Open Concept Apartments - Hardcover

Zamora, Francesc

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0062840606 ISBN 13: 9780062840608

Publisher: Harper, 2018

Synopsis

The ultimate resource for modern apartment design and renovation, featuring hundreds of creative ideas from around the world, curated by the author of Open Concept Houses and the 150 Best design series.

With the explosion in popularity of urban living, more people are trading houses for high-rises. But these sophisticated urbanites don’t want to sacrifice the expansive feel that a house affords. The answer is open concept apartments. By eliminating doorways and walls, open concept design blends separate areas for cooking, eating, and entertaining into one breezy, bright, large, unconstructed space. Special touches—from furniture to lighting to accessories—can be used to subtly define each area, creating a sense of expansiveness and intimacy.

Open Concept Apartments brings together a number of examples from all over the world—from New York to Sydney, Chicago to Rio de Janeiro, Santa Monica to Tel Aviv—that magnificently illustrate this popular design trend. Showcasing the vision and brilliance of distinguished international architects and designers, each of these apartments—including both original constructions and renovations—have been created using practical and functional solutions that suit the needs and tastes of their individual clients.

Packed with more than five-hundred pages filled with gorgeous and inspiring before-and-after color photographs, as well as handy floor plans, Open Concept Apartments is an essential resource for architects and interior designers and an inspirational guide for every apartment dweller.

About this title

About the Author

Francesc Zamora Mola works for Loft Publications, where he is the author of numerous architecture and interior design books, including 150 Best of the Best House Ideas and 150 Best Interior Design Ideas. Formerly an architect in San Francisco, he lives and works in Barcelona, Spain.

From the Back Cover

With thirty-nine unique apartment designs, including suggestions to eliminate doorways and walls, Open Concept Apartments is the ultimate resource for open floor plans to create a larger combined living space for cooking, eating, and entertaining.

Filled with detailed drawings, before and after renovation photographs, and gorgeous full-color images, this book aims to provide apartment owners and designers with an inspirational collection of some of the world’s most beautiful open concept designs. Brimming with ingenious tips and clever solutions, Open Concept Apartments shows how to combine the kitchen, dining room, and living room to create one large shared space, with each “room” defined by islands, carpeting, and furniture. Interiors from distinguished architects and designers illustrate striking ways to fashion an impressive and functional apartment that not only fits your needs and lifestyle but also results in a practical and aesthetic design.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harper
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0062840606
• ISBN 13: 9780062840608
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 480