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Living in Style Without Losing Your Mind

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Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

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We want our houses to look like a magazine layout -- but get over it, we all know that's not real life. Beautiful, yes; personal, absolutely; livable, above all; but we don't need a mountain of cash or a Park Avenue designer to get there. Living in Style Without Losing Your Mind signals a much-needed makeover in the tradition-bound field of interior design. The principal message emerging from this invigorating and delightful guide is that you won't find the ticket to successful home decor in a platinum card, and you don't have to adopt a particular "look" to live in marvelous style. With charm and insight, Pasanella shows us that great design is all about individual passion and an open mind. Just as Strunk and White gracefully laid down the laws of style for the English language, so has Marco Pasanella created a fresh and elegant primer for those who want a stylish walk through the fundamental ideas behind great home design. This wittily designed book speaks directly to those generations fed up with pompous, chintz-draped spaces. How can you emphasize the right details and transform an impersonal house into your own unmistakable home? The design solutions are here -- with Pasanella's inspired guidance and stunning photographs -- in a book that promises marvelous results. All it takes is a little thought, a little effort, and a wonderful teacher.


PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS:

Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 747
EAN: 9780684850474
ISBN: 0684850478
Label: Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 200
Publication Date: 2000-05-04
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Studio: Simon & Schuster


SIMILAR ITEMS:

• Meditations on Design: Reinventing Your Home With Style and Simplicity
• Apartment Therapy: The Eight-Step Home Cure
• A Good House Is Never Done
• House of Belief
• The Emotional House: How Redesigning Your Home Can Change Your Life


CUSTOMER REVIEWS:

Among the best of its kind -
Mario Pasanella's book embodies what it promotes: honesty, individuality, true style. It is not only a beautiful object in itself, but also utterly useful, appealingly personal, and unexpectedly clever and wise. "Unexpectedly" because so few designers are also as skilled at expressing important design principles in such pithy, engaging language. LIVING IN STYLE is really a cut above the formulaic books churned out by Taunton (which, let's be honest, are largely picture books). This book can be considered as a bridge between those popularly oriented products and the true classics of architecture and design. Pasanella frequently cites not only Christopher Alexander's A PATTERN LANGUAGE, but also Strunk & White's incomparable ELEMENTS OF STYLE. That Pasanella knows, loves, and promotes the principles of these enduring titles demonstrates to me that he's coming from a good place. I have only one disappointment regarding this book: that it is not the top seller in its category. It should be.

Living in Style Without Losing your Mind -
This book simplifies stylish interior designing with the reader's needs in mind. This is not your usual coffee table book on interior decoration. High on content and low on flashy (and usually inapplicable to real-life decorating) photos, it is the kind of reading material that you can grab when you need to get quick and useful ideas on elements of interior design such as space, lighting, furniture arrangement, and the like. The author's witty and straightforward writing style makes it a pleasure to read. Finally, the book does not impose its style on you - rather, it uncovers basic principles behind the various elements of interior decoration for you to actually apply depending on your needs, budget, and style.

Common Sense -
This book gives you confidence to follow your own style and common sense.

Fun but more like an article than a book -
This is a fun little book, but it's more like a magazine article than a book. You can read it in an hour or two. Don't buy it -- just get it from the library or read it at the bookstore instead.

How to think about decorating -
One of the few decorating books you will read cover to cover -- instead of just looking at the photos. This book attempts to open your mind to the possibilities of decorating your space in your own personal way, and proceeds in a simple, humorous, conversational style. While I wish it offered even more in terms of practical suggestions (although the section on how to buy a sofa is great) it makes its case without the usual, overwhelmingly lavish and overstyled photographs of unattainable splendor that fill most decorating books. It poses a philosophy of decorating and offers some interesting and useful ideas -- as well as a few pithy design rules that are worth taking to heart.

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