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The New Traditional: Reinvent-Balance-Define Your Home | 
 enlarge | Author: Darryl Carter
Publisher: Clarkson Potter
Category: Book
List Price: $45.00
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 35549
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.7
Dimensions (in): 10.2 x 10 x 0.8
ISBN: 0307408655
Dewey Decimal Number: 747.019
EAN: 9780307408655
ASIN: 0307408655
Publication Date: August 26, 2008
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Product Description
Darryl Carter is a leader in the design world, recognized for his restrained, distinguished, and livable environments. Known for seamlessly mixing the modern with the classical, Carter presents a comprehensive guide to creating a home that balances individual comfort with a timeless aesthetic.
Comfort is the essential element of a successful interior, but also the most elusive. Too often our design decisions are driven by others. In The New Traditional, Darryl Carter encourages you to be true to your own lifestyle. More than a stunning book, this is an accessible resource for making an elegant, inviting home, responsive to the people who live in it every day.
A fresh take on American design, Carter’s work has been lauded as the New Traditional for effortlessly blending classic and modern elements to create personal environments. Patinated furniture, subtle textiles and lighting, and chalky washes of color are among the details that transform a house into a home. Carter explains how you can translate these details into inspired and always calming surroundings. Ignore the obvious. Redefine a dining room so that it doubles as a library by lining the walls with bookshelves and using wing chairs in lieu of dining chairs. Stain wood floors white to create a greater sense of space. Build rooms around art. Carter shows that designing your home is a process to be enjoyed.
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 STILL A FAN December 22, 2008
AESTHETE (Los Angeles)
I have long admired Darryl Carter for his sophistication, sense of restraint and cool modern take on neoclassicism. That said, I found myself searching each photograph for something just a little more interesting -- just one object or piece of furniture that was a little less generic and basic. The best shot is on the cover, juxtaposing the solid honey brown footed pedestal table and the delicate painted regency klismos chair. A little bit more humor and interplay between shapes, forms, texture and color would go a long way toward activating these interiors and making them spring to life. As is, everything is just a fraction too still and plain. But I'm still a fan.
 Who Could Live This Way? October 21, 2008
Beth Wilkinson (Colorado, USA)
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
After seeing this book reviewed in several shelter magazines, I bought it. What a disappointment. No color, little furniture, it was just impossible to imagine anyone living like this. Who lives with a rock or a piece of wood as an accessory? If Darryl Carter is "revolutionary in the design world" and this book is "destined to be a classic" count me out. I returned the book, because it was such a waste of money.
What a Yawn! Minimalist Traditional! October 17, 2008
Maximum Toile (Los Angeles, CA)
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
Another waste of money, ughhhh. Apparently, the New Traditional means white, beige, taupe, beigey white, or taupey beige. Antiques are scattered very sparingly and is usually a large gilt or brown thingie against a field of white. Drapes are either brown or white (if you can find drapes) and I was actually thrilled to see a houseplant on p. 104. Furniture was mostly brown and there is even *decorative logwork.* If I were to rename Mr Carter's book, I would call it *The New Traditional: How to Live in a Ball of Beige. The only print I saw was mattress ticking & a super subtle, barely there off-white floral or something. A Shocking Disappointment.
 Buy this book September 9, 2008
Danya Speller (Scottsdale, Arizona)
8 out of 11 found this review helpful
Darryl Carter is a revolutionary in the design world. Creating classic, visualy engaging, and completely livable environments for his clients has transfered well to the book world. Easy and informative reading, stunning photography, and realistic living environments make this a book not about Darryl Carter (like many interior design books) but about well lived and well crafted interiors. This book is how it should be!
Destined to be a Classic September 4, 2008
Samara Lemke (Washington, DC)
5 out of 9 found this review helpful
I was delighted to see that Darryl Carter's book The New Traditional was identified as "destined to be a classic" in the current issue of Oprah's magazine O at Home - and in the company of books by such design luminaries as Parish-Hadley, Mark Hampton and Terence Conran.
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