Design Secrets: Adding Character and Style to an Interior to Make it Your Own
£19.60£23.80 (-18%)
In Design Secrets, Kit Kemp plants that creative seed giving readers a new way of looking at interiors and the confidence to be bold in their designs.
Design Secrets is a unique, lively and informative masterclass which will become your touchstone for top tips, do’s and don’ts and creative projects to add a fresh and exciting feel to your living space. It even has its own colouring-in book to explore new colour ideas.
Discover how to create character in your home by making the most of the often forgotten details, from dado rails to the leading edge of a curtain. Learn about celebrating raw materials, creating a collection and even adding a touch of magic, as Kit shares creative ways to bring personalised details to make your home as individual as you are.
Kit reveals her ‘Dos and Don’ts’, including clever tips on how to hang art to tell a story and designing your own signature Kit Kemp headboard. This chapter is an invaluable glossary of creative ideas, with playful yet practical guides exploring topics from how to use colour in design, tips for lighting up a room, how to use found fabrics and more.
In ‘Meet the Maker’ readers can delve into the creative minds of some of Kit’s favourite artists and craftsmen, from the retired sailor turned woolworker, Colin Millington to renowned ceramicist Martha Freud, sustainable fashion designer Clio Peppiatt and figurative painter Joe Fan.
In the final chapter, Kit intends to awaken ‘the maker’ in every reader with a series of fun and creative projects to do at home, from embellishing a shell mirror to painting candlesticks and a step-by-step guide to appliqué a cushion.
There is even an opportunity to add your own personal flourish to the book itself in the one-of-a-kind hand illustrated colouring-in book, which invites readers to reimagine some of Kit Kemp’s most iconic interiors.
In Design Secrets, Kit Kemp welcomes you into her colourful world and reveals how to create interiors which capture the imagination.
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Additional information
| Publisher | Hardie Grant (UK), Hardback edition (20 May 2021) |
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| Language | English |
| Hardcover | 240 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1784884243 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1784884246 |
| Dimensions | 21.46 x 2.92 x 25.65 cm |
by H
Im a big fan of Kit’s previous books and am glad to add this one to the collection. The range of fabrics, materials and colours are fabulous and really give me the inspiration needed to get designing in my home. The text and images flow so well across the book making it perfect to dive in and read, or just to have a quick skim for inspiration when it’s sat on the coffee table!
by Anita Moir
I just expected this book to be the grander size of my other Kit Kemp books….now it looks sad next to the more classy coffee table size books of hers that I have 🙁
by mrs nash
Great book for design inspiration complimented with lots of gorgeous pictures-a feast for the eyes.
by Julie London
Not as technical as I’d have hoped/needed/was looking for.
by Mrs Gilly M Kemp
Lovely contents, as always – I’m a big fan of Kit Kemp’s interior style. But… what a cheap looking uninspiring cover. It looks like it’s from a secondhand bookshop. So odd from someone who is so visually innovative and original! (Have a word with your publisher!)
by Jacqueline Isaacs
Such an inspirational book full of very clever creative ideas and wonderful photos
by CRITIQUE
After the excitement and exuberance of KK’s previous 4 x titles this latest publication was disappointing and really doesn’t do the brand any justice at all.
Why, well Its not so much the content because after all much of what is illustrated has been gloriously illustrated in previous publications and on KK’s U tube vids.
The problem is the ‘mean’ format. The lack of glossy pages to illustrate a glossy and always exciting product. The small illustrations. It’s just not very KK. Not very KK at all.
I suppose it might have been decided to create the book in this format to mimic that of a working journal – a how to book. But that’s not what fans of KK want or expect. They want glamour, excitement, incredible creativity and escapism.
Ive still given the book 4/5. Not because I particularly like the it but because I admire what KK has achieved.
by Lucy
Excellent book full of beautiful pictures and interesting ideas. I love the colouring book at the back