An inspirational book for those who love architecture or arelooking for ideas for their own home, HOUSES: The Evolution ofForms documents the best, most innovative interior design projectsof 2010.
Beginning with French Style, Suzanne Slesin and hercoauthors created an acclaimed series of high-quality color booksthat focused on international areas of cultural and domesticinterest. The Little Style Books revisit this classic material in anew and reinvigorated py and appealing, The Little Style Bookscontain pictures and text from the original edition selected antireorganized to highlight what is quintessential about the style ofthe country. The chapter on Living, for example, is filled withideas for arranging rooms, placing furniture, lighting corners: theCooking chapter shows not only how other people live, but how ourkitchens might be adapted.A treasure trove of ideas, this is indeedthe essence of style.
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
