Overview
""The No-Rules Approach to Interior Design Jettison the old rulebooks about home decor and ""undecorate"" your space. As the founder and creative director of DwellStudio-which is famous for its brightly colored, graphic textile designs for home furnishings-designer Christiane Lemieux challenges tradition in a quintessentially American way, championing a fresh, unconventional approach to creating a beautiful and comfortable home. Lemieux emboldens readers to push aside stuffy, professionally-designed decor, showing them instead how to infuse their own personality into their home. Undecorate profiles twenty homes from all over the country, revealing their owners' love of imperfection and penchant for surprise and unusual juxtapositions while inspiring readers to follow their own whimsy and practicalities in their personal spaces. An anglophile creates an English manor in Hollywood, mixing British flea-market finds with midcentury furniture. A car fanatic turns a vintage Airstream trailer into a master bedroom and situates it in the middle of a vast industrial loft in downtown Chicago. A couple transforms a log house in Nashville, Tennessee, by blending their modern and eclectic styles with the home's rustic charm. Though the designs differ widely, the spaces all express an open-minded attitude. Some homes embrace their contexts, while others transcend them. All are shaped by instinct and imagination and share innovative ideas that readers can use to organically and elegantly create their home to match their lifestyle and tastes. Lemieux gets to the essence of the homeowners' distinctive styles, pinpointing the transformative ideas, thoughtful details, and useful solutions that make each home memorable. With more than 200 full-color photographs, Undecorate will both inspire and guide homeowners to a new outlook on home design.
Full Product Details
Author: Christiane Lemieux ,
Rumaan Alam ,
Deborah Needleman
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
Imprint: Clarkson Potter
Dimensions:
Width: 22.30cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 28.60cm
Weight: 1.296kg
ISBN: 9780307463159
ISBN 10: 030746315
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 08 March 2011
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Author Information
CHRISTIANE LEMIEUX is the founder and creative director of DwellStudio, a fast-growing home decor and children's furnishings company. Known for her colorful, modern patterns, Lemieux launched a full-scale fabric line in 2010. She is also a featured design partner with Target and a frequent contributor to leading design blogs, such as Apartment Therapy and Design*Sponge. She lives in New York City with her husband, children, and her Labrador, the design studio's mascot.
