An internationally known furniture designer, specializing in modern reworkings of traditional designs, offers a creative and exciting vision of building an artistic and harmonious look for complete rooms, discussing design ideas for each room of the house. In these books the reader is invited to see the homes of some of the top designers in the world and learn their secrets to developing a personal style in decorating. The editors of Victoria Magazine have selected an international group of women, some professional interior designers, to show how each has created her own home decor. With a wealth of color photographs and tips from the decorators, even amateurs will feel they can achieve the casual styles shown here in a Malibu beach house, Harlem townhouse, Pittsburgh 18th-century mansion, and Paris apartment, to name a few. Linley, British furniture designer and grandson of Queen Elizabeth II, presents a collection of photographs of his favorite examples of roomsAentries, living rooms, kitchens, etc.Awith his ideas on what makes them appealing and his personal decorating tips. Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. Who wants to be a famous designer? It doesn't hurt that fine furniture maker and author ( Classical Furniture [1993] and Extraor dinary 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 Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved Used Book in Good Condition