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The Find: The Housing Works Book of Decorating with Thrift Shop Treasures, Flea Market Objects, and Vintage Details

Author: Stan Williams
Creator: Charles King
Publisher: Clarkson Potter
Category: Book

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

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Sales Rank: 45075

Media: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.3
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 8.6 x 0.9

ISBN: 0307406253
Dewey Decimal Number: 747
EAN: 9780307406255
ASIN: 0307406253

Publication Date: May 5, 2009
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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
Sometimes you’re looking for it, sometimes it just finds you

Treasures of home décor abound at flea markets, thrift shops, and garage sales. But how do you know a find when you find it?
In The Find, Stan Williams and some of today’s most clever style makers, including Simon Doonan, John Derian, and Real Simple’s Kristin van Ogtrop–all diehard devotees of New York City’s Housing Works–show not just what to look for, but also how to look at an object to identify a great piece. The trick is to see beyond nicks and wobbles, color and intended purpose and to focus on potential. For example, a vintage leather trunk encased in Lucite works as a stunning coffee table. Pages from old books wallpaper a foyer. A cushion fashioned from a baseball diamond’s home plate makes a garden chair comfortable.

The Find includes chapters on furniture, accessories, small spaces, and entertaining. From a suburban ranch to an East Village studio in New York, each abode illustrates unexpected ways that secondhand items can make statements (or space) throughout a home.

Elegantly photographed, filled with practical sidebars about refurbishing, styling, and treasure-hunting, and replete with the quirky sensibility that has made Housing Works one of the most popular destinations for great things, The Find is at once a handbook and inspiration for vintage decorating. Secondhand does not mean second rate when there’s always something special to be found.

Customer Reviews:
5 out of 5 stars

The Find: The Housing Works Book of Decorating with Thrift Shop Treasures, Flea Markets Objects, and Vintage Details September 17, 2009
KLP (Chicago, IL USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful

The saving on the purchase was phenomenal and the book is NEW.

Amazon is the only way to go when purchasing books.

3 out of 5 stars

Bottom line, this is a lovely book with a misleading title July 31, 2009
Debsieo
25 out of 27 found this review helpful

It is definitely an interesting read and it includes many beautiful and illustrative shots of the interiors discussed. My problem is with the title, which is extremely misleading. If you're planning to completely decorate a stately home using an unlimited budget, this is the book for you. If, however, you want to do what the title suggests - integrate vintage treasures from flea markets and thrift stores into a more interesting look for your home - this is the wrong place to look. There are certainly ideas that can be used as catalysts to introduce clever effects into the "normal" home, but many of the ideas rely on thousands of dollars for each of many pieces required to create the rooms shown, not to mention the storage facilities in which to store your accumulated purchases until you have everything you need to redo the room. This is not reality for most people. I was expecting a book that would give examples of ways to incorporate different types of vintage and antique pieces for an exciting, creative look.

4 out of 5 stars

Glorious Book July 31, 2009
Valento
7 out of 7 found this review helpful

The minute I opened it, The Find made me want to rush out and go antique shopping. Its photographs are clear and beautiful, and the author has design ideas that I have never seen elsewhere (using an old pie safe to store firewood, cobbling a fireplace out of oyster shells, for example). The author also provides invaluable advice about recognizing good-quality furniture and knowing which vintage items are best left in the store. Photographs from the homes of various designers and others with good taste are inspirational.

5 out of 5 stars

fantasically fab June 28, 2009
Tamara St Fleur (Brooklyn, ny)
8 out of 12 found this review helpful

Greatbook. Great read, fun explainations and great detailed advice. Practical solutions and fun references to stores you can actually visit to get started.

5 out of 5 stars

A beautiful, inspirational book - truly a "find" May 12, 2009
R. Greenspan (Overland Park, KS United States)
34 out of 35 found this review helpful

I just received my copy of "the find", and am totally amazed. Mr. Williams sure has a way of making thrift shop items look like a million bucks. I usually am more interested in the photos than text, but the author has a very interesting way of telling the story, way beyond the usual stodgy decorating books. And speaking of photos, the homes here are so beautifully pictured, I'd just love to live in one.

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