Interior Design Master Class: 100 Rooms: Lessons from the Finest Designers on the Art of Home

by Carl Dellatore

Everyone wants a stylish home, but with so much information available, how does one begin to put it all together? Enter Interior Design Master Class: 100 Rooms . The designers who’ve created the remarkable spaces in this volume individually explain in their own words the framework for the success of each room. The spaces featured in the book are broken down by type of room, including Gathering (media and family rooms), Transitional (porches and entryways), Respite (bedrooms and sitting rooms), Entertaining (dining rooms and bars), and Utility (kitchens, baths, and mudrooms). In each category, the multiple examples by designers well known from their appearances in Architectural Digest, Elle Decor, and Southern Living explore a variety of topics. Katie Ridder uses her vibrant living room to write about establishing a successful palette. Suzanne Kasler writes about the importance of light in bedrooms. Frances Merrill of Reath Design shares her thoughts about kitchens. Mark Sikes contributes an essay on tables. Steven Gambrel writes about the color blue. Josh Greene expounds on the bath. Also featuring Bunny Williams, Robert Couturier, Heidi Caillier, Miles Redd and David Kaihoi, Nicole Hollis, and Corey Damen Jenkins, the book is an elegant guide to twenty-first-century living, room by room.

Genres: Interior Design

320 pages, Hardcover

Published September 2, 2025

Reviews

[Bridgette Sariah · Rating 3 out of 5]

I feel perfectly average about this book. It has a well-intentioned idea behind it. What could be better than 100 mini master classes from industry professionals? But by giving only one page to each designer, they only have enough time to give a surface level brief on their topic. I get frustrated reading interior design books where the speaker tells me how important something is without getting into the specifics of ways to accomplish said-thing. The pictures sampled throughout the book are diverse and fun to look at. I enjoyed going through each page with my husband as we gave commentary about what we liked, or more often disliked because our taste is very specific and rarely aligns with rich modern trends. But I gave up on reading the text a third of the way through, as I hadn't learned anything helpful yet, and the book was formulaic enough to make me believe I wouldn't learn anything proceeding either.