Rooms to Inspire in the City: Stylish Interiors for Urban Living |  | Author: Annie Kelly
Creator: Tim Street-Porter
Publisher: Rizzoli
Category: Book
List Price: $50.00
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Media: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.8
Dimensions (in): 12 x 8.9 x 1.2
ISBN: 0847834301
Dewey Decimal Number: 645
EAN: 9780847834303
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Product Description
A follow-up to the successful series Rooms to Inspire, this inspirational design guide presents a selection of novel urban interiors by the leading interior designers of our time.
City living evokes cosmopolitan sophistication and artistic expression. This presentation of trend-setting ways to design residences by leading tastemakers such as Muriel Brandolini, Peter Dunham, Jonathan Adler, and Mary McDonald, shows an impressive mix of stylesâfrom eclectic and exotic to neo-traditional. The variety of beautifully photographed dwellingsâfrom townhouses and apartments to lofts in such vibrant locales as New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Paris, London, and Jakartaâwere chosen for their fresh design perspectives. This inspiring medley ranges from Carolina Irving’s Upper East Side–chic New York apartment with custom molding influenced by Gothic architecture to Robert Couturier’s elegant residence with curved walls, decorated by Paulin Paris. Universal design issues fundamental to living quarters are addressed, including color and comfort, as well as innovative approaches to tight spaces such as kitchens and bathrooms. Sections devoted to bookshelves, home entertaining, and tabletop display, along with a useful resource list, complete this guide to city style. For professionals and novices alike, Rooms to Inspire in the City encourages us to decorate our urban living spaces with panache.
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 Taste to Inspire You April 10, 2010
L. M. Keefer (Connecticut)
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
What I love about this "Rooms to Inspire" series is the books give you novel ideas and fresh design images with which to decorate and update your rooms. This new addition to the series is a delight. Taste is all about exposure, and this book exposes readers to current, sophisticated, exotic and eclectic interiors around the world by top designers/stylemakers including Mary McDonald, Jonathan Adler, and Peter Dunham. I particularly loved Carolina Irving's New York City apartment.
The rooms featured should stretch your parameters of style which is positive. The photos will nerve your courage to infuse a jolt of something interesting in any tired, boring or cliched rooms you feel you have at home. Good design is an expression of the owner's personality, and the rooms in this book have a strong sense of personality. No cookie-cutter copies. And although they are city rooms, much of the decor could be adapted to homes of suburban or country dwellers as well, as the cover photo, which is a particular favorite of mine, illustrates.
The book has a small section on decorating with books and city kitchens which might be appealing to many readers. While I'd seen a couple of the rooms in this book in design magazines before, they looked even better in this book. The color is vibrant--you felt you could just walk into the pages and sit down in the rooms. This book is a great resource book of fresh, cosmopolitan, and tantalizing rooms under one cover to inspire and challenge you. If you liked the other "Rooms to Inspire" books by the author, you should enjoy this latest addition to the family.
 Excelent photograhs May 17, 2010
Paola V. Faãndez Garcãa (Santiago, Región Metropolitana, CL)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I love the book, although it shows rooms a little bit more elegant than my budget, I was very pleased with my purchase. My mother also has enjoy it a lot, because is more her style.
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