Patina modern : a guide to designing warm, timeless interiors / Chris Mitchell and Pilar Guzmán.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : Artisan, [2022]Description: 271 pages : colour illustrations ; 28 cmContent type: - text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781648290558
- 1648290558
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A tastemaking couple shares their playbook for creating a home that's both beautiful and comfortable.
Chris Mitchell and Pilar Guzmán are design obsessives who both want the same thing: rooms that are spare yet warm, layered yet clean, current yet timeless. Rooms that never forget the real humans - with all their needs, hopes, emotions, aspirations, and even spills - who live in these spaces. Over the course of six ever more ambitious home renovations, they've cracked the code on how to achieve this.
It's a simple formula, one that lies in mixing modern design with timeworn materials - in particular, white oak, brass, and bridle leather, all three of which become richer, mellower, and burnished with patina as they age. Add a few essential lessons (Decorating by Mood, Borrowing from the Best) and a nine-point manifesto that covers everything from lighting (rooms should feel like lanterns at night), to the use of black as an accent, to the intention that every space should serve multiple purposes, and the result is Patina Modern , a uniquely inspiring and practical design guide.
The book leads by example, as the authors reveal in room-by-room detail the full evolution of their homes, including a Brooklyn brownstone and two classic Hamptons 'cottages'. Along the way, we come to not only understand just how they see and think but also learn what they've learned, getting an education in colour, proportion, paint, and the world of modern furniture design, for which the authors have a special passion.
Tools, principles, and the power of designing around the things you love - this is the gift of Patina Modern , showing just how to put it all together to create your own beautiful spaces.
Includes index.
"A lushly illustrated playbook for creating a home that feels both modern and warm, personal and polished, from a megawatt design duo"-- Provided by publisher.
Foreword / Adrian Gaut -- What is patina modern? / Chris -- This isn't your typical design book. / Pilar -- Our manifesto -- Lesson no 1: Starting with great ingredients -- Park Slope: house on a hill -- Lesson no 2: Decorating by mood -- East Hampton: The Galleon -- Lesson no 3: Putting it all together -- Bridgehampton: Palmer Cottage -- Lesson no 4: Borrowing from the best -- The masters: a survey of twentieth-century designers.
Mitchell and Guzmán are design obsessives who want the same thing: rooms that are spare yest warm, layered yet clean, current yet timeless. Here they reveal in room-by-room detail the full evolution of their homes. Readers will get an education in color, proportion, paint, and the world of modern furniture design, allowing you to create your own beautiful spaces. -- adapted from jacket