Decorate Like a Decorator

All You Need to Know to Design Like a Pro

Dara Caponigro, Melinda Page

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Monacelli Press
09 April 2024

Architectural structure & design; Professional interior design; Interior design, decor & style guides

Decorate Like a Decorator highlights the decorating tricks that only experienced designers know how to pull off until now! Culled from FREDERIC magazines educational columns, this book shares with readers more than one hundred decorator pro moves: like how to use stripes on the bias, upholster doors, deploy curtain tiebacks, hang plates on the walls, and fabricate bespoke lampshades.

Divided into twenty-one chapters covering everything from pelmets and valances, trim, upholstery ideas, slipcovers, folding screens, and fabric-covered walls, to accent paints, bedspreads, decorative lampshades, scenic wallpaper, and more its a lavishly illustrated cheat sheet for what it takes to transform a room from standard to sensational.

Decorate Like a Decorator features rooms by some of the worlds most celebrated interior designers, among them Charlap Hyman & Herrero, Billy Cotton, Sara Ruffin Costello, Veere Grenney, Rita Konig, Redd Kaihoi, and Tom Scheerer, and best-known photographers, including François Halard, Stephen Kent Johnson, Francesco Langnese, and Simon Upton. This is the first book by FREDERIC magazine, a new and refreshing voice in design where beauty has no limits and quality has no compromise.

By: Dara Caponigro
With: Melinda Page
Imprint: Monacelli Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 298mm, Width: 235mm,
Weight: 1.900kg
ISBN: 9781580936309
ISBN 10: 158093630X
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 09 April 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dara Caponigro is the creative director of Schumacher and editor in chief of FREDERIC magazine. Previously, she was editor of Veranda, founding editor and style director of Domino, and design director at Elle Decor. She is the co-author of the New York Times bestseller Domino: The Book of Decorating, as well as the author of The Authentics and S Is for Style. Melinda Page is a writer based in Tokyo who covers design and travel. A former senior editor at Town & Country, she has also edited two books for Travel + Leisure and is the curator of the Bangkok Literature Festival.