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Sensual Home (Hardcover)

by Ilse Crawford (Author), Martyn Thompson (Illustrator)
3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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  • Hardcover: 144 pages
  • Publisher: Quadrille Publishing Ltd (7 Nov 1997)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1899988173
  • ISBN-13: 978-1899988174
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 434,262 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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As befits the title Sensual Home, this comes with a sensual suede-like cover, with an atmospheric cut-out card featuring a cat peering through a muslin window. Subtitled "liberate your senses and change your life", this is an interiors book with a difference. Reading the list of contents, such as hearing, touch, sixth sense, sight, taste, you could mistake this for a guide to holistic health.

Interiors guru Ilse Crawford is known for launching Elle Deco, the first contemporary interiors magazine, and then moving onto masterminding designer Donna Karan's home furnishings. Writing more like a wise friend, than a design snob, Ilse Crawford presents an approach to the home that transcends the look. This is not a how-to manual, but an invitation to consciously enjoy every aspect of the home, from bed linen to crockery, from food to flowers.

Absolutely every photograph by Martyn Thompson is a gem, from the child drawing on a giant black board, to the shaggy dog (captioned "we are all animals underneath"). Ilse Crawford's trademark contemporary style, with natural colours, comfy minimal furniture and the simplest of details such as log fires and candles becomes a vision available to us all. What's more, the clever database at the end contains a plethora of practical tips and information that will defy any cynic. --Lorna V --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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This literally stokeable, touchy-feely book offers a feast of
inspiration for all the senses.
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars a book that prompts your sense of style, not spoon feeding, 25 April 2000
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Beautiful book that helps you generate your own ideas of how you could decorate your own home, to make it your own. We have just bought a flat, and after reading this book, together, over a cup of coffee, we have so many ideas of what we would / would not do. It doesn't give you ready made style, pre-packaged, for you to copy. Rather, it serves as a reminder of the important things often overlooked in today's hectic lifestyle. I would have given it 5 stars, if not for some sections such as Space/Organizing is too short (we really need help there having just bought a flat that has no built in cupboard/wardrobe), and we would really like more pictures, ideas generators. There is a list of shops where you can find things in the back, which is great since we really don't have time to shop around. (Please promise that you will be objective, and please don't take commission for listing these places. We trust you! ) Thanks, Ilse, we can't wait to see your next book!
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6 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars The senseless home, 7 Mar 2005
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This review is from: The Sensual Home: Liberate Your Senses and Change Your Life (Turtleback)
I foolishly bought this book in the mistaken hope that as an ex-editor of Elle Decoration Ilse Crawford might profer some useful and practical advice on interior design. Instead it is full of platitudes, banaal pieces of amateur philosophy and flimsy attempts at 'lifestyle training'.

Amongst the more profound insights which appear in the book are the revelation that a bath is a place in which to "become aware of our bodies and enjoy their sensations" whereas "if you are in a hurry, take a shower". I had never thought to "choose a towel that is absorbent" but was pleased to have read this tip as I soon learned that "a fast way of cooling down is to splash your face with cold water".

What good fortune to have an expert like Ms Crawford to advise that "if the atmosphere in your home is too wet or too dry, you can redress the problem by using a humidifier or dehumidifier" - brilliant.

As I should have realised, this book is a triumph of form over substance, although come to think of it the volume doesn't even look that good. The price tag - barely more than a single copy of Elle Decoration - does not represent good value.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderfully inspiring book!!, 11 Aug 2001
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This review is from: Sensual Home (Paperback)
This book is really inspiring and a delight to read again and again.
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