Synopses & Reviews
This ambitious book is all about clean lines, elegant color combinations, maximizing indoor-outdoor relationships, artfully collecting and displaying objects, and utilizing open areas for lounging, cooking, and dining. Whether the living space is large or small, anyone can create a modern interior. Hundreds of photographs reveal stylish residences around the world, in particular from places where modern living has achieved its best expression, such as California, Brazil, Scandinavia, and Australia, but also from places where modern forms have been fused with vernacular styles or set against exotic vegetation. From desert to jungle, from city to country, offers a boundless resource for achieving a personal vision of contemporary stylishness.
Synopsis
Hundreds of photographs reveal stylish residences around the world, in particular from places where modern living has achieved its best expression, such as California, Brazil, Scandinavia, and Australia, but also from places where modern forms have been fused with vernacular styles or set against exotic vegetation. From desert to jungle, from city to country, Living Modern offers a boundless resource for achieving a personal vision of contemporary stylishness.
Synopsis
How to create your own contemporary interior: the ultimate resource for design-conscious living, from architecture to materials to furniture and decorative objects.
Synopsis
Richardson explains how to create a contemporary interior--from architecture to materials to furniture and decorative objects--in this resource for design-conscious living.
About the Author
Richard Powers is an architectural and interiors photographer.Phyllis Richardson is an architecture and design writer who has published numerous books, including Real Homes and Nano House.