Living Together How Couples Create Design Harmony at Home

by Lennard, Erica; Colomb, Denis; Szabo, Julia

• ISBN13: 9781584792239
• ISBN10: 158479223X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-10-01
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams

Summary

The marketplace is flooded with books on how to build a successful relationship and inundated with illustrated volumes on interior design. But no single book has combined the two subjects, offering compelling visual inspiration and practical advice on how partners can create a home that's a true reflection of their identity as a couple -- until now.In a long-overdue treatment of an issue that touches millions of households worldwide, internationally acclaimed photographer Erica Lennard and her husband, esteemed architect-designer Denis Colomb, examine the elegant lifestyles and extraordinary creativity of 15 couples who have managed to create enviably harmonious, visually stunning living spaces. Together with lifestyle writer Julia Szabo, they present artists April Gornik and Eric Fischl at home in Sag Harbor, New York; interior designers Allegra and Ashley Hicks and the London townhouse they lovingly decorated together; journalist Colombe Pringle and her film producer husband, Jean-Pierre Mahot, in their charming seventeenth-century Parisian apartment -- and even the authors' own shared household.But Living Together does more than showcase magnificent interiors. It offers advice and valuable insight on one of life's most difficult challenges: how two individuals with different tastes, habits, and lifestyles can blend their sometimes opposing styles into a single harmonious living arrangement that reflects the passion and dedication of the couple.-- Showcases the distinctive living spaces of 15 successful couples, including well-known contemporary artists and designers, and the authors themselves-- A lavishly illustrated examination of the art of making a home and howcouples are creating new rules for today's households-- Author-photographer Erica Lennard is the coauthor of the best-sellers The Art of Doing Nothing and The Art of Imperfection