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Title: The New Traditional: Reinvent-Balance-Define Your Home
ISBN: 0307408655
Author:
Darryl Carter
Publicate Date: 2008-08-26
Publish: 2008-08-26
List Price: $45.00
Average Customer Rating: 3.5
Format: Hardcover
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Amazon Lowest New Price: $19.99
Amazon Lowest Used Price: $21.96
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1: Who Could Live This Way?
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.
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2: What a Yawn! Minimalist Traditional!
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.
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3: Buy this book
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!
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4: Destined to be a Classic
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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5: Daryl Carter May Be the Next Martha Stewart for Home Furnishings!
Daryl Carter has created a new genre and a signature style that is elegant, classical, and comfortable, where the new mixes with the old, and less is certainly more. His equal parts of restraint and creativity create an amazing combination. This book is like a slow, beautiful, casual walk through a well designed yet livable home. I wanted to stop, sit down and enjoy being in many of those rooms. Daryl Carter is already important as furniture designer, lighting designer, and interior designer and if this book is any indication likely the next Martha Stewart like figure for home furnishing.
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