Kelly Hoppen's style has given rise to a thousand imitators since she won the British Interior Designer of the Year Award in 1997. While imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, the fact is that few have managed to tap into the essence of what Kelly does so successfully. This book is her response to those who admire the look, but find when they attempt it themselves it slightly misses mark. Read this and you really will have the know-how to create a Hoppenesque interior of your own. Within its pages, Kelly lays bare her golden rules of decorating. Inspirational room shots are combined with simple text explaining each room design. The structure will allow the reader to choose from any element in a room, such as Fabrics, Accessories or Lighting, and access Kelly's advice relating to that topic. Each chapter focuses on a different rule of decorating. For example, the first - Space - is about assessing the potential of a room before making any decisions about colour or furniture. It stresses the importance of allowing a room to speak for itself by looking carefully at its aspect, light, size, function and architecture - as a professional interior designer would do. It also expl
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Kelly Hoppen is a world renowned British designer who has pioneered a simple but opulent style that has resulted in her work being featured in newspapers and magazines across the globe. She has her own line of furniture, paints, carpets, blinds, fabrics, and giftware collection, as well as retail stores. She lives in Britain.
Fans of Hoppen’s East-meets-West design aesthetic will welcome her latest coffee-table contribution, which focuses on interiors that are not "built on the wow factor," but rather attempt to be "cocoons of security and warmth." Still, the book possesses plenty of glamour. A British interior designer with a line of interior products, a London boutique and offices in London and Paris, Hoppen knows her audience and she gives them the fantasy room tour that they desire. There’s plenty of chrome, dark wood and red roses in the designs pictured, and most rooms are decorated with natural elements, like seashells or flowers. Unfortunately, Hoppen’s style can also feel quite impersonal—it varies little from client to client, so that the habitations pictured often seem more like showrooms than homes. The two sections on lighting provide some of the most useful tips in the book, and Knapp’s striking photographs do a particularly good job of capturing that difficult subject. Hoppen’s spare and innovative approach to design does not extend to her writing, however, which is flat, repetitive and clichéd. Her attempts at description are often over-wrought: "In New Zealand, it was the feeling of wind on my face that inspired curtains so gossamer light that they would feel like wind stroking the skin." The "golden rules" of the subtitle are erratically distributed throughout the book and are equally uneven in their quality and practicality. Many are really glorified captions: "Black lacquered parquet flooring makes a dramatic runner across the white marble floor." Others focus on Hoppen’s area of specialty, managing the client-designer relationship; there are five rules on handling drawings and blueprints alone. Over 250 color photographs.
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