With over 180 photos and extensive commentary; this Asian design book will add a stylish flair to all your bedroom design projects.Contemporary Asian Bedrooms opens the door to a new world of slumber retreats; showcasing some of the most eye-catching bedroom designs in luxury homes and hotels in Southeast Asia. Shown here are a range of new design trends that make contemporary bedrooms more than just a spot for shut-eye.Bedrooms now have an exiting variety of identities ranging from zen-inspired minimalist cocoons to high-tech entertainment arenas equipped with retractable movie screens built into the bed; to personal pampering retreats merging bath and bedroom into luxurious spa suites. This book gives homeowners and interior designers a look at new ideas; shapes; colors and textures that transform the places we sleep into high-style; must-have dream spaces.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. ldquo;a cartographic history that is anchored in the Americasrdquo;By Gene Rhea Tucker3.5 out of 5 stars.In Early American Cartographies; editor Martin Brückner has gathered together a bakerrsquo;s dozen of interdisciplinary articles designed to examine ldquo;a cartographic history that is anchored in the Americasrdquo; (p. 6); i.e. not just treat the exploration; geographies; and maps of the New World as adjuncts of European cartography. Fully ensconced in tradition of the ldquo;cartographic turnrdquo; pioneered by J. B. Harley and his cohorts; these essays embrace ldquo;alternate notions of cartographyrdquo; (p. 6) and treat ldquo;maps as polyvalent genetic textsrdquo; (p. 7). Thus there are discussions of allegorical maps; an Amerindian star chart; plans in British magazines; and even the Herman Melville novella Benito Cereno.Early American Cartographies is a dense tome and; despite Brücknerrsquo;s attempt to provide an overarching theme connecting them all in his introduction; the articles here are rather far-ranging in time; geography; and scope; and the writers all have divergent topics; styles; and methodologies. Still; Early American Cartographies; while not always fulfilling Brücknerrsquo;s promise to focus on ldquo;a cartographic history that is anchored in the Americasrdquo; (some essays describe a transatlantic world rather than a simply American one); will interest specialists and generalists alike and provide new ways of looking at aspects of the cartographic encounter in the New World.
