Nina Campbell S Decorating Secrets

Interior decoration has never been more popular, yet at the end of the day few people achieve the look they envision when they start a room. Now renowned English decorator Nina Campbell shares the secrets that have brought her world acclaim, offering a step-by-step design strategy that will help turn your original ideas into a beautiful reality. Nina Campbell's Decorating Secretsis a practical decorating guide based on Nina's unique "layering" approach of combining the different elements in any given room -- from furniture and lighting to pictures and flowers -- to create a unified scheme. The first section covers such basics as determining what you want out of a room, how to assess a particular space with an eye toward natural light and existing architectural details, and why rooms need focal points and how to create one. Next, she walks you through the main rooms of a home and addresses the key decorating decisions for each one, such as choosing the right colors and fabrics to create a certain mood, deciding what to put on the walls and floors, and how to properly position the furniture. This is the heart of the book and where her "layering" philosophy really takes effect. Finally, the last section examines the all-important finishing touches, such as display items and soft furnishings, that add a personal feel to any room. Lavishly illustrated with two hundred stunning full-color photographs and written in a lively anecdotal style,Nina Campbell's Decorating Secretsis an enjoyable and practical resource.

Put a new face on your living space with the help of this lively, anecdotal guide. Acclaimed decorator Nina Campbell shares the trade secrets that have brought her world renown and that can lend a professional touch to anyone's attempt to decorate an interior. 200+ full-color photos.

For comfortable and stylish interiors, look no further than Nina Campbell, the doyenne of English interior design today. Rooms with sophisticated color combinations, tailored upholstery, whimsical antiques, and unquestionable ease—motifs that are uniquely Campbell’s but that also echo her early influences working with legend John Fowler. Nina Campbell’s almost fifty-year career exemplifies the best of English interior design. Campbell imparts her design wisdom through a biography of her career and recent decorating projects, sharing tips and secrets of the trade. A selection of the designer’s own London residences outlines her experimentations and passions—from pared-back grandeur to bold plays of scale and modern use of texture and color. A survey of Nina’s high-profile commissions completed in the last five years demonstrates how she employs the key principles of her design aesthetic in a variety of contexts, from prestigious addresses in London and New York, a pied-à-terre in Rome, and a retreat in the English countryside to a historic German hotel, a viewing pavilion at the Ascot, and a Los Angeles bedroom suite. The running theme is how Campbell has takenthe tenets of classic English style and uses them to create a style germane to the twenty-first century. This book is for people who love English design, one of the most enduring decorating styles of the past fifty years—traditional interiors with vibrant colors, luxurious textiles, pared-down elegance, and, above all, true comfort. A necessary addition to design libraries on masters of the field.

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Top interior designer Nina Campbell breaks down the elements of style. Nina’s interiors are fashionable, yet they stand the test of time. They are invariably luxurious yet comfortable, practical but elegant, and her client list includes many of today’s most influential people and establishments. By identifying how you can work on each element, room by room (from kitchens and bathrooms to dining rooms and drawing rooms), and topic by topic (from lighting to window treatments), she shows you how to create similarly beautiful, stylish interiors in your own home. With today’s return to color and pattern in the home, this book also offers essential advice on choosing and using wallpapers, fabrics, and paint colors. And whether you are re-decorating your whole house, re-vamping a single room, or merely updating one element, such as soft furnishings, Nina offers expertise and inspiration that you won’t find anywhere else. Nina is also acknowledged as a leading London hostess and here she shares her secrets on decorating for successful entertaining, from laying the table to organizing the room. Nina Campbell Elements of Design is a masterclass on how to create the right mix of contemporary and traditional in your own home, for your family, and your lifestyle.

Nina Campbell is one of the world’s most respected and influential interior designers. Her current projects include a large residence on mainland China, a private house for a member of the Jordanian royal family in Amman, a town house in New York, and a country house hotel overlooking Cheltenham race course, and it is this broad range of commissions that makes Nina uniquely qualified to guide the home decorator. Nina Campbell Interiors focuses on introducing all-important detail into the home, whether in the form of texture, color, lighting, art, flowers, or other finishing touches. This book features the private homes of Nina’s clients, ranging from a city pied-a-terre to a large family home, from a chic apartment to a country bolt-hole, a vast home in Shanghai and a New York brownstone, all designed and decorated to suit a range of lifestyles, but all reflecting Nina’s infallible eye for detail.

Nina Campbell's interiors are luxurious yet comfortable, practical but elegant, and her clients include many of today's most influential individuals and organizations. In this fabulous book, Nina breaks down interior style into its component parts and spotlights each of them in turn. By identifying how you can work on each element, room by room (from Kitchens and bathrooms to dining rooms and drawing rooms) and topic by topic (from lighting to window treatments), she explains how you, too, can create the right mix of traditional and modern in your own home, to suit your family and your lifestyle. - Essential advice on choosing and using wallpapers, fabrics, and paint colors. - House and Garden wrote: "There's no finer ambassador of contemporary British style than Nina Campbell. Put together and what have you got? "Class plus dash." - Inspirational photography by Tim Beddow

A guided tour through ten homes designed by Nina Campbell. The emphasis is on the English country house style with simple tips and basic prinicples tp help those wishing to create their own living environment.