Sensual Home: Liberate Your Senses and Change Your Life

Description

Ilse Crawford's "Sensual Home" broke new ground when it was first published in 1997 and is still responsible for directing taste today with over 86,000 copies sold worldwide. Now back in print in a handy new format we can once again appreciate how groundbreaking Ilse's ideas still are. Beset by the rigours of modern life we need our homes to be havens of calm and tranquillity. "Sensual Home" offers guidance in achieving an atmosphere that is visually pleasing, sweet-smelling, airy and spacious, yet at the same time, warm and comforting, relaxing and energizing, whether alone or in company - in short, a place where we can really feel at home. Through concise, informative text and innovative photography, Ilse looks at Light, Space, Comfort & Texture, Harmony & Balance, Peace, Sustenance, Energy & Spirit and shows how you can plan, decorate and arrange your home to fulfil your needs.

Ilse Crawford has been at the forefront of new directions in design for over a decade, her company, Studioilse, stands for modern and emotional design. Crawford masterminded the interiors for Soho House, New York, the Electric Cinema, London, and the first of the new generation of country house hotels, Babington House, Somerset. Studioilse also design furniture that combines form with feeling. Crawford is head of the Man and Wellbeing department at the Design Academy, Eindhoven, in the Netherlands. Ilse's latest book, Home is where the Heart is?, was published by Quadrille in 2005.