A Frame for Life: The Designs of StudioIlse #styleguru

Do you know about style guru Ilse Crawford?
WSJ says ‘Crawford has built her career as an interior designer by championing life’s messy realities. Having made her name as the founding editor of Elle Decoration, the British magazine launched in 1989 that electrified the shelter category with images of real people reading the newspaper around soulfully modern kitchen tables, Crawford departed after almost a decade to launch Donna Karan Home in New York. Within two years she had returned to London, where she began consulting on design projects. Studioilse was born in 2001 and was soon engaged in creating high-profile interiors, including Babington House and the Electric Cinema, both part of the Soho House empire (Soho House New York followed in 2005). Public spaces have since become the firm’s signature and a proving ground for Crawford’s philosophy of design as “a frame for life.”

This is her new book  and in it she ‘ showcases her body of influential, holistic work for the first time, articulating her groundbreaking philosophies for design and living. Fascinated by what drives us and makes us feel alive, Crawford says: “When I look at making spaces, I don’t just look at the visual. I’m much more interested in the sensory thing, in thinking about it from the human context, the primal perspective, the thing that touches you.”
Featuring Studioilse’s work to date, from private residences to hotels, restaurants, and retail projects, this book illustrates the effectiveness of design grounded in human needs and desires. Layering materials and textures, combined with her understanding of human behavior, Crawford’s designs are sensual and accessible. A forerunner of the holistic design movement a decade ago, her humanistic approach has now become the norm.’ A very inspiring book !

A Frame for Life: The Designs of StudioIlse Hardcover
by Ilse Crawford (Author), Edwin Heathcote (Author)
Publisher : rizzoliusa.com October 21, 2014
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