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Title: Dwellings: Living with Great Style by Stephen Sills/James Huniford ISBN: 0-8212-2846-3 Publisher: Bulfinch Pub. Date: September, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.12 (8 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Offbeat. Know what you are buying...
Comment: This is NOT a "decorating book" for for someone about to redo a room in their home, and looking for ideas. The book has a curious layout I found interesting: small size, no dustjacket, heavy on text; that should tip off potential readers that this one is a little different. It is more like a design essay (and it's highly readable), with photos, close-ups of fabrics, endpapers spread throughout with fancy script font, etc. There is no "how-to" here, no HGTV budget tips, no "oh THAT'S what I'll do with my lamp!" inspirations. You just sort of curl up with this and learn about their approach to design (they probably hand this to potential clients). The book is a luxury, so spend money elsewhere if you are looking for design reference.
Rating: 1
Summary: Not worth the money
Comment: This book looks good at first glimpse but then it falls apart. The admittedly stylish graphic design cannot compensate for the small pictures, the trite prose, and the old ideas. I expected this book to offer something really fresh but it didn't. I feel majorly ripped off.
Rating: 1
Summary: Stylish but vacant
Comment: I found this book to be like a stylish but vacant house. It looked good from the outside, but once I got inside the book, there wasn't very much in there to keep my interest. I actually became annoyed with myself for spending money on this when I tried to read this book and realized that the authors have nothing new to say. I've read it all before. Many times. ("It is your personality that brings a room alive." Oh really? I read that 20 years ago in my mother's old Better Homes and Gardens decorating book. "The bed will influence all other choices in the room." I paid money to read that? )
I also find it annoying that they keep talking about themselves in the writing.-who cares? The pictures are too small. Although the rooms look pretty enough, I kept wanting to see more of each room or to have room pictures used larger, because it was frustrating that I felt I couldn't see enough of the rooms or enough of what is in the rooms. (They take a whole room pictures of a bedroom or a living room and use it on the equivalent of maybe a quarter of a page and put some fabric design or wallpaper pattern behind it. Ick.)
I definitely did not get my money's worth on this book.
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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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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: Influential Styles: From Baroque to Bauhaus - Inspiration for Today's Interiors by Judith Miller, Simon Upton ISBN: 0823025276 Publisher: AAA Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Slim Aarons: Once Upon a Time by Slim Aarons ISBN: 0810946033 Publisher: Harry N. Abrams Pub. Date: 01 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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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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