Mlinaric on Decorating
Mlinaric on Decorating is the first survey of the influential British designer's distinguised career, examines his classic taste in interiors for such longtime friends as Lord Rothschild and Mick Jagger--the latter's Chateau la Fourchette, though not identified as the rocker's home, can be seen on pages 72-77  --Elle DecorMlinaric's innate skill has served him well over the course of his 50-year career, and one that has resulted in some of the most successful restorations of great English interiors. Many of his projects are on view in the new book Mlinaric has written with Mirabel Celil. Prefaced with fragments of biography and full of evocative photographs, the retrospective chronicles Mlinaric's numerous achievements, most notably a nearly 30-year collaboration with Lord Jacob Rothschild who commissioned more than a decade's worth of work on Waddesdon, his palatial, French style manor, and entrusted Mlinaric with the salvation of Spencer House, one of the few remaining aristocratic London Mansions. In addition, Mlinaric was responsible for the masterly rejuvenation of the royal Opera House, as well as other venerable London institutions. Recording the process in riveting details the book also covers Mlinaric's "mending," as he calls it, of his own country homes and includes chapters on private commissions ranging from small urban apartments to atmospheric houses in Corfu, Greece; Mustique; France; and Ireland.  --WI wish this book wasn't so heavy. It is full of such good things that I wanted to carry it around so that at every spare moment I could have another wallow in David Mlinaric's beautiful world. --SpectatorMlinaric is considered to be one of the top British decorators of the second half of the twentieth century. He has clients ranging from Mick Jagger and Eric Clapton to Lord Rothschild. He's done mod and hip, shabby traditional and clean contemporary. And Mlinaric seems as comfortable redecorating the great properties of the national Trust as he does designing the interior of a London Flat. With page after page of photos of exquisite interiors, this book just might have you too wondering why you're not familiar with this talented man. ...after reading this book, you will be glad to make the acquaintance of this remarkable designer. -- thepeakofchic.com