Fusion Style Decorating : A New Approach to Interior Design - Hardcover

Wilhide, Elizabeth; Copestick, Joanna

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0789205920 ISBN 13: 9780789205926

Publisher: Abbeville Press, 1999

Synopsis

Featuring spicy palettes of color, exuberant patterns, earthy materials, and handmade objects, this book is filled with inspiration and practical advice for creating stylish, contemporary interiors. As the world shrinks, ideas for interior design are just as likely to come from sources abroad as from those on our own doorstep. And it is no longer necessary to be a far-flung traveler to find exotic, economical furnishings, for they are abundantly available in stores close to home. Today's exotic look retains a focused contemporary edge without compromising notions of space, light, and comfort, unlike the cluttered, hodgepodge of previous incarnations of ethnic style.

Illustrated with inspiring photographs, the chapters cover walls, floors, windows and doors, furniture and furnishings, lighting and display and offer decorating suggestions for apartments and houses, large or small. And like its predecessor, Natural Decorating, also by Wilhide and Copestick, which has sold over 100,000 copies worldwide, this book offers a number of original projects. Supplementing the projects is a resource section that includes a guide to selected suppliers and to stores that feature international furnishings.

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Review

Fusion Style is a taste treat. Rooms of unlikely mates like Mexican textiles, willow wood chairs, Tatami mats and French demi-lunes make for inspiring eye candy. -- Philadelphia Inquirer, 12/12/99

Edition details

• Publisher: Abbeville Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0789205920
• ISBN 13: 9780789205926
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144