Design and Detail in the Home

David Linley, the son of England's Princess Margaret and photographer Lord Snowdon, has achieved international renown as a designer of fine wood furniture and accessories that reinterpret and transform traditional styles in a refreshingly modern way. The author of two previous Abrams books, Classical Furniture and Extraordinary Furniture, he now expands his vista to look at the aesthetic of entire rooms, showing how a wide range of traditional influences can be blended to create new, visually exciting, yet harmonious interiors.

The entertaining text traces a journey through the home, from the entrance through living, dining, and cooking areas to rooms devoted to work, recreation, rest, and the bath. Each chapter offers creative ways in which these spaces may be adapted to suit their owners' style and the practicalities of modern-day living. The stunning, specially commissioned photographs, which include pictures of Linley's own homes and those of some of his famous clients, reflect his eclectic tastes and his appreciation of the unusual.

DAVID LINLEY founded David Linley Furniture Ltd., now David Linley & Company, in 1985 and currently sells a wide range of furniture and accessories in his flagship London shop and 12 outlets in the United States. Viscount Linley studied at Bedales, a school renowned for its emphasis on arts and crafts, and at Parnham House School for Craftsmen in Wood. Linley is the author of Abrams' Classical Furniture and Extraordinary Furniture.

300 illustrations in full color, 97/8 x 111/2"

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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In these books the reader is invited to see the homes of some of the top designers in the world and learn their secrets to developing a personal style in decorating. The editors of Victoria Magazine have selected an international group of women, some professional interior designers, to show how each has created her own home decor. With a wealth of color photographs and tips from the decorators, even amateurs will feel they can achieve the casual styles shown here in a Malibu beach house, Harlem townhouse, Pittsburgh 18th-century mansion, and Paris apartment, to name a few. Linley, British furniture designer and grandson of Queen Elizabeth II, presents a collection of photographs of his favorite examples of roomsAentries, living rooms, kitchens, etc.Awith his ideas on what makes them appealing and his personal decorating tips.
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