Private View

by Elspeth Thompson

Tricia Guild's status as a designer is legendary. Her company, Degigner's Guild sells her collections of fabrics, paints, wallpaper, and home furnishings all over the world. Here, in this truly personal book, Tricia reveals the many sources of her inspiration and gives insight to the way she works. Her passions are many and art and music; architecture and design; theater and opera; novels and poetry; food; flowers and gardening; the broad sweep of landscape and miraculous minutiae of nature; texture and form; light and shadow; and above all, color. This wonderful and eclectic mix of inspirations from all walks of life, and all corners of the globe is presented as a collection of photographs and text grouped together of juxtaposed, to form a dazzling, thought-provoking cornucopia of visual and literary delights.

192 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 2004