The Well Adorned Home: Making Luxury Livable
Renowned interior designer Cathy Kincaid’s first book provides a fresh approach to combining classic and contemporary design with a refined sensibility. Known for her carefully nuanced color palettes and attention to detail, Cathy Kincaid creates warm and gracious interiors. Her worldly taste in collecting art and furnishings, her intricate layering of patterns, and the customized
Renowned interior designer Cathy Kincaid’s first book provides a fresh approach to combining classic and contemporary design with a refined sensibility.
Known for her carefully nuanced color palettes and attention to detail, Cathy Kincaid creates warm and gracious interiors. Her worldly taste in collecting art and furnishings, her intricate layering of patterns, and the customized details–from trelliswork to lacquered surfaces–she applies to every room are hallmarks of her style. Presented are varied residences, ranging from a ship captain’s cottage and a 1920s Spanish Colonial to a bucolic farmhouse and a family house in the country, in such locations as Dallas, Connecticut, and the South of France.
Sprinkled throughout is Kincaid’s advice on such topics as selecting the right lighting, whether it be sconces or lamps; ways to showcase blue-and-white porcelain; and suggestions for how to edit one’s home. She has been long involved in historic preservation, working on many landmarked dwellings. Learn from this design expert how to achieve a comfortable yet sumptuous home environment.
Beautifully layered interiors I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book and viewing the exquisite photos. Each home is beautifully detailed, with many layers â wall coverings, fabric, lamps, art, and objects â all adding up to warm and welcoming interiors. There are 11 homes, each featured in its own chapter, including the designers own home. There is plenty of inspiration to draw from! The book concludes with a list of resources.My only (minor) complaint with the book is that some of the rooms described in the…
The best a design book can offer Well done. Beautiful layered design, Iâve been a fan of Cathy Kincaid for a long time, but thankfully, her book walks you through the houses featured so that you hear about the client, the design, the entire process, including sources. After reading this book, I feel as if I spent a week or two attending a master class in design.
Beautiful book, full of inspiration Fantastic book that is a feast for the eyes. Particularly if you love blue and white, which is present throughout. This book is right up there with my favorites. Love it!