The goal of this book is to inspire you to identify the things you love, and to give you a few tools and guiding principles to help you put those pieces together into beautiful spaces. Our projects have been influenced by two things: a passion for twentieth-century design, and the groundbreaking work of our favorite designers.

We aren't professionals we are self-taught, highly discerning design enthusiasts and collectors who have amassed, over the course of twenty years and six renovation and design projects, some hard-won wisdom. So much of the design jargon that gets thrown around in books and magazines and all over Instagram forces us to self-identify using terms like 'traditional,' 'modern,' 'eclectic,' or, our least favorite, 'transitional.'Īnd while we are all for a house with a clear design point of view that might hew to one tradition or another, and have utmost respect for rigorous modernists with nary a knickknack as well as die-hard maximalists who deftly mix ikat with toile, we find that both camps often forget the humans with all their moods, hopes, and dreams-who do the actual living in these spaces. Most of us get tripped up by the wrong labels and the wrong questions. Photograph by Francois Dischinger.) Book excerpt: 'Patina Modern' (Excerpted from Patina Modern by Chris Mitchell and Pilar Guzman (Artisan Books). Photograph by Adrian Gaut.) The primary bedroom.

Copyright © 2022) A Pink Floyd poster hangs above a fireplace. The cover of 'Patina Modern.' (Excerpted from Patina Modern by Chris Mitchell and Pilar Guzman (Artisan Books). Host Robin Young talks to Chris Mitchell and Pilar Guzman, the authors of a new design book ' Patina Modern,' about different ways to alter your space, including using items you've stashed away in the basement or attic, and simply re-arranging what you've already got. It's not the first time pandemics have affected home design - powder rooms were invented during the 1918 flu pandemic so people could wash their hands when they entered a house. There was a surge in retrofitting, re-designing spaces and making our homes into our cocoons from the outside world. After quarantining in them, working in them, and home-schooling in them, many people decided they needed changes. Much has changed since COVID-19 arrived in 2020, including how we use our homes.

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