Renowned for her sense of color, sumptuous collections of fabrics and home furnishings, and now a complete line of bed and bath products, Tricia Guild reveals the secrets behind her approach to design in Think Color. For the first time, Tricia herself explains how she brings a room to life, from the initial assessment of atmosphere and dimension through her choice of color, materials, and furniture, right down to the finishing touches such as flowers, cushions, and trimmings. Guiding the reader first-person through her design process, she offers insight into using color to create mood and reveals the sources of her inspiration. This lavishly produced book showcases more than 200 color-drenched photographs featuring gorgeous interiors and highlighting exceptional details. With bountiful insight from a truly exceptional talent, Think Color is an energetic and vital celebration of contemporary home dcor.
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When decorating their homes, many people-whether out of a basic design conservatism or in an attempt to hide red wine stains and muddy footprints-settle on beige, camel and taupe for their couches, rugs and drapes. What they may not realize, says designer Guild, is that using color in home decorating can "infuse the mind to create moods or feelings" and "help you break out of conventions." It's not for nothing that Guild is "renowned for her vital sense of color": the sprightly author founded the influential Designers Guild in London in 1970 and has gone on to receive multiple art and design awards. In this attractive book, she offers ideas both grand and simple for jazzing up a room with unexpected shades. Transform an attic bedroom into an airy space by painting the floorboards pale blue. Mix patterns and colors to give a room a dynamic look. When setting the table for an alfresco lunch, dot each place setting with plump flowers. Guild divides the book into chapters on moods and their corresponding colors (e.g., "joyful/vivacious/mandarin/citrus/cerise" and "pure/serene/mauve/sea green/aqua"). Whether readers desire a relaxed bedroom (try indigo) or a vibrant living room (go for berry), they should find plenty of inspiration in these pages.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Afraid of color? London designer-author Guild (White Hot [1999]), Painted Country [2002], plus eight others) offers up a rainbow of shades that entice even the most hesitant to peek inside. Blatantly commercial because her own company's furniture, wallpaper, fabrics, and paint dominate, Guild nonetheless provides a relaxing way to start dabbling in home color. Shades are paired with emotions: turquoise, lime, and leaf connote freshness and stimulation; mauve, sea green, and aqua spell purity and serenity; and so on. Within these divisions appear rooms, vignettes, and outdoor tableaux that evoke the desired feeling, accompanied by some authorial musings about the inspiration for each. Food and nature, of course, are well represented. James Merrell's photographs of the fairly minimalist decor are clear, detailed, and evocative of each particular color-emotion swatch. Best of all, these ideas can be translated into any budget. Barbara Jacobs
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Colorful Accessories,
By Sonya "readaholic" (Dallas, TX) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Think Color: Rooms to Live In (Hardcover)
Like other reviewers, I wondered, where are the "Rooms to Live In" mentioned in the book title.
The photographs in the book are beautiful, clear and quite colorful. Unfortunately, many of the photographs are closeups of things like coffee cups, floral arrangements, pillows, food and clothing, but very few shots of the rooms itself. If you randomly turned to a page, you would probably get a closeup of something IN the room, but probably no large pictures of the room itself. If you look at the books' cover, you will see two small photos to the side of closeups of coffee cups and flowers, this is an example of the type of photos this book comprises. Don't get me wrong, the color in the book is really good, the closeups great, BUT it is not a book of rooms. If this was a book of colorful accessories I would give it a 4.5 stars, but because it is supposed to be a decor book and is not, I'm giving it 2 stars. The decor style of the rooms is predominantly modern, contemporary and maybe a retro kind of style. I think a more appropriate title would have been How to Accessorize your Home with Color or if they had left out the "Rooms to Live In" subtitle it would be fine. I would suggest you check it out of the library before purchasing to see if this is what you are looking for in a decor book.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Where are the rooms?,
By Alix Leonard (LA, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Think Color: Rooms to Live In (Hardcover)
This book is a major disappointment to me. It says it's about rooms to live in, but you open it, and there aren't any rooms (or many rooms). The colorful shots are closeups of such colorful things as flowers. Really maddening.
19 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: Think Color: Rooms to Live In (Hardcover)
The only other book I have looked at by Tricia Guild, I did not like. So imagine my surprise when I liked this one enough to buy it.If you are wanting to learn the basics of color, you are looking at the wrong book. However, if you want to be inspired and love color, this is the book for you. The photos are gorgeous. The author gives a personal touch to her decorating tips without being overbearing. I would give this book 5 stars, except it only shows examples of one style, funky modern. I define funky modern as having the simplicity of minimalism without its cold austerity and with the bold use of color and India-style fabric. Because I happen to like this style, I like this book. If you like country or traditional styles, you probably won't. Recommendation: If you love color, buy this book!
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