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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Emily Chalmers is a talented stylist with a strong feel for the current `zeitgeist': the eclectic, slightly shabby look found in shops like Anthropologie. Along with photographer Debi Treloar and writer Ali Hanan, Chalmers documents this style visually in this book, which was actually published as early as 2005.
The houses Chalmers uses to illustrate this style belong to beautiful people worldwide, and many of the room and detail shots are highly atmospheric. The interiors do have a `lived in' look which is nicely approachable. This legitimizes the `anything goes together' style; whilst warning how to avoid a haphazard mess.
For me, having grown up in the orange and brown hell of the 1970s, there's a little too much of that rather dusty colour palette here for my liking, but many of the other colour combinations shown are striking yet seem easy to live with...
I have a few quibbles. I really don't think the children's rooms shown here are either practical or appropriate for small kids - my little darlings would have had constant nightmares from the gloomy Russian painting (seemingly of a firing squad!) suggested as visual simulation on one page. And if Ms Chalmers thinks it's still possible to pick up an original Eames chair at a flea market for a song these days, she's living in a fantasy world. Car boot sales round our neck of the woods are more likely to yield melamine-faced chipboard and nests of hideously irredeemable coffee tables...
The structure of the book - element-by-element (eg lighting, seating), then room-by-room - is helpful. But like many of these kinds of volumes, this is largely eye-candy. The difference is you might actually be able to afford at least some of the quirky kind of furniture shown here, or at least be inspired to have a go at revamping a second-hand piece or two. Whether you'll be able to afford the vast semi-industrial loft space/Manhattan apartment/small French chateau to put them all in is another matter entirely...
The houses Chalmers uses to illustrate this style belong to beautiful people worldwide, and many of the room and detail shots are highly atmospheric. The interiors do have a `lived in' look which is nicely approachable. This legitimizes the `anything goes together' style; whilst warning how to avoid a haphazard mess.
For me, having grown up in the orange and brown hell of the 1970s, there's a little too much of that rather dusty colour palette here for my liking, but many of the other colour combinations shown are striking yet seem easy to live with...
I have a few quibbles. I really don't think the children's rooms shown here are either practical or appropriate for small kids - my little darlings would have had constant nightmares from the gloomy Russian painting (seemingly of a firing squad!) suggested as visual simulation on one page. And if Ms Chalmers thinks it's still possible to pick up an original Eames chair at a flea market for a song these days, she's living in a fantasy world. Car boot sales round our neck of the woods are more likely to yield melamine-faced chipboard and nests of hideously irredeemable coffee tables...
The structure of the book - element-by-element (eg lighting, seating), then room-by-room - is helpful. But like many of these kinds of volumes, this is largely eye-candy. The difference is you might actually be able to afford at least some of the quirky kind of furniture shown here, or at least be inspired to have a go at revamping a second-hand piece or two. Whether you'll be able to afford the vast semi-industrial loft space/Manhattan apartment/small French chateau to put them all in is another matter entirely...
26 of 27 people found the following review helpful
By A. Minns
Format:Hardcover
i love the images in this book and very often go back and flick through it. The book features beautiful photos of stylish interiors probably of people who are all pals through their love of vintage style. The author has written for various style journals and her passion for a bargain and eye for style shows through. The chapters address different areas of the home and how you can use vintage buys to full effect. The book also gives some ideas of what to buy and where you might find things. I often pick this book up when the house is in a mess and it inspires me to go tidy up.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
By ACMN1
Format:Hardcover
Lovely book, gorgeous pictures but it's not amazing. Some of the copy is quite obvious to anyone who likes vintage things (ie, look in flea markets for bargains!). Having said that it's still beautiful to flick through of an afternoon...
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Design porn!
Oh how I wish I went to the same flea markets as Emily Chalmers!
Don't buy this book if you want a how-to guide as it won't tell you where to get things or how to decorate but... Read more
Don't buy this book if you want a how-to guide as it won't tell you where to get things or how to decorate but... Read more
Published 12 months ago by Ms. N. D. Merriman
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You either got it, or you ain't
The images in this book are carefully shot and the rooms have been "dressed" for the camera. Even so, many look more like a corner of a fleamarket than a desirable home, with areas... Read more
Published 16 months ago by Peasant
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Incredible Book
Worth every penny. Has been read countless times and still comes in useful. Highly recommended.
Published on 9 Nov 2010 by Stone
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Flea Market Style
I collect these type of books as I am an avid reclaimer,restorer. This one is rather off beat, not the usual stuff.
Published on 27 July 2009 by Mrs. J. C. Peters
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Flea market Style
Great book, full of inspirational ideas, although they do use alot of the same houses in these books it's still a great book and perfect for a birthday or thank-you present.
Published on 15 July 2009 by Leona Flude
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