CLASSICS(室内设计经典)

Just as fashion has the little black dress, pearls, and the Kelly bag, interior design has its own classics. These simple elements are what professional designers count on to pull a room together. From the four-poster bed to the Eames lounge chair, each creates a design statement that is straightforward and stylish. Once the province of interior designers, the classics are now readily available—through magazines, Websites, and catalogues. Authentic classics, and even some good looking knock-offs have migrated from the to-the-trade-only showrooms to retail shops. As mainstream America becomes more educated and design savvy, readers want design advice that is sensible, easy to use, and tasteful. Each chapter in this book includes a look at design classics in the areas of furniture, lighting, seating, sofas, beds, and accessories. The decor elements and featured advice are both time-honored and design-tried-and-true. And, here, time-honored doesn’t mean timeworn: the book is fresh, innovative, and knows how to use great pieces to wake up a room.
　　Classic elements shown through close-ups, details, and images of complete room designs and sidebars will help you choose and use the pieces that are right for you. In addition, boxed text offers practical, concrete interior design information about adopting design classics to create a particular look or atmosphere. In the pages you will find simple, affordable design (classics with staying power) and interior design advice and inspiration, all in an easy-to-use format (element by element) that looks and feels fresh and up-to-date.

Book Description
The ten design must-haves in seven classic categories are shown here, from the camel-back sofa to the sleigh bed. Sidebars offer information for select pieces, and the text offers practical information about choosing and using design classics to create a particular look or atmosphere.

Just as fashion has the simple black dress that hangs in every woman's closet, interior design and decorating have their own classics of design. These are the hard-to-pin-down classic elements that make a room look great, from the Noguchi coffee table to the utilitarian Emeco dining room chair, from the camel-back sofa to the sleigh bed, from the Venetian glass chandelier to Philippe Starck's colorful plastic table lamp. These are the pieces professional designers count on and count IN as building blocks for making rooms beautiful: classic chairs, tables, lounges, beds, storage, and accessories. This book reveals the ten design must-haves in seven classic categories, and shows readers how to use the shapes, furniture, colors, textures, and accents to make the right decisions in all your decorating.

Book Dimension
length: (cm)26.1 　　　 　　　　　 　　　　　 width:(cm)21.2

Elana Frankel, formerly a senior editor at Interior Design magazine, has written on architecture and design for *surface, Architectural Record, Metropolis, I.D., Grid, and Home. In addition, she is a frequent lecturer and panelist both in the United States and abroad. She resides in New York City.