Interior Visions: Great American Designers and the Showcase House

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INTERIOR VISIONS GREAT AMERICAN DESIGNERS AND THE SHOWCASE HOUSE Take a tour of the finest interior design in America. Interior Visions brings us the showcase houses - the places that permit designers to create rooms for themselves and where potential clients may witness the latest in interior design first-hand. Interior Visions is first and foremost a showcase of the work of this countrys master designers including Kalef Aleton and Craig Wright Mario Buatta Mary Dial Mark Hampton Motif Designs and Parish-Hadley. It is a book that provides rare glimpses of the best rooms in such legendary showplaces as the Kips Bay Boys Club Decorator Show House as well as in show houses in Boston Washington D.C. Dallas San Francisco and Beverly Hills. But this is also a treasure trove of decorating ideas for every room of the house. Lush photographs permit entrance to halls living rooms dining rooms master bedrooms and guest rooms nurseries kitchens work spaces porches and terraces. The wealth of styles covered is astounding and the imagination evident in every room will captivate anyone who has ever pondered the mysteries of how to make a room look beautiful and offer comfort. Chris Casson Madden gives insight into the many varying ways the designers approach a room and she shares details on sources for furniture fabrics and accessories. In addition she provides listings of showcase houses and designers addresses making Interior Visions a book to use as the raw material of design and of dreams.