already have in place and which can be incorporated into the look you want to create.
Discuss with an architect what you might be able to make use of or uncover, such as brick walls, wooden boards or stones floors. Reusing original materials usually adds to the character of the space and, if sympathetically incorporated into an interior plan, should not be at odds with any desirable sense of modernity that you might be trying to achieve."
Review:
Across the country, Americans are moving back to urban centers, shunning long commutes and enjoying revitalized cities. With smaller rooms and tighter living spaces, the primary housing stock in older neighborhoods can seem cramped to those raised in modern spacious floor plans. Answering the call, developers have taken abandoned warehouses and dormant schools, among other hulking relics, and carved them into livable spaces with wide open floor plans and endless design possibilities.
Dominic Bradbury's latest offering touches the pulse of the latest trends in urban interiors, casting a luxurious glance on functional and aesthetic design. Bradbury offers 11 case studies of how designers and architects confronted challenges offered by a diverse array of environments, ranging from basement apartments to new homes to renovated warehouse spaces.
Paying dutiful homage to modernist pioneers, this updated urban landscape plucks the most modern materials and juxtaposes the futuristic glass and steel with classic pieces and natural fabrics. As seen in 200 color photographs, the results are crisp and clean, colorful and comfortable.
(Distributed by Scripps Howard News Service.)
Resources Loft Style: Styling Your City-Center Home
by Dominic Bradbury (ISBN: 0823028402)
(WatsonGuptill Publications, January 2001)
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