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Be Your Own Decorator: Taking Inspiration and Cues from Today's Top Designers
by
Susanna Salk
Selecting favorite rooms from more than fifty renowned designers such as Kelly Wearstler, Bunny Williams, Albert Hadley, Nate Berkus, and Mary McDonald—and shot by the world’s top shelter photographers—Susanna Salk offers insightful advice on how to apply basic design principles to interiors.
Organized into chapters on balance, color, mixing, accessorizing, arrangements, ru...more
Organized into chapters on balance, color, mixing, accessorizing, arrangements, ru...more
Hardcover, 272 pages
Published
March 27th 2012
by Rizzoli
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Majority full page photos, many of which I have already seen in other books or magazines and the particular decorators own books. I was not a fan of a large amount of these designs. They seemed too cluttered and over the top and intentionally eclectic. If doing eclectic design just for the sake of being different and trying to be cutting edge is your thing then you will be inspired by this book. The point of eclectic to me means using many different and random objects and styles out of necessity...more
In Be Your Own Decorator, author Susanna Salk wants you to be confident when you are decorating at home. After all, after a successful career as a design writer, that same confidence has served her well, when decorating her home. However, if you are looking for a “how-to” book, she mentions early on that this is not that book. It’s actually about the “why-nots” of decorating. Read more here.
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Pg 131 Great pillows to make out of cashmere? Loops sewn on in rows.
Pg 73 Collage of O's
Pg. 68 Intriguing water tower photos
Pg 194 Branches mounted as antlers on wall to accentuate grand slanted ceiling.pg. 341 - Stunning portrait on wall
Pg 131 Great pillows to make out of cashmere? Loops sewn on in rows.
Pg 73 Collage of O's
Pg. 68 Intriguing water tower photos
Pg 194 Branches mounted as antlers on wall to accentuate grand slanted ceiling.pg. 341 - Stunning portrait on wall
Three stars for photos only-some of which I've seen before in magazine stories. Interesting concept but I wish there was more concrete info.
Interior Design "Porn."
The only page that caught my eye was Jonathan Adler's design page.
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