Art&DesignSpring2025

Home Story: The German Approach to Interior Design Tina Schneider-Rading. If German interior designers have a genius, it’s for mixing modern with vintage finds and timeless classics to create looks you don’t see anywhere else in the world. Their spontaneous flair is evident in 21 winners of a residential design competition by Munich-based Schöner Wohnen, Europe’s leading lifestyle magazine. Interviews with the design- ers reveal the kind of design thinking that transcends trends • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279mm) • 211 color and b/w images • 208 pp. • 978-0-7643-5833-3 • HC • $39.99 / £36.99 / $56.99 CAD American Furniture Anatomy: A Guide to Forms and Features Kerry Pierce. This comprehensive yet highly browsable reference offers concise definitions, clear line drawings, and photographs of the elements and features that make up American furniture of all types. Written by an expert furniture maker and woodworker with over fifty years of experience, this is the most ex- tensive and contemporary resource of its kind. • 7" x 10" (177 x 254mm) •540 color images •376 pp. •978-0-7643- 6184-5 • HC • $39.99 / £36.99 / $56.99 CAD Basic Carpentry and Interior Design Projects for the Home and Garden: Make It Yourself Anna and Anders Jeppsson. An inspiring do-it-yourself guide. With its almost 50 projects and many lovely interior photos, this manual is an idea bank for the hobbyist, as well as the interior designer to dip into. Emphasis is placed on form and function • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279mm) • 278 color photos &diagrams • 152 pp. • 978-0-7643-4363-6•HC•$29.99 / £27.99 / $42.99CAD Best of Today’s Interior Design Tina Skinner. Tour the private work of interior decorators around the United States, visiting rooms ranging from luxury spa baths to grand living rooms and incredible kitchens. Additionally, there are media rooms, children’s rooms, bedrooms, dens, and dining areas to explore. The pages are packed with ideas for window and floor treatments, furnishings, and color combinations. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 393 color photos • 192 pp. • 978-0-7643-3189-3•HC•$49.99 / £45.99 / $72.00CAD Celebrating MacKenzie-Childs Jo Anne P. Welsh, foreword by Rebecca Proctor, Creative Director & Chief Brand Officer, MacKenzie-Childs. The first book about the iconic decor and lifestyle company MacKenzie-Childs, this gorgeous exploration offers to fans and newcomers alike a full immersion in the charm and handcrafted beauty that have made MacKenzie-Childs sought after for beautiful style. With over 250 color photos, this treasury reveals how the MacKenzie-Childs vision and style have impacted our living spaces. • 9" x 12" (228 x 304 mm) • 250 color images • 256 pp. • 978-0-7643-6097-8 • HC • $65.00 / £59.99 / $95.00 CAD Design on the Fly: Quick and Easy Home Décor Tips for the Busy Household Molly B. McLean. Simple and quick home design tricks that are easy to achieve, no matter how tight your time! Each room is given its own chapter of design ideas and projects, streamlined into time-specific categories: one hour, two hour, and weekend-length commitments. This book is a must for any busy family that wants to create a stylish home while maximizing time. • 9 1/8" x 8 1/8" (231 x 206 mm) • 273 color photos •144pp. •978-0-7643-4433-6•PB•$24.99 / £22.99 / $35.99CAD EZ2 Feng Shui: A Simple Guide to Deco- rating Your Home with Intention Joy Hodge & Sandy Sue Rector. 28-card step-by-step Feng Shui decorating guide to balance and support energy flow in the home or office. Includes a map (Bagua), 5 question and 9 Gua cards, and 13 Yin/ Yang Room cards to diagram your rooms. Offers ideas about optimal furniture pieces to consider, colors to use, and placement directions • 8" x 8" x 1" (203 x 203 mm) • 26 cards • 32 pp. • 978-0- 7643-5194-5 • Box • $24.99 / £22.99 / $35.99 CAD Gracious Living: Home Design for Your Future Naomi Neville and E. Ashley Rooney. Foreword by Dr. Jill M. Bjerke. More than 200 color photos illustrate the variety of architectural designs for “aging in place” created by many architects and designers. The general concepts brought forward help to create flexible, per- sonal space, highlighting solutions that can be utilized in multiple contexts. • 9" x 12" (228 x 304 mm) • 207 photos • 160 pp. • 978-0-7643-4359-9 • PB • $45.00 / £40.99 / $64.00 CAD Hollywood Bachelor Pads Carol Kipling. When you’re a bachelor rock star, the bedroom can be a very, um, significant feature. 300 vivid color photographs reveal an insider’s view of these killer bachelor pads of rock stars, actors, producers, and financiers. Get an inside look at the rooms where discerning men with demanding careers let loose at home • 81/2"x11" (215 x 279 mm) • 304 color photos • 144 pp. • 978-0-7643- 3307-1 • HC • $34.99 / £31.99 / $48.99 CAD Fireplaces: Modern Designs—Traditional Forms Holger Reiners. Over 160 color photos display modern fireplace designs in today’s homes, including simple, rustic types, costly antiquities, replicas of historic and antique frames, unusual examples, and classic modern forms that demonstrate many possibilities. In addition, the text carefully describes details necessary to create and maintain a functional and legal fireplace • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 165 color photos • 160 pp. • 978- 0-7643-3490-0 • HC • $34.99 / £31.99 / $48.99 CAD Step-by-step to a Classic Fireplace Mantel Steve Penberthy with Gary Jones. Build a classic mantel from stock materials and moldings, and tools found in the most basic of workshops. From measurement to the finished product, each step is illustrated with color photos and concise instructions. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 200+ color photos, Line drawings • 64 pp. • 978-0-88740-653-9 • PB • $12.95 / £11.99 / $17.95 CAD The Fireplace Design Sourcebook Melissa Car- dona. An inspiring guide to today’s vast assortment of hearth products, this book features more than 225 gorgeous color photographs of dressed-up fireplaces and stoves, and helpful tips to help you design a fireplace environment • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 237 color photos • 160 pp. • 978-0-7643-2283-9 • PB • $24.95 / £22.99 / $34.95 CAD Decorating with Concrete Indoors: Fireplaces, Floors, Countertops, &More Tina Skinner. Concrete technology is changing daily, with craftsmen, interior designers, and even do-it-yourselfers exploring ev- er-expanding uses for this wonderful, versatile mate- rial. Concrete can imitate any surface, frommarble and granite stonework, to glass, or worn and faded brick • 81/2" x 11" (215 x 279mm) •239 color photos •128pp. •978-0-7643-2200-6•PB•$20.00 / £18.99 / $28.95CAD Window Seats & Built-Ins Tina Skinner. Whether it’s your most lived-in area, kitchen, bath, or even your home office, window seats offer comfort and style to the home. This book includes ideas on how to change the look and feel of a room with a window seat, and offers a resource guide • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279mm) • 92colorphotos•96pp.•978-0-7643-1933-4•PB•$19.95 / £18.99 / $28.95 CAD Building a Fireplace: Step-by-Step instructions for Contemporary to Classic Styles Bernd Grütz- macher. Use this new book as a reference guide to create your dream fireplace, be it contemporary or a classic design. Step-by-step instructions walk you through the process from start to finish, from location and installation to finishing. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 291 color photos, 20 diagrams • 120 pp. • 978-0- 7643-2081-1 • PB • $19.95 / £18.99 / $28.95 CAD Constructing a Fireplace Mantel: Step-by-Step from Plywood and Stock Moldings Steve Pen- berthy with Lawrence S. Welsh. A step-by-step guide for building a beautiful mantelpiece with a recessed face plate, paneled designs on the legs and face plate, and the possibility for an infinite number of variations. Using plywood and stock moldings, each action is il- lustrated with a color photo and a clear explanation. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279mm) • 330 color photos, + draw- ingsandplans•64pp. •978-0-7643-2457-4•PB•$14.95 / £13.99 / $19.95 CAD Fire Spaces: Design Inspirations for Fireplaces and Stoves Tina Skinner. Shows fireplaces and stoves in almost every room, and the yard too! Most are shown in room settings, helping you to envision a fireplace as part of your overall decor. The biggest book on the market offering hundreds of wonderful images of fireplaces and stoves • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279mm) • 417 color photos • 176 pp. • 978-0-7643-1694-4 • HC • $34.95 / £31.99 / $48.95 CAD Making Concrete Countertops Buddy Rhodes with Susan Andrews. The art and craft of creating concrete countertops is detailed step-by-step, from measuring for a template, to building a mold, through casting and installation. Details the processes for creating pressed surface countertops, hand-trowelled, and polished countertop surfaces. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 472 color photos • 144 pp. • 978-0-7643- 2477-2 • HC • $39.95 / £36.99 / $56.95 CAD Making Concrete Countertops with Buddy Rhodes: Advanced Techniques Buddy Rhodes & Susan Andrews. This book details the art and craft of creating concrete countertops, step-by-step, for advanced users of the medium. Artist Buddy Rhodes shares his skills and experience, and most importantly, shows the process he pioneered for creating natural, stone-like pressed surfaces that have become his hallmark. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 432 color photos • 144 pp. • 978-0-7643-3014-8•HC•$39.99 / £36.99 / $56.99CAD Stairways Hans Weidinger. More than 230 color photos and 98 architectural sketches reveal innovative designs architects are creating for stairways in the home by turning them into an integral part of striking and visually exciting designs. Going beyond engineer- ing and design, it demonstrates spatial quality and diversity of staircases today • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) •250+photos •160pp. •978-0-7643-3638-6•HC • $34.99 / £31.99 / $48.99 CAD Lighting beyond Edison: Brilliant Residential Lighting Techniques in the Age of LEDs Charles Pavarini III with Mervyn Kaufman and J. Randall Tarasuk.. Amidst dimming incandescence, Lighting beyond Edison reimagines LEDs in homes. An acclaimed design- er's guide covers lumens, LED labels, light dispersion, room balance, home office, outdoor lighting, and land- scapes. 200+ images clarify LED use. QR codes update, index and glossary ensure reference ease.• 7" x 10" (175 x 255 mm) • 186 color and b/w images • 144 pp. • 978-0- 7643-6500-3 • HC • $34.99 / £31.99 / $48.99 CAD INTERIOR DESIGN: GENERAL INTERIOR DESIGN: FIREPLACES INTERIOR DESIGN: DETAILS | 85 INTERIOR DESIGN: DETAILS • FIREPLACES • GENERAL