The New Flooring Idea Book

The senior editor of Old House Interiors provides practical advice & twenty-five floor makeovers show the untapped interior design potential at your feet.

The senior editor of Old House Interiors provides practical advice & twenty-five floor makeovers show the untapped interior design potential at your feet.

- Contain 200+ Ideas - Discover a variety of designs with instant appealing looks - See pictures of the most popular types of flooring finishes

"Shows you how to instal new flooring yourself with detailed step-by-step insturctions, photos, and illustrations"--Back cover.

In 1954, the French writer, politician, and publisher André Malraux posed at home for a photographer from the magazine Paris Match, surrounded by pages from his forthcoming book Le musée imaginaire de la sculpture mondiale. The enchanting metaphor of the musée imaginaire (imaginary museum) was built upon that illustrated art book, and Malraux was one of its greatest champions. Drawing on a range of contemporary publications, he adopted images and responded to ideas. Indeed, Malraux’s book on the floor is a variation of photographer André Vigneau’s spectacular Encyclopédie photographique de l’art, published in five volumes from 1935 on—years before Malraux would enter this field. Both authors were engaged in juxtaposing artworks via photographs and publishing these photographs by the hundreds, but Malraux was the better sloganeer. Starting from a close examination of the photograph of Malraux in his salon, art historian Walter Grasskamp takes the reader back to the dawn of this genre of illustrated art book. He shows how it catalyzed the practice of comparing works of art on a global scale. He retraces the metaphor to earlier reproduction practices and highlights its ubiquity in contemporary art, ending with an homage to the other pioneer of the “museum without walls,” the unjustly forgotten Vigneau.

Complete guide to the latest materials, products, and styles in flooring. With 450 color photographs.

This third edition of a classic favorite includes time-honored installation methods now updated to feature new flooring styles, and adds some important new information on renewable flooring materials, such as bamboo, reclaimed floorboards, and natural stone. It also includes the latest techniques for polished and etched concrete flooring.

Profiles the wide-ranging choices available in flooring materials and designs, and explains which romms they work in best and how to best determine your own flooring needs.