150 Best Apartment Ideas [Hardcover]

Ana G. Canizares (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 27, 2007

New ideas on how to design, build, and decorate a home are always of essential value to architects, designers, and homeowners alike. This book offers an extensive collection of apartments from all over the world, devised by distinguished international architects and designers who have worked to achieve practical, innovative, and stunning solutions adapted to the specific needs and particular tastes of their clients. This compilation expresses the diversity of current trends in apartment design and provides an inspirational source of ideas for those active in the field of design or interested in catching up on the latest in contemporary residential architecture.

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About the Author

Ana G. CaÑizares is a writer specializing in interior design and architecture. Her previous books include Waterfront Retreats, Great New Buildings, and Lofts DesignSource.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 608 pages
• Publisher: Harper Design (February 27, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0061139734
• ISBN-13: 978-0061139734
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 8.1 x 1.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #116,407 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ideas from the world's best designers, March 22, 2007

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John Matlock "Gunny" (Winnemucca, NV) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 150 Best Apartment Ideas (Hardcover)

The design of an apartment presents several challanges not imposed on the designer of a free-standing house. The most restricting is probably size, and second having to deal with walls that probably can't be moved. Even more interesting or challenging is dealing with the confines of an older building that may have beams in strange places, or in one instance in this book a now abandoned water tank on the roof to be converted into a penthouse.

As you might guess from the title, this book consists almost exclusively of pictures of 150 apartments from around the world showing how some of the best architects in the world have handled the challenges presented. The apartments are not your low end Government supported housing, but top of the line units in New York, or Milan, or perhaps Melbourne. It makes this an 'idea book' suitable for any architects office.

The book itself is beautifully printed on heavy weight paper and the book has a sewn binding with headbands, features that will make it last a long time even with heavy usage.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great for Inspiration, May 12, 2007

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Michael Murry (Bellevue, WA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 150 Best Apartment Ideas (Hardcover)

This is a great inexpensive book to get you thinking about design ideas. There are excellent pictures and a little text to briefly describe what is happening. It would have been nice to get a more detailed description of how things are actually built... but a great book to casually look through.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointed, January 30, 2010

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This review is from: 150 Best Apartment Ideas (Hardcover)

Very disappointed by this book. I have the "Lofts 2" book which is also published by Good Ideas, and apparently many of the spaces featured in this "150 Best Apartment Ideas" book were the same exact spaces from "Lofts 2," the pictures are the same, even the text/copy and floor plan illustrations are exactly the same things! Very disappointing!