Title: Very unappealing
Review: In reading customer reviews after I bought this, I was intrigued with the review that referred to the book as showing "interior design as art." Aha! Now I know why I found this book so unappealing. The book doesn't seem to be about decorating real homes for real life and real comfort. The book comes off as one author's idea of how to impress other people. These "settings" (I can't honestly call them homes because they are so chilly and phony looking) may work as backdrops for a cocktail party, but I keep wondering as I look at these pictures where the people who have to live in them actually go when they want to relax after the party's over. A dreary and depressing book because the settings look like rooms from Yuppiedom of the 1980s. Ick.
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