More is More is More: Today's Maximalist Interiors

by Carl Dellatore, Dara Caponigro (Foreword)

A vibrant new collection of the best maximalist interiors from today’s top designers.

Rooms of jewellike color and glorious pattern. Enchanting lacquered ceilings and geometric floors. Brilliantly massed collections of furniture, objects, and art. Although maximalism has always had a place in interior design—practiced by noted decorators such as Dorothy Draper, Sister Parish, and Mario Buatta—today it is bigger than ever. Thanks to its contemporary practitioners, rooms rich with color, pattern, and everything else have exploded onto the design scene in recent years. More Is More Is More celebrates the best of this work with page after page of lushly photographed vivid inspiration and ideas.

Each of the five chapters in More Is More Is More begins with an essay on a theme—color, pattern, surfaces, elements, and layering—followed by dozens of showstopping rooms from acclaimed, award-winning designers, including Ken Fulk, Steven Gambrel, Kelly Behun, Mark D. Sikes, Pierce and Ward, Bunny Williams, Corey Damen Jenkins, and Redd Kaihoi. The images are enhanced by commentary from the designers describing their process for creating the room and offering insight on how to incorporate the ideas at home.

With a design as lavishly maximalist as its subject, More Is More Is More is a perfect gift for design fans.

Genres: Nonfiction, Design, Interior Design

240 pages, Hardcover

First published October 11, 2022

Reviews

[Lori · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is loaded with beautiful,creative photos of some amazing room decor. There were a few rooms where I could spend all my time within feeling snug,exilerated,content,happy! Pure pleasure.

[Clare · Rating 4 out of 5]

A visually sumptuous look at rooms decorated in maximalist styles, this book is a feast for the eyes. Maximalist style can encompass many different concepts including bold color, interesting patterns, or a mix of eclectic objects. The photos in the book draw the eye into each living space and sometimes a second or third look offers some element overlooked before.
Not every room was to my taste but was still interesting to view. I never understand why some people like to match the furniture fabric with the wallpaper, but it certainly gives an air of mystery to the room. (Can you find the sofa?) And some of the wall designs reminded me of a disorienting fun house room.
Other rooms were lavish in detail while still others provided a cozy atmosphere.
Each photo is accompanied by an explanation by the designer as to what they were trying to impart in their own homes or to achieve the feeling their clients wanted to convey.
This book was a treat.

[Leonard · Rating 4 out of 5]

The title of this book says it all "More is More is More; Today's Maximalist Interiors" is a large photo book with color interior photographs, and are they ever colorful, almost to the point of being overwhelming in a positive, and maybe ever therapeutic way. I loved looking at it and paged through it several times. Never mind the text. The images speak for themselves.

Lavish is one description. But even though I loved looking at them and appreciated all the colors, I would be unlikely to select them for my own home. Just too busy, plentiful, and dizzying; coming at you all the time. They are definitely not sparse, stark, or simple. Check it out and see what you think. Is this the style now? I don't know enough about housing decoration and interiors to answer that question, but I've had my dose for now.

[Lori · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm kind of in an odd place because I practice lifestyle minimalism yet really don't care for minimalist design. I actually found a few of the rooms in here fairly close to my aesthetic of "limited number of things but those things must be interesting."

But while most of the rooms in here were fun to look at, actually living in them would drive me nuts. Some of these crazy MFs even put patterns on the ceiling and then throw in rugs and upholstery with completely different patterns, plus tons of art and knickknacks and the effect is downright hysterical. And so many lacquered walls - I like color too but that just looks weird.

These are all from rich people's homes. For normal people maximalism, I recommend reddit.com/r/maximalism.

[Karen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Don't know what I was thinking checking out this interior design book on "maximalist" interiors since I'm a minimalist all the way but this book has beautiful pictures, an impressive book cover with a real different feel to it and many ideas of putting different colors, patterns and surfaces together you wouldn't think would work but they do. One kitchen has a tiled blue ceiling that is stunning. But alas...it's too much for me.

[Kerri · Rating 5 out of 5]

Gorgeous. While there's a few rooms that I don't vibe with, many more are (my kind of) perfection. Appreciate the categories and descriptions, that they exist and have some (minor) value as content but also that they are brief.

[Al · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[SassieMolassie · Rating 5 out of 5]

So much color! So eclectic! I loved a peak into other people’s design choices. I loved this book!

[Liz · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is highly nutritious eye-candy. More is definitely more.

[Hillary · Rating 5 out of 5]

So many beautiful photos! I loved learned about the 5 building blocks to make a maximalist room. The pattern chapter was my favorite!

[Carril Karr · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lovely photos.

[Fiore · Rating 4 out of 5]

A riot of colors, patterns, and objects. Even if many did not appeal to me, these interiors (often verging on the edge of gaudy) were fun to look at.