Books

REVIEWED BY KATHY BRYANT

Vicente Wolf Creative Interior Solutions

Text by Vicente Wolf and Margaret Russell

Foreword by Marianne Williamson

“Throughout my career I have never taken lightly the responsibility to help clients transform an apartment or a house into a well-designed home — a place where they will not only live but also entertain family and friends and perhaps raise their children. More than four walls and furniture, a home is the very foundation of their lives,” says Vicente Wolf, author and top international interior designer for over forty years.

In this book, Vicente Wolf shares the expertise he has honed over decades in the design business. His work is characterized by a passion for integrity and simplicity; a sophisticated sense of space, color and ease; masterful handling of furniture, fabrics and art; and the use of rare antiques and unique handcrafted pieces, often acquired on globe-trotting adventures.

This monograph has wonderful pictures of rooms that Wolf has created throughout his career, but, more importantly, he gives lessons on how to make a house more livable through creative ideas.

Here Wolf’s knowledge is distilled into wide-ranging and easily applicable recommendations. Organized topically and illustrated with Wolf’s own photographs, the design principles are both absorbing and practical. There are suggestions on how to overcome space and budget limitations and how to work with art and collections to make new spaces. The book also includes an in-depth look at Wolf’s own loft in New York City and how he designs for himself.

Vicente Wolf

Creative Interior Solutions

Text by Vicente Wolf and Margaret Russell

Foreword by Marianne Williamson

256 pages

Hardcover 10-1/2 x 10-1/2 inches

$50 US

ISBN: 978-0-8478-7296-1

Rizzoli New York

A Sense of Place: Design Inspired by Where You Live

Text by Caitlin Flemming and Julie Goebel

Photography by Stephanie Russo

“The idea of Sense of Place came out of our own renewed appreciation for where we live. While our first book, Travel Home, focused on how travel affects the work of interior designers, we now have a heightened interest in inspiration closer to home,” say Caitlin Flemming and Julie Goebel in the Introduction to their latest book A Sense of Place.

Inspired by staying home during the pandemic, the authors learned to explore how the world around us can inspire meaningful, personal and beautiful interiors. This mother and daughter duo explore what makes a house a home. The book shows how it’s important to understand how our surroundings impact our interiors. When a space has a strong sense of place it feels grounded and comfortable. And it looks as if it belongs in the area.

In A Sense of Place, Flemming and Goebel show the details of how top designers style their homes by drawing inspiration from place. Within the pages are a multitude of dwellings throughout the world. There’s the pastoral beauty of the English countryside, the streets of Mallorca and the warm desert palette of New Mexico and the sunny streets of Los Angeles.

With practical tips and essays the book illustrates natural harmony between more than 20 homes and their exterior surroundings featuring interiors by more than 20 different designers. The travel aspect the authors love is still in this book, but now it’s close to home.

A Sense of Place: Design Inspired by Where You Live

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Caitlin Flemming and Julie Goebel

Photography by Stephanie Russo

288 pages, 390 color photographs

Hardcover 8 1/2x 10 inches

$45 US

ISBN: 9781419764707

Abrams Books