Review by Library Journal Review
Most recent design books make the featured spaces look like dioramas of perfection-disciplined, austere, sunlit, open, and museum-like. Crawford (Sensual Home: Liberate Your Senses and Change Your Life) has staked out a different place for herself in the literature, making a splash in New York and Great Britain by uniting clients' hearts with their needs in a cerebral yet passionate way. In her latest book, she uses those needs as structural topics (e.g., "Survival," "Safety," "Love," "Respect," and "Self") and comfortably writes about her convergence of design and the human soul. The interiors themselves are not distinguished; they do not make us envious, and some are, by today's standards, cluttered. Most of them seem stronger in detail than as a whole. However, the intellectual underpinnings of the designs and the care that Crawford gives to each are impressive. The resulting volume is worth a look to understand better the voice of this trendy thinker. Recommended for larger collections.-David Bryant, New Canaan Lib., CT (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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