Total Design - Hardcover

Clodagh

 
9780609605196: Total Design

Synopsis

One of America's most innovative interior designers explains how to transform one's inner sanctum into a personal space that both soothes the soul and nourishes the senses. 15,000 first printing.

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About the Author

Born in Ireland, CLODAGH worked extensively in the fields of fashion design and architecture in Ireland and Spain before moving to New York in 1983. There she opened Clodagh Design International, a design studio and showroom that has undertaken commercial, residential, retail, office, salon, and corporate image projects throughout the United States, Europe, and the Far East. Through Clodagh Signature, her licensing and product division, she has created textiles, packaging, lighting, home accessories, furnishings, and other products that are available nationwide. She has been named one of the world's leading interior designers by Architectural Digest, and Interior Design magazine inducted her into their Hall of Fame in 1997. Clodagh and her husband, photographer Daniel Aubry, live in New York City.

From the Inside Flap

ly support us, a home has to stretch beyond its material properties and sustain our complex human needs." This philosophy is at the heart of every environment that acclaimed designer Clodagh creates, and it represents an entirely new and sustaining way to look at interior design.

Total Design is concerned with the experience of living and not simply the look of it. It encourages an ongoing awareness of our surroundings to keep us energized and our shelters alive, not static. Using a process she calls the Four C's, Clodagh reveals how she helps each client envision a project, first by contemplating the space as it is, then by cleansing it of unnecessary items and clarifying the individual's goals, needs, and desires, and, finally, by creating a space that is uniquely his or her own.

In chapters devoted to the senses, nostalgia, small spaces, the influence of nature, melding personal and professional identities, privacy and retreat, and more, Clodagh shows h

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