Home Design Guide [antikvár]

FOREWORDIn the very early seventies, Libertys mounted the willfully incorrect launch of Rlngo (Starr) and Robin's furniture that was made from British steel. Barty Phillips' lovely and serious piece In the Observer\m\. cred In the all-too-prevalent hype. The morning after the party, at opening time, the late, stupendous Keith Showering (cashmere coat, velvet collar, giant cigar and all), bought a steel table and four chairs for his poolside and paid in cash. These were about the only items we sold and they are still stainless, I'm sure.Many books, programs and projects, but also twenty-five years on, Barty has written the Home Design Guide. Beautifully conceived, photographed and produced, the Home Design Guide holds its own on any coffee table. Much more Importantly, though (particularly if you're anything like me and always dragging a miscellany of collected Items from encampment to encampment), It Is a book to which you should pay heed. This is a practical almanac for enhancing your life at home: you can use It and retailers can certainly learn from it, too.l-Li UuRichard Stewart-Liberty0