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Living in Style Without Losing Your Mind

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Flip through the pages of any design publication and you can't help but wonder: So beautiful, so spacious, so perfect...but is anyone actually living there?

We may want our houses to look like magazine spreads, but to do that can require a mountain of money and a staff of hundreds, the dexterity of Michelangelo, and a backhoe. Most of the time, great design has to be accessible to the rest of us. By deÞnition it has to be easy and affordable, smart and stylish. But as the brilliant designer and writer Marco Pasanella shows us, you don't have to have a "look"; rather, great design can be found in many styles and in any house. For your place to look great, he says, you don't need a platinum card or a flair for fabrics. You don't need a degree and you don't need to know how to draw. You only need to know how to see, and that's where this fresh and exciting book comes in.

Pasanella has the insight of a practicing designer and teacher, which he combines with an iconoclastic and firmly practical attitude; the result is a book that will speak to a generation impatient with frivolous, unimaginative, and pompous design solutions. If you don't have a separate wing for each family member, how can you create private spaces that provide retreat even as they allow for communal use? How do you know what to toss, what to keep, what to get? How do you turn a house into a home? These questions have answers that can make our lives easier and a lot better looking.

Living in Style Without Losing Your Mind doesn't tell us what to do; it helps us understand what we're doing and encourages us to trust our own ideas about great style. Pasanella gives us the confidence to trust our own passions and our own taste. But this isn't just a manual of practical advice. Our author is a wonderful designer himself, with a marvelous eye, and the book is filled with quirky, inspiring, and just plain beautiful photos showing what our rooms can look like with only a little thought, a little effort, and a great 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


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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.

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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.

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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.