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Title: The Private House by Rose Tarlow ISBN: 0-609-60472-4 Publisher: Clarkson Potter Pub. Date: 13 November, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $37.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Subtle and Serene
Comment: Rose Tarlow invites us into her rarefied world, and aren't we lucky. She has created sublimely elegant furniture and environments for a number of years, yet her work has not received the kind of extensive editorial converage that some of her less talented contemporaries have. She has composed a relatively slim volume of words and images that is at once very personal yet instructional.
We are given a peek into her private life with descriptions of the house she grew up in as well as the creation of her magnificent home in Bel Air California and other projects.She shares some of her fundamental design pricipals in addition to a history of how she began her very unique and successful career.
This is a book for anyone who appreciates extraordinary design in addition to being a wealth of information culminated from a lifetime of exploration and study.
Rating: 2
Summary: it should be "MY Private House"
Comment: This book is minimally instructional. It's filled with the author's memories of the small things that make life interesting--but they don't make the book interesting. This is really a poorly-organized memoir, and not a book on design. The "tips" that the author shares are fairly common knowledge, and it's not worth slogging through yet another paragraph on the joys of a finding a scrap of exquisite fabric in a shop in Paris after a lovely little lunch at an out-of-the-way cafe, and how lovely it looked in Mr. Insert-Name-Here's quaint chateau. Rose Tarlow should have just written her autobiography and not tried to disguise it as a design book. Two stars for the fact that it wasn't completely false advertising.
Rating: 5
Summary: Personal, Beautiful, and Enlightening
Comment: After reading and flipping the pages of many architecture and design books over the last 20 years, I have found none as fun or in truly informative as this one Ms.Tarlow has put together. It's her human quality in the writing that really comes across in this book to make it warm and a real learning experience, not like a difficult professor in grad school but more of caring private tutor who tells you all the stories so you learn the lesson not just memorize it. Some of the design situations certainly will not arise in my life (dealing with a kitchen in the pool house comes to mind.) But it's full of great perspective, many lessons and a wonderful read nonetheless. Ms. Tarlow takes us on a journey that is so personal yet so professional and exotic you feel lucky to have been invited into her Private House.
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Title: Rooms : Creating Luxurious, Livable Spaces by Mariette Himes Gomez ISBN: 0060083700 Publisher: Regan Books Pub. Date: 08 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Dwellings: Living with Great Style by Stephen Sills/James Huniford ISBN: 0821228463 Publisher: Bulfinch Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Learning to See: Bringing the World Around You into Your Home by Vicente Wolf, Louis Oliver Gropp ISBN: 1579652174 Publisher: Artisan Sales Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: Style by Saladino by John F. Saladino, Thomasine Kushner, Barbara Stoeltie, Rene Stoeltie ISBN: 0711215502 Publisher: Frances Lincoln Limited Pub. Date: August, 2002 List Price(USD): $60.00 |
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Title: Jeffrey Bilhuber's Basics : Expert Solutions for Designing The House of Your Dreams by Jeffrey Bilhuber ISBN: 0847825647 Publisher: Rizzoli Pub. Date: 22 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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