The House Book

by Terence Conran

Book Overview

A profusely illustrated guide to every aspect of decorating provides ideas and techniques for increasing the beauty and comfort of homes of all styles and sizes This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0517526271
• ISBN13: 9780517526279
• Release Date: January 1976
• Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The original Ikea

Although this book was published in the 1970s, the concepts of combining various textures, colors, materials, and their placement in each space of your home are timeless. The photography is amusingly dated, though. Even so, the staged designs on each page are delicious to flip through - it look very much like an Ikea catalog... but from the 1970s!

Native funk and flash

One of my favorite interior books. Very appealing '60s and '70s interiors that seem to belong to interesting people. This book has an authenticity and appeal that you will not find in other interior books of the period, which often lean too far in the direction of bland professionalism or tacky manufacturer promotions. Also a glimpse of European family life and mores. Veterans of 1970s Northern California will recognize certain tropes, such as diagonal wood siding, rainbow murals, and children with Free to Be You and Me records.