DESIGN AND DETAIL IN THE HOME. (SIGNED)

LINLEY, David, Janet Gleeson, Jan Baldwin.

ISBN 10: 0316854808 / ISBN 13: 9780316854801

Published by Little, Brown & Co.,, London,, 2000

About this Item

First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 4to. pp 223. Original publisher's blue cloth boards with gilt lettering at spine. Copiously illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. With the small attractive bookplate, showing a bookish owl, of 'Oz' publisher, later media tycoon, Felix Dennis (1947-2014). He was also a distinguished poet, philanthropist, book collector and lover of trees (the Forest of Dennis.) Signed presentation from the author on the title page, "To Felix Dennis, with very best wishes, David Linley - January 2001." Viscount Linley. ISBN: 0316854808 Fine in fine dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # C46127

Bibliographic Details

• Title: DESIGN AND DETAIL IN THE HOME. (SIGNED)
• Publisher: Little, Brown & Co.,, London,
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0316854808
• ISBN 13: 9780316854801
• Binding: Hardback
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signedes

About this title

Synopsis

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 wode 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 tese 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.

From Booklist

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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