The New French Décor - Living with Timeless Objects

Klappentext The art of setting, compiling, or combining disparate objects is a difficult art. Yet it has become the chic new decorating style in France, and is now spreading throughout the world. After the success of The New Eighteenth-Century Style, journalist Michèle Lalande and photographer Gilles Trillard team up once again to showcase the most successful combinations of treasured heirlooms and contemporary design.From precious mundane objects like seashells and glass bottles to priceless works of master craftsmanship like candelabras and carved wooden chests, The New French Décor provides insight into the blend of sophistication, symmetry, confusion, and minimalism that makes each of these rooms successful. Beautifully photographed by Trillard, these rich designs, conceived and executed by top stylists, decorators, and antiquarians, delight the eye on each page with a brilliant patchwork of old and new. Zusammenfassung The art of setting, compiling or combining disparate objects is a difficult art. This book showcases some of the most successful combinations of treasured heirlooms and contemporary design. It provides insight into the blend of sophistication, symmetry, confusion and minimalism that makes each of these rooms successful.

Product details

• Authors: Michele Lalande, Michèle Lalande, Lalande Michele, Gilles Trillard
• Assisted by: Gilles Trillard (Photographer), Gilles Trillard (Photographs), Trillard Gilles (Photographer), Liz Nash (Translation)
• Publisher: Abrams
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.10.2007
• EAN: 9780810994591
• ISBN: 978-0-8109-9459-1
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 259 mm x 287 mm x 26 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design; ARCHITECTURE / Interior Design / General, Professional interior design, Architecture: interior design