Catherine Bailly Dunne, ASID
Author of Interior Designing for All Five Senses
- Interior Designing for All Five Senses
- Hardcover: 192 pages
- Publisher: St. Martins Press
- ISBN: 0-307-44069-9
Every man should eat
and drink, and enjoy
the good of all his labour;
it is the gift of God.
- ECCLESIASTES 3:13
Spring is tender green
young corn and
pink apple blossoms.
- VINCENT VAN GOGH
IN A LETTER TO HIS BROTHER, THEO
Some people like to
make a little garden
out of life—and walk
down a path.
- JEAN ANOUILH, THE LARK
ADAPTED BY LILLIAN HELLMAN
It is not the sight or sound
that, when a heart forgets,
most makes it to remember;
it's some old poignant scent
re-found—like a breath of
April violets, or apples
in September.
- NANCY BYRD TURNER
YEARS AFTERWARD
Devils can be driven out of
the heart by the touch of a
hand on a hand, or a
mouth on a mouth.
- TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
THE MILK TRAIN DOESN’T
STOP HERE ANYMORE
Architecture is
frozen music.
- JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
I love that," said Oprah Winfrey recently on the "Oprah Show," enthusiastically discussing Catherine's enormously successful book, Interior Designing for All Five Senses. "Interior Designing for All Five Senses will bring you closer to the peaceful haven you crave", said Oprah.
Catherine Bailly Dunne, ASID is an award-winning interior designer that is captivating audiences around the world with her bold and synergistic approach to interior design.
Catherine's prestigious clients have included notables from coast to coast. Catherine's work consistently reflects her belief that a home should be "a mirror of your soul", and should reflect your values, your emotions and the psychology of a healthy lifestyle. Home and self must be in harmony—in what she calls a "life design".
Informed by a refined aesthetic sense and equal passions for career and family. Catherine is a wife and mother of two who brings an animated and original sensibility to the world of interiors. Beyond merely designing the home, she helps her clients and readers of "Interior Designing for All Five Senses" appreciate the inherent synergy between the design of the home and the well-being of its inhabitants.
Catherine Bailly Dunne was educated at the distinguished Parson's School of Design in New York City, and continued her extensive studies in Los Angeles and Paris. She is a winner of the prestigious American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) Design Competition and is the National Spokesperson for the American Furniture Manufacture Association. Catherine also teaches at the UCLA School of Interior Design.
Catherine Bailly Dunne’s
Six Golden Rules
The process of "decorating" involves many different talents. You need imagination, the ability to dream up a "look". There's mathematics, too: measuring furniture, and making a floor plan. Then there are those
endless questions: Where should I start? What fabrics? What colors? How much money and time is this going to take? In short, what exactly needs to be done to make this place look better? To get going, I always use my Six Golden Rules. These rules will give you direction and launch the job. Use them, and I guarantee your house will take on that extra something that gives it spark and sparkle. These principles will permeate the pages
of the book.
- Design for all five senses
- Create a focal point in every room
- Make your home a mirror of your soul
- Respect the style of your home
- Subtracting is often adding
- There is no such thing as a small room