Cracking Antiques by Mark Hill Qc

Cracking Antiques by Mark Hill Qc

"Cracking Antiques" will show you how looking for vintage and antique furniture and accessories enables you to create a stylish, individual home without setting foot inside a superstore. It will explain what to look for when buying antiques and how to renovate them using anything from a little tlc to a complete makeover. Special features give expert interior design tips, or explain why some antiques that are out of fashion today make a great investment for the future. A resources section tells you everything you need to know about buying at antiques fairs, antiques shops, at auction and online.

Mark Hill was a specialist at Bonhams and Sotheby's before joining an internet company where he became a director, running its exclusive alliance with eBay Live Auctions. He is now the resident 20th-century design and collectables specialist at Miller's, and the author and publisher of a series of books on 20th-century design. Mark is an expert on the BBC's Antiques Roadshow. He writes for magazines including Collect It! and BBC Homes & Antiques. Kathryn Rayward trained as a theatre designer and has been working as an interior designer for the past 10 years. She specialises in taking unloved pieces of furniture and transforming them into one-off 'haute couture' pieces of design using vintage fabric and old painting and gilding techniques. As an interior designer she strives to create interiors for her clients that reflect their personalities. She likes every item within a room to have a 'story' and enjoys helping clients to find exciting pieces for their homes. She has appeared on Grand Designs Indoors (C4), Real Rooms (BBC1), she is the design face of UKTV Style where she presented Room Rivals, Design ER, Buying Style, Style File, and Get the Look. She is one of the main designers on the hugely successful series 60 Minute Makeover (ITV). She lives in Brighton.

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ISBN 13	9781845335564
ISBN 10	1845335562
Titel	Cracking Antiques
Autor	Mark Hill Qc
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Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	Octopus Publishing Group
Erscheinungsjahr	2010-04-05
Seitenanzahl	224
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