Kelly Hoppen's Essential Style Solutions for Every Home presents Kelly's tried-and-tested techniques for creating a beautiful, functional and relaxing home that suits your individual needs and reflects your personality.
Set in a vibrant culinary landscape, this book explores the art of creating exquisite dishes that blend tradition with modern techniques. It features a variety of recipes that highlight seasonal ingredients, emphasizing the importance of sustainability and local sourcing. With stunning photography and insightful tips, it serves as both a guide for home cooks and a source of inspiration for professional chefs. The author shares personal anecdotes and culinary wisdom, making it a delightful read for anyone passionate about food.
Inspirational room shots are combined with simple text explaining each room design together with specific advice on suitable lighting, fabrics and accessories to create a feeling of calm and balance. Drawing upon her fabulous portfolio of projects, Kelly begins by addressing the potential space of a room, and how other key aspects such as light, scale and mood, symmetry and balance all need consideration -and then offers her inspired design solutions
Kelly Hoppen Home is the ultimate decorating book, offering the chance to learn from the world-renowned designer's chic, modern design philosophy. From an idea's conception, through initial preparation and decision-making, to action planning and its eventual fruition, Kelly Hoppen shares insider secrets and reveals how to get the most from a living space. In Home, Kelly explores the entire process of creating a home that meets all your needs -one that is as functional and versatile as it is beautiful and nurturing. Kelly's skill in understanding how a home works and what gives it its individual look is illustrated by a portfolio of projects from the UK, USA, Israel and Switzerland. Beginning with her personal story of redesigning her own home, Kelly explains how to become your own interior designer. She divides the book into five parts, each focusing on a different element of interior design: the design process; design and decoration; furniture and furnishings; feeding the senses; and finishing with a room-by-room overview. Providing architectural plans and drawings alongside Vincent Knapp's stunning photographs, Hoppen's Home is a genuine treasure-trove of tips and techniques on how to become your own interior designer.
Kelly Hoppen's style has given rise to a thousand imitators and here she lays bare her golden rules of decorating. Looking at each room, she discusses the fundamental elements that need to be considered to create an outline design brief. Each chapter focuses on building the layers of decoration.
Texture in Design
Creative use of texture can add a whole new dimension to a room. Velvet, suede, plexiglass, and steel--all of these can be combines, juxtaposed, or used individually to stunning effect. In Touch is an invaluable sourcebook of ideas in which top interior designer Kelly Hoppen shows you how to introduce texture to your home and create interiors that exude comfort as well as style. From slub silks to men's suiting, she explores both traditional and innovative uses of texture. She shows you how to make simple yet dramitic combinations of materials such as an unexpected leather trim on a linen cushion, or a stone floor beneath a metal table. Texture is not limited to soft furnishings, but is explored through furniture, paint, wall and floor coverings. The book invites you to discover your own texture preferences and find inspiration from the world around you. An essential guide explains the use of texture boards while inspirational photographs of interiors designed by Kelly Hoppen provide a wealth of ideas that can be recreated in the home. A comprehensive directory looks at the range of materials available, including cost-effective alternatives for the more expensive products.
Global travel and collecting are now major forces in interior design, and "East Meets West" offers inspiration for comfortable, harmonious interiors where differences in the age and origin of objects are unimportant. Adventurers, collectors, designers, and home decorators will find this book the new word on easy, sophisticated interiors combining worldwide influences in an utterly personal style. 200 color photos.