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Lifestyles Today

Interior Design Around the World
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Lifestyles Today by Chris van Uffelen explores contemporary living environments, showcasing a myriad of innovative and trendsetting home designs from around the world. It highlights how architecture and interior design are adapting to modern needs and aesthetics, merging functionality with artistic expression. This book provides insightful perspectives on the evolution of lifestyles through the lens of arts and culture.
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If you're fascinated by modern design and living spaces, this book offers an exploration of contemporary lifestyles and architecture. It may appeal to you if you enjoy discovering how art, culture, and innovative design intersect to shape everyday living environments.

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Lifestyles Today

By showcasing carefully selected interiors from across the globe this volume is at the same time a cultural history of contemporary lifestyles: apartments, bungalows, villas, townhouses and lofts for singles or couples, for small or big families, or other forms of living together.

By showcasing carefully selected interiors from across the globe this volume is at the same time a cultural history of contemporary lifestyles: Apartments, bungalows, villas, townhouses and lofts for singles or couples, for small or big families, or other forms of living together

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Who wants to live how? The most diverse life patterns and lifestyles are reflected in the way a person designs his or her home. Architects and interior designers have to get involved with the individual character of their clients. They need to understand how their clients want to live and implement this in their room concepts and designs.

From the seating furniture and wall design to the orientation of the bed to the window, every element provides information about the inhabitants on various levels. Choices such as wood or stainless steel, delicate plants, pink lampshades, or even having a motorbike next to the fridge, make distinct statements about the self-image and desired external image of the residents.

Lifestyles Today celebrates life in all its diversity through magnificent interiors.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9783037682746

Publisher: Braun Publishing AG

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 24 February 2022

Country: Switzerland

Imprint: Braun Publishing AG

Illustration: 450

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 240.0mm

Height: 315.0mm

Weight: 1980g

Pages: 304

About the Author

The core topic for Chris van Uffelen is the transfer of knowledge about design in all its manifestations. For more than twenty years the Dutch-German art historian has been publishing books as well as countless essays and articels on art, architecture, interior design and urban planning from antiquity to the present.

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