Everything you need to know about curtain couture for the 21st century, shown through a series of master-classes with more than 30 of the world's leading designers.
In 'The New Curtain Book', Stephanie Hoppen presents a series of fascinating master-classes about today's fashionable window treatments, given by more than 30 of the world's most innovative designers. These designs showcase a huge range of contemporary styles and materials.
There are classes in classical, traditional designs and in modern, simple ones; and equal weight is given to dramatic, smart, romantic and country curtains. The fabrics and materials include everything now possible - from glamorous silk, velvet, taffeta and cashmere, through rural prints, formal stripes, canvas and ticking, to 21st-century perspex panels, crystal beads and metallic voile.
All tastes are represented here: unashamedly rich, colourful and exotic interiors alongside the most neutral schemes that let light pour into a room.
'The New Curtain Book' is also packed with expert technical advice on everything from the proportions and architecture of windows to how to decide on a design idea and choose and measure fabrics. It ends with an invaluable directory of the all the accoutrements of window dressing, from poles and finials, shutter and blind attachments to trimmings and tassels, swags and tails. This is curtain couture at the cutting edge.
