Product Description

The loft is the residential image most identified with New York. Originally popularized by artists and designers, the enormous raw spaces have been laboratories for the creativity of architects and designers.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #455157 in Books
• Published on: 1998-11-01
• Released on: 1998-11-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 240 pages

From Library Journal
Rus, editor-in-chief of Interior Design, teams with architectural photographer Warchol for a visual tour de force of 21 domestic loft projects completed in the last four years in downtown Manhattan by established and emerging architects and designers. A five-page essay about New York City loft culture and creativity introduces an exciting array of design strategies, some of which fetishize the raw, unfinished space with industrial embellishments, textures, and motifs and some of which sleekly obliterate it. Each project unfolds like a chapter with a single page of text and a simplified floor plan, followed by a suite of ten to 12 full-page, light-filled, captionless interior photographs. Writing and photography are superbAthe spare descriptions counterbalance the inventive camera work. Recommended for architecture, art, and design collections.ARussell T. Clement, Univ. of Tennessee Lib., Knoxville
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About the Author
Mayer Rus is the design editor of House & Garden and the former editor of Interior Design; he has also written for Vogue, Mirabella, Elle, the Village Voice, and Out.

Paul Warchol was educated at Cooper Union and worked for Ezra Stoller. His work has been featured in Architectural Record, Interior Design, Elle Decor, and Architectural Digest, as well as many international publications, and exhibited in New York and Washington.

Customer Reviews

For loft living enthusiasts, this is your pictorial book. .
This book focuses on the architectural realm of the loft apartment. Unfortunately it does not contain many pictures of different lofts that are lived in. Instead it focuses on the architectural design, which is quite interesting if you own or are interested in this living environment.

Exemplary book and photos of NYC loft living
Some of the best examples of innovative design and material usage in loft construction/renovation.

Great resource.
I just purchased 4 books on lofts and this one had the widest range and most current pictures of well-designed lofts. Mostly pictoral--many creative ideas and approaches to this unique type of living space.