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Paris Living Rooms

Photographer Dominique Nabokov has documented the living rooms of well-known Parisians - artists, writers, designers, intellectuals, and the occasional celebrity. The rooms vary widely from one another in terms of formality and decor, but they are all equalized under the gaze of Nabokov's camera. Each room is shot simply as it happened to appear on that particular day, without any people. Using discontinued Polaroid Colorgraph type 691 film, (which provides a full-color transparency in four minutes), Nabokov does not use special lighting, or allow the rooms to be rearranged or touched by a stylist. The result is a series of fascinatingly deadpan photos that puts an ironic slant on the celebrity interior genre. These peeks into the living rooms of celebrated Parisians will provide hours of voyeuristic pleasure. The book includes more than seventy living rooms of such diverse Parisians as Jean-Paul Goude, Andree Putman, Christian Liaigre, Ingrid Caven, Jeanne Moreau, Victoire de Castellane, Loulou de la Falaise, and Jacques Grange, to name a few.

Author: Dominique Nabokov
Hardcover: 114 pages
Company: Assouline (2002-12)
ISBN: 2843233690
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Living Rooms (Small Books)

Author: Fernando de Haro, Omar Fuentes
Paperback: 64 pages
Company: Arquitectos Mexicanos Editores (2007-09-18) (2007-09-18)
ISBN: 9709726560
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Elegant and Easy Living Rooms: 100 Trade Secrets for Designing with Style (Elegant and Easy)

ELEGANT AND EASY LIVING ROOMS is the guide to creating design magazine magic in any home--a living room that's a personal haven for family and a magnetic gathering spot for friends. Whether readers want a design overhaul or just a few beautiful upgrades, this compendium is packed with designer-tested (and budget-conscious) tips, including: the best specific paint colors for living rooms; restful, romantic ways to brighten a room starved for sun; and simple ways to make a ceiling look higher (or lower).

Author: Dylan Landis
Paperback: 128 pages
Company: Dell (2000-04-11) (2000-04-11)
ISBN: 0440508592
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In A Mexican Garden: Courtyards, Pools, and Open-Air Living Rooms

The team behind the best-selling Mexicolor and Mexicasa has unlocked the gates to Mexico's patios, courtyards, and walled gardens. From private homes to luxurious resorts, In A Mexican Garden celebrates Mexico's hidden oases where lovers meet for margaritas at sunset and families gather for spirited fiestas. The dazzling array of featured properties includes rustic coastal hideaways, elegant Spanish Colonial mansions, rural haciendas, and Modernist architectural masterpieces. Melba Levick's stunning photographs capture page after vibrant page of bold Mexican design elements: swirling mosaic floors, elaborate frescoes, hand-carved stone fountains, and lush native plants. Gina Hyams' informative text explains the historic roots of these uniquely Mexican outdoor spaces. Garden design enthusiasts, fans of Mexico, and anyone who appreciates a siesta in the sun need only open this book to hear the quiet babble of fountains and glasses clinking to toast another beautiful sunset.

Author: Gina Hyams
Paperback: 176 pages
Company: Chronicle Books (2005-05-01)
ISBN: 0811841308
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New York Living Rooms

The modest size, slender girth, and bookish typeface of this little volume will effectively put off readers who are looking for glitzy peeks into the lifestyles of the rich and famous. The more sober readers who are the target audience of New York Living Rooms should get the irony at once, and for them this book will provide hours of voyeuristic pleasure. Dominique Nabokov is a realist. Her artfully deadpan color photographs, empty of people, simply show what is there to see, without obvious slant. And yet this collection of more than 100 Polaroids somehow invokes the mix of New Yorkers--wealthy, brilliant, witty, powerful, stylish, artistic, neurotic, and/or beautiful people--that makes the city what it is. It is fascinating, for example, to see what a warm, cozy, plant-filled living room the pompous, pompadoured Reverend Al Sharpton possesses. There is a posthumous, two-picture tour of Allen Ginsberg's poor but immaculate rooms; a shot of the magnificent Quentin Crisp's monkish cell; and pictures of the two-story living rooms of Elizabeth Hardwick and Barbara Epstein, whose shelves in their respective Hotel des Artists apartments still have space for more books. Wow. There are Bierre Bergè's velvet-covered digs at the Pierre Hotel; Mario Buatta's gold-framed collection of springer spaniel portraits; Barbara Taylor Bradford's cold but tchotchke'd sitting room. In the end it is Nabokov's list--including former mayor Ed Koch, painter Louise Bourgeois, composer Philip Glass, Princess and Prince Alexander Romanoff, and Nabokov herself--that makes the book. These living rooms suggest the party of the century, if one could gather all the owners in one place. Julian Schnabel's cavernous loft seems right. --Peggy Moorman

Author: Dominique Nabokov
Hardcover: 128 pages
Company: Overlook Hardcover (1998-09-01)
ISBN: 0879518758
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101 Living Rooms: Stylish Room Solutions (101 Rooms)

Instead of leafing through a plethora of magazines for Living Room decorating ideas, now you can find all the inspiration and useful advice you'll ever need in one book - 101 Living Rooms, containing 101 themes for your living room, each illustrated with a full-page photograph of a fully decorated room. In fact, with the titles in this series, you can find ideas for every room in the house! The first four titles feature Bedrooms, Living Rooms, Kitchens and Bathrooms are guaranteed to help you find the look that you want. The 101 living rooms are grouped by style: Contemporary - Classic - Country - Creative - Around-the-World - Laid-back

Each room is illustrated with a full-color photograph and accompanied by invaluable information on the specific features of the room, including color, lighting, accessories and flooring. There is a directory of useful suppliers at the back of the book you'll have everything you need to recreate the look for yourself. So whether you're planning a complete transformation or simply looking for quick facelift ideas, the 101 series will help you create the home of your dreams.

Author: Julie Savill
Paperback: 224 pages
Company: Hylas Publishing (2003-05-25)
ISBN: 1592580068
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House Beautiful Design & Decorate: Living & Dining Rooms: Creating Beautiful Rooms from Start to Finish (House Beautiful Design & Decorate)

They’re the rooms where you relax, where family and friends gather, where most of home life gets lived: the living and dining rooms. Who better than the experts at House Beautiful to show how to make these spaces attractive, inviting, and fresh? Divided into two sections, this stunning guide features hundreds of lavish, inspirational images, enhanced with checklists and explanatory sidebars. “Design” covers everything from planning to selecting the permanent elements of the interior: this is the time for thinking and research, for making crucial long-term decisions about the layout, lighting and electricity, flooring, storage space, and furniture. “Decorate” is devoted to the look, focusing on color, wall finishes, window treatments, and those small but important touches that make a house a beautiful home.

Author: Tessa Evelegh
Hardcover: 160 pages
Company: Hearst (2007-09-01)
ISBN: 1588166511
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Contemporary Asian Living Rooms (Contemporary Asian Home Series)

Contemporary Asian Living Rooms explores 50 of Southeast Asia's most interesting homes and hotels. Interiors range from the starkly minimal to the luxuriously plush-from Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Bali. Created by some of the leading talents in contemporary Asian design today, these interiors feature creative shapes, contours, materials and new ways of working with the space where family and friends spend most of their time together.

Author: Chamsai Jotisalikorn, Karina Zabihi, Luca Invernizzi Tettoni
Paperback: 128 pages
Company: Periplus Editions (2007-03-15)
ISBN: 0794604773
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Rooms For Living: Great Ideas for Living Rooms, Family Rooms, Bonus Rooms (Trading Spaces)

Includes all-new rooms from Trading Spaces never before seen in a book.

Dozens of ideas for facelifts to living rooms, family rooms, bonus rooms, kitchens, and multipurpose bedrooms.

Photo tours of 15 rooms show how to use fabrics, flooring, furnishings, and color effectively.

Decorating strategies feature ready-made items and inexpensive ideas for quick, low-cost success.

Special Style Primers introduce the furnishings, colors, and surfaces that characterize five popular decorating styles: classic, chic, casual, romantic, and funky.

Unique Lessons for Living sections offer planning ideas and creative solutions for common decorating challenges.

Paperback: 176 pages
Company: TLC (2004-08-10)
ISBN: 0696221314
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Pottery Barn Living Rooms (Pottery Barn Design Library)

The traditional living room has increasingly given way to the idea of a "great room"--a space adaptable enough to entertain guests, encourage playful children, provide a comfortable place to view videos, and, yes, even accommodate the solitary reader. Pottery Barn Living Rooms leads such a reader through the basic issues and specific choices available to anyone wanting to re-do an existing space or design a new living room. Each of its ten chapters is devoted a specific subject (color, texture, lighting); all chapters begin with an overview of the topic, followed by virtual tours of rooms--both large and smaller, formal and casual—complete with gorgeous photos. The accompanying text goes on to explain how the real-life owners of these rooms created a sense of intimacy, a dramatic effect with lighting, or a convivial place in which people are likely to congregate. Whether you have high ceilings or low, a large budget or a limited one, this book is valuable for anyone looking for sensible ideas in creating a room perfect for all kinds of living. --David Bombeck

Author: Bonnie Schwartz, Clay Ide
Hardcover: 192 pages
Company: Oxmoor House (2003-09)
ISBN: 0848727592
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