Classic Interior Design: Using Period Features in Today's Home by Lady Henrietta Spencer-Churchill, ISBN 0847825582
This beautifully illustrated guide from top interior designer Lady Henrietta Spencer-Churchill reveals the best of architectural and furnishing detail from England and America's most enduring decorating styles of the last 400 years.
A companion volume to her" 2001 Classic Design Styles," this book focuses on architectural details from seven distinct historical eras and identifies the vital details of each period. Carved stone fireplaces, marble columns, tapestry wall hangings, eighteenth-century windows, and plain and painted plaster wall finishes, as well as cushions, tassels, and curtains are all detailed with an eye to applying them to our homes today.
With in-depth historical surveys of each period, illustrated feature by feature, the book is filled with beautiful photographs and hundreds of creative ideas accompanied by insider tips, practical advice, and inspiration from one of the world's top interior designers.
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The Complete Photo Guide to Curtains and Draperies: Do-It-Yourself Window Treatments
The only curtains book with the current styles and step-by-step, photographed instructions.
"The Complete Photo Guide to Curtains and Draperies" makes it easy to choose and construct today's most popular window treatments. Color photographs present twenty styles in a variety of room settings, fabrics, trims, and decorative hardware, then show how to DIY. The projects include tailored, romantic, and contemporary curtains and formal draperies with all styles of pleats. There are step-by-step instructions from start to finish: measuring the window, calculating yardage, cutting, sewing, and installing. Following in the tradition of CPi's best-selling"Windows with Style" and "Creative Window Treatments," "Complete Photo Guide to Curtains and Draperies" is an indispensable part of an all-new series of window decor books.
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Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho by Stephen Rebello, ISBN 0312207859
Thirty years after its creation, Psycho ramains the yardstick by whicy all other thrillers are measured. Stephen Rebello gives readers an intimate glance at the making of this incredible movie from beginning (the true life crime on which Psycho is based) to end (Hitchcock's obsessive instructions to darken theaters and close the curtains for 30 seconds after the opening credits, in order to raise the suspense). 16 pages of photographs.
Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho by Stephen Rebello, ISBN 0312207859
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Principles of Victorian Decorative Design by Christopher Dresser, ISBN 0486289001
Classic by noted Victorian designer discusses aesthetics, practical considerations of Victorian and Edwardian design. Rich, illuminating treatment of historic styles, beauty, utility, design of furniture, carpets, draperies, textiles, pottery, glass, metalwork, many other elements. Over 180 handsome illustrations.
Principles of Victorian Decorative Design by Christopher Dresser, ISBN 0486289001
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