title: Michael Taylor: Interior Design
author:  Stephen M. Salny 
description: More than just another pretty coffee table book, <em>Michael Taylor Interior Design</em> is an entertaining and enlightening text on one of Americas most important designers.<br /> - <strong><em>HGTV.com</em></strong><br /><br />[T]horoughly researched, well written, and beautifully illustrated.a valuable addition to the design literature.<br /> - <strong>Stanley Abercrombie, <em>Interior Design</em></strong><br /><br />[L]avishly illustrated, obsessively documentedgives the influential designer his due.<br /> - <strong>Steve Oney, <em>Los Angeles Magazine</em></strong><br /><br />[R]eveals clever twists on old-money, old-world interiors and a brawny rustic modernism that still resonates today.<br /> - <strong><em>Los Angeles Times</em></strong><br /><br />[A] beautiful survey of his work and its influence on interior design today. A gorgeous book for coffee tables, it is also filled with ideas for your home.<br /> - <strong><em>Malibu Times</em></strong><br /><br />30 years after the late Michael Taylor invented this tone-on-tone "California style," the work in <em>Michael Taylor: Interior Design</em> by Stephen M. Salny still looks breathtakingly original.<br /> - <strong><em>O at Home</em></strong><br /><br />Why do these rooms still make us want to walk right in and sit right down? Stephen M. Salnys new book, <em>Michael Taylor: Interior Design</em> reminds us why.Taylors legacy lives onin the work of countless designers today.<br /> - <strong><em>Veranda</em></strong><br /><br />Most people will probably by the book just for the wonderful photographs of his work, but the text by Stephen Salny is rich.<br /> - <strong>Newell Turner, Style Director of House Beautiful</strong>
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  # [Copyright](part0002_split_000.html#toc-copyright)
  
  
  Copyright © 2017 by Virginia Hanlon Grohl
  
  
  All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in
  any form without written permission from the publisher, except by reviewers
  who may quote brief excerpts in connection with a review.
  
  
  ISBN: 978-1-58005-644-1
  
  
  ISBN: 978-1-58005-645-8 (e-book)
  
  
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data for this book is available.
  
  
  Published by SEAL PRESS,
  
  
  an imprint of Perseus Books, LLC,
  
  
  a subsidiary of Hachette Book Group, Inc.
  
  
  53 State Street, 9th floor, Boston, MA 02109
  
  
  sealpress.com
  
  
  Cover Design: Kerry Rubenstein
  
  
  Interior Design: Chrissy Kurpeski
  
  
  Typeset in Mercury Text
  
  
  Photograph [here](part0003.html#page-ii), Danny Clinch
  
  
  Photographs [here](part0004.html#page-vi) and
  [here](part0036_split_002.html#page-210), Ross Halfin
  
  
  Photographs [here](part0006_sp