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To Each His Home: Inspired Interiors as Unique as Their Owners [Hardcover]

Bilyana Dimitrova
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September 3, 2008 156898796X 978-1568987965 1
Most of us would agree that, for better or worse, our houses speak for us. They are like a second face we present to theworld. But when does a house become your home? It is the moment your house begins speaking to you—in an ongoing conversation propelled by the acquiring, arranging, and rearranging objects to express your personality in the spaces you inhabit. In To Each His Home: Inspired Interiors as Unique as Their Owners, photographer Bilyana Dimitrova takes readers on a tour of eight extraordinary homes that unabashedly express the personalities of their free-spirited owners. Dimitrova's carefully crafted color photographs, accompanied by brief interviews with each homeowner, create vivid portraits of these one-of-a-kind American spaces.

Highly varied in nature, the distinctive and captivating homes featured in this book have one remarkable thing incommon: none are the product of a professional interior designer. The homeowners in To Each His Home do not rely on professional training or draw inspiration from shelter magazines. Instead they allow their own likes and dislikesto guide their choices of furniture and fabrics, colors and configurations. They put the "I" back in interior design.

The homes included in this book are created by visual artists, a musician and a marionette maker, a painter, aninventor, a retired union steamfitter and former Golden Gloves welterweight champion, a visual merchandiser, and a retired stay-at-home mother of seven. Most evolved over long periods of time and continue to change as their ownersadd to and rearrange their spaces. Dimitrova captures these unconventional interiors in lavish large-format photographsaccompanied by the homeowners surprising insights about their individualistic design processes. To Each His Home is an unusually personal collection of interior designs from a diverse range of locales—New York City, Los Angeles, Pennsylvania, Maine—each demonstrating the magic within our reach when we surround ourselves only with the things that we love.

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Rooms Of Their Own, "Almost all architectural photographyespecially of residential interiorsinvolves a healthy dose of fiction. These images are, in the crudest sense, product shots, idealized versions of a space or building that are closer in spirit to advertising and promotion than straight journalism. While not necessarily bad or immoral, this practice often results in images that raise the question: Who lives like that?Bilyana Dimitrovas new book, To Each His Home: Inspired Interiors as Unique as Their Owners (Princeton Architectural Press), celebrates a sort of DIY sub version of the Architectural Digest aesthetic. Dimitrovaa former photo editor at Metropolis and certainly no stranger to the iconic imagemeticulously documents eight residences, none of them created by professional designers but all of them very much designed (if your definition of design includes a fierce, almost theatrical, sense of purpose). I wanted to find homes that I was fascinated and excited by, the 31-year-old photo grapher says. More than anything, it was that heightened intentionality that I responded to." -- Martin C. Pedersen --Metropolis: (December, 2008)

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"We are loving this new book by friend of Free People, Bilyana Dimitrova called To Each His Home. The book highlights eight really imaginative homes with beautiful photographs by Bilyana. Above are some sneak peak images of the book. You can see more on the website. Wouldn't you love to live in one of these?"

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 176 pages
  • Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press; 1 edition (September 3, 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 156898796X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1568987965
  • Product Dimensions: 9 x 0.9 x 9.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,362,883 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect condition, fun coffee table book, fast service December 22, 2008
By Kit Cat
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A very nice book of eclectic and unusual interior & exterior home designs. The stories are not by interior decorators or anyone following the typical 'asid' formulas. These homes are from regular folks with a personal flair of individuality. I'm inspired by their freedom to express their life's passion and creativity. Yes, Modern, Traditional, Southwestern, Country, Mediterranean or Asian are all nice typical styles. But those typical and common styles are so boringly tidy with an 'industry standard' of what to buy and where to put it. This book says; 'why not follow your heart and let your creative juices flow?' This book inspires the reader to be creative and use their own individual passions, style and uniqueness. This is not a 'how to' book. These are the stories, with beautiful photos, of individuals who decorate with their life's passions. This is the story of creative expression, interests and passions in ones personal habitat.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars Maybe better for a cafe than your home December 26, 2008
Format:Hardcover
I gave this as a gift (online) not having reviewed the full interior, and the receiving party returned it immediately.
This book is mariketed in a lighthearted eclectic manner, but when one actually goes through it, you discover the heaviness many people choose to decorate their homes in. One example is a home which places an old doll in a coffin in the corner of a bedroom with blood coming out its neck and red walls... While I love the individual expression, and find the morbidity in a great deal of this book facinating, it's difficult to swallow.
This book has a definite following, just marketed incorrectly. It's Rocky Horror meets interior design, interesting color combinations and individual expression on the dark side. If that suits your fancy, then it's a fabulous book.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars high quality but definitely not what I expected February 1, 2011
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While I fully agree with others that it's refreshing to find a tome on interior decorating that is so opposite from the cookie-cutter norm, this was just too weird for me. As another reviewer described, the book is marketed in a fun and lighthearted manner. The cover photo is bright and airy. Within, you will find more of the macabre and not in a darkly luxe or gothic type of way but to extremes that are, at times, disturbing in my opinion. I like the idea of breaking the mold and expressing self through private homes' interior, but perhaps my inner self is drastically more cheery & conventional than I ever would have imagined! My home is more "modern cottage" than "haunted butcher shop" or "evil laboratory"! If I were rating this book based on my own enjoyment level, it would be 1 or 2 stars, but it *is* very high quality and well put together so I settled on 3 stars.
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