The fifth volume in a series of guides to the French style of interior design discusses the secrets of French designers in creating an authentic French look, including their fundamental design principles, in a four-part handbook that encompasses Passion for French, Art of Living, Savoir-Faire, and F
One of America's top 100 designers, Charles Faudree has worldwide appeal with his interpretation of Country French. Charles Faudree's Country French Living features his newest room designs. From the entryway to the dressing room, to walls, dining rooms, and outdoor spaces, Charles teaches principles of design that make a house a Country French ...
One of the top designers in the United States, Charles Faudree has built a reputation for creating gorgeous French Country-style interiors. Organized by room, this volume presents warmly lit, captioned color photographs of interiors, accompanied by Faudree's thoughts on design principles.
Presenting an opulent, upper class rendering of "country French" interior decor which almost borders on caricature, Phillips (a Texan interior designer) volume is a paean to French high culture, with romanticized discussion of the Gallic character. High quality color photographs throughout. Annotati
Powell and Svendsen identify the finer points and visual characteristics that make a bungalow a bungalow, and show how to incorporate these important details into your bungalow. The authors explain how to identify the details and the ways of blending them.
Acclaimed designer Michael Smith has earned a reputation as the thinking celebrity's decorator, with a client list that includes Cindy Crawford, Kate Capshaw, Steven Spielberg, Dustin Hoffman, and Michelle Pfeiffer. Pairing lush interiors with dynamic insider advice, Michael Smith's Elements of Style beautifully captures the essential building ...
John Wheatman stresses the importance of individual quirkiness in interior design, focusing on comfort and the needs of the homeowner. He also stresses the importance of decorating around treasured items and personal collections and not the ideas of a hired decorator: it's those beloved mementos, artworks, inherited furniture, and found craft ...
This stunning book presents the life and work of the inventor of the 'California Look'. One of the most innovative, imitated and internationally respected interior designers of the twentieth century, Michael Taylor brought with him a new vision that changed the profession's approach. More than fifty of his commissions and other projects, ranging ...
Diamond Baratta is one of the hottest design teams around and they are regularly featured in Architectural Digest, the New York Times, House and Garden and Veranda magazines. Dubbed "Decorating's Dynamic Duo" by House Beautiful, William Diamond and Anthony Baratta are known for enlarged scale and genius color interpretation. Theirs is a bold, ...
Details everything necessary for creating Arts and Crafts interiors, from wall coverings to furnishings, tiles, stencilling, accesories, moldings, and floor coverings.
During the years of the Great Depression in America, modernist designers developed products and lifestyle concepts intended for middle-class, not elite, consumers. In this remarkable book, Kristina Wilson coins the term "livable modernism" to describe this school of design. Livable modernism combined International Style functional efficiency and ...
Here is an inspired collection that provides hundreds of designs that will awe, inspire, and captivate the viewer. For two decades, the best of interior design has been featured at the Kips Bay Decorator Show House, launching interior design trends and styles of the world. Now comes a handsome book of their best. 275 full-color photographs.
In "Bungalow Nation", Maddex and Vertikoff follow up their publication of "American Bungalow Style", taking readers into a selection of the most characteristic bungalows from five of America's most bungalow-plentiful neighbourhoods: Washington DC, Chicago, Seattle, Minneapolis and Pasadena. The book tells the stories of homeowners who are reviving ...
Celebrating the American house in its landscape, Landis redefines interior design with style tips and practical techniques from top designers and architects across the country. 500 full-color photos.
All the design know-how anyone needs to decorate a new home or redo an old house is in this one-stop, all-encompassing, lushly photographed, and brilliantly conceived volume. Everything from home basics and working with space, to the art of colour and patterns, to the essentials for floors, windows, walls, and lighting is here. In addition to ...
A guide to creating a beautiful home from Stephen Sills and James Huniford - interior designers whose work is lauded by such clients as Vera Wang, Anna Wintour and Tina Turner. The book brings the luxury and sensuality of Sills Huniford's signature style to such practical concerns as integrating technology into the home, devising the most flexible ...
This is the first scholarly book on de Forest. It explores his career in the decorative arts by examining cultural context, material culture, biography, and patronage. Lockwood de Forest (1850-1932) is best known as an artistic decorator with a flair for designs based on the arts and crafts of the Middle East and India. He began his career in ...
The modern interior design movement was well underway when artists Erwine and Edwina Laverne started their modest printed textiles and wallpaper business in New York City. By 1944 they had invented Marbelia wallcoverings and went on to develop the award-winning textile designs and the iconic 1960s clear plastic Lily and Lotus chair designs that ...
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