Welcome to Potterton Books website the one stop source for reference books on Architecture, Antiques, Interior Design and the Decorative Arts. POTTERTON BOOKS : INTERIOR DESIGN BOOKS : CONTEMPORARY INTERIOR STYLES The White Home: Creating rooms you love to live in by Caroline Clifton-Mogg April 2006. 128pp, 150 colour photographs. Whether you want to create a look that is timeless, elegant and serene or sharp, contemporary and clean, this book gives you essential how-how for creating fresh interiors for all home lifestyles. Price:  £12.99 Inspiration by Tricia Guild Available May 2006. 192pp, over 100 photographs. Tricia Guild's status as a designer is legendary. Her company Designer's guild sells collections of her fabrics, paints, wallpapers, and furnishings all over the world. Here, in this truly personal book, tricia reveals the many sources of her inspiration and gives an insight into the way she works. Her passions are many and various: art and fashion; architecture and design; theatre and opera; travel; food; flowers and gardening; the broad sweep of landscape and the miraculous minutiae of nature; texture and form, light and shadow ; and above all, colour. This wonderful and eclectic mix of inspirations from all walks of life, and all corners of the world is presented as a collection of photographs and text grouped together, or juxtaposed, to form a dazzling, thought-provoking cornucopia of visual and literary delights to stir her many fans. Price:  £14.99 Harmonious interiors by Ann McArdle 2000. 144pp, colour illus. Create a sanctuary that rejuvenates and restores the moment you step through the front door. Let Harmonious interiors show you how, with in depth information on ways to use your own furniture and fabrics etc for a more comfortable and relaxed living style. Features advice on tips on how to counteract the stress of modern life, balance work and home, and live in harmony with nature. Price:  £14.99 Zen Interiors by V Lee 160pp, 100 colour photographs. With inspirational images and sound advice, Zen Interiors provides an illuminating source of elemental interior design ideas. Price:  £19.99 The Peaceful home by Alice Westgate 2000. 192pp, full colour throughout. Creating your own harmonious enviroment depends upon balancing your priorities with technical know how and imagination. This is the book that shows you how. Creating the peaceful home is such a simple notion. A home should be a refuge from a tough day or a difficult job, the place that is, above all, individual to you, containing your possessions and expressing your tastes and your dreams. Price:  £12.99 The Healthy home by Gina Lazenby 2000. 160pp, 180 colour photographs. The home should be a place that nourishes the body and feeds the spirit. Acknowledging that this is not always the case, Gina Lazenby provides positive answers and means to address the issue. Price:  £20.00 Peaceful spaces: Transform your home into a haven of calm and tranquillity by Alice Whately 2002. 143pp, colour illus. A peaceful home is a still point at the centre of the spinning modern world, a place of simplicity and harmony in which to nurture body and soul. Combine pared down spaces, simple forms and natural materials to create the ultimate sanctuary. Price:  £18.99 The relaxed home : creating comfortable rooms with a romantic feel by Atlanta Bartlett 2000. 143pp, colour illus. Mix antiques and junk with the modern pared-down look, fuse hints of hot colour with white and neutrals, luxuriate in sensuous textures and pretty floral fabircs, combine favorite memorabilia. the relaxed home look is fresh, flexiable and very, very comfortable. Price:  £18.99 Transparent: Contemporary interior design elements by Elspeth Pridham Available March 2003. 160pp, c.150 colour photographs. The growing use of see-through materials in the interior by architects and designers allows us to make the most of open-plan structures and maximize the natural light in our homes. This title explores the use of transparent, translucent, and semi-opaque materials, both as structural elements and as ready-to-buy accessories. Sections are organized by the material - from clear and frosted glass, to fibreglass, acrylic, and translucent fabrics - looking at composition and manufacture as well as the various products available commercially and their application in the modern home. Price:  £25.00 The Feng Shui House Book : Change your home, transform your life by Gina Lazenby 160pp, 200 colour illus. Feng Shui is an ancient art of placement to create harmony in the enviroment. This book demystifies the subject and shows, in theory and practice, how to apply its principles to the home. Price:  £20.00 Pure style by Jane Cumberbatch 160pp, 300 colour photographs and 50 step by step illus. The phenomenally successful "Pure style" by Jane Cumberbatch was the first book to encompass the current trend for uncluttered interiors with clean outlines, crisp fabrics and natural materials. With glorious photography, it puts stylish interiors within reach of us all, and includes ten inspiring projects to help you achieve the look. Price:  £12.99 Eco: An essential sourcebook for enviromentally friendly design and decoration by Elizabeth Wilhide Available September 2002. 184pp, 120 colour photographs. Threats to the enviroment are constantly in the news but daunted by the scale of the problem, we often feel powerless, Eco shows that we can make a difference by designing or adapting the homes we live in along more eco-friendly lines. While enviromentally friendly architecture was once seen as a minority interest, it is now viewed simply as best practice. Eco proves that it can be beautiful too. It is the book both for those who want to build a home that respects the enviroment and for people who wish to make chages to the home they already have. Price:  £25.00 Sensual home: Liberate your senses and change your life by Ilse Crawford 2000. 159pp, 120 colour photographs. With rigours of daily life we need our homes to be havens of calm and tranquillity. This book offers guidance in achieving an atmosphere that is visually pleasing, sweet smelling, airy and spacious, yet at the same time, warm and comforting, relaxing and energizing, whether alone or in company. Price:  £9.99 POTTERTON BOOKS : INTERIOR DESIGN BOOKS : CONTEMPORARY INTERIOR STYLES Buy Online - the best way to buy.