Carpets for the home

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Carpets for the Home
Amicia de Moubray and Dávid Black
Informed, practical and beautifully illustrated, this book is both an essential survey of the exciting rangé of carpets to be found today and an inspiring visual feast of interiors showing how effective an impact carpets can make in the home.
This book offers a complete guide to the huge rangé of carpets available on the markét today. The aim is to help readers choose a carpet that works in the context of their homes. The authors, a top international interiors journalist and carpet dealer respectively, have combined over a hundred beautiful interiors with a practical and informative buyer's guide to the different types of carpets, selecting the best of both antique and modern, orientál and western pieces.
Imaginative ideas for display demonstrate how carpets can be used to create a wide variety of stunning effects, in settings such as rustic French farmhouses with cotton runners, Manhattan lofts with carpets used as wall... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Carpets for the Home
Amicia de Moubray and Dávid Black
Informed, practical and beautifully illustrated, this book is both an essential survey of the exciting rangé of carpets to be found today and an inspiring visual feast of interiors showing how effective an impact carpets can make in the home.
This book offers a complete guide to the huge rangé of carpets available on the markét today. The aim is to help readers choose a carpet that works in the context of their homes. The authors, a top international interiors journalist and carpet dealer respectively, have combined over a hundred beautiful interiors with a practical and informative buyer's guide to the different types of carpets, selecting the best of both antique and modern, orientál and western pieces.
Imaginative ideas for display demonstrate how carpets can be used to create a wide variety of stunning effects, in settings such as rustic French farmhouses with cotton runners, Manhattan lofts with carpets used as wall hangings, country houses with floral Savonnerie carpets and attractive staircases covered with Turkish kilims.
A concise buyer's guide to the huge rangé of carpets on the markét is packed full of illustrations and descriptions of the characteristics of the different types of carpets. This is particularly helpful in the complex area of orientál carpets. It includes tactical advice on buying carpets - the type of source from which to purchase a carpet, what sort of advice to ask and pitfalls to be aware of, and so on. The guide goes right up to the present day to include exciting contemporary designers such as Christopher Farr and Christine Vanderhurd, as well as modern orientál rug companies like Woven Legends.
Alsó included is a care and repair guide, a glossary of terms, an invaluable international source directory which recommends dealers, a list of public and priváté collections worldwide which have good carpets on view, further reading and an index. Vissza