Welcome Home Kaffe Fassett - Softcover
Discover the dazzling world of renowned colour and fibre artist Kaffe Fassett, including 11 impressive projects. Enter the London home studio of world-renowned colour and fibre artist, author, and teacher Kaffe Fassett. His passion for vivid and intricate design has inspired artistic knitting patterns, stunning needlepoint, unique fabrics, fantastic mosaics, and fabulous patchwork quilts. Filled with marvellous collections, Kaffe's home is an ever changing canvas where you'll discover how to combine rich colours and textures to create brilliant decorative accents of your own. For over 20 years, Kaffe has encouraged students to wake up their senses to a new appreciation of colour. In this spirit of discovery, Kaffe Fassett welcomes you to his home! This volume also includes complete instructions and templates for 11 dazzling projects, including designer pillows, glorious quilts, and whimsical rag rugs.
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About the Author:
Kaffe Fassett (1937-) was born in San Francisco and graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, at the early age of 19. He moved to London in 1964 and has subsequently become known for his colourful designs in the decorative arts - esp. needlepoint, patchwork, and knitting. His work was the subject of a one-man show at the V&A London in 1988, the first time a living textile artist was honoured in this way. He is a prolific author and occasional host of TV/radio shows for the BBC.
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Exactly what one would expect from the master of color...one huge canvas for working with color, patterns, and texture. --Knitting.about.com
Kaffe Fassett is an internationally renowned color and fiber artist, author and teacher. In this newly revised edition of Welcome Home Kaffe Fassett, you will be taken on a tour of Kaffe s lovely home in London. The lush, full-colored photographs illustrate marvelous collections, one-of-a-kind interior design and his colorful workspaces. You may have seen Kaffe Fassett textiles, artistic yarns and knitting patterns as well as his needlepoint kits for Ehrman Tapestries of London. He is also the leading fabric designer for Rowan Patchwork and Quilting. One common thread running through all his designs, in fact his entire life, is his love of bright, vivid colors, textures and patterns. One often wonders where he finds the inspiration for all the designs and projects. You need look no further than his own home and studio. Perhaps you are one of those quilters than needs inspiration pieces all around her. If so, you will want to read this book and bask in the beauty and colors found within its pages. Inspiration is everywhere and if you need a little nudge you will also find 11 different projects in the book including quilts, pillows, rag rug patterns, and mosaics. --The Applique Society Newsletter; March/April, 2011
This book is quite simply spectacular!!! What else can you say about a book filled with hundreds of photographs of the art of one of the top designers of our time??? The cover features Kaffe surrounded by his signature over-sized roses. Yes, he is known for his sense of color, but after drooling over the photographs in this book, I love his use of texture and shapes. Many of the photographs feature his paintings and my favorites are pictures of pottery which create the backdrop for a collection of gorgeous dishes displayed on a hutch in front! The painting adds a three dimensional effect that is breath taking! In this photo, the curves of the vases and plates are mimicked in the fabric designs. And the colors of the pottery accent the colors in the fabric. I guarantee you will fall in love with a room and then spend hours dissecting every element in it to learn from the master! Kaffe is definitely a renaissance man. He crosses mediums effortlessly and is famous for his knitting designs; needlepoint; and fabrics; as well as his paintings, hooked rugs, and mosaics. There are nine patterns included in the book from quilts to hooked rugs but you will keep returning to the photographs because this is one of those books that will appeal to everyone. You don t have to be a quilter to appreciate his work share it with any friend who has a definite sense of style. Show them that quilting is not just traditional expand your horizons today! --Penny Haren, Checker Newsletter; December, 2010
Kaffe Fassett is an internationally renowned color and fiber artist, author and teacher. In this newly revised edition of Welcome Home Kaffe Fassett, you will be taken on a tour of Kaffe s lovely home in London. The lush, full-colored photographs illustrate marvelous collections, one-of-a-kind interior design and his colorful workspaces. You may have seen Kaffe Fassett textiles, artistic yarns and knitting patterns as well as his needlepoint kits for Ehrman Tapestries of London. He is also the leading fabric designer for Rowan Patchwork and Quilting. One common thread running through all his designs, in fact his entire life, is his love of bright, vivid colors, textures and patterns. One often wonders where he finds the inspiration for all the designs and projects. You need look no further than his own home and studio. Perhaps you are one of those quilters than needs inspiration pieces all around her. If so, you will want to read this book and bask in the beauty and colors found within its pages. Inspiration is everywhere and if you need a little nudge you will also find 11 different projects in the book including quilts, pillows, rag rug patterns, and mosaics. --The Applique Society Newsletter; March/April, 2011
This book is quite simply spectacular!!! What else can you say about a book filled with hundreds of photographs of the art of one of the top designers of our time??? The cover features Kaffe surrounded by his signature over-sized roses. Yes, he is known for his sense of color, but after drooling over the photographs in this book, I love his use of texture and shapes. Many of the photographs feature his paintings and my favorites are pictures of pottery which create the backdrop for a collection of gorgeous dishes displayed on a hutch in front! The painting adds a three dimensional effect that is breath taking! In this photo, the curves of the vases and plates are mimicked in the fabric designs. And the colors of the pottery accent the colors in the fabric. I guarantee you will fall in love with a room and then spend hours dissecting every element in it to learn from the master! Kaffe is definitely a renaissance man. He crosses mediums effortlessly and is famous for his knitting designs; needlepoint; and fabrics; as well as his paintings, hooked rugs, and mosaics. There are nine patterns included in the book from quilts to hooked rugs but you will keep returning to the photographs because this is one of those books that will appeal to everyone. You don t have to be a quilter to appreciate his work share it with any friend who has a definite sense of style. Show them that quilting is not just traditional expand your horizons today! --Penny Haren, Checker Newsletter; December, 2010
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- PublisherLandauer
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 0982558686
- ISBN 13 9780982558683
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages128
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