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Summary: Great Coffee Table Book.....Yeeeaaaah Baby!
Review: I was in the middle of remodeling my house and bought several different books to help inspire me. This book can be very useful if you're trying to get a feel for retro-modern, bachelor pad or lounge atmospheres. The photography is great and the author found some great examples to display in the book. You can spend a lot of time just going through the book and marveling at the pictures. This will also help to familiarize a beginner with many aspects of lounge culture.
On the down side, I would say that I only found a few of the project ideas useful or workable to any degree. There are some neat ideas but some people may find them rather difficult to execute.
I would recommend this book to someone looking for decorating inspiration or someone who just has an interest in pop culture and wants a nice conversation piece for the coffee table.
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Summary: To those who had negative reviews of the book
Review: I agree that this is a great coffee table book. Don't knock the decor as being god-awful tacky, bc I think that's the point. It's the interior design equivalent of the book Fruits by Shoichi Aoki, which is a bunch of photos of Japanese urban hipsters wearing outrageous and creative outfits. A few adventurous folks may be inspired to try these designs, but the book is entertaining and fun to look at even if you don't. On a personal note, I'm totally going to make the "porno-chic" lamp for my apartment next year.
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Summary: A cluttered mess
Review: Just when the rest of the design world is cleaning up and ditching the clutter, this book comes along to show you how to clutter up your rooms again. What the book shows is junky and out of step with decorating today. I got this book by mistake awhile back. I hated it then and it still looks just as bad to me today.
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Summary: Not fun, not helpful. Just awful.
Review: "Pad" is disguised as a DIY how-to guide for making your living space swanky as all heck, and for that tiny mislead, it loses a star. "Pad," while certainly concerned with interior design for the young adult, makes, if nothing else, a brilliant coffee table book.Instructions for crafty-projects are included, but that doesn't make the book particularly "instructive." More often than undertaking any of the tasks included in the book, I found myself instead looking from section to section at all these crazies' interior design sense, and saying, "Oh! Cute idea!" a little less often than I said, "Ugh! I can't believe they did that!" and "Oh my gosh, she ruined her wall!" Thusly, this nutty book is actually rather traditional, in that it's just like watching any interior design show on cable--picking out which design(er)s we like, which we don't, considering ideas we might want to steal, then never putting the ideas to action. Eh. But a nice coffee table book, to be sure.
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Summary: Beautiful, kitschy design book!
Review: A real sense of fun combines with a sense of style in this kitschy-koffee table book. Conceived and executed with an obvious affection and appreciation for its subject matter.
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Summary: If you don't DIY don't bother
Review: I'll be the first to say that most of the rooms shown in this book are, for me, un-liveable. Too cluttered, busy and ostentatious for anything except a party. [...]I don't need a style-nazi to tell me how to decorate. But build a coffee table from a surfboard, my own drink coasters or turn my favourite Tiki mug into a lamp? That 's where PAD comes in. If you need a book to tell you what your living space should look like look somewhere else, preferably far, far away. But if you know what you like and a bit of DIY doesn't scare you this book is excellent. And the punch recipes rock!
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