裝修必看 五本值得一讀的室內設計書
“An Invitation to Château du Grand-Lucé”
Take Timothy Corrigan up on his joyful invitation to visit the kind of superfancy chateau most of us will never stay in. The American designer acquired a storied French country estate in the Loire Valley and decorated it to the nines, leaving out only the snobbery. Let’s face it: these houses rarely have friendly, uncomplicated hosts, so one almost expects a certain prickly feeling when opening the book. Instead, it’s a lovely story by someone living and sharing his dream. Rizzoli, $65
接受蒂莫西·科里根(Timothy Corrigan)愉快的邀請，去參觀我們大部分人永遠也不可能居住的那種超級豪華的城堡。這位美國設計師在盧瓦爾河谷買了一個多層法國田莊，把它裝飾得十分完美，只是主人有點勢利。讓我面對現實吧：這些房子極少擁有友好、簡單的主人，所以打開這本書時人們幾乎在期待某種刺痛的感覺。但實際上，它是一個實現並與人分享自己夢想的人講述的可愛的故事。裏佐利出版社(Rizzoli)，65美元。“Axel Vervoordt: Living With Light”
《阿克塞爾·維伍德：生活在光明裏》(Axel Vervoordt: Living With Light)
The Belgian Vervoordt, who began as an antiques dealer and became a decorator (don’t call him that if you meet him), is an inventor of tastes. The eclecticism he pioneered has been so successful that one can sometimes forget who did it first, but without him the Restoration Hardware catalog would be pretty thin. Like many geniuses, as he gets older his eye gets younger, and his latest work, chronicled here, shows more of an interest in modernism than ever before. Flammarion, $75
維伍德是比利時人，他最初是古董交易商，後來成了室內裝潢師（你如果見到他不要這樣稱呼他）。他是品味的創造者。他開創的折中主義非常成功，人們有時甚至忘了誰是第一個這樣做的人，但是如果沒有他，復古傢俱店(Hardware catalog)的產品目錄將會很薄。和很多天才一樣，他年紀越長，眼光越年輕，本書記錄的他的最新作品比以往表現出更多對現代主義的興趣。弗拉馬裏翁出版社(Flammarion)，75美元。“François Halard”
《弗朗索瓦·阿拉爾》(François Halard)François Halard may not be a decorator, but the 53-year-old photographer has spent a lifetime capturing some of the best-decorated interiors in the world. Halard has seen it all, and he has a better eye than most designers. His photographs — of spaces that range from Chatsworth to a shack on Richard Avedon’s property in Montauk, N.Y. — show not only how a room looks, but how it feels. Images will always be Halard’s first language, but his text is also intimate and poetic, like entries in a diary. Rizzoli, $75
弗朗索瓦·阿拉爾可能不是室內裝潢師，但是這位53歲的攝影師一生都在探索世界上最好的室內裝潢。阿拉爾見多識廣，比大部分設計師的眼光還要好。他的照片——從查特斯沃思莊園到理查德·艾維頓(Richard Avedon)在紐約蒙托克的一間小屋——不僅展示一個房間的樣子，而且展示它給人的感覺。圖片將永遠是阿拉爾的第一語言，但是他的文字也親切而有詩意，像日記的條目。裏佐利出版社，65美元。“Mario Buatta: Fifty Years of American Interior Decoration”
《馬里奧·布阿塔：美國室內裝潢50年》(Mario Buatta: Fifty Years of American Interior Decoration)The 78-year-old self-titled “Prince of Chintz” has finally published a book, and the results are worth the wait. Between the covers, which are fittingly marbled with leather corners, is a world that celebrates color, Anglophilia and Buatta’s reverence for the work of John Fowler and Parish-Hadley. Even if you don’t want to live this way, it’s a pleasure to be reminded that Buatta’s brand of English Country House style still exists. Rizzoli, $75
這位78歲的自稱“印花棉布王子”(Prince of Chintz)的人終於出書了，這本書值得等待。封面和封底的角合適地用皮料裝飾。書中讚美了色彩、英國崇拜以及布阿塔對約翰·福勒(John Fowler)和帕裏什-哈德利(Parish-Hadley)作品的崇敬。即使你不想過這種生活，想起布阿塔的英國鄉村住宅風格依然存在也是件愉快的事。裏佐利出版社，75美元。“Stephen Sills: Decoration”
《斯蒂芬·西爾斯：裝潢》(Stephen Sills: Decoration)The decorators Stephen Sills and James Huniford first made a splash in the mid-1990s, when Karl Lagerfeld declared their country home “the chicest house in America.” Sills, who parted ways with Huniford a few years ago, is known for elegant juxtapositions — important antiques alongside exotic finds — and for lending spaces a sense of mystery through surprising manipulations of scale and color. The style has aged well; a strange beauty pervades these rooms. It’s chic as anything, but where are all the lamps? And don’t any of his clients have children? Rizzoli, $65
室內裝潢師斯蒂芬·西爾斯和詹姆斯·胡尼福特(James Huniford)在20世紀90年代中期首次引起轟動，當時卡爾·拉格菲爾德稱他們的鄉間住宅是“美國最漂亮的房子”。西爾斯幾年前和胡尼福特分道揚鑣。他以優雅的並置——重要的古董和異國物件並置——以及通過對比例和色彩的意外處理給空間帶來神祕感而聞名。這種風格年月已久，一種奇怪的美感充滿這些房間。它是非常漂亮，但是怎麼一個檯燈也沒有？他的客戶們都沒有孩子嗎？裏佐利出版社，65美元。
