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Introducing tile and stone into the home gives designers and home-owners an artistic medium like no other. Reclaimed, antique terra-cotta stone can transform a high-rise city kitchen into a French countryside retreat. Italian mosaic tiles hand-assembled in geomet-ric borders and colorful murals can turn an ordinary bathroom into an oasis of luxury.
In this high-tech world, tile, stone, and mosaics can fulfill our innate desire for high-touch. With them, we can create homes that are sen-sual places where the feel of cool stone beneath bare feet is as important as its deep, rich color, or how the sunshine illuminates it.
This book traces the latest designs using tile, stone, and mosaic. Through beautiful photography and illustrative text, installations for every room in the house-kitchens, bathrooms, living rooms, and more-are presented. Renowned designers and tile manufac-turers from around the world share their exquisite creations.
For interior designers, homeowners, and apartment dwellers, this is an essential guide to using tile and stone to enhance and decorate. Designing Interiors with Tile: Creative Ideas with Ceramic, Stone, and Mosaic will surely inspire.
About the Author
Anna Kasabian has 29 years of experience as a writer, editor and communications professional. She writes about interior design, food, garden crafts, home and garden preservation projects, and architecturally significant properties.
Anna's byline appears in Country Living, Cook’s Illustrated, Metropolitan Home, Country Home, Coastal Living, Home Magazine, Yankee Magazine, The Old Farmer’s Almanac Gardener’s Companion, Better Homes & Gardens Garden Rooms, Woman’s Day Special Interest Magazines, The Boston Globe, Boston Magazine, New England Travel & Life, The Old Farmer’s Almanac Gardener’s Companion, and Boston Elegant Wedding.
She has been featured several times on HGTV and National Public Radio’s Boston affiliate, WBUR. She has been a featured speaker at House Beautiful and the Boston Design Center’s Design Days, and The Boston Center for Adult Education. Her latest book, Kids’ Rooms, has been featured in Time Magazine, Parents, and Better Homes and Gardens.
Her new monthly column, DesignWise, An Ongoing Dialogue with Top Interior Designers will be featured on cDecor.com shortly.
Her other books include: Designing Interiors with Tile; East Coast Rooms; Dream Kitchens; Kids’ Rooms; The New Home Color Book; Modern Nostalgia; and First Impressions. Her eighth book (co-authored with Tommy Hilfiger), due Fall 2003, is entitled New England Style.
