Hybrid Interiors : Combining Styles - Combining Functions

Hybrid Interiors presents an inspiring collection of the most innovative and imaginative homes from the world of contemporary interior design. Each interior defines a new formula for projecting living spaces; they are not unlike laboratories where sophisticated combinations of styles emanating from different cultures and centuries are created. Design cues from the forties to the seventies are seamlessly blended in an eighteenth-century apartment, a residence in Florence that functions both as an art gallery and as a living space. All of the interiors included have their own unique personality and share only one thing: they fit the description 'hybrid'. Richly illustrated with more than three hundred color photographs, Hybrid Interiors sketches a tour, in twenty-five stages from Amsterdam to Rome, from Berlin to Beijing, through homes that give rise to a studied dialog between contemporary design and historic preservation, living space and working space, and classic style and popular culture. Also available from this publisher: 0954428854 Antiques in Italian Interiors, $85.00