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For well over twenty-five years, Metropolitan Home magazine has celebrated–and reported on its pages–creative homeowners, artists, decorators, architects, knowing that sensitive home design takes more than just a good eye. It also requires a good inner ear, tuned to the landscape and to the true voice of the house. Listening to the urban beat, for example, designer Carl D’Aquino ran movie theater carpet, dancing with pattern, up a five-story stair in a New York to… More >>
Metropolitan Home American Style
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#1 by Anonymous on May 3, 2010 - 5:50 am
In typical NY magazine fashion, this book by a small design magazine shows a narrow range of design approaches with an East Coast bias — or a bicoastal look, at best. I get the feeling that the editors never venture west of the Hudson, to use that cliche. I returned the book.
Rating: 2 / 5
#2 by Anonymous on May 3, 2010 - 6:45 am
A handsome book that is limited in scope. It’s much too marrow to be “American Style.”
Rating: 1 / 5
#3 by Anonymous on May 3, 2010 - 9:20 am
If you like the magazine Metropolitan Home, you will like this book. The styles are clean and contemporary without being wierd, and work well in all kinds of settings from traditional homes to student apartments to genuine metropolitan digs (which I do not own). Good pictures. Best part are a number of “decorator secret” type entries with very practical suggestions about how to get the effects — large or small — you want.
Rating: 5 / 5