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Rooms of jewellike colour and glorious pattern. Enchanting
lacquered ceilings and geometric floors. Brilliantly massed
collections of furniture, objects, and art. Although maximalism has
always had a place in interior design practiced by noted decorators
such as Dorothy Draper, Sister Parish, and the late Mario Buatta
today it is bigger than ever. Thanks to its contemporary
practitioners, rooms rich with colour, pattern, and everything else
have exploded onto the design scene in recent years. More Is More
Is More celebrates the best of this work with page after page of
lushly photographed vivid inspiration and ideas. Each of the five
chapters in More Is More Is More begins with an essay on a theme
colour, pattern, surfaces, elements, and layering followed by
dozens of showstopping rooms from acclaimed, award-winning
designers, including Ken Fulk, Steven Gambrel, Kelly Behun, Mark D.
Sikes, Pierce and Ward, Bunny Williams, Corey Damen Jenkins, and
Redd Kaihoi. The images are enhanced by commentary from the
designers describing their process for creating the room and
offering insight on how to incorporate the ideas at home. With a
design as lavishly maximalist as its subject, More Is More Is More
is a perfect gift for design fans.
With a focus on Schumacher s greatest contemporary patterns
everything from classic stripes and exuberant florals to edgy
animal prints this accessible and highly useful style guide is
organized thematically by chapters such as Sensual and Spare;
Preppy; Ladylike; Exuberant; and Opulent, with each featuring a
stunning selection of patterns along with inspiring interiors
designed in the same spirit. To help readers better understand
their style preferences, every chapter begins with a questionnaire,
for example: Are You an Acolyte of High Style? Do You Prefer a
Midnight Supper to a Power Lunch?; Consider Jewel Tones Neutral?;
Think Champagne Is Not Just for Special Occasions? Page after page
after page of lavish imagery and pattern details are juxtaposed
alongside beautiful interiors designed by such luminaries as Miles
Redd, Tom Scheerer, Amanda Lindroth, Celerie Kemble, Veere Grenney,
and Mark D. Sikes, to name a few, illustrating how Schumacher s
iconic patterns can be integrated into a wide range of chic and
stylish room designs. The texts provide insights and tips on how
patterns can be used in your decor, along with guidance for
deciding what style is best for you and your home. Full of
inspiring design ideas, as well as an unparalled resource of prints
and patterns, S Is for Style is a visual feast of interior design
for all styles and tastes.
The first book from Los Angeles based interior designer Richard
Hallberg charts an evocative body of work that spans seaside,
mountaintop, country, and urban locales and celebrates the sensual,
boundary-defying aesthetic of a true original. In spaces that forgo
easy categorization of traditional or contemporary, Hallberg uses
art and objects from every genre and era eighteenth-century gilt
consoles, African baskets, selenite-slab tables in a seductive
interpretation of modernity that embodies the multifaceted,
multicultural way we live today. Wrought by a native Californian
with the heart of a classicist, these rooms reserve space for
sunlight, foliage, and the sound of trickling water, which make the
exalted approachable and revere the perfectly imperfect. Hallberg
incorporates the finest natural and artisanal materials reclaimed
wood, hand-troweled plaster, marble, limestone, crip linen, and
sumptuous wool but understands that the greatest luxury of all is
comfort. This volume chronicles the instinctual process of a
designer who eschews hard-and-fast rules for the wonder of breaking
them, who leaves no stone unturned in his uncompromising search for
beauty, and whose lifelong pursuit of the magical, ineffable, and
gorgeous has yielded an incomparable oeuvre.
Domino: The Book of Decoratingfollows a straightforward,
room-by-room chapter structure featuring a run of lusciously
photographed, beautiful interiors forming the centrepiece of each
chapter. Large double-page images punctuate more densely packed
spreads; richly composed full rooms alternate with sensuous
details. This sequence of spreads puts the reader inside real,
finished rooms from the Domino universe, each annotated to
translate how its distinctive beauty and sensibility has been
achieved. For a new generation of homeowners and renters, Domino:
The Book of Decorating promises to becomethe decor bible: a
constant source of guidance, inspiration, and excitement.
Interior designer Nancy Braithwaite's long-awaited first book is a
striking tutorial in the power of simplicity in design. In the
world of interior design, Nancy Braithwaite is known for her
single-minded devotion to the principle that has guided her work
for more than forty years: simplicity. Braithwaite's work is
luxuriously minimalist, its beauty inextricably tied to its
Shaker-like purity. While her work varies from art deco to country,
the underlying rules remain the same: every element should strive
to be simple and powerful without compromise, and every room must
have a level of power that comes from commanding scale, repetition
of elements, subtleties of color, or the sheer beauty of forms. In
Braithwaite's world, excess is not opulent. Simplicity is opulent.
Braithwaite takes the reader deep into her singular vision. Divided
into five sections, the book begins with her manifesto on
simplicity and the aspects of design used to achieve it, including
architecture, scale, color, texture, pattern, and composition. She
then presents three categories of style--country, classic, and
contemporary--and explains and illustrates each with iconic rooms
from her portfolio. Finally, she presents several houses as case
studies, displaying the power of these principles in action and
emphasizing the importance of craftsmanship in design, from a
stunning modern seaside retreat on Kiawah Island, South Carolina,
to her unforgettable country house in Atlanta.
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