Bunny Williams' Point of View: Three Decades of Decorating Elegant and Comfortable Houses
An Affair with a House continues to be a top seller for STC, with more than 45,000 copies in printShows readers how to realize their own taste and design preferences
You learn from people with great taste,” says Bunny Williams. She should know. As a novice, Williams worked for legendary decorators Sister Parish and Albert Hadley, absorbing everything she could of their peerless design sense. Striking out on her own, she rose to the top rank of the interior design profession, where she has stylishly remained for the last 30 years. Now, it’s our turn to learn from her.
Part memoir and part how-to manual, Bunny Williams’ Point of View showcases many of the drop-dead chic but always cozily comfortable residences whose interiors Williams has designed during her astounding career. As Williams tells it, every design decision she makes is based on a bedrock principle: “Knowing what you value is essential.” Her conviction that every person’s home should manifest their personality guides her as she creates environments that fit each client precisely, “like a couture suit.”
By showing you how to plan and then accomplish that plan for each room of your house, Williams inspires you to take account of your own values—and to realize your personal vision of how you want to live. As she says about the book: “My point of view will help you discover yours.”
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About the Author
BUNNY WILLIAMS, a world-renowned interior designer and garden expert with her own Manhattan-based company, is the author of Stewart, Tabori and Chang’s An Affair with a House. Her work is regularly featured in such publications as Architectural Digest, Elle Decor, House & Garden, the New York Times, and Town & Country. With her husband, antiques dealer John Roselli, she owns Treillage Ltd., a home and garden decor shop in New York City. They live in Manhattan and Connecticut.
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excellent
I've had to buy this book three times since my first two copies were taken away from me by friends. It has great pictures, great texts, and is full of inspiring ideas....the kind of book you go back to over and over again.
Not up to previous book
This is the second book by the author that I have read, and own. The previous book outlines her restoration of her residence and includes her decorating tips and outlines her prowess in this field. This book was more of a 'showcase' for certain projects, all of which did not provide the detail and description that was forthcoming in her previous book. While the photographs are beautiful of stunningly designed rooms, the lack of details made it somewhat boring and repetitive.
The Divine is in the Details
In viewing interior design books, I long ago made a concerted effort not to be intimidated by perceived grandness nor deceived by photo-enhanced perfection.
If one chooses to take from it, the genius of Ms. Williams is in the fine points. One need only to breakdown the rooms, the photos, and see the details: relationship of objects; color balance; vignettes; personal touches, etc. Whether it is a set table or the marriage of fine sculpture to simple souvenirs, the secret is in the tiny tales told.
For the discerning eye, for the discriminating, for the secure, and the critical reader, this is a feast for the eye and the mind.
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