Santa Fe-style decorating is a coast-to-coast trend. Hundredsof thousands have scoured Christine Mather’s previous books, eagerto incorporate Santa Fe design elements into their own homes. Now,in Santa Fe Houses, Mather combines concrete and practicalhome-decorating suggestions with the beautiful photographs of herlongtime collaborator, Jack Parsons, creating an invaluable guidefor anyone interested in building, decorating, or remodeling a homein Santa Fe style. Santa Fe Houses draws inspiration from the four traditionalNative American elements—fire, earth, water, and air—and shows howthey can be used to wonderful effect in kitchens and dining rooms,entry-ways and living rooms, bedrooms, bathrooms, porches, andpatios. Along the way, Mather showcases furniture, rugs, lighting,hardware, tiles, shutters, and other expressions of the Santa Felook, and ends with a comprehensive directory of sources.
Big-eyed, blonde, and beautiful, Barbie took over the world in 1959 with little more than a white-and-black striped bathing suit and a pair of high heels. Today, Mattel sells three Barbies a second, and children in more than one hundred and fifty countries know her name.Now, on her fiftieth anniversary as cultural icon, Assouline presents the ultimate collector s volume on the world s most popular doll. Encapsulating her history, chronicling her fashion, and imagining her life as a woman of mystery, glamour, and fun, Barbie presents this totemic figure as never seen before in vivid dioramas of Barbie at work and play and in portraits of vintage dolls and accessories. A muse for children and adults, designers and artists, writers and cultural critics, Barbie remains a powerfully evocative and enigmatic reflection of our dreams, our hopes, and ourselves.
Learn how to create breathtaking bouquets from the masterflorists of Flower School New York. Trendsetting celebritydesigners, whose high-profile clients include Calvin Klein, GiorgioArmani, Anna Wintour, Gucci, and Tom Ford, join forces withentrepreneur Eileen Johnson at this famed floral arranging school.They now offer instruction and insight into the art and aestheticof flower arranging taught by a faculty of world-renowned florists.Discover the tips and techniques for handling and combining flowersand creating hand-tied bouquets, seasonal arrangements, flowers forentertaining, mixing flowers and fashion, and much more.
Whether you inhabit a studio or a sprawling house with onechallenging space, Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan, co-founder of the mostpopular interior design website, Apartment Therapy, will help youtransform tiny into totally fabulous. According to Maxwell, size constraints can actually unlock yourdesign creativity and allow you to focus on what's essential. Inthis vibrant book, he shares forty small, cool spaces that willchange your thinking forever. These apartments and houses demonstrate hundreds of inventivesolutions for creating more space in your home, and for making itmore comfortable. Leading us through entrances, living rooms,kitchens and dining rooms, bedrooms, home offices, and kids' rooms,Apartment Therapy's Big Book of Small, Cool Spaces is brimming withingenious tips and ideas, such as: Shifting the sense of scale through contrasting colors Adding airiness by using transparent collections Utilizing the area under a loft bed for a kitchen andmini-bar Tucking an office
Bonsai trees, with a strong heritage in Japanese tradition,are the artistic miniatures of the plant world. Combining thenatural and the artificial, they are as intricate as they aredelicate. Each bonsai, in addition to resembling a full-size tree,must adhere to Japanese aesthetics of design and presentation,determined by centuries of example. In other words, bonsai areliving sculptures. In this book, acclaimed photographer Jonathan M.Singer showcases over 300 photographs of bonsai taken in some ofthe most respected private and public collections in the UnitedStates and Japan. Most notably, Singer was granted specialpermission to photograph the collection of the Omiya Bonsai ArtMuseum in Japan, considered the Mecca of bonsai, where photographyis normally prohibited. He is the first (and only) photographer inthe world to shoot the most famed bonsai trees in Japan, some ofwhich received the coveted Prime Minister's Award. Singer also hadthe opportunity to capture the work of Masahiko Kimura, thought tobe the mo
Renowned bead embroidery artists Heidi Kummli and Sherry Serafini share their secrets for creating beautiful beadwork. This inspiring book is perfect for those who want to learn to create gorgeous jewelry and art pieces and those seeking design ideas. Discusses tools, adhesives, and materials and has an illustrated guide to favorite stitches, fringes, and finishing techniques.
The bathroom is the new design frontier. In urban apartmentsand at large secluded estates, adventurous home owners and thenation’s top designers are breaking the old rules, using space andmaterials in dramatic new ways and reimagining just what a bathroomcan be. No longer intended solely for utilitarian purposes, today’sbathrooms are designed for everything from solitude toaccommodating the family to entertaining. The Luxury Bathroom offers a tour of thirty-five state-of-the-artspaces created by today’s top designers—among them Celerie Kemble,Jamie Drake, and Miles Redd—in exclusive residences across thecountry. From luxuriously equipped expanses worthy of Canyon Ranchto a tiny Beaux Arts bathroom inspired by a gallery at New York’sMetropolitan Museum of Art to a guest bath covered in leathertiles, each room is unique and a rich source of inspiration andaspiration. Once the most purely functional of rooms, bathrooms today areevolving into the most fanciful and sumptuous of livin
THE ACCESSORIES WE DISPLAY, THEIR COLOR AND TEXTURE, abundanceor restraint, similarity or variety, combine to establish a uniquepersonality for each room. The way we put them together is art.Focusing on tablescapes, wall decorations, mantels, and fabrics,Charles shows not just the results, but the wonderful journey andprocess of giving a room its soul and identity. Charles Faudree wasnamed one of America s top 100 designers. He maintains a retailshop and his Charles Faudree Collection of fabric is marketedthrough Vervain. He s the author of four previous books publishedby Gibbs Smith. He lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Jenifer Jordan hasbeen a photographer of home interiors and architecture for morethan 25 years. She has photographed all of Charles Faudree s booksand also Modern Country. She lives in Tulsa. Finishingaccessories-by far the most important part of decorating