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Featuring beautiful photography from urban interiors all over the globe, City Living provides a wealth of refreshing ideas for making the most of urban living. Whether converting a large open-plan space to a cozy interior or adapting an eighteenth-century row house for an expanding twenty-first century family, the "city" approach to design is about function, creativity, resourcefulness, and spirit. It's about transforming the space that you have in clever and thoughtful ways that result in physical, emotional, and spiritual comfort.

Cities continue to be a mecca for young career people, families, older people, and even second-home owners. Cities offer an enormous variety of living styles and spaces to accommodate them: tiny studio walk-ups, ample apartments, duplexes, sumptuous penthouses, lofts converted from industrial spaces, elegant town houses, narrow brown-stones, and sprawling Victorian homes. From New York to Paris, Tokyo to London, this book features living spaces that stretch the boundaries of urban design and decorating. City Living shows you how to create beautiful spaces that reflect unique and inventive approaches to living in a city.

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• Introduction: What Is City Style?(p. 8)
• Chapter 1 Architecture, The First Impression of the City(p. 14)
• Chapter 2 The Illusion of Space(p. 36)
• Chapter 3 City Comforts(p. 54)
• Chapter 4 An Urban Home in Every Sense(p. 72)
• Chapter 5 Places to Gather(p. 90)
• Chapter 6 Living and Working at Home(p. 104)
• Chapter 7 Places Just to Be(p. 120)
• Resources(p. 140)
• Photographer Credits(p. 143)
• About the Author(p. 144)

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Interior Designer Sharne Algotsson is an advocate for African inspired home decorating. She would like African design to be as familiar to the American market as it is internationally, a comfortable alternative to English country, French provincial, and other accepted styles.

The Spirit of African Design is the book Algotsson has co-authored with Denys Davis, another African-American. This book is an eloquently written and beautifully illustrated guide to bringing African art and design into everyday spaces. She has also been writer/editor of periodical articles which about design.

Algotsson owns a consulting firm, Inside Design, located in Philadelphia. Before establishing her own business, she worked for IKEA, an international interior design chain, and contributed to their unique design approach store catalog.

Algotsson grew up in Philadelphia where she now lives. She is a graduate of Howard University and has an advanced degree from Moore College of Art in Philadelphia.

(Bowker Author Biography)