Hand Made Modern: Mid-Century Inspired Projects for Your Home

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Regan Books, 2005. With 52 new ideas. Beautiful semi-soft pictorial cover design. Impressive heavy stock coated pages w/ inviting illustration and textures. Designer Oldham offers a cheerful array of projects to decorate your home w/o painful expense. Instead he uses practical and creative ways to make something special and unique from the mundane. Love the look of mid-century, modern, retro design, but don't feel like dropping two weeks' pay on an Eames chair? In Handmade Modern, Todd Oldham shares his passion for mid-century modern homes with over 52 do-it-yourself projects for anyone who loves crafts and longs to add character to every corner of his or her home. Todd Oldham has received accolades during an impressive career bringing couture fashion and elegant design to a more inclusive and broader audience, first in MTV's "House of Style", and today though his line of housewares and school supplies for Target, and his line of home furnishings for La-Z-Boy. In Handmade Modern he offers cutting-edge makeover plans for the office, kitchen, living room, bedroom, and closet, all designed to be both fresh and enormously practical. In this beautifully designed full-color book, Todd tackles each room in the house, starting with a beauty shot of each room, and then breaking the room down into its components, each one a do-it-yourself project. In the living room, for example, he takes you through projects with a difficulty range of 1 through 5. 213 pages.. First Edition. Soft cover. Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.