Customer Reviews

Lofts 2: Good Ideas (v. 2)

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A good book on interior loft design/layout. Many of the designs show a nice modern aesthetic using materials like: woods, frosted glass, brushed aluminum, inviting colors, etc.

The book is also broken down to different chapters like "details, distribution and color, and panels & partitions.

A book you can actually get ideas from (unlike lofts that don't feel they're for living).

This is a great little book on Lofts. It is mostly inspiring imagery and has the basic information about each loft. A great coffee table book for gathering inspiration.

This book reminds me of something I'd do for a school project. The text is less than mediocre, the images are obscure and of low quality, the colors are washed out, and the print quality is BAD.

On the other hand, the cover is lovely, especially the bird's eye view of a loft, and the binding is nice, but adding a transparent plastic cover and an orange binding are enough to get my attention. However, it is content (and great graphic design) that will make it easy, no exciting, to read.

The author seems to have a concise grasp of the concepts of the projects, but this is of little help for me in designing my loft or getting excited about innovative spacial solutions, as even the publisher claims that the volume's intent is to give "homeowners ...inspiration." I know that sounds hypercritical and completely subjective, but allow me to illustrate.
I don't need an essay explaining the obvious: that the use of black creates a sophisticated space, or that anything, "results in an attractive, cutting-edge interior." I'm telling you, my friends and I could have made a better written, more interesting book. It's that bad.
And I don't even agree with either of those statements! (They are both found in the book.)

Lofts are so intriguing. They are vast open plans with various elements to be incorporated or resolved. These parameters allow for creative solutions: mediations of spacial elements and their relationships with one another, often in response to light, circulation, and interior design. This books just makes the projects... a bore!

I give the author due respect for compiling such a comprehensive collection of projects, but I'll have to gift this to a non-designer friend as I find it nearly useless(!)