Living in Color: Color in Contemporary Interior Design Phaidon Book

Tap into the growing trend for injecting color into home décor with this elegant, thoughtful selection of interiors in every shade and hue. Featuring 200 interiors from 130 designers, and showcasing 27 residential room types from a wide variety of home environments and styles, including living, dining, sleeping and bathing spaces, in locations around the world, this is the perfect gift and inspiration for every style-conscious design fan – even space-challenged apartment dwellers. Organized by color, from the purest white to the deepest black, from the hottest pinks, oranges and reds, to the coolest greens and tranquil blues in between, this stunning book explores and celebrates the contemporary trend for vivid accents and vibrant transformations of our domestic spaces, whatever their size and wherever their location.

The authors

Conceived and edited by Phaidon editors.

Stella Paul was educator-in-charge of exhibitions and communications and senior manager of the Interpretative Audio Program (Digital Media) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. She established the Smithsonian Institution’s Southern California Center for the Archives of American Art and has worked as a curator at LACMA.

India Mahdavi is a Paris-based interior designer, best known for her use of color in her work for such venues as Sketch in London.

Hardcover, 11 3/8 x 9 7/8 in., 240 pages, 200 illustrations