The scope of interior design books is of unlimited appeal post-COVID-19. Around the world, we have been confined to our homes. These spaces have become vital as they encapsulate our work and personal life. The current selection of books will help you create that sacred space.
1. Homebody: A Guide to Creating Spaces You Never Want to Leave
In Homebody: A Guide to Creating Spaces You Never Want to Leave, Joanna Gaines walks you through how to create a home that reflects the personalities and stories of the people who live there. Using examples from her farmhouse and a range of other homes, this comprehensive guide will help you assess your priorities, instincts, and likes and dislikes with practical steps for navigating and embracing your authentic design style.
Room by room, Homebody gives you an in-depth look at how these styles are implemented and how to blend the looks you’re drawn to create spaces that feel yours distinctly. A removable design template at the back of the book offers a step-by-step guide to planning and sketching your design plans. The insight shared in Homebody will instil in you the confidence to thoughtfully create spaces you never want to leave.
2. Everything: A Maximalist Style Guide
Welcome to the ‘more is more’ world of decorating, or as it’s more commonly known, the business, Maximalism.
A style that embraces the all-out: beautiful colour palettes, luxurious textiles, patterns and embellishment.
Maximalism epitomises passion, where stripped-bare and pared-back interiors have no place. Abigail Ahern guides us through the sea change in the world of interiors as the pendulum swings away from minimalism over to our increasing desire for self-expression and optimism. Learn how to break the ‘rules’ of interior design, play fast and loose with different periods in a single room and have fun.
Maximalism allows you to dip into colour palettes and any decade or style, stirring emotions and creating a bedazzling space you’d never want to leave.
3. Bazaar Style: Decorating with market and vintage finds
Discover an exciting world of creative decorating that will make you feel comfortably at home in every room. Stylist Selina Lake and interior writer Joanna Simmons show you real homes furnished with intriguing pieces from different eras and cultures, which mix and match colours, patterns and designs. The look is so achievable because anything goes!
Simply take the things you love and create a home that is truly yours. You’ll discover an inspiring mix of vintage and retro influences, flea-market finds, and pieces inspired by a French brocante or Moroccan bazaar, which you can use to customize basic high-street buys.
The book begins by showing you how to combine the elements of the style to put the look together: Furniture & Storage, Textiles, Colour & Pattern, Lighting, Wall Art & Collectibles and Display are all considered. In the second half of the book, Rooms, find out how the style works brilliantly in Cooking & Eating Spaces, Living Spaces, Bathing Spaces, Sleeping Spaces and Outdoor Living.
4. Australian Designers at Home
‘The homes I’ve always been drawn to are portraits of the people who live there…’ Australian Designers at Home invites readers into the homes of 20 of the country’s leading names in interior design. Jenny Rose-Innes celebrates the designers who have inspired her, sharing their histories and houses, professional insights and practical tips on decorating. With unfettered access to their most private retreats, we see where the best of the industry express their true, unfiltered selves.
This book provides an invaluable resource for designers, decorators and interior enthusiasts. Richly illustrated throughout with stunning colour photography by Simon Griffiths, Australian Designers at Home takes readers on an intimate journey, revealing how the most influential designers decorate their houses. Find out what home means from the people who create them for a living.
5. The Foraged Home
Artful interiors are born from curiosity, creativity and imagination. Anyone can create a beautiful home by foraging and salvaging what they find. Whether a box of rusty nails or a disused armchair missing a leg, discarded objects can be restored, recycled or repurposed to fill the home with personal style. Yet, many of us fail to see a potential curtain rail in a bamboo stick or a hidden kitchen worktop in an old carpenter’s bench – let alone know where to find such objects.
Presenting the techniques and philosophies of a broad spectrum of experienced foraging homeowners, this book showcases unexpected and inspiring interiors worldwide, from an upturned boat in France to an Australian beach house. Such diverse locations each demand a different approach to foraging, and, as a result, each home has a distinct sense of style.
In an era when self-sufficiency, living off the grid and saving our planet has never been more important or appealing, The Foraged Home will provide guidance and inspiration for all those looking to go beyond the world of mass-produced flat-packs.
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Arzberg Porcelain – prestigious German design
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Fujina – Japanese Folk Pottery
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Eureka Pottery – American Ceramics manufacturer
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Moorcroft British (ca. 1913) art pottery manufacturer
William Moorcroft started Moorcroft, a British art pottery manufacturer, in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, in 1913.Read More →
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Otto Lindig (1895 – 1966) German Ceramicist
He was an enthusiastic supporter of the pottery workshop at the Bauhaus, contending that it should be included in the school’s curriculum. When it was separated into design and production workshops, Lindig supervised the latter, combining hand work and mass production approaches.Read More →
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Trude Petri-Rabin (1906 – 1989) German Ceramicist
From 1927 she studied porcelain at Verinigdten Staatsshulen für freie und angewandte Kunst (United State Schools for Free and Applied Arts), Berlin, and Staatliche Porzellan-Manufakture, Berlin (Royal Porcelain Factory, Berlin).Read More →
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Grand Feu Art Pottery – California
Grand Feu Art Pottery, was founded in California by Cornelius Brauckman. Its output was of high quality and aesthetically distinctive. Generically, grand feu is ceramic ware fired at 2500°F (1400°C), maturing its body and glaze simultaneously. Grand feu is both porcelain and gres, and Grand Feu Art Pottery specialises in the latter.Read More →
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Blue-dash charger – Design Object
Blue-dash charger is a large circular earthenware dish made in England (especially Bristol and Lambeth) in the late 17th century and early 18th. The name derives from the dashes of blue around the rims.Read More →
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Thrown Pottery and the pottery wheel
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Gien Pottery Factory – Traditional Earthenwares
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Mintons – British Ceramics Firm
Thomas Minton bought a pottery in Stoke-on-Trent in 1793 and, in 1796, began production of inexpensive blue transfer-printed earthenware. His son Herbert Minton became director in 1836, expanded the range of wares, and hired artists. Read More →
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Lucien Levy Dhurmer (1865 – 1953) a French Ceramicist
Levy-Dhurmer may have been responsible for the rediscovery of the metallic lustre glaze technique used in Middle Eastern ceramics from the 9th century and in Hispano-Moresque pottery of the 15th century. However, the sheen on pieces by Massier and Levy-Dhunner has not lasted. He used primarily light-coloured earthenware with gold highlights and sombre-glazed stoneware. Read More…
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Dorodango Japanese polished dirt balls
The hand-rolling of this soil-based mixture can be relaxing and comfortable to do. Dorodango is not without its difficulties and needs a high degree of skill, patience and concentration. Given the fragility and inclination of the dorodango to break, the perfectly formed ball is elusive. It can also be a challenging process to achieve the…
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Charles John Noke (1858 – 1941) British ceramicist
He modelled vases (including Columbis and Diana) and figures from 1893 to 1898. (including Holbein and Rembrandt vases). With Cuthbert Bailey and John Slater, he experimented with the reproduction of Sung, Ming, and early Ch’ing dynasty blood-red rouge flambé and sang-de-boeuf glazes from the late 1890s to the early 1900sRead More →
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Marblehead Pottery (1904 – 1936) an American Pottery
Herbert J. Hall founded the Marblehead Pottery in 1904 as one of several “handcraft shops” that offered occupational therapy to “nervously worn outpatients.” The shops specialised in hand-weaving, woodcarving, and metalwork, with pottery being the most popular.Read More →
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Grethe Meyer (1918 – 2008) Danish architect, & designer of furniture & glassware
She worked on the editorial staff of The Building Manual from 1944 to 1955. She was a crucial figure in Borge Mogensen’s research on the standardisation of consumer product sizes, and she collaborated with him frequently. They created the Boligens Byggeskabe (BB) and resund cabinet-storage systems in 1957.Read More →
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Nora Gulbrandsen (1894 – 1978) Norwegian Designer
She was born to Aksel Julius Hanssen and Anna Sofie Lund in Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway. From 1917 until 1922, she was married to wholesaler Carl Ziegler Gulbrandsen (1892–1976). She married Otto Delphin Amundsen, an engineer and genealogist, in 1943.Read More →
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Tea and coffee set by Marguerite Friedlander
She designed the Hallesche Form tea and coffee set for KPM in 1930, which was a huge commercial success, especially with Trude Petri’s gold rings (1931) decor.Read More →
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Josiah Wedgwood British Ceramics Manufacturer
He started by producing basic tableware, but by 1759, he had expanded to include beautiful items like classical vases and portrait busts. He was one of the first producers to hire artists to create product designs.Read More →
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Ernest Chaplet (1835 – 1909) French ceramicist and studio potter
Ernest Chaplet (1835 – 1909) was a French ceramicist, an early studio potter’ who mastered slip decoration, rediscovered stoneware, and conducted copper-red studies. From 1882 to 1885, he was the director of Charles Haviland’s workshop to study decorative processes, where he collaborated with artists such as Paul Gauguin. He eventually moved to Choisy-le-Roi, where he…
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