Tricia Guild's Design and Detail: The Practical Guide to Styling a House

Guild, Tricia & Elizabeth Wilhide

ISBN 10: 0671666363 / ISBN 13: 9780671666361

Published by Simon & Schuster, New York, 1988

About this Item

4to, 159 pp. Nearly fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # 042549

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Tricia Guild's Design and Detail: The Practical Guide to Styling a House
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster, New York
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0671666363
• ISBN 13: 9780671666361
• Binding: hardcover
• Illustrator: Profusely illustrated
• Edition: 1st.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Interior Design

About this title

Synopsis

A respected decorator discusses the principles and elements of good design that she has employed in her own home, including tips on color, flooring, storage, and fabrics

Reviews

In this lush and lavish picture book, designer Guild takes us through her London house, explaining the rhyme and reason of her renovations. She recommends an effusively colorful, eclectic style while introducing principles of interior design and giving technical advice. Permanent design solutions are not for her; an evolving home and sensibility are. She enjoys debunking conventions, to a point, and recommends boldness in making a space one's own, including the use of asymmetry and occasionally riotous period, pattern and color mixing. The book's weaknesses include unimaginative suggestions about gardens and pictures. Also, the text too often refers readers to Guild's own design company for materials and consultation, a self-serving strategy. Guild's Midas touch (putting frescos in a kitchen) is not within average reach, and her designsaggressively vivid, plumply elaborateare not for everyone. However, her rules of thumb in thinking about design are useful and appealing.
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