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David Hicks: A Life of Design
	Author: Ashley Hicks Publisher: Rizzoli Category: Book List Price: ~~$65.00~~ Buy New: $40.92 as of 11/20/2009 21:38 EST details You Save: $24.08 (37%) Seller: allnewbooks Rating: 2 reviews Sales Rank: 8182 Media: Hardcover Pages: 304 Number Of Items: 1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.7 Dimensions (in): 12.2 x 9.6 x 1.4 ISBN: 0847833305 Dewey Decimal Number: 645 EAN: 9780847833306 ASIN: 0847833305 Publication Date: October 20, 2009 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days


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Editorial Reviews: Product Description David Hicks is acknowledged as one of the most important interior designers of the late twentieth century, in the company of Albert Hadley and Billy Baldwin. Known for his bold use of color, eclecticism, and geometric designs in carpets and textiles, Hicks turned English decorating on its head in the ’50s and ’60s. His trademark use of electrifying color combinations, and mixing antiques, modern furniture, and abstract paintings became the "in style" for the chic of the day, including Vidal Sassoon and Helena Rubinstein. By the ’70s, David Hicks was a brand; his company was making wallpaper, fabrics, and linens and had outposts in eight countries, including the U.S. where he worked with the young Mark Hampton, and where his wallpaper was used in the White House. "My greatest contribution as an interior designer has been to show people how to use bold color mixtures, how to use patterned carpets, how to light rooms, and how to mix old with new,’’ he stated in his 1968 work, David Hicks on Living—with Taste, the last authoritative book on his work. Written by his son Ashley Hicks, who has unprecedented access to Hicks’s archives, personal photos, journals, and scrapbooks, this is a vibrantly illustrated celebration of a half century of stunning interiors.

Customer Reviews: david hicks a life of design November 13, 2009 Jennifer J. Doyle many thanks to his wonderful son for writing this book. so much information. just about the best book in a long time biographical October 29, 2009 Carlos Raffo (Lima, Peru) 5 out of 5 found this review helpful This book is more about Hick's life than about his work or style. I am glad I bought it, but expected more: better glossier pictures, bigger pictures instead of so many small ones....I guess it's a book a son would write about the father he admires, but as a reader, I am not interested in his marriage, his private life, etc. For that I could buy a biography. I expected more about his work, better pictures, less about his life.

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