<b>A must-have design source, with cutting-edge ideas</b>&nbsp;<b>from the world’s best designers and architects.<br></b><br><i>Contemporary Interiors </i>showcases a wide range of&nbsp;twenty-first-century residences by world-renowned architects and designers. Filled with more than 300 color illustrations, specialist Philip Jodidio compiles&nbsp;from around the globe fifty of the most innovative&nbsp;homes designed and built within the last five years.&nbsp;<br><br>Whether urban or rural, large or small, the book has&nbsp;projects that are international in scope: a summer&nbsp;home in Montauk by Roman &amp; Williams, Houssein&nbsp;Jarouche’s apartment in Brazil by Triptyque; a David&nbsp;Adjaye house in West London; a Luxembourg “ecogreen”&nbsp;house by Richard Meier; a Studio Mumbai&nbsp;Palmyra house in India; a Shigeru Ban–designed&nbsp;villa in Sri Lanka; a Tadao Ando house in&nbsp;Monterrey; Sean Godsell’s Edward Street House in&nbsp;Melbourne, Australia.<br><br>The book has hundreds of design ideas from&nbsp;minimialist white to cozy color that can be applied to&nbsp;each room of the house. Sou Fujimoto experiments&nbsp;with a house that is entirely open, without clearly&nbsp;defined floors; Werner Sobek’s B10 House is&nbsp;designed to be dismantled in one day and rebuilt in&nbsp;the same time frame; Eduardo Arroyo’s house in&nbsp;Spain has iridescent polycarbonate walls that change&nbsp;colors with the light; the Leaf House by Mareines &#43;&nbsp;Patalano architects has a curving swimming pool that&nbsp;enters the house and passes below the dining room where it becomes a pond with aquatic plants and&nbsp;fish; Steven Holl’s gallery and house in Seoul has his&nbsp;signature door that wraps into a corner, notched&nbsp;walls, and neo-constructivist lighting fixtures.