- Hardcover: 192 pages
- Publisher: Vendome Press (Oct 5 2004)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0865652279
- ISBN-13: 978-0865652279
- Product Dimensions: 28.3 x 24.7 x 2.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.2 Kg
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,264,108 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This sumptuous coffee-table book takes readers inside the homes of today’s most sought-after interior designers to explore how they decorate when they’re acting as their own hard-to-please clients. Organized by decorating style (Classic, Fusion and Contemporary), the book focuses on the loving—and often obsessive—details each designer lavishes on his or her own abode. Readers whose tastes lean towards the traditional will thrill to the soothing lemon and mustard interiors of famed designer Mica Ertegün’s Southampton country estate and appreciate Bradbury’s lengthy interview with Albert Hadley, who’s often referred to as "The Dean" of American interior design. Bradbury has a knack for unearthing each designer’s artistic views and for including the details that reveal the most about their personalities. In the section on Fusion, for example, the home of eclectic designer Kathryn Ireland is a clear standout, and readers eager to tackle do-it-yourself projects will be pleased to note that the California-based designer had almost no formal training. She took but one course in textiles and design, "which she enrolled in because she would be the only one in the class and thought her teacher wouldn’t bother to show up." Ireland’s own David Hicks-inspired bedroom is an escapist paradise swathed in lush fabrics with a canopy bed decked out in her trademark bright colors. Though Luscombe-Whyte’s photos brilliantly capture the beauty of these rooms, many seem like showrooms, despite the occasional coffee table books thrown in to give them a lived-in feel. Nevertheless, readers who have been roped in by the recent decorating craze will enjoy learning from the designers themselves how they use color, light and objects to achieve a desired effect.
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Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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What goes into a home? For Karim Rashid, the dynamic young product and interior design guru, a living room is accented with a combustible mixture of hot pinks and iridescent orange. The Connecticut home of David Easton, one of the reigning kings of traditional design, features a vast central space overlooking a classically proportioned garden. Holly Hunt, the hip young West Coast designer, has married an American sensibility with French country charm in her Parisian apartment. All of these homes are distinctive, and all show remarkable taste, which is hardly surprising given that their owners have the sharpest eyes in the Western Hemisphere.
The 20 designers featured in American Designers' Houses consider their homes part laboratory, part showroom-and entirely personal. In interviews that are akin to guided tours, the designers point out favorite objects, reminisce about their work and clients, and share design tips. By focusing on interior designers' own homes, this fascinating book captures their style in its purest and most personal expression, uncompromised by clients' demands, and will encourage readers to develop their own unique decorating style.
The 20 designers featured in American Designers' Houses consider their homes part laboratory, part showroom-and entirely personal. In interviews that are akin to guided tours, the designers point out favorite objects, reminisce about their work and clients, and share design tips. By focusing on interior designers' own homes, this fascinating book captures their style in its purest and most personal expression, uncompromised by clients' demands, and will encourage readers to develop their own unique decorating style.
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Details, Details, Details, Dec 3 2004
By Archie - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: American Designers' Houses (Hardcover)
American Designers' Houses by Dominic Bradbury is a wonderful book. It features the work of consummate designers, in each of its three chapters: "Classic", "Fusion", and "Contemporary", and is replete with wonderful photographs of these artists' domestic "canvases".Equally at home on your coffee table as in your library shelf, the casual lay reader will enjoy leafing through the handsomely illustrated pages, but the most significant benefit will be had by the professional designer and more capable aesthete. The latter will be able to draw concepts and glean insight by studying the various effects demonstrated in the photos.
Those who understand that taste has very little to do with fashion, and that details are a significant part of the whole will particularly enjoy this book. The designers are perfectionistic in that nonchalant manner that can only be attained with true talent, skill, and experience.
The "Fusion" chapter was arguably the most notable, and I found that I had particular affinity to the work of Marietta Himes Gomez, and Vincente Wolf - the effect of a gilded bench in a generously empty, white space in Mr. Wolf's apartment was simply spectacular. The Neo-Classicist designer, Thomas Pheasant could also transform a three-dimensional space in the most extraordinary of ways.
The texts are competent and informative, and the photography accomplished. It has everything required of a book worth owning, and I cannot but recommend it.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Wonderful reading/viewing!, Oct 19 2007
By D. S. Jones - Published on Amazon.com
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I have ordered several of this "type" of book, but I found this one to be a winner. You can find nearly every type of decorating one would like......and the written commentary is wonderful. Put up your feet and read it from cover to cover.......a feast for the eyes!DJ in Houston
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Homerun, Jan 3 2007
By J. Zenz "Bookwoman" - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: American Designers' Houses (Hardcover)
I buy a great many books such as this one and am often rather disappointed in the books. Not so in this case, it's a winner and very interesting.It's always hard to translate your ideas for others into a home for yourself and so it's nice to see how the designers do just that.
I think most would find this an interesting book from that prespective.
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