- Hardcover: 192 pages
- Publisher: Artisan; illustrated edition edition (Sep 16 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1579652174
- ISBN-13: 978-1579652173
- Product Dimensions: 27.3 x 27.5 x 2.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.6 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
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- #80 in Books > Home & Garden > Interior Design > Decoration & Ornament
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Product Description
Acclaimed as one to the country's top one hundred interior designers by both Metropolitan Home and Architectural Digest, Vicente Wolf is the uncontested master of cool, luminous rooms that combine strength and sensuality. From a rich but disciplined palette of materials, he creates a signature minimalism that is simple, handsome, and eminently comfortable. In Learning to See, Wolf shares the secrets of his alchemy, insights into a design process that he says starts with taking his traveler's eye into every environment. If you, like he, can simply transfer the special excitement and intense sensations you feel when you are in nature or when you first encounter something exotic to the way you want to feel on entering a room for the first time, you can learn to see. With incisive text and more than one hundred sixty photographs, Wolf walks you through this process. While providing step-by-step instructions on such practical matters as how to create floor plans, treat windows, arrange furniture, hang pictures, use flowers and mirrors and other accents, he helps instill confidence to trust your own aesthetic inspiration.
About the Author
Vicente Wolf was born in Cuba and came to the United States with his family when he was fifteen. The work of his internationally renowned design firm has been featured in magazines such as Architectural Digest, Elle Decor, House Beautiful, Metropolitan Home, and House & Garden. He lives in New York City.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Fantastic Elegant and Educated Interiors,
This review is from: Learning to See: Bringing the World Around You Into Your Home (Hardcover)
I just love this book so much; I gave it as gifts to all my friends.The book is all I imagine of Vicente Wolf. I remember seeing a picture of his loft in New York back in 1987 or there abouts in Metropolitan Home. I was intrigued and have been ever since by any projects featured in magazines. Rooms that are simple, educated, elegant, and clean seem to inspire living lightly on the planet. A room you can feel the language of its materials, a touch of the soft and the hard, rough, and silky. Vicente is a master at the juxtapositions in both texture and light. I love his elegant subtle colours and his diverse collections of antique, modern, and luxury swirled all into a unified beautiful room. I think Vicente's rooms live life on the planet with a light luxury footprint. There's not alot of clutter and junk. If we all could aspire to such simple luxury.
5.0 out of 5 stars
A treat,
By A Customer
This review is from: Learning to See: Bringing the World Around You Into Your Home (Hardcover)
This is a beautiful book. The pictures are lovely and all the tips were very helpful. Read the text and you will get an education in design and decorating that you will be able to apply to your own space and life and even the way you see. This is a great book, especially if you love neutrals.
4.0 out of 5 stars
LEARN TO SEE,
By A Customer
This review is from: Learning to See: Bringing the World Around You Into Your Home (Hardcover)
Yes, this is Vicente Wolf's vision, and not mine. Where he uses white and beige I use red and brown. I did, however, learn to see. This book is not about learning to decorate. What this man can do with a candlestick, a bowl, a whatnot and a tray is incredible. This book may not change the way I decorate my house in terms of paint and drapes, but it has changed the way I view my "things" and how I arrange them to convey their beauty and importance to me. Look past the beige! Reviewers, take another look at your book.
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