Hotel Chic at Home: Inspired Design Ideas from Glamorous Escapes

Including bedrooms baths outdoor spaces dining rooms dens and even children’s rooms and foyers from over 130 of the most charming and trendy boutique hotels across the globe (from India to Brazil Thailand Tuscany Hollywood and East Hampton)—Hotel Chic at Home is a dazzling encyclopedia of interior design ideas to make a functional everyday space into a dreamy escape.   What if ordinary life could feel more like vacation? Dinner might be outdoors for a view that you’ve journeyed hundreds of miles to see. A room might transport you to another more genteel era. A serene moment might be found anywhere from a swinging hammock to a luxurious bathroom oasis or an intimate corner with a velvet wing chair.   Travel and design blogger Sara Bliss shows readers how the experiences of adventure freedom sophistication and calm found in the world’s most unique hotels can be recreated on a personal scale almost anywhere. After all the most successful boutique hotels have gained their competitive edge by doing just the same—reflecting their rustic or exotic settings without resorting to “Disney-or-Dubai” clichés; enhancing dark spaces with bold pattern color and lighting; maximizing small spaces with smart furniture layout; and taking advantage of creative ideas from some of the best interior designers working today.   Bliss provides practical takeaways about how to extract one or two elements from each room with tips for any style and budget. A symmetrical arrangement of mirrors creates a show-stopping backdrop for a bed as at the Viceroy Santa Monica; an oversized striped carpet can draw the eye straight out to the view as at the Grace Bay Club in Turks and Caicos; classic subway tile becomes a graphic statement when arranged diagonally as at Hotel Bachaumont in Paris; and a simple pattern painted on standard-issue concrete floors can create a durable playful take on an outdoor rug as at The Sixty SoHo in New York City.   Interviews with eight of today’s top names in interior design including Michele Bonan Alessandra Branca Christiane Lemieux Joe Lucas Jason Nixon and John Loecke Mary McDonald John Robshaw and Tilton Fenwick reveal what they love about their favorite hotels around the globe—an added bonus to the pleasure of picking up Hotel Chic at Home: a celebration of travel of design and of the immense possibilities of creating something inspired by both but all your own.

Hardcover: 272 pages

Publisher: The Monacelli Press (November 8 2016)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1580934757

ISBN-13: 978-1580934756

Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 1 x 10.3 inches

Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds