(11)Marrying practical living with attractive home design ideas, Sir Terence Conran offers a big, beautiful compendium of expert solutions for today's house or apartment dweller. His vision is an all-new, commonsense approach to making the place you call home a place where you can feel both comfortable and in style. Includes complete instructions and practical information.
Just because your house or apartment is limited in scale, it does not have to be limited in style. Essential Small Spaces lays out a range of strategies for maximizing the comfort, usability, and visual appeal of every room of your home-no matter how restricted its square footage
(1)In Essential Storage, Terence Conran tackles a formidable problem: what to do with all your stuff. Starting with advice on reducing clutter-the first step toward creating a more orderly home-he then presents a variety of up-to-date solutions for displaying and storing your possessions in ways that ensure a functional, efficient living space.
(2)People say that the most successful homes are the most sustaining and invigorating to live in, or even just to visit. This is true of Barton Court, the house in Berkshire where Terence Conran has made his country home since 1977. It has been a family home, a center to his Habitat Design business, a factory and studio for producing commercial and domestic furniture, a laboratory for testing his recipes and writing cookery books and has a working fruit, vegetable and herb garden, supplying produce for his restaurants. Through the objects that Terence has collected, and the things he finds on his travels, we can learn, not only about the man behind a multi-million dollar empire, but the processes that stimulate his creativity and the sources of his inspiration.
In this part visual biography, part guided tour Terence Conran explains what he sees and what he should look for in good design and just what has inspired him through his varied career.
