Asia Home: Inspirational Design Ideas

Featuring hundreds of stunning photographs and thoughtful commentary, this interior design book will add a distinctly Asian flare to your collection.

The global exchange of design and taste is at its most fertile between Asia and the West. Leading Asian designers and architects have reprocessed international ideas and functionality into the idiom of Asian cultures, from India to China, Japan to Southeast Asia.

Asia Home is a wide-ranging look at contemporary design from across the region, featuring more than 100 homes and more than 50 top designers. It offers a unique archive of ideas for transforming, remodeling or adding to living spaces. Images and text are the fruit of many investigative journeys that the renowned author-photographer has made into the world of contemporary Asian design.

Interior design topics include:

• Designing an Asian Dream Home
• The New Asian Living Room
• Stylish Asian Dining Rooms
• Asian Bedrooms and Bathrooms
• The Art of the Garden
• Asian Accents and Furniture

Michael Freeman was born in England in 1945, studied at Brasenose College, Oxford University, and began a full-time photographic career in 1973. He has photographed extensively in Asia, both for magazines such as the Smithsonian, GEO and Conde Nast Traveler, and for numerous books. Among these are Sacred Places of the East, Sudan: The Land and the People, Things Thai, Things Japanese, Japan Modern, The Modern Japanese Garden and China Style. His other works include books on Frank Lloyd Wright, Shakers, Adobe and twentieth-century American architecture. His photography is widely published internationally.