Apartments: Defining Style

The award-winning designer and author of Rooms and Houses returns with inspiring ideas for apartment interiors in this lavishly photographed book. Step into a space designed by Mariette Himes Gomez and you're sure to notice the refined simplicity, clear architectural composition, and thoughtful attention to detail that have made her one of the most respected and sought-after tastemakers in the country. In Apartments , Gomez divulges the secrets of the trade to help you transform even the smallest pied-À-terre into a chic and airy living space. Filled with breathtaking photography, Apartments offers a stunning visual tour of her most elegant designs. Gomez works with the natural composition of her clients' apartments to highlight each room's assets—such as a Central Park view—and address its deficits, such as the remnants of a previous owner's paint job. From the placement of an antique French cabinet in a 1920s Rosario Candela apartment in New York City to the replacement of mirrored walls in an oceanside deck in Palm Beach, Gomez provides practical suggestions for building, buying, or renovating to create the perfect space. Subscribing to the philosophy that less is more, she reveals how the elements of balance, color, and movement instill flow and harmony in any design. Whether you are decorating a modest studio or a palatial penthouse suite, Apartments illuminates the world of possibility that unfolds when you let your apartment become your home.

Customer Reviews:

A Style Defined: Breathing Lessons

By L. M. Keefer - June 11, 2010

Serene, clean, architectural, geometric, patinaed, balanced, harmonious, classic, comfortable--if these are some of the adjectives which describe your style, you should enjoy this book. As American homes are getting smaller and away, we hope, from the McMansions of yesterday, the rooms featured in this Apartments:Defining Style book by Mariette Himes-Gomez should be more to the scale of what we'll have to decorate and live in.

The author has a good sense of scale to help train our eye. Her room arrangements seem inspired. She also shows how to juxtapose antique with modern successfully and how to feature art and accessories. The furniture in her rooms have ample breathing room around them and the rooms are well edited. Only the essential remains.

In this book, Mariette Himes-Gomez narrates the design decisions of 13 of her recent design projects from an 1880's London townhouse, to a repurposed Palm Beach ballroom to a New York pied-a-terre;you read about... read more

Well written and a gorgeous book

By MR "true tale fan" - January 12, 2011

I was happy to find this design book both well written, and well photographed. The text clearly expressed her design perspective and approach to projects, which I found really interesting as an industry professional. This book was a real pleasure - always great to get inspiration and insite from such a talented designer!