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The New Traditional: Reinvent-Balance-Define Your Home |
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Amazon Sales Rank: 116271
Publication Date: 2008-08-26
Release Date: 2008-08-26
Publisher: Clarkson Potter
ISBN: 0307408655
Type: Hardcover
Number Of Pages: 208
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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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Review: 2009-04-15
Favorite Design Book
I adore this book! In fact after reading this book I tossed out my enormous collection of country and antique design books because I realized that they would never again do. I live in a 200 year old home filled with antiques. I am a relatively young mother of three and, while I love my antiques, I have been craving a more updated, fresh look. This book made me realize that to achieve this I didnt have to "start over" and get rid of most of my stuff (or sell my home!). This book really inspires me to use my old things in a fresh new way. "The New Traditional" is a perfect name for this book. Carter uses imperfect antiques in old homes and gives it all new life in a way that no other designer seems to have captured. Thank you Darryl Carter!!
Review: 2009-01-14
a great read...
Beautiful photography and a great read. I not only fell in love with Carter's decorative style, but also his diction. Darryl Carter is a brilliant and innovative decorator and an articulate author. The New Traditional reads with a refreshingly empowering and intelligent voice on design.
Review: 2009-01-13
Create Child-Friendly and Forgiving Environments
Darryl,
This is a fabulous book! My favorite section is Chapter 13, Invite. I am a mother of a 2 year-old and a proud owner of an ultra suede beige sectional. Owning light colored upholstery may sound impossible for most parents, especially to those like me who don't have "off-limit areas" to children, but you don't have to sacrifice style or comfort in order to have a kid-friendly and inviting living space. In this chapter, Darryl explains how not to sacrifice style for durability and how to choose stain resistant fabrics.
After reading this book last September, I proceeded with the purchase of my beige sectional with great confidence and ever since, my daughter... let's just say...has enjoyed her share of the couch. You would be surprised what stains and marks I am able to get out with just simple soap and water and it still looks new!
Thanks Darryl!!
Review: 2009-01-13
A Design Movement
I found The New Traditional to be completely refreshing... not only for the beautifully captured images, but for the thoughtful writing. Here is a work that I can understand. Mr. Carter takes his ideology and lets the reader pull elements from it that can be executed in their own style - it's a universal message really. That shared, I find his work to be just what the title proclaims - the new traditional. Classic forms brought up to date with the use of neutral textiles - allowing us to appreciate the graceful lines of a camel-back sofa or wing chair rather than being in a competition with pattern on pattern and superfluous trims. The bold juxtaposition of a dark oyster veneered table rising off of a whitewashed floor takes on a sculptural quality. Those that "just see white" clearly don't look at details beyond the surface. Here is someone who understands the subtly of neutrals and washes - of texture interplay, shape, scale and form. I see the new traditional as a movement in a new era of American design which embraces and honors the past with a vision toward the future... I see Mr. Carter as being at the forefront of this design movement. Leave the fussy toile and tassels in your grandmother's attic! Congratulations Mr. Carter!
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