Amy Butler's Midwest Modern: A Fresh Design Spirit for the Modern Lifestyle | 
 enlarge | Author: Amy Butler
Creator: David Butler
Publisher: Stewart, Tabori and Chang
Category: Book
List Price: $35.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 32138
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 10.1 x 9.5 x 1.1
ISBN: 1584795816
Dewey Decimal Number: 747
EAN: 9781584795810
ASIN: 1584795816
Publication Date: October 1, 2007
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Product Description
A complete lifestyle book, encompassing fashion, interiors, and gardens
Attention, design and style mavens! Theres a lot more to America than just the east and west coasts. Today, innovative American designin clothing, home decor, even gardeningis emerging from the Midwest. So lay your bicoastal biases aside, and let Amy Butler show you whats happening in the heartland.
Helping her fans jumpstart their own creative spark is Butlers fashion credo, and her approach has won her a huge following. Her Mid Mod philosophyneither homespun nor haute coutureis as up to the minute as it is firmly rooted in Midwest tradition. Emphasizing simplicity and integrity of craft, Butler is passionate about recycling materials, reinventing vintage looks, and taking joy in the homemade. Her approachdrawing its inspiration from the natural world and the lives of real peopleis organic in every sense of the word.
Amy Butlers Midwest Modern brings the many aspects of its authors vision into focus, from re-imagining the home as a retreat for relaxation and dreaming, to picturing the body as a canvas for creating ones personal style, to looking to nature as a sketchbook for design ideas. Vibrantly illustrated, the book underscores designs practical side, with information on budgeting money and time, a shopping resources list, and how-to projects in every chapter.
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 Love What You Love and Don't Apologize for It August 13, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Amy Butler's quote (love what you love, and don't apologize for it) sums up her gorgeous style book. The photography is beautiful and the feeling of the book is at once modern and fun, flirty and sweet. There are lots of decorating ideas in the book, and if you are already a seamstress, you'll get lots of ideas for your own projects. This isn't a project book, however, and doesn't include patterns. For patterns, there's her "Feather Your Nest" patterns and her two big books of patterns, Stitches, and Little Stitches, both of which I recommend.
amy butler mid west modern July 31, 2008
excellent book I just love Amy Butler. She is very smart and creative. Ilove her patterns. I have nothing negitive to say about this book.
Amy Butler's Midwest Modern April 17, 2008
This book could stand alone as a coffee table book. There are many beautiful and inspiring pictures. If you like the Amy Butler look, this book will be inspirational.
Amy Butler's Midwest Modern: Fresh Design Spirit for the Modern Lifestyle April 2, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you have a "vintage-chic" aesthetic, this is the book for you! I am consumed with interior design and love mixing new and old for an interesting, eclectic look. I became interested in Amy Butler after purchasing "Found Style" which is an earlier book put together by Amy and her husband with many ideas of how to mix up interiors with flea market finds. Amy Butler's Midwest Modern is filled with pictures of Amy's current home and shows how she successfully complements each room with new pieces, old pieces and fabrics she designs. A small portion of the book is a portfolio of her textile designs which she uses generously in her home for pillows and upholstery. I find myself referring to this book often for inspiration.
A DIY Design Lab encyclopaedia March 3, 2008
2 out of 7 found this review helpful
A few publishers have finally begun to take heed of the desire of their reading public for books infused with lush photos, brilliant color, and elegant design, in addition to innovative writing that enchants and possibly compels us to try a little something new.
There's luscious eye candy on every page. Amy Butler invites us into her home to examine her hip takes on art, craft, fashion, interior and garden design, even shopping. With photographs of every room in her house, various collections, the cat, a multitude of aprons, potted plants, and more, Midwest Modern is essentially a Design Lab encyclopedia. It's a lifestyle handbook, a 21st century version of Alicia Bay Laurel's artful 1971 classic, Living on the Earth.
Today, when DIY is synonymous with cool and "I got it on Etsy" is heard at least as often as "I got it at the mall", artists and designers are blossoming and Amy Butler in full bloom. With a wholesome emphasis on recycling and reinventing, Midwest Modern overflows with exuberant patterns drawn from the natural world. In her epilogue, Amy writes, "Beauty is in the way you live. Enjoy your surroundings. Let them inspire you. Follow your own path, and approach everything you do with love in your heart."
This book will make you want to get your Spring cleaning out of the way fast, so you can open the windows, crank up the music and make something pretty!
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