Books : Celerie Kemble: To Your Taste: Creating Modern Rooms with a Traditional Twist
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 747
EAN: 9780307394422
ISBN: 0307394425
Label: Clarkson Potter
Manufacturer: Clarkson Potter
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: November 04, 2008
Publisher: Clarkson Potter
Release Date: November 04, 2008
Sales Rank: 5284
Studio: Clarkson Potter
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Celebrate what’s beautiful about traditional style while breaking some of its rules: Take a page out of a designer’s book and add your own sense of relaxed whimsy and exuberant personality to create spaces that are versatile, original, and truly livable.
That’s designer Celerie Kemble’s philosophy in a nutshell. It’s all about blending a classic sensibility with a dose of irreverence and a dollop of humor to achieve a home that’s tasteful, eclectic, always evolving, and always welcoming.
Celerie takes you by the hand, gives you a detailed look at many of her signature interiors, and enthusiastically reassures you that, with the right information and attitude, you can overcome challenges and artfully achieve the ultimate design goal—a perfect blend of beauty and comfort.
From finding inspiration in childhood memories, current trends, and favorite belongings to working around real-life design dilemmas (such as a lack of space or light, or awkward floor plans) to selecting just the right furnishings (including rugs, lamps, and accessories), Celerie Kemble: To Your Taste infectiously proves that when making a beautiful home, the process is the best part.
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I bought this book for a friend for Christmas and just ordered a copy for myself. So many beautiful pix and ideas.
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madison, nj
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Class bias ("Look to your parents' decorating style" - what, TV trays and laminate furniture?) notwithstanding, Celerie Kemble has written an eminently readable, relatable, and practical guide to beautiful design. From the general - create an interesting conversation between the pieces in a room - to the specific - side tables should be 2 inches below arm height - Kemble educates us and inspires us in equal parts. She's provided a guide to great rooms that helps a novice visually dissect the elements. I know what I like, but now I know how to recreate what I like in my own home. This book is a gem and a keeper for reference forever.
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Based on the recommendation of a friend in the interior design industry, we bought this book for some practical advice as we prepare to redo our NYC apartment. We have found it to be the most enjoyable and practical home design books we've ever run across. "To Your Taste" is filled with gorgeous photos and sound advice. (The book itself is so good-looking that it could the first step towards a newly-redesigned living room or library as a prominent book on your coffee table!) Ms. Kemble presents an approach towards interior design that is relaxed, personal, unpretentious, and fun. Enjoy!
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"Trying to clean up after a dismal 2 A.M. flight ordeal with my fourteen-month-old son, I hastily drew a lukewarm bath in the tiny tub of our grim motel room. As I lay shivering in eight inches of water, squinting to block out the fluorescent lighting, and holding my sick, travel weary baby, I was blinded by a sudden flash, and then heard laughter. My husband had snapped a picture of the two of us mid-soak, our flesh pale and shriveled against the margarine-colored plastic tub and shower curtain. He threatened to send the image to the editors at Harper's Bazaar, who had just published a particularly flattering photo spread that had me blushing with excitement when I saw it at the airport. In the magazine's photo (taken by their skilled photographer, my appearance carefully styled by a hair and makeup team), my son and I were luxuriating in a marble tub, garlanded with holiday greenery and illuminated with warm, subtle, radiant lighting. My husband thought Harper's Bazaar should run his motel snapshot alongside its glossy images under the respective headlines Magazine Life and Real Life." excerpt from To Your Taste by Celerie Kemble.
Indeed Celerie Kemble has the Magazine Life we all dream of, and it is very well documented in the society pages, as well as in fashion and shelter magazines.
Celerie isn't her real name, of course: Cecilia Lacoste Kemble was raised in a prominent blue-blood family in Palm Beach, the daughter of an investment manager and noted ... Read More
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I really enjoyed this book, not only for the great pictures and ideas, but text is really funny.
It sounds like Celerie is talking right to me and there are so many rooms to look at - many very different styles, so all kinds of inspiration and advice about practical issues.
My favorite was about hiding TV's because a few methods I hadn't seen before! Also, there are sections on pets and kids with pretty good advice. I can't believe one of her clients bought a sofa to match her dogs hair color but hey- looks like celerie has all sorts of different clients (and I like some spaces a lot more than others), but that flexibility is probably what makes her a good decorator and source for ideas!
Definitely buy this book!!!
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