The Textile Style : The Art of Using Antique and Exotic Fabrics to Decorate Your Home
by Caroline Clifton-Mogg
Book Description
In almost any room in the house, the simple addition of a length of brightly
colored silk or hand-dyed textile can transform goring and mundane
into interesting and unique. Textile Style elplains how to effect such
transfprmations with common fabrics as well as sumptuous lengths of
Indian jewel-colored silks, intricate kelims and rugs from the East,
patchwork quilts from rural America, and woven Scottish shawls. These
and many more can be used around the home in a context very diferent
from their original purpose.
About the Author
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Caroline Clifton-Mogg is a writer and journalist who specializes in
interior design and gardens. She is a contributing editor of both Harpers & Queen
and Christie's Magazine and also writes regularly for House and Garden,
The Financial Times, and many other magazines and newspapers. Her books
include The Curtain Book and Decorating with Antiques. She lives in
London with her husband, two daughters, and a variable number of cats.
Andrew Wood is a photographer of interiors and gardens who travels the world in the course of his work. His photographs illustrate a number of books and many magazine articles. He lived in Asia for many years and still retreats there to his boat, which is moored in Thailand."
Customer Reviews:
My number one...
It's not easy to write a book, it's even harder to write the perfect book, but Caroline did it.
For years I've bought dozens and dozens of home, garden and crafts books. Some of them are really good books, most of them are just beautiful editions with magazine like editorial content, and the smallest part of them are composed by some really, really, marvellous books.
In my large collection of home and garden books I choose "Textile Style : The Art of Using Antique and Exotic Fabrics to Decorate Your Home" as my number one book, what means the best of the bests.
Since I bought it turned the most important among the others, the most read, the most manipulated, the most talked about.
So, I really recommend it!!!
The other books of Caroline are not pieces of art like "Textile Style" but they all show she's a very good home designer.
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A Must for Textile Lovers
This is a fantastic design book. Beautifully photographed and organized in a sensible and intuitive way, anyone interested in design or textiles will love it. Most of the interiors pictured are in London, and there is a bias for that quirky British "more is more" style. So it you're looking for decorating inspiration for your minimalist home this book may not be very helpful. Otherwise, it's wonderful. I find myself referring to it again and again.