Decorate Like a Decorator: All You Need to Know to Design like a Pro delivers on the promise of its title as it offers an impressive collection of photographs of interior spaces. Author Dara Caponigro, the editor-in-chief of Frederic magazine, has created a visual feast. Anyone looking to elevate their design acumen and shape their own incomparable custom spaces will find inspiration from these beautifully captured interiors, which display the talents of some of the world's leading professional decorators.
Caponigro draws on the expert work of Frederic's editorial team to assemble this breathtaking compendium. The result isn't so much a how-to or step-by-step instructional guide as a mind-opening wellspring of creativity and expression that will show readers what's possible.
Whether its photos are capturing slipcovers or folding screens, wall paint or picture rails, Decorate Like a Decorator leaves no element of a room overlooked. Caponigro even considers ceilings, a feature that likely goes unnoticed by most readers, declaring them an "oft-forgotten 'fifth wall' " and "an exciting opportunity to take a space to new heights." Readers whose homes are less lavish than some of the opulent mansions featured here will still find the book's principles translatable to their own abodes.
Decorate Like a Decorator belongs in any ambitious home decorator's library. Design afficionados will return to its wealth of ideas and informed insight again and again as they develop spaces that are both stylish and functional. --Elizabeth DeNoma, executive editor, DeNoma Literary Services, Seattle, Wash.