LOFT

Rus, editor-in-chief of Interior Design, teams with architectural photographer Warchol for a visual tour de force of 21 domestic loft projects completed in the last four years in downtown Manhattan by established and emerging architects and designers. A five-page essay about New York City loft culture and creativity introduces an exciting array of design strategies, some of which fetishize the raw, unfinished space with industrial embellishments, textures, and motifs and some of which sleekly obliterate it. Each project unfolds like a chapter with a single page of text and a simplified floor plan, followed by a suite of ten to 12 full-page, light-filled, captionless interior photographs. Writing and photography are superbAthe spare descriptions counterbalance the inventive camera work. Recommended for architecture, art, and design collections