Be Your Own Decorator: Taking Inspiration and Cues From Today's Top Designers
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Be Your Own Decorator: Taking Inspiration and Cues From Today's Top Designers
By (Author) Susanna Salk
Rizzoli International Publications
Rizzoli International Publications
6th March 2018
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
747
Physical Properties
Hardback
256
Width 191mm, Height 254mm
Description
Selecting favourite rooms from more than 50 renowned designers such as Kelly Wearstler, Bunny Williams, Albert Hadley, Nate Berkus, and Mary McDonald and shot by the worlds top shelter photographers Susanna Salk offers insightful advice on how to apply basic design principles to interiors.
Organised into chapters on balance, colour, mixing, accessorising, arrangements, rule breaking, and whimsy, Salk walks through the process of great design, illustrating how the featured designers made the decisions they did to make these rooms look so great. The books encouraging, conversational tone, practical tips and ideas, and quotes by the designers themselves explaining their philosophies empower the reader to create stylish, functional, and unique rooms of their very own.
Covering a range of styles from traditional to modern, formal to whimsical, and showcasing some of the best work by the best designers of our age, Be Your Own Decorator is a rich resource for the aspiring decorator.
Reviews
Be Your Own Decorator, by Susanna Salk, presents rooms by well-known designers like Jamie Drake, Ruthie Sommers and Kelly Wearstler that are intended to inspire readers to take things into their own hands." ~The New York Times
"Easy strategies to make the place where the day starts (and ends) more beautiful and comfortable." ~O - The Oprah Magazine
"For ages I have ripped pages from magazines, safely tucking them away for when I need inspiration. Now, it is as if my friend Susanna Salk did all of the work for me." ~AlltheBest.com
"...another example of the authors ability to analyze trends and translate them so that they are easy to incorporate into our lives. It will be difficult not to dog-ear the big, gorgeous picture book." ~CamilleMaurice.com
Author Bio
Susanna Salk is the author of Room for Children and Weekend Retreats and a contributing editor for 1stdibs.com and ivillage.com, as well as regularly producing decorating segments for NBCs Today Show in the US.
