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Kelly's interiors are timeless. The home office and joinery for plasma tv's are first class. Check out her web page for her designs and media press. The pictures and interiors and stunning. All of Kelly's Books are great but this and Golden Rules of Style are her best.
The cover picture does not do the book justice. She incorporates antiques and modern furniture and makes them sing. This is not just a book of pictures - it also describes her own design philosphy and how to do it in your own home - to your own individual personality. It is not a specific how to book - more how to approach your home and develop your own style and consider: lighting, surfaces, space and function, surfaces, texture.
Kelly Hoppen is a very talented decorator and in this book she provides not just beautiful photos (the staple of every design book) but very useful information on how to go about decorating your home, using different case studies, and exploring the challenges in each case, and how she went about to solving them. If you are starting a career as an interior designer, or are looking for ideas to decorate your home, you couldn't ask for a better book than Kelly Hoppen Home.
This book is a wonderful gift for young, new home owners to get inspiration from. Elaborate, cosmopolitan and eloquent.
Not only is it very educational and useful. Each case study comes with a detailed floor plan, a room board that describes the fabrics and colors used, and many gorgeous pictures. A funny detail: The Chinese calligraphy on the wall of a sumptuous, custom built wine cellar shown on p. My wife and I plan to remodel our place, so we were looking for how-to advice and inspiration. Each chapter is extremely clear and well organized, providing practical advice about the planning and process as well as many useful hints about details. There are 9 case studies (one being Kelly's own home in London), complete with a description of what the customer was asking about, what were the challenges, and how she went about meeting them. It is also makes for a very exciting read. 161, hangs upside down.
Kelly provided both and much more.The book has 9 chapters that approach interior design from different angles. These case studies form the backbone of the book and are used to illustrate how she successfully addresses a range of questions and challenges as diverse as fire places, spatial planning, windows, lighting, etc. I sincerely hope that the owners will have a chance to turn it around before entertaining their first Chinese guests. The book successfully avoids the common traps of design book and magazines, to either kill you with a never-ending list of boring details, or to fill up the pages with pretty pictures without practical use.
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