Product Description

In America alone, nearly 70 million people live in urban areas. Fortunately, cities offer as much variety in living spaces as the people who inhabit them young or old, single or family, super-rich or everyday Joe. Yet many of these unique dwellings, from walk-up studios to narrow brownstones to open lofts, present perplexing design challenges.

City Living takes readers to every corner of the world to explore some of the most creative and unique design approaches to city living. Paul Wiseman’s tiny San Francisco pad offers space-saving solutions for small apartments. A Krueck & Sexton designed childproof duplex in Chicago shows that style and kids can coexist. A London townhouse with dark, narrow rooms is creatively designed to change with the seasons. A New York designer’s cherry blossom-filled terrace brings gardening to high-rise living.

City dwellers the world over will find inventive ways to make their own cityscape both comfortable and beautiful.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1250546 in Books
• Published on: 2003-10-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 144 pages

About the Author
Sharne Algotsson is an interior designer who specializes in urban spaces. She does consulting work for IKEA in Scandinavia, and runs her own consulting firm. The author of two books on African style and design, Algotsson lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Customer Reviews

Features inventive and stylish interiors
Gorgeous color photography showcases urban interiors drawn from international domestic dwellings ranging from New York, Paris, Milan, and Bangkok, to Tokyo, Brussels, Miami, Rome, and Marrakech in City Living: Creative Urban Design Ideas For The New Urban Homes by interior designer and urban stylist Sharne Algotsson . Visually impressive, City Living well serves as a source of practical inspiration, features inventive and stylish interiors, offers imaginative ideas for creating versatile living and working spaces, provides resourceful guidelines for maximizing available space, and presents inventive solutions stretching the very boundaries of urban interior design and decoration. City Living is a seminal and welcome addition to personal, professional, academic, and community library Interior Design reference collections and supplemental reading lists.