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New York Apartments
New York Apartments
00New York Apartments, Offering a rare glimpse into the opulent world of the Manhattan elite of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, New York Apartments features interiors created by giants of New York design, including famed decorator Albert Hadley, celebrated interior designer Mark Hampton, and renowned architect Charles Gwathmey. Featuring lavishly produced full-color and...
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Room for Children: Stylish Spaces for Sleep and Play
Room for Children: Stylish Spaces for Sleep and Play
00The first book to present excellent design for children’s rooms, these unique spaces are created by well-known designers, parents, and often even the kids themselves. Proving that good design is not just for the rest of the house, Room for Children takes children’s spaces with creative seriousness. Whether for a newborn, toddler, or teenager, the rooms shown here enrich the experience...
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French Impressions by Betty Lou Phillips
French Impressions by Betty Lou Phillips
00In this her tenth book, acclaimed interior designer and award-winning author Betty Lou Phillips presents spirit-lifting takes on classic style from a modern point of view. Mingling elegance with ease, in a manner relaxed yet refined, Phillips sumptuously layers texture and color with pleasing, unexpected detail as she creates twenty-first century comfort with Italian panache and French...
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Victoria Hagan: Interior Portraits
Victoria Hagan: Interior Portraits
00The first book to survey the work of this iconic designer, known for her serene “new American classic” look. One of today’s most influential designers, Victoria Hagan exploded onto the scene in 1988 when New York magazine devoted the cover of its design issue to one of her rooms. Since then she has become renowned for her intelligent integration of architectural and...
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The French Inspired Home
The French Inspired Home
00Carolyn Westbrook brings you her first-hand knowledge, acquired through years of combing French flea markets for unique treasures, of what makes a beautiful French interior. Designer and decorator Carolyn Westbrook’s love affair with all that is French inspired began long before she ever travelled to France. Growing up in the US, her Southern heritage was infused by French...
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New York Parties : Private Views
New York Parties : Private Views
00An insider’s view, an invitation to imaginative private parties at the elegant homes of New York’s most celebrated hosts. Seasoned experts share entertaining secrets. Join Jamee Gregory as a guest at some of New York’s most exclusive private parties. Visit the homes of savvy tastemakers from the worlds of fashion, finance, and design, including Michael Kors, Evelyn and Leonard...
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World of Madeleine Castaing
World of Madeleine Castaing
00The inimitable style of renowned French interior designer Madeleine Castaing, chronicled in-depth for the first time. While many were drumming to the beat of modernism in the early- and mid-twentieth century, French antiquaire and decorator Madeleine Castaing created her own look that was a unique blend of neoclassicism, Proustian romanticism, and pure wit. Her distinctive aesthetic...
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Farrow & Ball Living With Colour
Farrow & Ball Living With Colour
00Iconic brand Farrow & Ball began in the 1940s as a small firm based in Dorset specializing in paints made in the traditional way with traditional ingredients. Despite its success, Farrow & Ball has stayed true to these origins. It is the quality of the paint, with its exceptional depth and subtlety of color, that has made the company famous worldwide. Farrow & Ball paints...
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Downtown Chic – Designing Your Dream Home: From Wreck to Ravishing
Downtown Chic – Designing Your Dream Home: From Wreck to Ravishing
00Robert and Cortney Novogratz, starts of the hit Bravo series 9 BY DESIGN, have been renovating and designing unique and hip homes for families for over ten years. Describing their signature style as a sophisticated but bohemian mix of high and low, new and old, they offer their realistic advice on how to create original, warm interiors with ease. One part practical guide, one part...
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Mary McDonald – Interiors: The Allure of Style
Mary McDonald – Interiors: The Allure of Style
00In her first book, award-winning interior designer Mary McDonald inspires readers to combine old-fashioned elegance with the joy of fearless, exuberant decorating. Consistently ranked one of House Beautiful’s top 100 designers, L.A.-based Mary McDonald’s gorgeous, feminine interiors have graced the cover of every major design magazine. Dubbed the “decorating daredevil” by...
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Alexa Hampton – The Language of Interior Design
Alexa Hampton – The Language of Interior Design
00At an early age, Alexa Hampton learned the language of good design, the vocabulary to speak it, and the elements that define it. As the daughter of interior design legend Mark Hampton, she traveled the world by her father’s side, touring the great architectural landmarks and discovering beauty, training her eye. Now one of America’s most influential designers herself, Alexa Hampton...
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At Home : A Style for Today with Things from the Past
At Home : A Style for Today with Things from the Past
00Leading interior designer and owner of Hollyhock, Los Angeles’s renowned antiques and decorative arts mecca, Suzanne Rheinstein is known for her relaxed, elegant style. Style maker and interior designer Suzanne Rheinstein has a keen appreciation for special luxuries. She is a master at taking an eclectic mix of furnishings from the past and arranging them in a fresh, inspiring way....
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Billy Baldwin : The Great American Decorator
Billy Baldwin : The Great American Decorator
00[dc]T[/dc]he definitive book on the legendary decorator Billy Baldwin, known as the “Dean of American Decorating,” famous for his classical taste, streamlined modernism, and brilliant use of color. In the tradition of Rizzoli’s Albert Hadley and David Hicks, this is the first fully illustrated account of the career of Billy Baldwin (1903–1983), one of the most important decorators...
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Bunny Williams’ Scrapbook for Living
Bunny Williams’ Scrapbook for Living
00Bunny Williams is renowned for her glamorous design and attention to every little detail in her clients’ homes. Using her incredible knowledge of design and decor, and drawing on her wealth of experience, Williams takes the reader through several homes room by room, showing creative ways to organize and add personal touches. From dining rooms (place a chest of drawers near the dining...
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AARP Guide to Revitalizing Your Home: Beautiful Living for the Second Half of Life
AARP Guide to Revitalizing Your Home: Beautiful Living for the Second Half of Life
00Branded with the authority and expertise of AARP, this essential guide will help families reimagine, redecorate, and remodel their home for the second half of life. Designed to empower 50+ adults, AARP’s Guide to Revitalizing Your Home shows how to “age in place” by refurbishing your existing house using universal design elements-such as walk-in showers, level outdoor walkways,...
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A History of Interior Design by John Pile
A History of Interior Design by John Pile
00The first edition of this major survey on interior design by John Pile won the 2001 ASID (American Society of Interior Designers) Educational Foundation/Joel Polsky Prize. Now this standard history has been updated to reflect greater coverage of non-Western design, as well as vernacular and residential interiors. A deeper exploration of sustainable design and a CD-ROM with an interactive...
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Apartment Therapy’s Big Book of Small, Cool Spaces
Apartment Therapy’s Big Book of Small, Cool Spaces
00Whether you inhabit a studio or a sprawling house with one challenging space, Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan, co-founder of the most popular interior design website, Apartment Therapy, will help you transform tiny into totally fabulous. According to Maxwell, size constraints can actually unlock your design creativity and allow you to focus on what’s essential. In this vibrant book, he...
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Restore. Recycle. Repurpose : Create a Beautiful Home (A Country Living Book)
Restore. Recycle. Repurpose : Create a Beautiful Home (A Country Living Book)
00The problem with the green movement? All philosophy, few practicalities. Country Living editor Florke (with help from writer Nancy Becker) reverses that by going, room by room, through his homes (and those in his magazine) to point out specific ways to keep true to sustainability. Handwritten notes on color photographs, sidebars like “Grandmother’s Tips” and “Did You Know?,”...
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Interior Design and Decoration
Interior Design and Decoration
00A global and historical tour de force of interior design, this book explores the development of design from prehistoric cave paintings to the present. It looks at art from all parts of the world including India, China, Japan, Egypt, Spain, Italy, North and South America. It looks at how fashion has influenced interior design, the relationship between interior and exterior design and how...
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Timeless Elegance : The Houses of David Easton
Timeless Elegance : The Houses of David Easton
00In this rare examination of the work of one of America’s preeminent interior designers and architects, David Easton, we are treated to a retrospective of his storied career. The versatility of his talent is displayed in examples of his work that range from a 45-room Georgian-style house in Charlottesville, Virginia, to a Mediterranean stucco house in Mexico and a modern house in...
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Let’s Decorate! : Professional Secrets for Making Your House a Home
Let’s Decorate! : Professional Secrets for Making Your House a Home
00Let’s Decorate is a stylish, practical guide to turning a humdrum home into something special. It’s divided into two parts; the first, “Rooms to Inspire,” features 30 stylish examples, and the second, “How It’s Done, shows how to bring those looks into any home. All major techniques are explained, from hanging wallpaper to installing a laminate floor to...
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Lars Bolander’s Scandinavian Design
Lars Bolander’s Scandinavian Design
00Clean, elegant lines, delicate color schemes, well-proportioned, light-filled spaces, and natural materials—the hallmarks of Scandinavian design are unmistakable. As the trend in residential design continues to move toward pared-down, comfortably elegant, environmentally friendly homes, the Scandinavian aesthetic has become a global influence in interior design. Lars Bolander, one...
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The Age of Comfort : When Paris Discovered Casual and the Modern Home Began
The Age of Comfort : When Paris Discovered Casual and the Modern Home Began
00French cultural historian DeJean presents an entertaining account of how home life was virtually reinvented in Paris from 1670 to 1765 as sofas, running water and flush toilets appeared in modern residences: the city became a giant workshop in which inventions in the arts and crafts and innovative technologies were tried out. Louis XIV’s and Louis XV’s royal mistresses...
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Organize Now! : A Week-by-Week Guide to Simplify Your Space and Your Life
Organize Now! : A Week-by-Week Guide to Simplify Your Space and Your Life
00With a unique week-by-week approach, Organize Now! gives readers simple and effective tools to organize every aspect of their lives. Jennifer Ford Berry walks the readers through each step of the organizing process for 52 different topics, dealing with each topic one week at a time. Organize Now! is not only easy-to-use but covers a wide variety of topics from paperwork, time management,...
