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In Modern Vintage Style, Emily Chalmers - interiors stylist and owner of hip boutique Caravan - shows how using vintage items in a contemporary context can introduce humour, flair and personality to a home. Decorating should be fun and inspiring, so there are no style diktats; no 'this-must-go-with-that'. Modern vintage is all about trusting your instincts and taste and using a bit of imagination in seeking out the right items to create a perfect balance of old and new. In the first section of the book, Inspirations, Emily offers up imaginative and varied examples of furniture, lighting, textiles, decorating and collections & display. In the second section, Style, she shows you exactly how to pull the look together, applying her decorating philosophy so you can cook & eat, live, sleep and bathe in tune with Modern Vintage Style.
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Emily Chalmers is a interiors stylist and author who excels at using more dash than cash to create inspirational interiors. Her work has appeared in several magazines and she now happily combines work with play running her destination design store Caravan in Shoreditch. She is the author of the bestselling Flea Market Style and Cheap Chic (both Ryland Peters & Small).
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
One of the great things about the Emily Chalmers/Ali Hanan writing team is that you get a lot more than pretty pictures. Whilst Debi Treloar's photos are wonderful, there are plenty of other pretty interior decorating books out there. What makes me choose books by these particular authors is the quality of research and the intelligent structure and content of the writing. You don't just swoon over the pictures, but you can also enjoy, appreciate and learn from the (beautifully set out) text. Modern vintage decorating style is delightfully variable and the book isn't a 'buy this and get the look' tome, but a source of inspiration to help you make the best of your own home and what you may already own.
It's good to note that the homes featured are very varied. Some I would live in, others are far too extreme or unattainable. But every one of them is both wonderful eye-candy and a useful source of ideas, intelligently explained in the text.
You could simply be aware that, given a lottery win, you would still prefer to keep the comfortable mish-mash of furniture you inherited and picked up from IKEA, rather than rushing out to the best in new or antique furniture stores. Or you may be a serious collector of vintage, wondering how to stop your pieces looking fusty and your rooms cluttered. In either case, Modern Vintage Style could be what you are already doing. Reading this book can help to clarify WHY some of what you do works so well, and give you plenty more ideas for how to build on pieces you already have.
It's good to note that the homes featured are very varied. Some I would live in, others are far too extreme or unattainable. But every one of them is both wonderful eye-candy and a useful source of ideas, intelligently explained in the text.
You could simply be aware that, given a lottery win, you would still prefer to keep the comfortable mish-mash of furniture you inherited and picked up from IKEA, rather than rushing out to the best in new or antique furniture stores. Or you may be a serious collector of vintage, wondering how to stop your pieces looking fusty and your rooms cluttered. In either case, Modern Vintage Style could be what you are already doing. Reading this book can help to clarify WHY some of what you do works so well, and give you plenty more ideas for how to build on pieces you already have.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Unfortunately I was a little dissapointed with this book. I own and enjoy numerous home style books which I like to use to inspire my home decorating. I was really looking forward to receiving Modern Vintage Style and thought it may offer some helpful tips and pictorial ispiration - sadly it didn't live up to my expectations.
Although the text would be helpful to newcomers who wish to delve into vintage, the range of pictures are somewhat dissapointing. The book only uses pictures from 5 different houses to demonstrate vintage style and therefore you feel like you are just getting more of the same - on many occassions the pictues show the same rooms but simply from different angles.
Grumbles aside, I did enjoy looking through this book - I just wished I'd taken it out of the library rather than buying it as it doesn't offer enough inspiration to encourage me to dip back into it.
Although the text would be helpful to newcomers who wish to delve into vintage, the range of pictures are somewhat dissapointing. The book only uses pictures from 5 different houses to demonstrate vintage style and therefore you feel like you are just getting more of the same - on many occassions the pictues show the same rooms but simply from different angles.
Grumbles aside, I did enjoy looking through this book - I just wished I'd taken it out of the library rather than buying it as it doesn't offer enough inspiration to encourage me to dip back into it.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
If you like to rummage through garage sales, flea markets, car booth sales and the like this book is for you. It will give you plenty of ideas of how to incorporate your finds into your interior style. Or, give you inspiration to GET an interior style. Whether your style is typically monochrome, colorful, country, 50s..beautiful pictures show you how your Ikea-sofa and that dresser from a yard sale may come together. Loved it!
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Pretty much as good as I hoped.
Plenty of nice ideas in this book though many of the pictures have been featured in recent home interiors magazines. Read more
Published 8 months ago by pantska
Nice coffee table book
I like books about interior design, architecture and gardens. I was slightly disappointed with this one, or maybe I just feel indifferent. Read more
Published 11 months ago by HelenaK
Modern Vintage Style
Not your usual interiors book, lots of ideas on every page, to suit most tastes too, classis, fun and whimsical. Great Book, lots of inspirational pictures to style your home by.
Published 12 months ago by oliver
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