The book 'ROOM. Inside Contemporary Interiors' offers a comprehensive overview of contemporary world interior design and designers.
A lavishly illustrated volume, 'ROOM. Inside Contemporary Interiors' presents 100 exceptional emerging designers, selected by 10 international leaders in the interior design world; featuring curators from a broad range of disciplines, including groundbreaking design publications, world-renowned academics and tutors on design, influential interior design practices, cross-genre innovators and industry leaders.
This international panel have each chosen 10 of their favourite interior design projects that have broken new ground in the last 5 years. Arranged alphabetically by designer, the book features more than 700 photographs, renders and drawings. The result is an up-to-the-minute collection representing the best of both global and regional interior design around the world.
The variety in curators ensures a uniquely broad remit of interior design is covered, from retail concept stores, ephemeral dining experiences, stage design, art installations, hotels and home living.
Each critic has written exclusively for this publication on each of the designs they have nominated - projects that they believe to have made a profound impact on the course of contemporary interior design. The book also includes biographies of all interior designers and curators.
The book 'ROOM. Inside Contemporary Interiors' offers a comprehensive overview of contemporary world interior design and designers.
A lavishly illustrated volume, 'ROOM. Inside Contemporary Interiors' presents 100 exceptional emerging designers, selected by 10 international leaders in the interior design world; featuring curators from a broad range of disciplines, including groundbreaking design publications, world-renowned academics and tutors on design, influential interior design practices, cross-genre innovators and industry leaders.
This international panel have each chosen 10 of their favourite interior design projects that have broken new ground in the last 5 years. Arranged alphabetically by designer, the book features more than 700 photographs, renders and drawings. The result is an up-to-the-minute collection representing the best of both global and regional interior design around the world.
The variety in curators ensures a uniquely broad remit of interior design is covered, from retail concept stores, ephemeral dining experiences, stage design, art installations, hotels and home living.
Each critic has written exclusively for this publication on each of the designs they have nominated - projects that they believe to have made a profound impact on the course of contemporary interior design. The book also includes biographies of all interior designers and curators.
Nacho Alegre (Spain) is a cofounder of Apartamento magazine, named one of the ‘hippest new design publications’ by The New York Times ; Michael Boodro (USA) is Editor-in-Chief of ELLE DECOR magazine. He has also worked at The New York Times Magazine , Harper’s Bazaar , Vogue and GQ ; Tony Chambers (UK) is Editor-in- Chief of Wallpaper*, an international and influential design and style magazine; Aric Chen (China) was creative director of Beijing Design Week and is design and architecture curator at Hong Kong’s upcoming M+ museum of visual culture; Frederico Duarte (Portugal) is a design writer, critic and curator with particular expertise in Brazil and South America, he also teaches at the University of Lisbon; Miles Kemp (USA) is a thought-leader in interactive architecture and user experience. He is the president of award-winning Variate Labs whose projects span robotics, interiors, architecture, vehicles, user experience and video game design; Ko Matsubara (Japan) is Editor-in-Chief of Tokyo- based Casa Brutus , one of Japan’s foremost interior design and architecture publications; Jon Otis (USA) is a practicing designer and Professor of Interior Design at the Pratt Institute, New York; Robert Thiemann (The Netherlands) is Editor-in-Chief of Frame , the world’s leading interior design publication, and cofounder and Director of Frame Publishing, the magazine’s parent company; Alan Yau (China/UK) is the internationally recognised restaurateur behind revolutionary and design-focused restaurants such as Wagamama and Busaba Eathai.
