Live Beautiful

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She then breaks down the details of the rooms--like layered textures and patterns, collected pieces, and customized vignettes--and offers helpful tips on how to bring these elevated elements into your own space. The candid snapshots speak not only to Calderone’s familiarity with many of the homeowners but also the lengths she’ll go to to get the shot. If you want to look at pictures of beautiful houses owned by rich designers, where all the rooms look like an art gallery and every house has a pool, you might enjoy this.

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But whether it's practical or it has any useful implications for the rest of us is a different matter altogether. There were very few rooms I enjoyed, and she was using the tastes of a variety of moderner stylists. And our Reedsy Learning courses are here to help any author through the learning curves in the publishing industry. The latter comes together like a symphony of oatmeal and putty colors—a property more Montauk moderne than beach house. As those people were mostly creative (which I'm not), it seemed to my untrained palette to be a lot of two or three decorstyles being repeated throughout the books.

Reedsy was founded in the summer of 2014 by Emmanuel Nataf, Ricardo Fayet, Vincent Durand and Matt Cobb. The title Live Beautiful is a little misleading in the sense that it suggests the book will introduce a collection of everyday homes in which all ordinary people can be inspired to “live beautifully” in. I'm sure the houses are as comfortable and practical as they are beautiful for them, because every detail has been fussed over. The EyeSwoon creator explores the spark of inspiration that incites a design journey, breaks down the details of the rooms, and offers helpful tips and advice on how to bring these elevated elements into your own space. Filled with gorgeous photography by Nicole Franzen, Live Beautiful is both a showpiece of exquisite design and a guide to creating a home that's thoughtfully put together.I think if you love this particular style, and you would like a coffee table book of homes in this style to flip through – this is your book. A book is a good way to do this without having to actually experience it, though of course they don't show you everything. Saying "Oliver holds hypnotic sway over you in a vividly sensorial, richly monochromatic, and tactile trance" doesn't tell me much about his decorating style.

We're changing the way books are published by giving authors and publishers access to talented professionals, powerful tools, and free educational content. From her headquarters in Brooklyn’s Cobble Hill neighborhood she cooks, hosts, and documents it all like a Martha Stewart for the Millennial-minded. In this book Athena Calderone taps into her network of interior decorators, designers, and tastemakers to reveal how carefully crafted interiors come together. With this in mind, the designs in Athena Calderone’s curation are fun to observe in the way one would admire a magazine or advertisement. Not only are her own spaces beyond divine, she found the same kind of magic in so many others' homes that we are lucky enough to peek into.My five star rating is perhaps a bit inflated, but I am assuming good in the overall message shared in Live Beautiful. I had hopes for this book as it was published fairly recently so the ideas should have somewhat of a contemporary feel--not in the style per se, but rather the overall effect of house locale, architecture and it's interior. The inspiring photography here is accompanied by extractable tips on ‘why the design works,’ the resources each home drew from, and teacherly insight to help you understand the principles at play. Overall, although the homes showcased will never be practical enough for the typical household, Live Beautiful is an undeniably stunning collection of creative interiors to take inspiration from in bits and pieces.