MBR: The Interior Design Shelf

The Interior Design Shelf

Altar Your Space
Jagatjoti S. Khalsa
Mandala Publishing
c/o Palace Press International
180 Varick Street, 10th floor, New York, NY 10014
9781601090089, $29.95 www (dot) palacepress (dot) com

The purpose of interior design is to ensure that the residents of a
dwelling, be it a home, an office, or an apartment, live and work in
as amenable, pleasant, personalized, and positive environment as
possible. As a respite or sanctuary from the stresses and demands of
the world at large, personal living spaces should be as good for the
soul and spirit as they are for the body. Jagatjoti Singh Khalsa
founded the Tara Home in Venice, California, for the purpose of
specializing in sacred home furnishings and antiquities drawn from or
inspired by the world's most spiritually rich locations. The result is
"Altar Your Space: A Guide to The Restorative Home", a unique interior
design guide focusing on the decor of a living space in meeting the
personal and spiritual needs of its residents. Beautifully illustrated
throughout, enhanced with informed and informative essays, and replete
with real-life examples, "Altar Your Space" shows how to infuse a
sacred quality into a living space with simple furnishings ranging
from hand-cared wooden chairs, to stone statues, to silk pillows, to
translucent curtain, and thereby crafting a kind of sacred place where
form and function come together to create ideal metaphysically
supportive living conditions with respect to virtually every room in a
home. "Altar Your Space" is a very special and highly recommended
addition to personal, professional, and community library Interior
Design reference collections and supplemental reading lists.

Decor Enterprises' Designing With Fabrics And Color
Brenda Weiss
Xlibris Corporation
International Plaza II, Suite 340, Philadelphia, PA 19113
7935 N.W. 110th Drive, Parkland, FL 33076
9781425793685, $54.99 www (dot) xlibris (dot) com

The popularity of such television shows as Designed to Sell; Designing
on a Dime; and Devine Design, shows that the art of interior design
has truly come into its own for both professional designers and the do-
it-yourself enthusiast. A licensed Interior Designer in South Florid
(and the Principal of Weiss Design Group Inc., a company specializing
in residential, healthcare, hospitality, and commercial interior
design), Brenda Weiss draws upon her more than fifteen years of
experience and expertise to write and publish "Decor Enterprises'
Designing With Fabrics And Color", an interior design picture book
that provides a comprehensive introduction and reference to the basic
principles of design, fabric, paint selection, color theory, and
furniture style for virtually any room of a home or office. The core
of this simply outstanding instruction manual is a thoroughly 'user
friendly' five-step process of coordinating fabrics with paints in a
definable style. Showcasing more than three hundred fabric/paint
scheme illustrations, samples and examples, "Decor Enterprises'
Designing With Fabrics And Color" will enable the novice to produce
interior design elements that will achieve professional quality
results while accurately reflecting or representing their individual
tastes. An ideal addition to academic and community library Interior
Design reference collections, "Decor Enterprises' Designing With
Fabrics And Color" will also prove an invaluable reference for
seasoned professions, as well as an in-service training resource guide
for staff development purposes with respect to professional interior
design companies.

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