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Fashion Designers at Home
Thames & Hudson, $80
If you've ever wanted to see inside the home of your favourite designer, Fashion Designers at Home will have you shaking in your Christian Louboutin heels.
Louboutin is just one of 21 international designers who welcome author Marie Bariller inside their luxurious private spaces. Vanessa Bruno opens up her feminine Parisian apartment, the Dolce & Gabbana team showcase their slick house in the south of France, and New Yorker Betsey Johnson lets us into her pink abode (including pink shagpile rug). Complete with gorgeous photos of each designer's home, the book gives detailed accounts of their interior and sartorial style. A must-have.
House Proud
Bloomsbury Paperbacks, $37.99
Craft is cool don't you know? The movement for all things DIY is huge right now, and Danielle Proud's instructional handbook is full of crafty ideas that will help you personalise your home on the cheap. Ever wanted to know how to make your own yoga mat, broderie bedspread, plaited bath mat or Vogue placemats? Of course you have. Proud gives detailed, funny and - more importantly - simple instructions for how to make them all.
100 Dream Houses From Down Under
Images Publishing: $69.99
When it comes to design and architecture, there's no denying the Down Under vernacular is unique, as this book reveals. Editor Robyn Beaver has compiled a selection of 100 contemporary residences from Australia and New Zealand that reflect the originality and talent of our designers and architects.
From award-winning luxury residences to simple beach shacks, inner-city apartments, rural retreats and family homes, each is illustrated with beautiful photographs and an explanation of the design process behind each home. This is a book that is both informative and inspiring.
