Master midcentury modern design principles with this simple and snappy interior design handbook.
Do you love rich and vibrant timeless design? Are you on a budget and planning a new project based on this hot trend? Are you excited to find out how to create the look for your home, hotel or motel?
Ivy Ngeow has been in the practice of architecture and interior design for more than 26 years, starting her own firm in 2001. An award-winning author, she was architecture and interiors columnist for London's Wimbledon Time and Leisure magazine for 7 years. Apart from residential properties in New York and London, her experience includes "vacay homes" in the Hamptons, Caribbean resorts, Gleneagles Golf and Spa Resort, Claridges and boutique hotels in Havana and Penang, two UNESCO World Heritage sites.
Now Ivy is ready to share some of her best-kept interior design secrets with you. Influenced by iconic cultural references such as Queen's Gambit, Twin Peaks, Vegas and Hitchcock, Ivy will inspire you in your own project, large or small.
Midcentury Modern: 15 Interior Design Ideas is a concise style guide that will provide you with instant ideas and know-how to save you research, time and money and create rooms of maximum impact with minimum fuss.
Inside you'll find:
★ 15 easy-to-read, illustrated ideas, each from a Queen's Gambit scene to provide a pithy overview;
★ Brief history to explain the concept;
★ Recommendations to guide you on the design elements;
★ Color palettes, furniture, lighting, wall and floor finishes to help you style a room, new or old;
★ HOT TIP in every chapter to amp up any design and give it the professional touch;
BONUS: 3 classic celebratory cocktail recipes to thirst-quench like a Queen.
This lifestyle handbook will teach you how to interior design like the Queen's Gambit. Perfect for amateurs, designers, enthusiasts or modernistas.
◆ Start designing today. Get your copy now. ◆
Five Stars from Readers' Favorite:
"Midcentury-Modern: 15 Design Ideas as seen in The Queen's Gambit by Ivy Ngeow is a handy manual with 15 inspirational ideas that will inspire readers on a midcentury modern journey to creating looks from The Queen's Gambit. This style can best be described as maximalist style with minimalist design. Midcentury-Modern style is based on balance and this book is an excellent guide to all amateurs, designers, or enthusiasts to show them how the right lighting, color, finishes, and simple interesting furniture dominated the midcentury era and is being used now. The ideas shared are excellent and will help readers to decorate their rooms in a minimalist way yet achieve maximum impact.
Midcentury-Modern is a real treat for all designers, interior decorators, and lovers of art, and is made captivating with beautiful pictures that give life to Ivy Ngeow's words and tips. There are hot tips in every chapter that will help raise the bar when it comes to any design to make it look aesthetic and professional. The book is an eclectic mix of contemporary, vintage, and pop culture that makes it unconventional and innovative to own and experiment with ideas to make living spaces look avante-garde. There are great ideas when it comes to furniture, lighting, and color palettes. It will help readers come up with different ideas in designing any room. I would recommend this book as it is brimming with ideas that are useful when it comes to organizing spaces and gives a good vision to conceptualize new ideas in redecorating rooms."
- Mamta Madhavan,...