Renowned interior designer Cathy Kincaid is known for her flawless sense of color and attention to detail for the warm, inviting, and gracious interiors that she creates. Kincaid s curator-like eye for collecting the perfect art and furnishings, her intricate layering of patterns, and the dressmaker details she applies to every room are hallmarks of her work. This design authority is also known for incorporating a subtle mix of styles effortlessly classic with contemporary, ornate with simple, refined with rustic. Presented are fifteen properties, ranging from luxurious high rises to rambling family houses in the country. The locations of the featured residences include Dallas, Texas; Old Lyme, Connecticut; and the South of France. Sprinkled throughout the book is advice on such topics as creating pleasing color palettes, layering patterns, attractive lighting and lampshades, and suggestions for how to edit one s home environment. Kincaid believes that good decoration is never stagnant. She cultivates relationships with everyone on a project from the architect to the lighting specialist, muralist, craftsman, landscape designer, and more.
Leading interior designer Cathy Kincaid apprenticed under two of the most legendary firms in Texas: Minton and Corley in Fort Worth and John Astin Perkins in Dallas before founding her own firm in 1977. Her work has been published in Southern Accents, House Beautiful, and Veranda. In 2016, D Magazine named her a top designer. Acclaimed interior designer Bunny Williams is the author of several books, including An Affair with a House. Her husband, John Rosselli, is a noted antiques dealer. His flagship showroom, which carries an ever-changing inventory of antiques and furnishings, is based in New York City. Chesie Breen is the principal of Chesie Breen and Company, a media and marketing consulting firm, and founding editor of Clover Magazine, She is also a contributing editor at House Beautiful.
Title: Well Adorned Home: Making Luxury Livable
Author: Chesie Breen,Cathy Kincaid
ISBN: 9780847863563
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Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
Publication Date: 2019-09-17
Number of Pages: 224
Weight: 1.6925 kg
Dallas-based designer Cathy Kincaid reveals her fresh approach to achieving classically refined yet contemporary design in The Well Adorned Home: Making Luxury Livable (Rizzoli, $50). Through carefully nuanced color palettes, intricate layering of patterns and attention to customized details, Kincaid's warm and gracious interiors unveil her signature style: comfortable yet sumptuous environments. Sprinkled throughout is the designer's advice on everything from lighting selections to effortlessly editing one's home. -ATLANTA HOMES & LIFESTYLES
In Cathy Kincaid's new book, The Well Adorned Home, the Dallas decorator weaves favorite projects with personal reflections and living-well insights. -FLOWER MAGAZINE
If you're looking for the perfect book to gift this holiday look no further than interior designer Cathy Kincaid's first title, The Well Adorned Home: Making Luxury Livable. I recently received my copy and can't stop pouring over the pages of gorgeous imagery-it's definitely placed Kincaid among my all-time favorites of American decorators working today. Published by Rizzoli with a forward penned by design icons Bunny Williams and John Rosselli the book was bound to be promising, but it more than exceed[ed] my expectations. Kincaid's work is traditional without being stuffy, warm and richly layered, and always full of great interest. Needless to say, if you like the timeless style I share on this blog, you're going to love this book. -KATIE CONSIDERS
