Description
In the work of interior designer Suzanne Tucker, art and artifact collections are displayed to best advantage for daily enjoyment by their owners, custom-mixed wall colors are set off by richly sensual textiles and forms, and inherited pieces are blended with newly found treasures to bestow a subtle aura of age and permanence. She uses her extensive knowledge of antiques and the decorative arts to create finely detailed, inviting rooms that perfectly complement both their architectural setting and their owners’ personality. Always looking to the “bones” of a structure first, Tucker works from the outside in to ensure that a house remains true to the conventions of its style while its functions suit a contemporary lifestyle and sensibility. Superb interior architecture, delicate finishes, and fine furnishings are introduced and layered to form spaces that are balanced, fluid, and comfortable, whether in historically significant properties or modern wine country estates. She brings her perceptive ability to create truly unique, tailored spaces―amassed over years as the protégé of the legendary Michael Taylor as well as from her own extensive travels and twenty-three years as a principal of her firm―to each project. She maintains that even the most exquisite pieces of furniture and art can, and should, be arranged throughout a space in an accessible way to serve the needs of the people who inhabit it. This lavishly illustrated presentation showcases Tucker’s diverse and site-specific styles in twenty projects, ranging from formal Mediterranean-style villas to sophisticated city apartments and airy Napa Valley retreats to rustic mountainside houses. Personal, engaging commentary reveals her spirited nature, many sources of inspiration, creative process, and valuable tips that can be applied to interiors of any age, style, or mood.
“Suzanne Tucker has an incredible talent of producing some of the most elegant and luxurious interiors I have ever seen. She just “gets it” for me, everything works and comes together as it should in a classic and timeless design. She lives, breathes and sleeps classic interiors and makes a room look like it has been there forever in the way it all goes together and each item complimenting the next.
Starting with the “bones” of a structure and working from the outside in she achieves the best possible interiors that money can buy.
It is a lavish photographic presentation that show cases her amazing talent and range of projects she has undertaken, across the entire spectrum accompanied with riveting commentary, tips that can be applied to all interiors for any style or budget, the ideas and inspiration is all over her beautiful book. I keep referring back to this book and have o hide it from visitors to my home as when they see the cover they immediately want to borrow it, a great gem of a book to own.
Tip from me, go over every detail of the full page photographs with a strong magnifying glass and really get too see the detail the naked eye seems to skip over as there is SO much to absorb. And no you will not look like your grand parents trying to read the newspaper, it works for me! I would recommend this book to anybody who has a passion for beautiful classic interiors like I do, made my heart skip many a beat reading it. They are Rooms to Remember for a long, long time. Thank-you Suzanne for a remarkable book.”
– Amazon review
Condition: Great lightly used condition
Hardback
Publisher: The Monacelli Press
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