As a reader you are treated to an immense variety of lofts in a wide rangeof building from all over the world. They have been converted with greatingenuity and imagination by a new breed of urban dwellers who haveembraced the loft living idyll. Enthusiastically eclectic, importing ideasgathered from travel or reading, and using furniture from modern emporiumsof design or found in junk shops, these loft dwellers have left theessential character and texture of their buildings intact while layeringspace in subtle ways so that volumetric grandeur is not lost. This tourgives the reader a glimpse of the inventiveness, vigour and pride employedin creating spectacular dwellings out of amorphous spaces.