Home in the Designer's Eyes A Chronicle of Personal Home Furnishing in the New Millennium

Author: Xu Cunlong
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Publish Date: 2001-08-01
Features: We have been successively releasing this series of books titled "Homes Through the Eyes of Designers." Our goal is to find some common principles of home decoration by drawing from the author's daily observations and discussions with home design professionals. Using the perspective of design experts and illustration methods, we explain the key points of home decor. We believe this series will offer some inspiration to a broad readership, especially to owners who are eager to decorate but unsure where to start.
Why do we invest time and money to beautify our homes and enhance our lives, yet still fail to find a sense of peace and relaxation? This is the essence of creating a home with heart and designing our own lives with intention. Designing with heart is actually very simple—it stems from your interests and hobbies, your pursuit of natural beauty, your genuine nature, and your careful assessment of your financial capacity. Only then can you accurately shape your life and create the home you desire.
Human-centric, design with the heart to feel life. Every era and every culture has its unique meaning in residential aesthetics. Practicality, simplicity, naturalness, and cultural elements have become the prevailing trends in home decoration today, representing the highest pursuit in interior design. Many of our clients feel that home decoration is "beauty," but beauty should serve people. It should serve comfort. If we blindly add excessive shapes, changes, and colors without considering the owner's age, personality, or interests, the resulting beauty becomes extravagant and lacks the essence of home decoration. Beauty must reflect practicality. The primary function of home is usability. Beauty without practical value is a failure, and beauty without comfort is a design that loses its self and individuality. Beauty is the emotion you pour into it.
We have been successively releasing this series of books titled "Homes Through the Eyes of Designers." Our goal is to find some common principles of home decoration by drawing from the author's daily observations and discussions with home design professionals. Using the perspective of design experts and illustration methods, we explain the key points of home decor. We believe this series will offer some inspiration to a broad readership, especially to owners who are eager to decorate but unsure where to start.