Wonderful colors!
This is a beautiful book, full of vibrant colors and design ideas. I'm going to paint my house inside and out, and re-do my patio based on some of the gorgeous photos in here. If you love COLOR, this book is a treasure!
dreaming in COLOR
You will find yourself dreaming of new colors for your walls or of a new fountain for your patio.
I must mention all twenty-one chapters to explain how much this book covers:
1.) The Painted Wall; 2.) Tiles; 3.) La Cocina [The Kitchen]; 4.) Casa Quinta Quebrada; 5.) Textiles; 6.) Folk Art, Toys & Skeletons; 7.) Ceramics; 8.) Four Artists' Homes; 9.) Casa de la Torre; 10.) El Mercado [The Market]; 11.) Wood; 12.) Metal; 13.) Contemporary Architecture; 14.) Niches & Shelves; 15.) Charming Inns and Hotels; 16.) Two Bed-and-Breakfasts; 17.) A Renovated Hacienda; 18.) Patios & Fountains; 19.) Living Outdoors; 20.) A Tropical Folly; and 21.) La Costa [The Coast]
Each chapter is not much of a read, one page describing the subject; but I should say that Mexicolor is not a book that should be bought for reading. It is a book of VISUAL INSPIRATION.
The second chapter: TILES shows how these hand-painted beauties are used in fountains, in the framing of windows, on countertops (surrounding talavera sinks), and even on benches. After this chapter alone, I began dreaming of renovating my bathrooms... and one is now complete.
My one disappointment with Mexicolor: The Spirit of Mexican Design, is that the book is not well bound. It proudly sat on my coffee table for months until the pages were barely 'hanging on.' It now sits safely in a bookshelf for visual reference.
The photos make this worth the price.
This book will make you want to bring more color into your life... TO DREAM IN COLOR!
Inspirational
If you love the vibrancy of color and folkloric touches of decoration typically found in Mexico, this is the book. Combining photos and text, it walks you through a stunning array of ideas. Generically, these start out with chapters on painted walls, tiles, textiles, ceramics, wood, and metal. But it then builds by degrees into completed projects so that you can see all these elements blended together--from small niches and shelves, on to kitchens and patios with fountains, and finally on up to homes, hotels, and haciendas in their glorious whole. Collectibles abound: masks, skeletons, Talavera and Oaxacan pottery, paper mache art, baskets, copper cookware--you name it. The book is a visual feast, and what I loved about it is that if you are attracted to this style it gives you a starting point, large or small, that seems immediately attainable with reasonable cost and effort. I used many of their ideas in decorating my new home, and the warmth and earthiness of the results please me greatly. I would buy the book all over again, just to have the photos transport me to other places that I would also like to be. It really is a meal for the senses . . .
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