Designers at Home: Personal Reflections on Stylish Living - Hardcover

Carman, Ronda Rice

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0847840093 ISBN 13: 9780847840090

Publisher: Rizzoli, 2013

Synopsis

Ronda Rice Carman, founder of the popular lifestyle blog All the Best, takes readers on a guided tour through the houses of renowned designers, who share their thoughts on gracious living and how they bring their professional philosophies home. Designers at Home: Personal Reflections on Stylish Living presents the personal living spaces of fifty distinctive design leaders, including Charlotte Moss, Celerie Kemble, Ashley Hicks, Barry Dixon, India Hicks, Vicente Wolf, Martyn Lawrence Bullard, Kevin Sharkey, Suzanne Rheinstein, Rose Tarlow, Jay Jeffers, Michelle Nussbaumer, Jan Showers, Alex Papachristidis, Madeline Stuart, Matthew Patrick Smyth, Colette van den Thillart, Malcolm James Kutner, Ken Fulk, Scot Meacham Wood, Bunny Williams and more. These select dwellings range from chic apartments and luxurious estates, to charming country homes. 
From the homey historic English hunting lodge of Nicky Haslam and the glamorous Beverly Hills home of Hutton Wilkinson to the serene Sag Harbor retreat of Steven Gambrel, each page is filled with inspiring design, entertaining ideas, and imagery that invites readers to explore the idiosyncrasies of design while infusing their own homes with individuality and flair. The book's conversational tone and practical tips from these experts provide a referential approach to creating a highly personal place. From favorite sheets and pillows, how to create impromptu dinner parties, to the decorative details that bring a room to life, each designer's meaningful advice will inspire one to thoughtfully consider their own distinctive home.

• Includes more than 300 full color images
• Features ideas and advice on design, entertaining, decorative details, and more
• Offers a glimpse into the personal living spaces of fifty distinctive designers

About this title

About the Author:

Ronda Rice Carman is the founder of All the Best Blog. All the Best has garnered press from around the globe, including Fox News (named one of the top ten design blogs in 2010), Traditional Home, ELLE Decor, House Beautiful, domino, Southern Living, Real Simple, RUE, Home Plus Scotland and numerous regional, national and international newspapers. All the Best Blog is renowned for it's insightful interviews and profiles with industry icons, entrepreneurs and global tastemakers. Ronda is a contributing writer for  Huffington Post, New York Social Diary and a reviewer for the prestigious Mr. & Mrs. Smith Hotel Collections. A Texan by birth, she now lives with her family in Scotland and divides time between the United Kingdom, the United States and the window seat of an airplane.

Review:

"Showing the desirable homes of a variety of American interior designers, it is refreshing and full of ideas which you too might be happy to come home to." -- Australian Vogue Living

In her debut book Ronda Rice Carman shares the design philosophies and stories behind fifty chic spaces of the decorating world's top players. -- Elle Decor

"Each page is filled with inspiring home design, ideas for entertaining, and imagery that invites readers to explore the idiosyncrasies of design while infusing their homes with individuality and flair." --Houston Lifestyles & Homes

About this edition

• Publisher: Rizzoli
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0847840093
• ISBN 13: 9780847840090
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304