Architecture & Design Portfolio

Our custom curated collection of high end residential interior design, architecture and custom home building are inspirational books to the sophisticated reader, design aficionado, and homeowner considering remodel or new home construction. For sale in book stores, such as Barnes & Noble and Internet sellers such as Amazon, IPS is a leader in these high quality offerings.

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MASTERS OF LANDSCAPE LIGHTING

Spectacular Outdoor Lighting Installations and Designs
Curated by the World’s Foremost Landscape Lighting Experts

ISBN: 979-8-9877941-6-6
$75.00

Masters of Landscape Lighting presents visionary and award-winning outdoor lighting installations imagined and installed by some of the foremost lighting designers in the world – stretching from coast to coast and across the Atlantic. The collection curated within these pages shows a wide range of design possibilities and environments created for personal enjoyment after the sun goes down. Arranged in six geographic chapters, this book features everything from cozy garden lighting to magical evenings of large estates. Over 1,000 photographs of the work of these featured designers will dazzle your senses and inspire you as to how to enjoy your evenings at home in the future.

You’ll see the limitless imagination and inspiring designs of the renowned Janet Lennox Moyer in Arizona: the world-class, oft-awarded, and unique lighting interpretations of Greg Matthews from Florida’s Luxury Illumination; and the iconic and innovative lighting landscapes of Southern California’s Jim Ply of Oak Crest Landscape Lighting.  Marvel at the creativity of Joel Mayor from Austin-based Texas Outdoor Lighting; the blending of natural surroundings with intricate lighting by ILLI mentor Tony Lato of New England’s Well Lit; and the extraordinary use of materials, color, and imagination by Neil Parslow of Light Visuals in London — among so many others.

Let these spaces inspire, motivate, and spark your creativity as you seek to enhance your current outdoor home or while you are planning for a new build. The vivid photography within these pages will give you a glimpse into some of the most stunning outdoor living environments. Get to know the designers and their teams through insightful editorials that reveal a wide range of creativity, philosophies, and backgrounds.

Whether or not you are a big fan of lighting design, these pages will amaze and inspire you to look outside the walls of your own home and expand your outdoor living into the magical, bewitching hours after the sun has set.

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INSPIRED MODERN LIVING

Amazing Contemporary Home Designs and Interiors Imagined by Leading Architects and Interior Designers

ISBN: 979-8-9877941-5-9
$75.00

Inspired Modern Living presents the visionary and contemporary styling in suburban, urban, and vacation homes from more than 50 leading architecture and design professionals. Stretching from coast to coast, the collection curated within these pages shows a wide range of design possibilities in modern homes. Arranged in eight chapters of homes such as luxury estates, urban dwellings, waterfront villas, and sustainable habitats, this book features everything from mid-century to future modern homes. You will witness the modern tenets of “form versus function” and “less is more” in over 1,000 photographs of the work of these featured designers and enjoy both the simplicity and complexity of these open, light-filled, sustainable, and technologically savvy dream homes.

You’ll see, among many others, limitless imagination and inspiring designs of Jennifer O’Connor of Dare 2 Design in Indiana: the world-class, oft-awarded, and unique modern interpretations of Jaque Bethke of Arizona’s Jaque Bethke Design; and the iconic and innovative homes by Jorge Bazan of FLUX architecture + design in Atlanta.  Marvel at the creativity and a wide array of rooms byTexas’ Susan Semmelmann; the blending of natural surroundings in modern home designs by Eric Spry of Spry Architecture; and the extraordinary use of materials, color, and imagination of Scottsdale’s Esther Boivin.

Let these spaces inspire, motivate, and spark your creativity as you seek to enhance your current home or plan for a new build. The vivid photography within these pages will give you a glimpse into some of the most stunning modern living environments. Get to know the designers and their teams through insightful editorial that reveals a wide range of creativity, philosophies, and backgrounds.

If you are a big fan of contemporary design, these pages will amaze and inspire you more. If you are not particularly a fan of modern aesthetics, these pages may just change your mind and help you appreciate the vision of these talented designers.

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Inspired KITCHENS & BATHS

Magnifcent Kitchens and Luxurious Bathrooms
Created by the Nation’s Finest Designers

ISBN: 979-8-9877941-1-1
$75.00

Inspired Kitchens & Baths is a collection of the finest kitchens and bathrooms fashioned by the country’s leading interior designers, architects and builders. These are the main rooms in a house that reflect its personality and the areas that most affect the value. It will take you on a journey of different design styles and of sizes–from modest to large scale. Plentiful in inspiration for all design tastes, from traditional, transitional, farmhouse to modern, Inspired Kitchens & Baths will inspire you for your dream abode ambitions.

Inspired Kitchens & Baths showcases a wide variety of kitchen and bathroom styles expertly designed by accomplished award-winning designers from around the country to inspire and educate sophisticated readers and fellow design professionals about unique design ideas and possibilities for these heart of-the-home kitchens and zen-like bathroom retreats. You will enjoy these luxurious stylings of over 70 of the best of the country’s interior and kitchen designers, such NKBA award winning designer Lori Carroll of Lori Carrol & Associates, Texas based Susan Semmelmann of Susan Semmelmann Interiors, New Jersey’s Courtney Zanelli and Beverly Hills’ Lori Gilder. With nearly 800 photos in over 320 pages of amazing tips and content, this book is a sure best seller.

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Inspired OUTDOOR LIVING

Stylish Spaces, Lush Landscapes, and Amazing Pools and Spas by the Nation’s Top Design Professionals

ISBN: 979-9-9877941-0-4
$75.00

Inspired Outdoor Living places you in the imaginative backyard, outdoor living, and recreational spaces from more than 50 top international design professionals. Stretching from coast to coast, the collection curated within these pages shows off a wide range of styles. Arranged in six chapters with nearly 800 photos, this book features everything from well-appointed living spaces, modern kitchens & bars, resort-style pools and spas, beautiful, zen-like landscaping, to intimate outdoor landscape lighting-each one as impressive as the next. All of them portray smart design stemming from a great imagination with a keen sense of harmony, function, and form.

You’ll see, among many others, sophisticated and sustainable landscape and garden designs by the Hamptons’ Frederico Azevedo and the magical artistry of landscape illumination of Jim Ply of Oakcrest Landscape & Lighting in Beverly Hills; Marvel in artistry and imagination of often awarded and HGTV contributor, Mike Farley, of Farley Pool Designs in Texas; the functional, stylistic outdoor kitchens and entertaining spaces by Phil Shearon at Shearon Design Collective in Phoenix; and the outdoor living and recreation spaces of Jason Brownlee of Nashville’s J. Brownlee Design.

Let these spaces inspire, motivate, and spark your creativity as you seek to enhance your own surroundings. The vivid photography within these pages will give you a glimpse into some of the most stunning outdoor environments. Get to know the designers and their teams through insightful editorial that reveals a wide range of creativity, philosophies, and backgrounds.

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DREAM HOMES

Unique Urban, Suburban, and Vacation Homes Designed By The Nation’s Leading Architects

ISBN: 978-0578-59138-4
$60.00

Dream Homes is a book of over 1000 photographs of luxurious primary residences as well as vacation properties in all sizes, styles, and function imagined and designed by leading architects across the country. . Within each chapter there are homes from modern to traditional, each presented with the architect’s point of view to the motivations, challenges, techniques and/or materials used that make the home one-of-a-kind. Our country is a wonder of topographic and climatic diversity. The choice to build in a bustling city—from Los Angeles to New York—or a more remote destination in the mountains, desert, suburbs, or coastal regions, certainly affects the design. But within that framework, the sky is the limit, and the creative professionals whose architecture is presented herein are masters of discovering the possibilities, zeroing in on the important elements of their clients, being ecologically friendly, and inventing the unique, timelessly crafted envelopes that people call home.

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INSPIRED INTERIORS

Amazing rooms designed by the nation’s leading Interior Designers

Inspired Interiors is a collection of the finest interiors fashioned by the country’s leading tastemeakers. It takes you on a journey–room by room–that provides all the inspiration you need when considering your next remodel or updates to your home. Plentiful in inspiration for all design tastes, from traditional to transitional to modern, Inspired Interiors will satisfy your design ambitions. The book showcases a wide variety of work and styles of accomplished and award winning interior designers around the country to inspire and educate sophisticated readers and fellow design prodessionals about unique design possibilities.

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THE MODERN RESIDENCE

Inspired Modern Homes Imagined & Designed by the Nation’s Leading Architects

ISBN: 978-0578-59138-4
$60.00

Presenting hundreds of unique, imaginative, inspired and state-of-the-art contemporary custom Homes designed by the Nation’s leading architects, The Modern Residence brilliantly captures the essence of what modern living can be. Over 1000 photographs of dynamic exteriors and unique interiors will inspire the fan of modern homes. From 2000-square foot penthouses to 50,000 square foot estates, these homes featured in the Modern Residence will lead the industry into the next century of contemporary living.

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RETHINKING ARCHITECTURE:

From the Inside Out

A Collection of Fine Homes Designed by Marc Camens and Camens Architectural Group

Marc Camens has designed and built some of the most incredible homes in the United States and around the globe. Known as the South Carolina Coast’s premier architect, in this book you will view his entire portfolio of his coastal treasures. These stunning homes exemplify Marc’s use of ceilings, materials, flow, and light to create an atmosphere within the interior spaces of each home. You’ll be taken on a journey to learn what he means by the phrase, “We design homes from the inside out. With over 340 pages of nearly 700 stunning photos and Marc’s iconic design approach, Rethinking Architecture: From the Inside Out, is an extraordinary collection of homes that will inspire and delight.

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PACIFIC NORTHWEST HOMES

Amazing Residences by Leading Home Design and Building Professionals

ISBN: 978-0-9969653-6-1
$55.00

The Pacific Northwest residential architecture and design is a brand of its own. Part rustic, part modern, part eclectic the homes of the upper West Coast are designed for living in and enjoying the majestic scenery. Nearly 60 of this regions finest home design professionals – architects, interior designers and custom home builders share nearly 1000 photographs of the best of their work in this 350 page book.

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LUXURIOUS INTERIORS

Breathtaking Homes by America’s Finest Interior Designers

ISBN: 978-0-9886140-4-8
$50.00

Explore the best of luxury living in a stunning collection of beautiful homes by top interior design professionals. Including those who have become icons in the design industry as well as those who are quickly making a name for themselves, Luxurious Interiors offers a glimpse into the thoughtful processes and philosophies behind the designers’ most distinctive work. Vivid photographs and riveting captions facilitate a journey to meet more than 70 brilliant artists who transform everyday rooms into spaces that speak to the soul.

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STRUCTURE + DESIGN

Signature Work by Leading Architects & Interior Designers

ISBN: 978-0-9969653-5-4
$55.00

Structure + Design presents the masterful creations of 50 acclaimed American architects, interior designers, and builders. Each of the featured private residences was designed expressly for those who dwell within, whether it’s enjoyed year-round or for just a few short weeks a year. The time, energy, and attention to detail put forth by these creative professionals is as inspiring as the homes themselves.. Get to know the architects, designers, and builders. Get a sense of their style, how they work, their perspectives, and the creative gifts they bring to the drawing board. And when you’re ready to move forward, consider taking them with you on the journey.

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CIRCLE SQUARE BALANCE HUE

By Lori Carroll

Inspired Living Spaces Imagined & designed by Lori Carroll & Associates

Join Lori Carroll as she takes you on a fascinating Journey through many of her favorite rooms and Homes that she has had the pleasure of designing over her illustrious career. This Tucson based designer’s eclectic and modern southwestern designs and recognized as some of the best interior design in the country.

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GEOFFREY BRADFIELD: EX ARTE

By Geoffrey Bradfield
ISBN: 978-0-933415-78-9
$50.00

Ex Arte illuminates the prolific aesthetic realm of one of the most celebrated and style-setting interior designers of our time. Like the prescient paintings and sculpture that are in­tegral to Geoffrey Bradfield’s indelible signature, each page in this sumptuous volume reveals the designer as artist, set­ting out to break new visual ground through the creative language of color and composition. Bradfield’s passion for art and his innate sense of glamour are the focus of this second publication, which explores the magic and daring of his interior adventures. Julian Schna­bel, international art star and award-winning director, in his critical observation, asserts: “It’s totally obvious to me that Geoffrey Bradfield designs environments in layers, making a syntax where a sculpture or painting will be the object or the focal point of the whole enterprise.

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LUXURY HOME STAGING

by Ginger Atherton

Seattled based and Los Angeles Bred, Ginger Atherton has transformed the home staging business through her world class design upbringings. She shares what she has learned and championed in luxury home staging. Her step-by-step instructions on setting up your business, running your business, managing and selling inventory, and networking with top realtors and home sellers. These skills will direct you to designing your own sucessful home staging business.