At Home with Dogs and Their Designers: Sharing a Stylish Life - Hardcover

Susanna Salk; Stacey Bewkes

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0847860906 ISBN 13: 9780847860906

Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications, 2017

Synopsis

This is a unique inspirational book that merges the worlds of dogs and interior design, featuring stylish images alongside practical elements--a great combination that makes this a standout gift book of the season. The dog industry, from paraphernalia to pampering, is vast. Plus, the interior design world adores dogs--Architectural Digest, Elle Decor, and other leading lifestyle publications often include dogs in photographs for their interiors articles, and many have featured them on the front covers. At Home with Dogs and Their Designers will appeal to everyone who is taken by images of beguiling dogs and puppies in beautiful settings.

Twenty-one top interior designers give advice and stylish tips for sharing a home with their canine companions. This charming book is full of delightful images profiling the celebrated lives of leading tastemakers, their dogs, and life at home, while offering all kinds of inspiring solutions for living with dogs.

About this title

About the Author

Susanna Salk is a designer and stylist as well the author of many best-selling books that celebrate design--from the personal weekend spaces of style makers in Weekend Retreats to Room for Children which explores design for the junior set. Be Your Own Decorator followed, inspiring people to take design into their own hands. Her 2013 debut of C. Z. Guest: American Style Icon was the first pictorial book on the style of C. Z. Guest. Decorate Fearlessly explores the power and panache rooms can have when decorated with confidence instead of rules. It's the Little Things debuted in Spring 2016.
French-born interior designer/architect Robert Couturier opened his New York firm in 1987. His work has been featured in such publications as Architectural Digest and Elle Decor, and he is included on the annual lists of the best designers. Couturier is also the author of Rizzoli's Designing Paradises.
Stacey Bewkes' continuing love of design let to the creation of Quintessence, an award-winning on-line guide to the best in style and substance. From interiors and fashion, to art and architecture and much more, Quintessence has become a trusted source for original content.

From the Back Cover

The most elegant, stylish, and well-appointed house is nothing but a shell without its inhabitants, including the canine kind. Just ask the 22 A-List interior designers who grace the pages of AT HOME WITH DOGS AND THEIR DESIGNERS who love nothing more than letting their best pals sleep in bed with them, cuddle on the couch, and essentially rule the roost. No room is off limits, no piece of furniture banned, clothing is optional, but their accessories are just as chic as their surroundings. Accidents may happen on vintage rugs, antiques are sometimes mistaken for chew toys, and more than one pair of ruined designer shoes have befallen them, but none would consider living without their loyal and loving best friends among the things they love. With individual chapters exploring each of the dogs amazing lives as they romp through the stunning interiors and gardens they call home with their humans, this book as much an inspirational design book, even if you don t live with pets, as it is a resource, packed with clever tips from the interior designers themselves on ways to live with dogs. Teddy, Alex Papachristidis Yorkie, uses a miniature vintage chair to hop from the floor to the bed instead of doggie steps while Brooke Gianetti created a custom doggie gate made from antique wooden doors to keep Bebe, Sera, Frasier, and Sophie from getting into trouble while she is away from home. With 6 pups on the loose, Carolyne Roehm always orders extra yardage of fabric to make protective covers and quilts. Mary McDonald happily climbs on the oversized dog bed her 5 Pugs Jack, Lulu, Boris, Eva, and Violet share for daily pug hugs while Charlotte Moss Cavalier King Charles Spaniels, Daisy and Buddy, lounge in a cabana out in the Hamptons on summer weekends. All of the featured pooches are interviewed, giving us insight into the luxury of their daily lives from their favourite places to sleep to their guilty pleasures. Complete with a resource guide for your decorative needs as well as pet needs (including adoption and rescue organizations), AT HOME WITH DOGS AND THEIR DESIGNERS opens the door from coast to coast, townhouse to beach house allowing us to peek in and embrace this love letter from these designers to their pets, who are most assuredly family members.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0847860906
• ISBN 13: 9780847860906
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 176