Famed portrait photographer Monica Rich Kosann has spent acareer helping people add a final layer of personality to theirhome once the interior designer’s work is done. Monica’sclients—celebrities, designers, socialites—want to find ways to addwarmth and love to rooms, celebrating what they cherished most—beit family, pets, jewelry, books, or travel. Having helped countlessfamilies artfully present their family photography, heirlooms, andcollectibles, she now divulges the secrets to her skill in thisbook. Living with What You Love shows you how to integrateyour treasured objects with your home’s décor. With inventive ideas as simple as arranging a vignette of vacationsouvenirs, and as complex as covering an entire wall with familyphotographs and memorabilia, Living with What You Love offers the skilled guidance of Monica’s trained eye. There’sinspiration for everyone, and for every type of space, whethersmall or grand. Anything can be a stage for display: a coffee tablecan be arranged wi

Jettison the old rulebooks about home décor and “undecorate”your space. As the founder and creative director ofDwellStudio—which is famous for its brightly colored, graphictextile designs for home furnishings—designer Christiane Lemieuxchallenges tradition in a quintessentially American way,championing a fresh, unconventional approach to creating abeautiful and comfortable home. Lemieux emboldens readers to pushaside stuffy, professionally-designed décor, showing them insteadhow to infuse their own personality into their home. Undecorate profiles twenty homes from all over the country,revealing their owners’ love of imperfection and penchant forsurprise and unusual juxtapositions while inspiring readers tofollow their own whimsy and practicalities in their personalspaces. An anglophile creates an English manor in Hollywood, mixingBritish flea-market finds with midcentury furniture. A car fanaticturns a vintage Airstream trailer into a master bedroom andsituates it in the middle of a v

The Big Book of Beading Patterns is the go-tocompendium of patterns for all types of stitchers. Many patternbooks focus solely on loomwork, but this book also includes popularstitches like peyote, brick, and square stitch in addition toloomwork. The gorgeous patterns here can be used to make beadedbracelets, amulets, tapestries, and more. Patterns are divided intochapters by topics like animals, flowers, holidays, and more.

With her brilliant sense of style, designer and bestsellingauthor Carolyne Roehm makes the case in Presentations that there’sjust as much pleasure in wrapping gifts as in receiving them—andthat beautiful packages guarantee memorable celebrations. For everyone who loved At Home with Carolyne Roehm, one ofAmerica’s premier style-setters now offers her ideas for creatingbreathtaking gift wrappings using readily available paper, tags,rubber stamps, ribbons, artificial flowers, and other inexpensivematerials. Arranged seasonally, and taking inspiration from Roehm’slove of nature, travel and collecting, and fine art, the bookfocuses on holidays as well as on ways to make children’s giftslook unique and adorable. As Roehm shows, with creativity and careany present can be made an exquisite offering. More than two hundred dazzling photographs provide inspiration,and a clear and detailed how-to section gives readers thestep-by-step tools they need to create beautiful gifts. And forthose who

A well-designed porch is like a welcoming committee thatinvites friends and family to share stories, catch up onneighborhood news, or quietly enjoy the breezes of a sultry summerevening. Porches bridge our public and private worlds, and conveythe essence of one’s home. In more than 250 stunning photographs of forty homes, PerfectPorches illustrates how varied these iconic American spaces can be.A wealth of structural appointments are presented, such as theextended eaves of a rain porch along the Gulf Coast, the shimmeringcopper flooring of a converted Amish cattle barn in Bluegrasscountry, and Outback-inspired painted thresholds in California’swine region. Unexpected ornaments, including Moroccan pendantlamps, a vintage watering can collection, or a majolica menageriecan transform even the most modest porch into an oasis. This bookalso reveals a host of practical ways to bring privacy to urbanporches, chic accents to old-fashioned verandas, and coziness tomodern environments. Home owne

Knowing how to make the most of storage space in the home is as important as the design of the residential areas themselves. This edition looks at the best ways of optimizing the usable spaces with functional, esthetic and original furniture.

At an early age, Alexa Hampton learned the language of gooddesign, the vocabulary to speak it, and the elements that defineit. As the daughter of interior design legend Mark Hampton, shetraveled the world by her father’s side, touring the greatarchitectural landmarks and discovering beauty, training hereye. Now one of America’s most influential designers herself, AlexaHampton provides a tour of stunning residences from her ownportfolio. Eighteen classic spaces illustrate in rich detail the elements thatgovern cultivated design—contrast, proportion, color, and balance.Among the residences are a landmark 1912 McKim, Mead Whiterestoration on Fifth Avenue in New York City; an eclectic house bythe sea layered in textures, patterns, and colors; a contemporaryapartment distinguished by simple geometry and clean lines; andHampton’s own apartment, filled with an exquisite collection ofarchitectural elements. Hampton also explains how she tailored each space to meet herclients’ needs while retaining a t

This volume of the Easy Beading series includes more than 80stylish beading projects. Each chapter is broken down by materialsuch as crystals, gemstones, glass and ceramics, metal and chain,mixed media, and pearls and shells. Although aimed at beginners andfull of clear directions and step-by-step photos, these stylishprojects and diverse styles also appeal to more advanced beaders.Featuring a thoroughly illustrated beader’s glossary and a basicssection that reviews techniques necessary for many beadingprojects, this collection of fast, fashionable, and fun projectsteaches readers a variety of techniques and design ideas.

WINDOW DRESSINGS SHOWCASES STUNNING WINDOW DECOR from PalmBeach to Seattle to New York, created by some of the country's mostrespected designers. Featuring a wide variety of styles anddecorating philosophies, Window Dressings reveals how tosuccessfully create the right look for any window in the home.

This private tour of the dazzling homes of legendarystyle-setter Carolyne Roehm showcases her favorite colorcombination in more than three hundred glorious photographs. From the time designer Carolyne Roehm rented her first smallapartment in New York in her twenties, she has loved blue andwhite. In that one-bedroom flat, she draped the walls, chairs,sofa, and a canopy bed in an inexpensive blue and white sheetingfabric designed by her boss, Oscar de la Renta, and begancollecting blue-and-white porcelain from around the world—initiallybargain reproductions and eventually museum-quality pieces—fromChina, Japan, Portugal, the Netherlands, and elsewhere. Today, Carolyne Roehm presides over a magnificent duplex inManhattan, an antique-filled stone house in Connecticut, and a chicyet rustic home in Aspen, all of which contain rooms decorated inblue and white, featuring accents from her collections of china,ceramics, glassware, linens, furniture, and decorative pieces.These rooms employ the wh

In her most personal book, Carolyne Roehm shares her lifelonglove of classical architecture and design, graciously inviting usinto her favorite spaces in three remarkable homes: her owndazzling Manhattan prewar duplex, her antique-filled Colonial-erastone house in Connecticut, and a special friend’s Aspen residenceevocative of eighteenth-century Sweden. Each is an architecturalshowpiece as well as a superlative example of her polished style:never fussy, always graceful and enticing. Even as a young design assistant to Oscar de la Renta, CarolyneRoehm was a devotee of the eternal virtues of artistry. Now, havinglived in several residences, she has gathered her knowledge,enthusiasms, and extraordinary collections to make these threehomes quintessential examples of the Roehm style. Each isindividual—yet all showcase her classical leanings and devotion tothe beauty and grace of authentic craftsmanship. The New Yorkapartment, with its selection of antique busts and objects andsuperlative artwork

Spectacular in scope yet intimate in detail, The Way We Livetranscends the archetypal style book to reveal global connectionsand patterns in home decoration. This unique body of detaileddesign inspiration encompasses the full range of options, fromclimate, location, and size to surfaces, arrangements, and colors.Whether you’re decorating a beach house in Chile or a loft space inParis, you’re sure to be inspired by hundreds of images from aroundthe world—a Moroccan house that coolly mixes the modern andtraditional in elegant interiors; a dramatic arrangement of shellsdecorating a tabletop in Mauritius; flowers strewn across barefloorboards for a Christmas feast in Sweden. The enormous range ofplaces here highlight connections and parallels of very differenthabitats in a way both striking and reassuring. The same attentionto detail can clearly inform the layout of a dining room in amodest Mexican home as it does an exclusive club in Buenos Aires.This encyclopedic tome, a sublime visual record of ho

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

In scarcely any other European region are techonologicaladvances and contemporary interpretations of tradition in suchharmony and so self-evident as in the Scandinavian countries,Europe's northernmost region. Here, alongside Ikea's mass-produceddesigns, a uniquely creative architecture and design scene hasdeveloped. The frequent utilization of natural and traditionalmaterials allows design trends to emerge that inspire around theworld. Furthermore, this close relationship to nature demands therespectful handling of natural resources. This volume reveals thatit is not only the functionality of the represented interior spacesthat is of foremost importance, but also the skilful handling oflight, color and material. Around 50 recent examples from both theprivate and the public spheres are presented from Sweden, Norway,Denmark, Finland and Iceland.

Sometimes you’re looking for it, sometimes it just findsyou Treasures of home décor abound at flea markets, thrift shops, andgarage sales. But how do you know a find when you find it? In The Find, Stan Williams and some of today’s most clever stylemakers, including Simon Doonan, John Derian, and Real Simple’sKristin van Ogtrop–all diehard devotees of New York City’s HousingWorks–show not just what to look for, but also how to look at anobject to identify a great piece. The trick is to see beyond nicksand wobbles, color and intended purpose and to focus on potential.For example, a vintage leather trunk encased in Lucite works as astunning coffee table. Pages from old books wallpaper a foyer. Acushion fashioned from a baseball diamond’s home plate makes agarden chair comfortable. The Find includes chapters on furniture, accessories, smallspaces, and entertaining. From a suburban ranch to an East Villagestudio in New York, each abode illustrates unexpected ways thatsecondh

Barbara and René Stoeltie capture the essence of New York’ssophisticated and glamorous elegance, inspiring the reader withprofiles of seventeen style setters and their private homes. NewYork Interiors is an inspirational guide to the eclectic interiorstyle of the Big Apple. The reader is taken on a thrillingexploration of both traditionally designed and strikingly moderninteriors, which reflect the city’s dynamism and diversity. NewYork’s interior design connoisseurs are experts at balancingelements from different cultures and epochs and have contemplatedeach facet of their homes down to the minutest detail, creatinghomes that are true havens from the hustle and bustle of the streetbelow. From a luxury apartment with magnificent paneling hung withold master paintings to a glassed-in eagle’s nest perched atop anart deco skyscraper, or a delightful brownstone with a privategarden worthy of a picturesque country village, Barbara and RenéStoeltie take readers on a personalized journey through sev

Beach Houses features a stunning array of the most ambitiousexamples of residential design at the sea. From a minimalistdwelling on a remote island to an apartment complex high above thesea to a luxurious holiday villa in an urban setting, this volumebrings together a collection of remarkable houses designed bywell-known architectural firms as well as interesting approaches bylocal architects. The contemporary beach houses from across theworld featured in this volume harmoniously adapt to theirsurrounding landscape while embracing the seaside lifestyle withsumptuous interiors and outdoor living spaces and balancingcasual-cool and opulence. They answer todays aesthetic, functionaland ecological demands, while at the same time underscoring theuniqueness of the seaside location.

One of the world’s leading interiors photographers, Fritz von der Schulenburg opens his archive to share his stunningly beautiful photographs of minimalist but grand interiors around the world. Whatever the location, period or architectural style, all the rooms share a captivating simple elegance that defines contemporary taste. Reflecting the way we ‘read’ an interior, the 300 colour photographs are divided into six chapters: Rhythm, Colour, Light, Space, Texture and Composition. Each chapter has a brief introduction outlining the essential elements of interior design being featured, followed by numerous glorious photographic examples. Complete with a source directory of useful contact details, this is an inspiring volume that celebrates the very best of the timeless trend that is minimalism in the grand style. It is guaranteed to appeal to the huge readership interested in homes and interiors.

The Scottish Country House chronicles a remarkable group of houses and castles that have survived the vicissitudes of Scotland’s turbulent history and are still in the hands of their original families. From breakfront cabinets filled with generations of monogrammed heirloom china to canopy beds keeping the chill of a Scottish winter at bay to cabbage-rose slip-covered sofas nestled under tall Gothic windows, this book takes the reader on a tour of these residences, providing an intimate look at a marvellous hotchpotch of rooms and decoration. Specially commissioned photographs by James Fennell show inviting living rooms and tousled bedrooms, print- lined hallways and well-trampled mudrooms. Telling details capture the eccentric personalities of their owners – Scottish chieftains, lairds and nobles drawn from the pages of Walter charming decorative details, such as a red silk bell-pull against green floral wallpaper, a drawer full of two- hundred-year-old love letters, or the curve of a wonderfully

In New York, Berlin and Tokyo, night is the new day, and life iscelebrated in some of the most unusual clubs around. With uniquestyle and creative design, a culture of its own is staged. The widefield of international design is presented using projects byup-and-coming artists and established interior decorators. On its400 pages Dance! Best of Club Design presents one-of-a-kindlocations from around the world. Bright lights and dimmed corners,organic forms, metal, glass, plastic and wood all reveal aspects ofmodern day club design in contrasting nightlife concepts.

This beautiful and unique reference provides an unrivaled mineof inspiration and ideas for anyone wishing to create a colorfulnew look for their home or garden! In this stunningly produced guide, internationally renownedinterior designer Kevin McCloud puts together over 1,000 colorchips arranged in over 80 palettes. Each palette—which includesanywhere from 6 to 16 color swatches—forms a blueprint for a uniquedecorative scheme. A palette based on old Chinese silk, forexample, is seen reinterpreted in a contemporary New Yorkapartment. Plus, each palette features gorgeous photographs that bring thecolor scheme to life, along with invaluable advice and tips forusing the colors to transform a room. Readers will also findmanufacturers’ paint references and numbers, lists of suppliers,and much more. The ultimate color sourcebook! From the Hardcover edition.