Charlotte Moss Decorates: The Art of Creating Elegant and Inspired Rooms

The interior designerâ€™s singular vision revealed through an extraordinary collection of her acclaimed rooms. With her inimitable flair for style, Charlotte Moss has led a celebrated career in the interior design world. Recently honored with Elle Decorâ€™s Vision Award, Mossâ€™s design philosophy of “couture living” describes her preference for gracefully curated spaces in which one is meant to live, enjoy, and entertain. Charlotte Moss Decorates affords the reader a glimpse into the methods be

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Beth Wilkinson "avid decorator" says:

June 25, 2011 at 10:54 am

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Not up to par, March 25, 2011

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I also eagerly anticipated Charlotte Moss’s new book, and was also disappointed. The collage pages just come off as messy, and although they might inspire Ms. Moss in the design process, they do nothing for me, and detract from the book. What a better use more pictures of the actual rooms would have been. The question and answer format is also not productive. I did like the one small “before” picture of the rooms. I have come to expect much more from this designer.

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Patricia says:

June 25, 2011 at 11:51 am

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Not What I Expected, March 25, 2011

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My book arrived yesterday and I eagerly opened the box. How very disappointed I am in this book. Charlotte Moss has decorated so many beautiful homes but this one is almost a text book. There are page after page of suggestions in question form and many collage type pages of objects. The cover is inviting but the content is not a wow factor. Maybe on a lazy summer day of lots of reading I might appreciate this book more. For now I wish I had just looked at it in a book store.

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L. M. Keefer says:

June 25, 2011 at 12:41 pm

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The Art of Inspired Rooms, March 29, 2011

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If you appreciate romantic, sensuous, colorful, textured, feminine, patinaed, dressmaker-detailed rooms with unusual accessories, you’ll enjoy this book. Sometimes you can’t always articulate your taste, but you recognize it when you see it. The living room on the cover of this book is one of those rooms for me. I could move in without changing a thing. I can imagine a heroine of one of Henry James’ books living in it. I’ve learned that if you see a room that is your ideal of beauty, and that you could move into without making changes, keep a picture of it and learn more about the designer or individual who created it.

The room on the cover of this book is my idea of perfection in a living room, and it was worth buying this book to see the close-up pictures of that room alone. It doesn’t look decorated to me; rather, it appears that these elements came together naturally from family heirlooms, favorite antique shops, art fairs, travels and an interesting life. The room is more than the sum of its elements, but you want to study the elements to see why they combine so artfully. And that’s why I enjoyed this book. Ms. Moss explains how the art and inspiration of creating a room unite for her.

She shares the storyboard collages of beautiful images which she used to design particular rooms. Looking at these images you see the mood or atmosphere she aspired to create. Then you see how these images took form in a room.

The book includes 11 rooms she designed along with the design “why not” maxims she employed for the featured room which make them so deeply original and intriguing. Some favorite maxims of hers I loved were why not:

* slipcover a bergere (chair) to reveal its beautiful frame rather than conceal it?
* use (ladies) fans as decorative objects?
* hang landscape paintings in a small room to trick the eye into seeing views beyond?
* enliven a color scheme with a brilliant accent, such as chartreuse, orchid or Granny Smith apple green?
* use little chairs to hold books & pictures–at least until visitors arrive?
* bring a planter indoors & change its contents seasonally–boxwood in winter, tulips in spring, daisies in summer and dahlias in autumn?

If you appreciate Ms. Moss’s romantic style, you’ll enjoy an intimate view of how she approaches decorating. Some of the rooms you may have seen before such as a blue showhouse bedroom with bed which floats in center of room (I appreciated seeing more close-ups of corners of this room), a bedroom with a blue and cream Polonnaise bed and a gray and red showhouse living room. The book may leave you wanting to see more of her rooms–I wished it were longer. If you want to learn how inspiration unfolds for a designer, this book is a lovely resource which provides those insights.

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