Friday, February 19, 2010

Kathryn Ireland, Michael Smith, and Kelly Wearstler: The Best of 21st Century Interior Design




Kathryn Ireland, who has offered design her worldly view on Interiors, continues to inspire with her latest book, Creating a Home. Her designs are comfortable, traditional and create a unique identity for each home she does. Creating a Home looks at specific projects from the exterior landscape down to the finest detail of a room. This book has wonderful images of homes and that offer inspiration on every page.

Michael Smith can no longer be associated with a new style or moment because since he has entered the design world, his designs have become the canon. His book Elements of Style explains this canon of design brilliance. He enters every spatial arena and turns it into a place of purpose and belonging. The greatest aspect of Smith homes is that he accentuates the best that each house can offer. When you walk into a Smith home, you think about how wonderful your world just became. “Balance” is Michael Smith. Balance in art, balance in antiques, balance in texture, color and balance in luxury. Smith’s designs push each space to the edge, its furthest point of perfection without being ostentatious. He is the interior designer of the White House, a designer who establishes the canon in each work he produces.

As Los Angeles based Interior Designer, Kelly Wearstler has made an international name for herself. Wearstler’s approaches interior design much like a painting yet incorporates form and texture in her designs with the same determination as a sculptor. Her most recent book Hue inspects her design intelligence with the importance of color and spark in the visual plane. This visual plane that Wearstler designs for is not a room but the flooring, walls, ceiling, windows, doors, entryways, and landscape at which the building is situated. A view into the thought process of this design diva is very well explored in Hue through Wearstler’s latest projects.

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