The Ultimate Home Style Guide - Softcover

Sorrell, Katherine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1841880590 ISBN 13: 9781841880594

Publisher: Cassell Illustrated, 2000

Synopsis

This guide to decorating your home offers stylish living ranges from medieval to contemporary and from Japanese minimalism to Mexican exuberance. The author defines each style and shows how to achieve the look, from flooring to furnishings.

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Review:

You couldn't possibly cram any more into just over 200 squishy pages of this soft back. The Ultimate Home Style Guide runs through 25 interior styles, divided into historical and global. So dense is it, that there's even a guide on how to use the book.

Anyone looking for a crash course on every conceivable interior style, either to impress a date working in the interiors world, or for a job interview with an interiors company, will take to this. If you're vaguely familiar with the 50s or 60s look, but aren't sure about the difference between Georgian and Victorian, if you vaguely know Art Nouveau, but can't remember whether Arts and Crafts came after or before, this clarifies the details. And if you take for granted global looks such as Moroccan and Indian, but are curious about others such as Russian, Scandinavian and Caribbean, this is a good starting point.

Most useful, in fact, are the various summaries in each chapter, from the introductory bold paragraph, the brief on creating the look and the final summing up. Overstyled photography labours the points for each look, to the extent that some (such as the Mediterranean) are even unrecognisable from the authentic version. --Lorna V

About this edition

• Publisher: Cassell Illustrated
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1841880590
• ISBN 13: 9781841880594
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224