Description

Atheneum, New York [Published date: 1968]. Hardcover with dust jacket, 183 pp; illustrated throughout with drawings, diagrams, and some color illustrations; 29 cm. First edition. Good in good dust jacket. Yellow cloth boards with red lettering on front and spine. Light tape residue on tops and bottoms of covers. Light edge wear to covers and light overall scuffing and soiling to covers as well. Binding tight. Previous owner's gift inscription in ink on top corner of front free end paper. Otherwise pages are lightly toned but clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has a few small nicks and tears, shows light edgewear, toning and soiling. NOT price clipped. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. Not Ex-library. Written and illustrated by Melanie Kahane, a noted American interior designer, this book offers step-by-step instructions for making miniature furniture and accessories for dollhouses. [From front jacket flap] "SCRATCH a girl-even a very little girl," says Melanie Kahane, "and you're sure to find a decorator! You can spot it from that first moment she wishes her room was yellow instead of blue or from the day she decides to move the chairs around. It's a yearning that starts with doll houses and usually goes on for the rest of her life!" Melanie Kahane ought to know-for she started with a doll house herself and grew up to be one of the country's leading interior designers. In this enchanting book she solves many of the decorating problems that are actually the same in full scale as they are in miniature and she explains in detail the basic principles of interior decorating. She tells you how to plan every room and explains just what a plan is, in simple terms-what a color scheme means and how to create one-what furniture each room needs and how to make all the furniture, lamps, rugs and curtains a doll house should have. With her simple sketches and drawings Miss Kahane takes you step by step, shows you how to make each piece, and finally how to make the actual doll house itself. Almost everything that is needed to make these imaginative pieces can be found around the house: little gift boxes, buttons, scraps of fabric, cardboard, bits and pieces, plus lots of tape and glue. With all this, a little girl-and her mother-can enjoy endless hours of decorating fun and creativity!