Celebrity Bedroom Retreats: Professional Designer Secrets from 40 Star Bedrooms

By Joanna Lee Doster

Book Overview

"Celebrity Bedroom Retreats" showcases a variety of bedroom styles, from simple meditative Zen spaces to garden-inspired chinoiseries styles. Author Joanna Lee Doster helps readers re-create the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1564969215
• ISBN13: 9781564969217
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Rockport Pub
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.5" x 0.8" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Finally, a decorating book that does reveal

the kind of things designers never tell you. This is more than just a beautiful book showing beautiful bedrooms that belong to the beautiful people, it really does show all the little tricks that make the rooms click. The best parts are the "make the look" boxes and the fact that every significant item in the rooms is identified by either the maker or the seller, which is referenced in a section in the back. The fun parts are the celebrities - maybe it's not surprise that Wesley Snipes has giant-sized mirrors all over his bedroom, but who would think that Joan Rivers would have such elegant taste? For the record I liked her bedroom suite the best. Now those freestanding fireplaces they have at Home Depot are calling my name.

Bedroom lovers delight

If you love bedrooms, you'll love this book which gives you a glimpse into the sanctuaries of 40 celebrities. Each profile is an average 3 page spread which shows one photo with a brief introduction and then has a page on the "design details" (palette, bed and bedding and furnishings) and a concluding page on "What Makes The Look". The author seems to have chosen her subjects carefully, as a wide array of styles are represented here - from the opulent, Renaissance inspired rooms of the Versaces to the cold, spare, ultra modern rooms of Derrick Colman and Marshall Coburn. Other styles include the Southwestern motif (Stanley Weston), Moroccan (Tyra Banks), and Oriental (Mary Tyler Moore). Some rooms show how carefully selected colors can evoke a calming mood (like in Deborah Norville, Joan Rivers and Paula Abdul's bedrooms). And some may just make you want to go "UGH" (sorry Mary Higgins Clark and Blaine Trump). Other celebrities included are Cher, Princess Diana, Patti Labelle, Ali MacGraw, Natalie Cole, Angel Sanchez, Lillian Vernon, Junior Johnson, Wesley Snipes, Mickey Rourke, Renzo Rosso, Peter Vitale, Charles Shaunghnessy and more.