Meditations on Design: Reinventing Your Home with Style and Simplicity

By John Wheatman

Book Overview

Home is a place to express yourself. Whether a five-story walk-up or a palatial penthouse, home should creatively reflect its owner, whatever the size, location, or budget. Renowned designer John Wheatman has worked with apartment dwellers, country homesteaders, and city sophisticates over the course of his extensive and award-winning career in interiors. Now, he's making the expertise usually reserved for clients available to all with his first book, Meditations on Design, a simple and sumptuous study that applies his distinctive design principles to every kind of interior. Every idea and suggestion is based on Wheatman's philosophy that while a living space should be functional and comfortable, it should also reflect the life within it and make that life more enriched and fulfilled. John Wheatman's trade secrets in Meditations on Design will enable readers to claim their living space, make it their own, and display the things they love so their home can say, "This is who I am." From "tablescapes"#8212the art of arranging collections#8212to "letting the outside in"--an approach to incorporating light and nature to any room--John Wheatman lends his artistic sensibility to home-making. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 157324192X
• ISBN13: 9781573241922
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Conari Press
• Length: 127 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Finally someone who speaks from the heart!

EXCELLENT! In just the forward the author speaks volumes... There are no "rules", come to a project with an open mind rather than a list of shoulds and should nots based in showroom philosophy....it is not necessary to cast off everything you own and buy everything new...if you worry about a nameless, faceless prospective buyer and resale then you cheat yourself out of the comfort of a home that meets your own needs now....a...

Superb!

I have a collection of books on interior design and this is one of my favorites because he covers the basics of what makes a room work for you. The simplicity of his presentation gave me volumes of ideas to work with, and I felt like I had some solid tools for creating my rooms into unique atmospheres that fed my soul. I used one of the tools right after reading the book and "edited" my master bedroom. It now has a much more...

A terrific addition to personal & professional collections.

Redo a home with added knowledge of modern design options and patterns with this book, which provides the interior designer author's basic design principles. From arranging collections and using light to maximum effectiveness to using and creating space, this is packed with practical applications.

A Book to Read and Reread

This book is a keeper. As soon as I finished it, I reread it. On the advice of a friend, some years ago I signed up for one of John Wheatman's University of California, Berkeley classes. Enthusiastic and gracious, Mr. Wheatman made decorating your home or apartment fun. And every time I move, I pull out my notes from his class and apply his principles to my new place. Those principles, 21 of which are explained...

Great stuff!

This is a beautiful book! The production quality is excellent and the content reflects the subject matter. The photographs alone are worth the price, but they are just icing on the cake. Well worth it!