Design and Detail in the Home - Hardcover

Linley, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810940531 ISBN 13: 9780810940536

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, 2000

Synopsis

An internationally known furniture designer, specializing in modern reworkings of traditional designs, offers a creative and exciting vision of building an artistic and harmonious look for complete rooms, discussing design ideas for each room of the house.

About this title

About the Author:

Viscount Linley (son of Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon) founded David Linley Furniture Ltd in 1985 and now sells a wide range of furniture and accessories in his flagship London shop and twelve outlets in the USA.

From Booklist:

Who wants to be a famous designer? It doesn't hurt that fine furniture maker and author (Classical Furniture [1993] and Extraordinary Furniture [1996])^B David Linley was born to royalty or that his father, Lord Snowden, is a very accomplished photographer. Nonetheless, Linley has produced a mouthwatering, narrated gallery of home interiors, with rooms of the famed (Sir Elton John and Bill Blass, among others) juxtaposed with those not well-known. Far from the pattern-on-pattern style popularized by Mario Buatta, Linley focuses on simplicity--drama even--as we stroll through the ways that people arrive, live, dine, cook, read, rest, work, and bathe. A few pages of history mixed with personal reminiscences follow with close-ups of details: the family rocking horse, brass hardware, and an assortment of rasps. Finally, his perspectives are fresh, such as his comments that entrance halls were made to showcase "visually exciting but impractical furniture." Bibliography appended. Barbara Jacobs
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About this edition

• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0810940531
• ISBN 13: 9780810940536
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224