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A Passion for Collecting: Decorating with Your Favorite Objects
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Price Last Updated : 6-25-2008
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Features
Paperback: 192 pages
Publisher: Bulfinch August 2, 2006
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0821257765
ISBN-13: 978-0821257760
Product Dimensions:
10.6 x 9 x 0.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
Book Description
Collecting is about passion, about tracking down the perfect object to enhance your lifeand then continuing the search for the next and better prize. We are born collectors. A PASSION FOR COLLECTING explores the adventure of the hunt, and looks at the ways in which collectibles as diverse as antique maps, ceramics, model cars, and ethnic art can be displayed to the best effect. The book covers a variety of approaches, offering guidance on whether to group favorite pieces or showcase them separately, on choosing background colors and creating interesting compositions. With beautiful photographs of interiors that make wonderful decorative use of collections, A PASSION FOR COLLECTING reveals the secrets for display that can make an incredible visual impact on the dcor of any collectors home.
About The Author
Caroline Clifton-Mogg is a writer and journalist who specializes in interior design, antiques, and gardens. She is the author of many books, including The Curtain Book, Decorating with Antiques, Textile Style, and Decorating with China and Glass, and writes regularly for a number of magazines and newspapers. She lives in London with her husband, her two daughters, and her cats.
Reader Reviews
This review is from: A Passion for Collecting: Decorating with Your Favorite Objects (Hardcover)
Perhaps I'm too much of an American, but the preponderance of human(?) skulls, animal skeletons, and taxidermied animals freaked me out. Still I have to give the author points for not just including the usual collected suspects. There are small knitted sweaters, used paint palettes, and brightly colored Tin Tin posters. Some of the interiors look quite ugly to me (turquoise paint with gilded trim), but entertaining nonetheless. I hated the organization of the book or rather the lack thereof. The same collections can appear in three different chapters. The repetition made me nuts. The redundancy really annoyed me.
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A Passion for Collecting: Decorating with Your Favorite Objects
by Caroline Clifton-Mogg and Simon Upton
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