The Fashion House: Inside the Homes of Leading Designers

by Lisa Lovatt-Smith, Lisa Smith-Lovatt

Designers from Armani to Yves St. Laurent open their doors for this dramatic offering. Here are the grand interiors of Versace, Geoffrey Beene, Oscar de la Renta, and many others. Designers create and edit their own living spaces as they design their collections, shown here in a coffee table book that is visually dynamic and matched with personal quotes and a readable text. 280 color illustrations.

Genres: Design

208 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 1997

Reviews

[Eric Byrd · Rating 3 out of 5]

When you work a stint as a librarian at an interior design firm, you tend to read plenty of books like this. And drink a lot--the office manager began her tinkling rounds with the drinks cart at 4:00pm every day. The pictures of Giorgio Armani's Milan flat are out of this world. We tend to think of Art Deco as something fluid, curvy, and sensuous--but Armani's personal imagining of the style is hard and burnished, severe and forbidding, with a machine-age austerity. So elegant as to be unliveable, as Bodoni is so elegant as to be unreadable. The Milanese Armani flat is a good contrast to the Versace villa (one of who knows how many) featured in this book, the usual gaudy-colored Southern Italian saturnalia.

[Michael Heath-Caldwell · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very interesting book on interior design as lived in and created by some extraordinary people.