John Fowler: Prince of Decorators
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| Rating | : | 4.50 (857 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 071122711X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-20 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
The author explores the influences that shaped Fowler's life and career. Fresh flowers and floral designs of all sorts, including topiaries, were one of the features that were used throughout Fowler's designs. A must for devotees of great decoration. He created designs that provided a feeling of comfort of security that have stood the test of time. The appendix has a list of his published projects. Following his retirement from the firm, he focused primarily on his work for the National Trust. It presents lots of material that has never been published before about his projects. This is the very first book devoted to Fowle
"John Fowler: Prince of Decorators" according to Anonymous. This book is informative, but many pictures are in black and white and fail to show detail. Fowler's forte was decorating on the cheap; a disciple of reclaim, repurpose, reuse. Good ideas for today.. "historical" according to Carlos Raffo. I found this book to be interesting from a historical point of view, more than as an "interior design" book.. Lovely book!! cozy english John Fowler has and will continue to inspire the way I decorate my homethis book is full of lovely illustrations and photos and a very interesting read
Today, a hundred years after his birth, his influence is almost as powerful as it was in the mid 20th century, when he was working on many of Britain's finest and most famous houses, including Uppark, Chequers and Buckingham Palace, as well as dozens of more modest projects. Even after the war, when he came to specialize in the decoration of architecturally important interiors, he continued to prefer 'humble elegance' and 'romantic disrepair' to pomposity.. In the 1930s and 1940s his style was a breath of fresh country air, sweeping away heavy velvets and damasks in favour of crisp cotton chintzes, replacing glossy mahogany with painted Regency furnishings, elaborate porcelain and glitzy ormolu with modest pottery and painted tin. Fowler's style has been so widely imitated that it is easy to forget what an innovator he was. The English country house style, which he developed with Sibyl Colefax and Nancy Lancaster, his partners in the firm of Colefax & Fowler, has proved a source of continuing inspiration to decorators and home-owners on both sides of the Atlantic and indeed across the world. John Fowler was an interior d
Martin Wood is a designer of textiles, interiors and gardens who also has a winning way with words.