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Rooms to Inspire in the City: Stylish Interiors for Urban Living [Hardcover]

Annie Kelly , Tim Street-Porter
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April 6, 2010
A follow-up to the successful series Rooms to Inspire, this inspirational design guide presents a selection of novel urban interiors by the leading interior designers of our time.

City living evokes cosmopolitan sophistication and artistic expression. This presentation of trend-setting ways to design residences by leading tastemakers such as Muriel Brandolini, Peter Dunham, Jonathan Adler, and Mary McDonald, shows an impressive mix of styles—from eclectic and exotic to neo-traditional. The variety of beautifully photographed dwellings—from townhouses and apartments to lofts in such vibrant locales as New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Paris, London, and Jakarta—were chosen for their fresh design perspectives. This inspiring medley ranges from Carolina Irving’s Upper East Side–chic New York apartment with custom molding influenced by Gothic architecture to Robert Couturier’s elegant residence with curved walls, decorated by Paulin Paris. Universal design issues fundamental to living quarters are addressed, including color and comfort, as well as innovative approaches to tight spaces such as kitchens and bathrooms. Sections devoted to bookshelves, home entertaining, and tabletop display, along with a useful resource list, complete this guide to city style. For professionals and novices alike, Rooms to Inspire in the City encourages us to decorate our urban living spaces with panache.

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About the Author

Annie Kelly has authored many books, including the Rooms to Inspire series, and writes a book column for 1stdibs.com. She is also the editor-in-chief of the New York Observer Home magazine. Photographer Tim Street-Porter is the author of numerous books, including L.A. Modern

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Rizzoli; 1ST edition (April 6, 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0847834301
  • ISBN-13: 978-0847834303
  • Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 1.1 x 11.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 3.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #493,526 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Author Annie Kelly is also a decorator, design writer, and magazine editor.
With her husband, photographer Tim Street-Porter, she is based in Los Angeles, and has a second home two hours outside of New York in Litchfield, Connecticut.
Born in Australia, Kelly first trained as an artist. In 1993 she started work in Los Angeles as a decorator, and her projects have been published in a variety of design magazines: House and Garden, House Beautiful, Australian Vogue Living, Elle Decor, Metropolitan Home, English House and Garden, Traditional Home, Country Living and World of Interiors. Kelly's renovation of Frank Lloyd Wright's La Miniatura in Pasadena was featured as a cover story in Architectural Digest. She is currently working on several decorating projects in New York and Los Angeles.
In the 1990s she was a contributing editor on House & Garden (USA), and worked as a stylist on shoots for them, as well as Town and Country, Western Interiors and many others.
Kelly's design work has been featured in numerous books including three written and photographed by her husband Tim Street-Porter. They are Freestyle (Stewart Tabori and Chang,) Casa Mexicana (Stewart Tabori and Chang) and The Los Angeles House (Clarkson Potter,) as well as Be Your Own Decorator (Rizzoli) by Susanna Salk.

She has been a guest in the past on many decorating television shows, and apart from her books, writes about design and decoration for national magazines both here and in other countries. These include World of Interiors, the Robb Report, German, French and Russian Architectural Digest, and Belle magazine in Australia. .
Kelly is currently reviewing design books for the on-line website magazine "Introspective," at the furniture-selling website 1stdibs.com where she writes for a column called "Required Reading," as well as putting together designer profiles for "Style Compass."
Her first book was Casa Mexicana Style in 2006(Stewart Tabori & Chang,) then Rooms to Inspire,(Rizzoli)followed by Casa San Miguel in 2008.Two more books in the series came out in 2009 and 2010, both from Rizzoli- Rooms to Inspire in the Country and Rooms to inspire in the City.
In 2011 she produced Litchfield County Style also for Rizzoli, which recently won the New England Society Book Prize and the latest is Rooms to Inspire (Rizzoli) by the Sea, published in 2012.


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5.0 out of 5 stars Taste to Inspire You April 10, 2010
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What I love about this "Rooms to Inspire" series is the books give you novel ideas and fresh design images with which to decorate and update your rooms. This new addition to the series is a delight. Taste is all about exposure, and this book exposes readers to current, sophisticated, exotic and eclectic interiors around the world by top designers/stylemakers including Mary McDonald, Jonathan Adler, and Peter Dunham. I particularly loved Carolina Irving's New York City apartment.

The rooms featured should stretch your parameters of style which is positive. The photos will nerve your courage to infuse a jolt of something interesting in any tired, boring or cliched rooms you feel you have at home. Good design is an expression of the owner's personality, and the rooms in this book have a strong sense of personality. No cookie-cutter copies. And although they are city rooms, much of the decor could be adapted to homes of suburban or country dwellers as well, as the cover photo, which is a particular favorite of mine, illustrates.

The book has sections on decorating with books and city kitchens which might be appealing to many readers. While I'd seen a couple of the rooms in this book in design magazines before, they looked even better in this book. The color is vibrant--you felt you could just walk into the pages and sit down in the rooms. This book is a great resource book of fresh, cosmopolitan, and tantalizing rooms under one cover to inspire and challenge you. If you liked the other "Rooms to Inspire" books by the author, you should enjoy this latest addition to the family.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Excelent photograhs May 17, 2010
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I love the book, although it shows rooms a little bit more elegant than my budget, I was very pleased with my purchase. My mother also has enjoy it a lot, because is more her style.
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