Kelly Hoppen Style: The Golden Rules of Design. Text by Helen Chislett - Softcover

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 1906417253 ISBN 13: 9781906417253

Publisher: Jacqui Small, 2009

Synopsis

Kelly Hoppen's style has given rise to a thousand imitators and here she lays bare her golden rules of decorating. Looking at each room, she discusses the fundamental elements that need to be considered to create an outline design brief. Each chapter focuses on building the layers of decoration.

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About the Author

Kelly Hoppen MBE is one of the world's most influential interior designers. Her unique design aesthetic combines luxury with simplicity and has won her international acclaim and a huge following. Her celebrated interior design studio, Kelly Hoppen Interiors, has completed international schemes for residential and commercial properties, yachts and private jets, as well as the interiors for British Airways' first-class cabins. She also runs her own successful design school, where she shares her design secrets and offers advice to home decorators. Kelly's ability to inspire informal living by combining style with simple glamour is key to her successful range of home furnishings and accessories, sold through in outlets worldwide. Her elegant aesthetic has also been captured and made available to the mass market through an exclusive diffusion line for QVC in the UK. In 2010 Kelly also made the transition into fashion design with her collection of luxury organic clothing to wear at home. Her first TV series, Superior Interiors, in which she helped transform domestic homes, was aired on Channel 5 in Autumn 2011. Receiving an MBE in 2009 for services to interior design marked the pinnacle of her design career to date. Kelly adds her MBE to numerous awards which include Andrew Martin International Designer of the Year Award, EWAA Woman of Achievement Award, GRAZIA Designer of the Year, plus awards from Elle Decoration and Homes & Garden, and many more. Kelly's previous bestselling books include Kelly Hoppen Home, Kelly Hoppen Style and Kelly Hoppen Ideas.

From Publishers Weekly

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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About this edition

• Publisher: Jacqui Small
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1906417253
• ISBN 13: 9781906417253
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176