David Hicks on Living—with Taste
Hicks, David. David Hicks on Living—with Taste. First American Edition. 1968. Book is in very condition; dust jacket is in very good minus condition—jacket spine shows small tears, and white portion of jacket shows mild discoloration.
This is the second design primer by the influential English decorator who made his name by mixing the traditional and the modern with uncommon confidence. Its central lesson remains fresh: taste is not a matter of price, pedigree, or preciousness, but of selection, arrangement, proportion, and nerve. Hicks shows how rooms gain character not from expensive objects alone, but from the intelligence with which furniture, color, pattern, art, books, flowers, and personal possessions are brought together. Drawing on examples from his own work, he proceeds room by room and subject by subject, offering a practical yet stylish guide to living well. Illustrated throughout, with hundreds of black-and-white images and forty color plates, this is a handsome and highly usable book by one of the great decorators of the last century.
“Good taste is not expensive; often the more expensive of two alternatives is less acceptable to those who are visually aware—people with taste.”
--David Hicks