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Kabinett & Kammer

Creating Authentic Interiors
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Kabinett & Kammer by Sean Scherer is a celebration and practical guide to creating unique, lively interiors that blend historical objects into beautifully layered ensembles. Scherer’s designs feature vintage display cabinets filled with whittled songbirds, 19th-century maps, industrial artefacts, and lush ferns, all arranged with a sophisticated palette and careful attention to proportion. The book includes striking photographs by William Abranowicz highlighting key design principles such as colour, texture, and focal points, offering timeless lessons for crafting authentic, vibrant living spaces.
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Format: Hardback
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This book will appeal to enthusiasts of interior design and collectors who seek inspiration on integrating eclectic historical items into personal living spaces. It is suited to readers interested in both the aesthetics and practicalities of creating distinctive, well-composed homes.

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"In this book, Sean Scherer shows us all how to create unique sanctuaries for ourselves... Imaginative spaces that are authentic and honest, designed to be lived in and loved." - Anderson Cooper (from his foreword)

"From whittled songbirds to industrial apparatus, artist Sean Scherer uses disparate historical objects and layers them into beautiful ensembles to create his interiors. This book is both a celebration of his work and a practical guide to collecting." -- The Observer Magazine

"The book is a keeper. A must have on my list." - Robert Rufino, Style Director of House Beautiful

Kabinett & Kammer is equally a celebration and a practical guide to both collecting and showing how lively design can integrate disparate objects from the past into beautifully layered ensembles. Sean Scherer's interiors feature vintage display cabinets housing discarded collections of whittled songbirds, a plethora of stunning 19th-century maps and school teaching aids, semi-tropical ferns in cast-iron planters, and mysterious industrial apparatuses displayed against eye-catching colours, complemented by photomurals.

The effect is a supercharged nod to American Gothic, heightened by Scherer's sophisticated palette and sense of proportion. His interior language speaks with a calm authority coupled with a zest for life. Each photograph by master photographer William Abranowicz is a lesson on such topics as colour and texture, focal points, and room size.

The book has universal appeal because, though styles fluctuate and tastes are unique, the principles of design are immutable and good design is good designβ€”valuable lessons for composing a signature, comfortable interior.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780865653825

Publisher: Vendome Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 15 September 2020

Country: United States

Imprint: Vendome Press

Illustration: 200 Illustrations

Contributors:

  • Photographs by William Abranowicz

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 235.0mm

Height: 305.0mm

Weight: 1540g

Pages: 208

About the Author

Sean Scherer studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Independent Study Program of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, exhibiting his work extensively throughout North America and Europe. He moved from New York to the Catskills in 2002, opening Kabinett & Kammer shortly after, and is Professor of Art at the State University of New York at Oneonta.

William Abranowicz has been a photographer for more than 40 years. His work is in collections throughout the world and has appeared in nearly every major publication in the United States, Europe and Asia. Among his most recent books are American Originals: Creative Interiors and Natural Elegance: Luxurious Mountain Living.

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