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Following up on our "Great Escapes Asia", "Europe", "Africa", and "South America" titles is this volume concentrating on the most extraordinary and tempting Canadian and American hotels. Ranging from funky and inexpensive to luxuriously elegant and wildly pricy, these hotels, inns, guesthouses, bung..

Palazzi of Rome is a comprehensive photographic documentation of Roman villas and palaces. It does not only present images of the grand houses of the popes and the nobles of the city, but also set them in their historical framework. The brilliant photographs capture the atmosphere of the buildings i..

Now available for the first time in paperback, this extraordinary book examines the 'culture of excess' in all its twentieth-century manifestations. Fashion, film, photography, design and interior decoration - all feature in Stephen Calloway's meticulous coverage of the colourful, the opulent and th..

Taschen's "Book of Tiki" provided the blueprint for the re-appreciation and revival of Tiki style. Almost completely wiped from the consciousness of Americans until recently, Sven Kirsten's tome put Tiki on the map as a unique pop culture phenomenon. Never before had Tiki culture's visual power and ..

This compendium showcases the extraordinary cutting-edge work of 100 of the world's most progressive graphic designers, from the hard-hitting political messages of Jonathan Barnbrook to the lyrical digital compositions of Peter Saville to the iconoclastic imagery of Stefan Sagmeister. Alongside the ..

Feats of design and engineering.Santiago Calatrava is not only one of the world’s most prominent architects, but is also an engineer, sculptor, and painter. His reputation as an unparalleled architectural engineer was cemented with his numerous bridges for cities around the world. With recent pr..

Philippe Starck describes him as a "mystic in a country which is no longer mystic." Philip Drew calls his buildings "land art" that "struggle to emerge from the earth." He is the only architect to have won the discipline's four most prestigious prizes: the Pritzker, Carlsberg, Praemium Imperiale, an..

It's a classic thing we've all heard: "New York is great to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there." New Yorkers laugh it off because they know the secret: it's even better when you live there. "New York Interiors" offers readers the chance to see the Big Apple's most fabulous pads in all their ec..

Contemporary World Architecture, Contemporary World Interiors is a thorough survey of the current state of international interior design, presenting some 450 projects around the world completed within the past 25 years. Organized into 11 chapters by building type, the book goes far beyond the tradit..

TASCHEN's new architecture series brings a unique perspective to world architecture, highlighting architectural trends by country. Each book features 15 to 20 architects - from the firmly established to the up-and-coming - with the focus on how they have contributed to very recent architecture in th..

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The third book in Thames & Hudson's successful "Spa Style" series is an authoritative guide to some fifteen of Arabia's most luxurious spas. Spanning the entire region, from Tunisia to Dubai, it is the first book to draw upon the ancient spa traditions of the region, and offers unparalleled insights..