Tim Street Porter Reihenfolge der Bücher (Chronologisch)

A fresh perspective on Los Angeles is presented through the eyes of longtime resident Tim Street-Porter. He explores the city's vibrant architecture, stunning coastline, and lush gardens, capturing the essence of this glamorous global metropolis.

Tropical residential designs take center stage in this inspiring collection, showcasing unique interiors curated by architecture and interior design experts Annie Kelly and Tim Street-Porter. Readers will find a wealth of ideas to help them craft their own personal paradises, blending style with the essence of island living.

Highlighting mid-century modern architecture, this luxurious book features historic jet-set homes crafted by renowned designers like Richard Neutra, Albert Frey, and Paul Williams. It also includes contemporary residences from today's top tastemakers, celebrating the unique aesthetic and cultural significance of Palm Springs' architectural heritage.

Living with good design-modernists have proposed since the beginning of the last century-is a way of improving and enriching life. In this exceptional book, readers are invited to enjoy the experience of living with great modern design and to learn the basic tenets of the modernist aesthetic. Modernists Michael and Gabrielle Boyd have created the ultimate modernist experience-restoring Oscar Neimeyer's only American house and grounds to the original state; building and living with perhaps the world's preeminent collection of modernist furniture, objects, and books; and learning from the benefits that good design brings forth.In a style evoking Charles and Ray Eames's filmic approaches, the book shows off some of the finest 20th-century design, from rarely published examples by Gerrit Rietveld and Eileen Gray to icons of modern furniture by Jean Prouvé and Arne Jacobsen, these are the prime embodiments of the modernist mission to create innovative and beautiful products for a broad audience.From the interplay of the natural environment with architectural features and the rich array of elegant details of the Niemeyer house to the breathtaking design collection, the book will inspire all who love the modernist lifestyle.

Like its spectacular predecessors, New York, New York and These United States, this elegant volume is a brilliant presentation of all that is L.A. It takes us from Venice Beach to Rodeo Drive, from high culture to pop, and over freeways and flashing past billboards. Los Angeles captures the essence of the constantly evolving from palm-lined avenues to hip hotels and art deco theaters, Frank Gehry's Disney Concert Hall to the Cathedral of our Lady of the Angels. Not just for L.A. residents and connoisseurs, this book is for anyone interested in architecture, design and, of course, the iconography unique to Southern California. The book's format allows us to revel in the marvelous landscape. From mountain peaks to desert oases, beautiful beaches to redwood forests, Los Angeles literally envelops us in the city's grandeur in stunning spreads and impressive gatefolds, each more than five feet wide.Acclaimed architecture and design photographer Tim Street-Porter showcases the fascinating cityscape-by day and by night. A long time resident with exceptional access, Street-Porter takes us from the most coveted homes of Hollywood and Beverly Hills to the best examples of contemporary architecture for which the city is famous, featuring the full spectrum of residences from seminal modernist houses to baroque mansions and California Mediterranean homes in their lush settings.

Internationally renowned photographer and writer Tim Street-Porter has spent more than ten years travelling through Bali, Java, Sri Lanka, Mexico, Belize and Jamaica. This books stunning photographs, supported by fascinating and informed commentary, capture the appeal of the enviable dwellings he found on his journeys.

In the tradition of the highly successful and groundbreaking Los Angeles House, Tim Street-Porter now takes us with him to the magnificent colour and flavour of Asia, Australia, Africa and Central America: into the homes (and a few secluded hotels) of the tropics. The book's lavish photographs, supported by Street-Porter's fascinating and informed commentary, capture the appeal and the meaning of the enviable dwellings he found on his journeys around the tropics, showing the very best and most original of the regions' diverse styles and serene home designs.