Reveal: Interior Design as a Reflection of Who We are

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Harriet Anstruther is a leading interior designer whose work has featured in the New York Times T Magazine amongst many others. This, Harriet Anstruthers first book, showcases her projects and inspirations and provides an insight into her fundamental interest in the psychology of interior design. Through an examination of our most fundamental needs, like shelter, warmth, light, dark, establishing roots and a sense of romanticism, Harriet Anstruther reveals the essential truths at the core of interior design. Her ability to mix classical and modern, old and new, traditional and quirky is shown through a series of images, which display the broad range of her inspirations. Her interest in, and knowledge of classical and contemporary art begins to merge seamlessly together with her interiors. Linking these seemingly disparate influences together, Harriet shows how the way we design and decorate our homes reveals our innermost desires and fears.

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'In the skilled hands of Harriet Anstruther, a pattern is brought to the chaos, an hospitable order to the contradictions - to create a series of unexpected spaces for serious entertaining, stimulating working or superior everyday living'. Tom Dixon

Author Bio

As well as running her own successful design and interiors studio, Harriet Anstruther is a full member of the British Institute of Interior Design (BIID). She is a member of the Development Advisory Board at the Victoria & Albert Museum, a Committee Member and Ambassador for the Royal Academy and consults for among others, the Design Museum & Yohji Yamamoto. She is actively involved in the Brompton Design District, which runs in conjunction with the annual London Design Festival and regularly teaches at the RCA