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The New Traditional: Reinvent-Balance-Define Your Home [Hardcover]

Darryl Carter
4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)

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Book Description

August 26, 2008
Darryl Carter is a leader in the design world, recognized for his restrained, distinguished, and livable environments. Known for seamlessly mixing the modern with the classical, Carter presents a comprehensive guide to creating a home that balances individual comfort with a timeless aesthetic.

Comfort is the essential element of a successful interior, but also the most elusive. Too often our design decisions are driven by others. In The New Traditional, Darryl Carter encourages you to be true to your own lifestyle. More than a stunning book, this is an accessible resource for making an elegant, inviting home, responsive to the people who live in it every day.

A fresh take on American design, Carter’s work has been lauded as the New Traditional for effortlessly blending classic and modern elements to create personal environments. Patinated furniture, subtle textiles and lighting, and chalky washes of color are among the details that transform a house into a home. Carter explains how you can translate these details into inspired and always calming surroundings. Ignore the obvious. Redefine a dining room so that it doubles as a library by lining the walls with bookshelves and using wing chairs in lieu of dining chairs. Stain wood floors white to create a greater sense of space. Build rooms around art. Carter shows that designing your home is a process to be enjoyed.

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About the Author

DARRYL CARTER lives in Washington, D.C. His work has appeared in dozens of major shelter, lifestyle, and news publications, including Town and Country, Elle Decor, Metropolitan Home, and O at Home. He frequently appears on a host of design programs. For more information, visit darrylcarter.com.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 208 pages
  • Publisher: Potter Style; First Edition edition (August 26, 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0307408655
  • ISBN-13: 978-0307408655
  • Product Dimensions: 10.4 x 0.9 x 10 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #696,502 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Customer Reviews

Darryl, This is a fabulous book! Ms. Weaver  |  5 reviewers made a similar statement
This book really inspires me to use my old things in a fresh new way. DuxburyMom  |  4 reviewers made a similar statement
That shared, I find his work to be just what the title proclaims - the new traditional. Jonathan James  |  2 reviewers made a similar statement
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars STILL A FAN December 22, 2008
Format:Hardcover
I have long admired Darryl Carter for his sophistication, sense of restraint and cool modern take on neoclassicism. That said, I found myself searching each photograph for something just a little more interesting -- just one object or piece of furniture that was a little less generic and basic. The best shot is on the cover, juxtaposing the solid honey brown footed pedestal table and the delicate painted regency klismos chair. A little bit more humor and interplay between shapes, forms, texture and color would go a long way toward activating these interiors and making them spring to life. As is, everything is just a fraction too still and plain. But I'm still a fan.
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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
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Daryl Carter has created a new genre and a signature style that is elegant, classical, and comfortable, where the new mixes with the old, and less is certainly more. His equal parts of restraint and creativity create an amazing combination. This book is like a slow, beautiful, casual walk through a well designed yet livable home. I wanted to stop, sit down and enjoy being in many of those rooms. Daryl Carter is already important as furniture designer, lighting designer, and interior designer and if this book is any indication likely the next Martha Stewart like figure for home furnishing.
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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Buy this book September 9, 2008
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Darryl Carter is a revolutionary in the design world. Creating classic, visualy engaging, and completely livable environments for his clients has transfered well to the book world. Easy and informative reading, stunning photography, and realistic living environments make this a book not about Darryl Carter (like many interior design books) but about well lived and well crafted interiors. This book is how it should be!
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
4.0 out of 5 stars Good book transitional style book
It is a East coast tradition Puritan style gone transitional with practical knowledge on design & function. I would recommend it.
Published 25 days ago by TammyToes
3.0 out of 5 stars Pretty to look at....
Once you've seen the cover, you've seen it all. I enjoyed reading the narrative, but found the room pics uninspiring and staged, unlike actual lived-in traditional, updated homes... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Auntie Jean
2.0 out of 5 stars An ocean of white canvas fabric
Early on in the book, Darryl talks about how he doesn't impose his taste on his clients, but rather bends to their unique wills. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Rosemary Bailey Brown
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful
Wonderful book - a sensitive and relevant approach to integration of traditional elements into useable modern interior space, reflective of how we use space today. Read more
Published 7 months ago by J
5.0 out of 5 stars The New Traditional
This is a lovely book, thoughtful and inspiring. I'm keeping it close by as we repaint, re upholster and sort through 25 years of accumulation. Read more
Published 7 months ago by grace clark
5.0 out of 5 stars wonderful
I love the combination of interesting architectural elements done in a very simple way. Elegant but not stuffy. Fabulous book.
Published 19 months ago by sjk
4.0 out of 5 stars Great Insight into this designer's process
I appreciated the author's explanation of her process, and the main ideas/concepts I learned. She shared in a coofee table stlye read (short, easy to understand, and lots of... Read more
Published 23 months ago by A. Wardman
5.0 out of 5 stars Natural Beauty
[A brilliant example of natural, elegant and perfectly blended elements that create a peaceful interior.]
Published on September 24, 2010 by Sara Fattori
5.0 out of 5 stars A Fusion of the American Minimalist Approach
For too long, minimalism has been fused to modernism. Following Bauhaus dictates that "form must follow function" and that "ornament is a crime", modernists have embraced the... Read more
Published on July 31, 2010 by Marco Antonio Abarca
4.0 out of 5 stars shapes and forms and the space between
My preference is for a good bit more color than Darryl Carter uses, but, nonetheless, I found this book to be very good value. Read more
Published on December 21, 2009 by J. Collins
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