Both a step-by-step guide and a showcase of ideas, this handbook reveals trade secrets and provides a discussion of the interior design process. Starting with the fundamentals of developing an overall plan, separate chapters describe the basic options and offer practical advice on flooring, walls and ceilings, fixtures and fittings, lighting, colour, furniture, windows, fabrics and accessories, as well as how to hire professionals. Colour photographs illustrate decorating styles from the minimalist to the ornate. A glossary and directory of resources complete the book.

In Your Own Style: The Art of Creating Wonderful Rooms

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Chase, Linda

Cerwinske, Laura

Crafts & Hobbies

Thames&Hudson

Less a single visual approach than an attitude toward design, the romantic style satisfies our desire for rooms that we and those we love will find pleasurable. Homes decorated in the romantic style range from delightfully casual disorder to elaborate stagings of domestic theater. Whether whimsically enchanted or elegantly restrained, they beckon with the promise of comfort. Warmly lit and dressed in alluring fabrics, they soothe the spirit and tantalize the eye. Unconventional, unrestricted by tradition, and not limited to one historical period or particular geography, the romantic style draws upon many varied tastes and cultural influences. It marries, for example, the femininity of Victorian fashion with the charm of country French or the glamour of Art Deco with the exoticism of the Orient. In the Romantic Style shows how to transform simple, everyday rooms into objects of desire and how, even without an aristocratic purse, it is possible to make romantic rooms out of majestic dreams. It explores the history of romantic design and describes in informative detail how curtains can soften an interior, details can entice the eye, and finishes can make rooms more seductive. 149 color photographs and illustrations.

In the Romantic Style: Creating Intimacy, Fantasy and Charm in the Contemporary Home

Biedermeier furniture and interior design are recognized today as the first great flowering of haute bourgeois taste in interior design. Biedermeier is a style with great range, from austere to sumptuous, but it is never ostentatious in its celebration of comfort, domestic intimacy, and practicality. Beginning in the early nineteenth century, these bourgeois ideals in design were pursued by a wide range of society from the Hapsburgs and Hohenzollern to the middle class, from Middle Europe to Italy, yet Biedermeier's innate classicism, its lyrical yet elegant forms, have made it an influential inspiration in our own time. The World of Biedermeier celebrates the elements of a wonderfully appealing stylethe furniture, decorative elements, paintings, crystal, porcelain, fabricsas no other recent book on furniture and design. Created out of an enraptured obsession with Biedermeiershared by Karl Kemp, the renowned antiques dealer, and Linda Chase, the noted interior designer and writerthis book is an extraordinary paean to an irresistible style. The hundreds of brilliant color photographs by Lois Lammerhuber set a new standard for design and furniture photography, and the book has been opulently designed and produced. To experience the story of Biedermeier, we explore enchanting castles, royal residences, a Roman-inspired bathhouse, museum attics, and storage annexes in Vienna, Berlin, and elsewhere. Lammerhuber was the first photographer granted free access to the extraordinary holdings of the Hofmobiliendepot, the Imperial Furniture Collection in Vienna. Here too are the treasures of the Hofburg Silberkammer museum, plus features on the work of the great Biedermeier designers Joseph Danhauser and Karl Friedrich Schinkel. A chapter on current uses of Biedermeier illustrates the timeless quality of this style, from full traditional settings to the way that Biedermeier furniture looks fresh and alive in contemporary settings. An illustrated reference section will prove an indispensable guide to anyone interested in this rich homage to Middle European culture. 200 color illustrations.

The World of Biedermeier

Arts & Photography

Lammerhuber, Lois

Kemp, Karl

History & Criticism

Tina Paris, the first woman to work in the NYPD's Special Prosecutor's Office, must find evidence to convict a corrupt fellow officer while evading a serial rapist who seems to know everything about her. Reprint.

Perfect Cover

Literature & Fiction

Pocket

The perfect introduction to the life and work of Richard Estes.

Richard Estes: Phaidon Focus

Phaidon Press

Tina Paris, a half-Italian, half-Puerto Rican investigator, finds two sensational cases colliding as a killer cop goes on a murder spree through one of the city's toughest neighborhoods and a serial rapist taunts the police's public affairs department. Tour.

St. George, Joyce

United States

Hyperion

Shows Goings' paintings of diners, street scenes, stores, garages, and pickup trucks, discusses his influence on the photo-realism movement, and includes the artist's comments on his work

Ralph Goings: Essay/Interview

Goings, Ralph

Harry N.Abrams, Inc.

The third volume in Louis K. Meisel's definitive series, Photorealism at the Millennium continues to document the evolution of the movement through the 1990s. More than 600 full-color images present the work of twenty-eight artists, from the pioneers through the second generation to the newcomers who will advance the movement into the 21st century. This work joins Photorealism (1980) and Photorealism since 1980 (1993) as a unique endeavor - a catalogue raisonne chronicling and recording almost every painting by every artist in a contemporary art movement. In the early 1970s, Meisel began documenting the works of the original thirteen Photorealists. Many of these are still making significant contributions, as evidenced, for example, by Richard Estes's complex street scenes and waterscapes, Tom Blackwell's dazzling reflective storefronts, and John Salt's wistful rusting automobiles, all represented here. Although always approached from a Photorealist point of view, the images depicted by these artists are staggeringly varied - Ralph Goings's diners, Richard McLean's horses, Linda Bacon's toys, Randy Dudley's industrial vistas, Ron Kleemann's Thanksgiving Day parade balloons, David Parrish's pop icons. Wherever possible, the complete works made by the artist in the 1990s are illustrated, and the rest are listed. Such a comprehensive approach makes this volume invaluable to scholars, collectors, and art historians. In addition, an essay by Linda Chase is the first to fully consider Photorealism in the context of art history. Starting from the invention of photography and its almost immediate clash with "fine art," Chase examines how Photorealism developed as a response to such issues and to those raised by modernism, existentialism, and Pop art as well.

Photorealism At the Millennium

MEISEL,Louis K.

Harry N. Abrams

A British artist who spent two decades living and painting in the United States, John Salt came to prominence in the early 1970s as a leading and innovative Photorealist. His exquisite and intriguing evocations of abandoned cars and dilapidated trailers, often depicted in a bucolic rural setting, challenged the conventional definition of landscape and placed him among the foremost realist painters of his generation. Based on extensive interviews with the artist, this comprehensive volume explores Salt's influences, inspirations and techniques and places his work in the context of both Photorealism and British and American realist traditions. It includes illustrations of his works from 1969 through to present day.

John Salt: The Complete Works 1969-2007

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Philip Wilson Publishers

More than fifty acrylics and watercolors of 1940s and 1950s art-deco movie houses are accompanied by an account of their history, transformations, and chief designer-architects

Hollywood on Main Street

Overlook Books

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In Your Own Style: The Art of Creating Wonderful Rooms

In the Romantic Style: Creating Intimacy, Fantasy and Charm in the Contemporary Home

The World of Biedermeier

Perfect Cover

Richard Estes: Phaidon Focus

Perfect Cover

Ralph Goings: Essay/Interview

Photorealism At the Millennium

John Salt: The Complete Works 1969-2007

Hollywood on Main Street