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Famed interior designer Vicente Wolf is known for a modern and elegant design sensibility that is guided by integrity and simplicity. He is also a photographer of note, capturing images of his own design work and of his travels. Crossing Boundaries is a fascinating combination of the two, a spirited approach that pairs travel and design based on visits to Ethiopia, Myanmar, Syria, Madagascar, and Borneo.

Wolf is an adventurous voyager, and he is captivated by how people express themselves: in the colors and patterns of clothing, the forms and features of architecture, and so on. These influences are incorporated into his own designs, sometimes directly - a collection of brightly colored woven caps that add personality to a Wyoming log cabin - and sometimes indirectly - a composition of gray-blues and gray-greens drawn from succulent plants in a dry riverbed.

About the Author:

Admired for his impeccable eye and unique vision of the world, Vicente Wolf has been at the top of the design industry for over forty years. He is the author of Learning to See, Lifting the Curtain on Design, Crossing Boundaries, and The Four Elements of Design.

Let there be...shade! This new and expanded edition of a Sunset bestseller breezes in like a breath of fresh air, with everything you need to know to create gorgeous curtains, draperies, shades, and valances.

Practical as well as inspirational, Curtains, Draperies & Shades guides you through the process of choosing fabric and hardware, provides easy-to-follow sewing instructions, and gives clear directions for installing your beautiful window treatments, from hanging curtains to rigging shades.

More than 100 projects help you select the right window treatments to dress up every room in the house. And new designer touches--from fanciful clips to edge details--will have your friends exclaiming, “ Wow, you made those? “

Features:

- New and expanded Sunset classic with more than 100 window treatments

- Updated format with fresh photography and step-by-step directions

- Covers the entire process: planning, measuring, sewing, and installation

- New section on designer details for tiebacks, cascades, swags, edge details, and embellishments

Curtains, Shades, Pillows & Covers is the one-stop reference guide to making every kind of soft furnishing for the home. Inspirational image galleries provide hundreds of ideas for fabric, shapes, design details, and more. Every category has practical workshops that give step-by-step instructions for techniques and items, plus essential troubleshooting, design advice, and professional tips. Also included is a review of window shapes and what options for covering them—taking into account needs such as privacy, light, etc. A special section, “Essential Techniques,” ensures readers that sewing expertise is at their fingertips when they need it.

As the late twentieth-century fascination with rounded shapes, organic influences, and plastics fades, interior designers are increasingly drawn to deep colours, polished woods, velvets, furs, leather, dark metals, and brick – materials used liberally in the past – that have a nostalgic quality.

Efforts to shape a less austere present by creating an idealized version of the past have begun to appear in commercial and residential design throughout the country and abroad.

Dark Nostalgia presents over twenty-five projects that exemplify the smooth incorporation of evocative historic detail into current interiors.

Public spaces, including New York’s famous Royalton Hotel lobby renovation, Shoreditch House in London, and Alain Ducasse’s newest restaurant, Adour, as well as private residences and smaller, intimate restaurants and clubs by cutting-edge designers, including AvroKO, David Rockwell, Roman & Williams, Julian Schnabel, Philippe Starck and Adam Tihany, demonstrate the many successful ways this trend towards a dark nostalgia has been incorporated in recent designs.

As one of today’s most sought-after designers, Amanda Nisbet brings a fresh, energetic approach to the traditional sense of luxury. Color, texture, and form blend to create her trademark comfortable elegance, and her work seamlessly balances function and style, classicism and modernism, in beautifully unexpected ways. With over 250 spectacular photographs of New York City apartments, country houses, and Hamptons beach homes, this extraordinary volume will show readers how to bring punch and color to classic rooms.

Whether you are designing a brand new home or simply updating one room’s interior, Decorate is teeming with clever, creative and quirky advice from the world’s best designers and architects.

The likes of Jonathan Adler, Kelly Hoppen, Amy Neunsinger, Rita Konig, Amy Butler and Abigail Ahern reveal essential tools of the trade, from where to put your furniture to how to dress a room with your own individual style. The book is a gorgeous source of essential expert guidance, featuring both quick fixes for small budgets and indulgent ideas for more ambitious projects.

The text is divided into sections, each punctuated with top tips, pearls of decorating wisdom and divine designer secrets:

‘Space Matters’ has a blank-canvas approach, showing you how best to assess a space and work out its specific decorating needs. A section on ‘Setting Your Style’ profiles a huge range of different interior aesthetics, from Natural and Fleamarket Style to Modern Glamour and Eclectic. ‘Room By Room’ concentrates on each room of the house and tells you what you need to know to transform any area. Finally, ‘Attention to Detail’ reveals the smaller elements that can utterly transform a space, without affecting the architecture or structure of a building. These final touches include hanging pictures, arranging flowers, cushions and lights.

Decorate’s vast selection of styles, boasting contributions from the industry’s top designers, makes it an essential book for anyone looking to transform their home’s interior

Whatever kind of home you live in - from a high-rise condo on Miami Beach to a glass-enclosed "cabin" in the Pacific Northwest to a New York City townhouse or a ranch house in Dallas - Decorate has something to offer. With its focus on current trends, this book offers advice and insight from some of the top designers working today.

The 33 projects that are collected in this book are artfully photographed and informatively explained. It will give you so many ideas about transforming the home you own into your dream house, that you'll want to start repainting your living room as soon as you spot your favorite room in the book. Decorate concentrates on design and decoration, rather than new construction or structural renovation, hoping that the lessons of each location included will be realistic goals for many homeowners.

Many of the houses, apartments, condominiums, and townhouses that appear in the book are the homes of the professionals who designed them. Others were created for clients. Some of the decorators are at the top of their profession. All of the locations demonstrate important aspects of what is happening in design today.

If the pictures are meant to inspire, however, the text is designed to show you how - or at least give you some insight into what kinds of questions to ask when the time comes to create your own before and after photos. Straight-shooting advice from the pros help you avoid costly errors, a "Key to the Style" box explains the designer's approach and concepts, and "What the Pros Know" sidebars help you gain insight into the ways in which the theoretical becomes possible no matter what kind of home you have.

475 full-color photographs and 30 drawings

This comprehensive, hands-on guide to interior design from Cullman & Kravis, a prominent New York decorating firm, offers a broad spectrum of solutions for integrating architecture, art, and antiques into living spaces that are comfortable, functional, and stylish. As Ellie Cullman writes reassuringly in her introduction: “If the very thought of decorating your home sends you into a tailspin, you can relax. Creating a beautiful, comfortable environment is not a simple process, but it need not be an overwhelming experience.”

In this generously illustrated handbook, Mrs Cullman and her colleague and co-author Tracey Pruzan share the basic principles followed by Cullman & Kravis when they work with clients, whether they are renovating an existing house or building a new one. The authors clearly demonstrate that decorating a home is a rational process that can be followed by anyone willing to learn.

Step by step, they answer the questions and solve the problems associated with every type of project, illustrating the explanations with case studies of actual designs, hundreds of tips, and full-color photographs of completed rooms and details of wall surfaces, rugs, and textiles.

Not everyone is an interior designer. But anyone can design an interior…using Decorating: The Smart Approach to Design, the perfect go-to guide for real people. Trendy styles and colors may come and go, but good design is lasting. This book showcases hundreds of examples of appealing interiors and explains how to use the fundamental principles that professionals rely on to create tasteful, comfortable rooms. Learn how to choose colors with confidence and understand how lighting can affect it. Shop for quality furniture, and learn how to arrange it to make the most of space. Hang and display art and other accessories to create great conversation pieces.

- Approach a decorating project as a designer would.
- Learn the basic principles of design.
- Understand color and light.
- Select perfect window treatments.
- Arrange art and accessories.
- Shop smartly for quality furniture.