I’m thrilled to announce that my new book, Annie Sloan's Room
Recipes for Style and Colour, is
officially launched next week…
With 300 inspirational photographs, I really hope you'll enjoy tucking into its 192 pages. The book examines several key interior design styles and features stunning photography from Christopher Drake (who I've had the honour of working with on all my most recent books!).
With 300 inspirational photographs, I really hope you'll enjoy tucking into its 192 pages. The book examines several key interior design styles and features stunning photography from Christopher Drake (who I've had the honour of working with on all my most recent books!).
Christopher Drake on our shoot for the Neoclassical chapter
My publishers (CICO Books) have done a cracking job
in the production and printing and it looks good enough to eat (well, it is
called ‘Recipes’). Seriously, it’s probably the book that comes closest to
epitomising what I have been about for over 30 years and I feel tremendously
proud of the finished result.
That pride also comes about because this
is the first book my son, Felix, and I have written together. As a
graphic designer and skilled painter, Felix has been instrumental in helping me put together my last 4 books, assisting on photoshoots and helping me with painting behind the scenes.
He was especially hands-on in the design of the Annie Sloan Work Book. Now my middle son has turned his talents to co-writing and I think the results speak volumes.
He was especially hands-on in the design of the Annie Sloan Work Book. Now my middle son has turned his talents to co-writing and I think the results speak volumes.
Sources of inspiration
It’s been something of a journey of
discovery* for Felix and I, not just in putting the book together but in
sourcing the 9 styles featured in the book. Along the way, we met a group of
very generous and supportive homeowners who opened their doors to reveal some
stunning room recipes. A big thank you to furniture designer Tim Gosling for
his refined Neoclassical apartment, to the caretakers at Stola Herrgård, the epitome of Traditional Swedish, designer Virginia Armstrong and her ever-so-stylish Modern Retro London home, interior painter and
photographer Janice Issitt and her so Boho Bucks Cottage, vintage fair
collector Madeline Tomlinson and her rose-revived Vintage Floral cottage, oil painter Alex
Rusell Flint and his très chic French Elegance schoolhouse, antique collectors and dealers Rob and Jane Slater for their
truly Rustic Country abode
in the Peak District, photographer
Paul Massey and his wife Jules and their Coastal Cornish cottage, and Emily Gray and
her fab Amsterdam Warehouse apartment.
More than a coffee table book
And as a special treat, Felix and I filmed this short video to introduce the book to you all. You might recognise the backdrop from the cover of the book. Enjoy!
More than a coffee table book
And as a special treat, Felix and I filmed this short video to introduce the book to you all. You might recognise the backdrop from the cover of the book. Enjoy!
Yours, Annie
PS * One among many interesting discoveries in the book: The attic featured in Vintage Floral was once the studio of distinctive English landscape and portrait artist Graham Sutherland.
