Ian Phillips

Come on in! Tour contemporary home decors around the world. "The Interiors Now!" series features the world's most amazing, exquisite, and interesting contemporary apartments and houses. With an inspirational richness and diversity of styles, here are homes, residences, hideaways, and studios to astound and astonish, no matter what your taste. Whatever your preference - flea market romance or space age bachelor pad, minimalism or neo-baroque - you'll find hundreds of fresh and provocative ideas. Volume 2 highlights include: a Berlin interior designed by the architecture firm Craft, a sumptuous rooftop garden New York, a crazy, curvy house in Helsinki, an elegant and thoroughly eclectic London residence (complete with an antique car in one of the rooms), a Turkish residence in Istanbul, a modern house in Kuala Lumpur, and Matteo Thun's Capri getaway.

Creative living. Interiors that define how the smart set wants to live--NOW A successful home is the perfect synthesis of personality and zeitgeist; it is a living work of art, a cultural artifact, and the object of ceaseless curiosity. Highly sensitive to this phenomenon, our "Interiors Now" series tracks the constantly evolving and multifaceted fabric of contemporary interior design around the world. Each new volume--destined for casual readers and professionals alike--assembles a fresh and inspiring collection of recently created residences that demonstrates how to bring out the best in the space that matters most: your home. Whether it is photographers Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin's New York loft with its Eames 2.0 alder expanses and cozy corners, Jacques Grange's relaxed romance for Francis Ford Coppola's palazzo in Southern Italy, or the apartment of a young art collector couple in Mumbai--all the projects have been chosen as expressions of personal vision that together give the full picture of what really counts in interior decoration right now. 34 sophisticated residences around the world, each telling a story about the place and the people who live there A roundup of the new elite in global interior design, with projects completed both for themselves and for clients who are friends Projects directed by home owners themselves that display a whole new level of D.I.Y. creativity Contact details for all featured architects, decorators, furniture artists, craftspeople, and top class suppliers.