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T H E V E N D O M E P R E S S F O R I M M E D I A T E R E L E A S E
Who are the 100 interior designers everybody needs to know? The designers who changed how we live and will never be
forgotten? A new book, Inspired Design: The 100 Most Important Interior Designers of the Past 100 Years (Vendome, October, $75), offers the whole story of interior decorating in one volume—all the greats and what can be learned from them.
Readers will recognize some of them including “The Big Six,” who would be on anybody’s list, like David Hicks. But many of them will be new such as of Bill Willis, the original master of Moroccan style, and Barbara D’Arcy, whose model rooms at Bloomingdale’s were must-sees for the jet set in the 1960s.
There are introductions to a long line of uniquely American decorators stretching from Francis Elkins to Tom Scheerer, but the selected 100 come from around the world—from France, Italy, Iran, and especially from England. Once the United Kingdom gave us the romance of John Fowler and Geoffrey Bennison, today it’s the energy of Kit Kemp and Veere Grenney.
The last 100 years have been a “Century of Women,” from Nancy McLelland to Bunny Williams. It was a century of designers who are one-offs and “Like No Other,” among them Joe D’Urso and
INSPIRED DESIGNTHE 100 MOST IMPORTANT INTER IOR DESIGNERS OF THE PAST 100 YEARS
BY JENNIFER BOLESA STEPHEN DRUCKER BOOK
John Dickinson. Too many were “Gone Too Soon,” lost to AIDS or other tragedies before their careers peaked, and are finally acknowledged here.
But the decorating world has never been more dynamic, and many of today’s biggest talents are just getting started: The youngest star on Inspired Design’s esteemed list, Jean-Louis Deniot, is only forty-three.
Edited by Stephen Drucker, former editor in chief of House Beautiful and Martha Stewart Living as well as editor of the New York Times Home and Styles sections, Inspired Design is written by Jennifer Boles, editor of The Peak of Chic blog. Boles is the discerning guide to this exhila-rating century of design, leading readers from penthouses to palazzos, and from Marrakech to Malibu, in search of the very best in inspired design. Any list of 100 interior designers is personal. Agree or disagree. Love it or challenge it. No doubt you have your own design heroes. But Inspired Design is the starting point for everybody who loves interior design—and the one book every design library must have.
ABOUT THE AUTHORJennifer Boles created one of the first design blogs, the award-winning The Peak of Chic in 2008. She has been profiled in the New York Times, Town & Country, Elle Décor, and The Wall Street Journal. She is a con-tributing editor to House Beautiful and Veranda, and she is the author of In with the Old: Classic Décor from A to Z (Potter Style, 2013).
Inspired Design: The 100 Most Important Interior Designers of the Past 100 Yearsby Jennifer Boles• Hardcover with acetate jacket,
edge stain• 350 color and black and white
illustrations• 400 pages, 9 ! " 12 in.• ISBN 978-0-86565-356-6• US $75 | CAN $94• Publication date:
October 2018
Contact: Meghan [email protected]
Please send tear sheets to: Meghan Phillips181 State StreetSuite 304 Portland, ME 04101 or [email protected]
Inspired Design is published in association with Kravet, Inc., on the occasion of Kravet’s 100th Anniversary
