Interiors Now! - Tapa dura

Come on in! Tour contemporary home decors around the world. "The Interiors Now!" series features the world's most amazing, exquisite, and interesting contemporary apartments and houses. With an inspirational richness and diversity of styles, here are homes, residences, hideaways, and studios to astound and astonish, no matter what your taste. Whatever your preference - flea market romance or space age bachelor pad, minimalism or neo-baroque - you'll find hundreds of fresh and provocative ideas. Volume 2 highlights include: a Berlin interior designed by the architecture firm Craft, a sumptuous rooftop garden New York, a crazy, curvy house in Helsinki, an elegant and thoroughly eclectic London residence (complete with an antique car in one of the rooms), a Turkish residence in Istanbul, a modern house in Kuala Lumpur, and Matteo Thun's Capri getaway.

Ian Phillips is editor-at-large for the German edition of Architectural Digest, and a regular contributor to Interior Design and the American edition of Elle Decor.