Title: David Hicks on Home Decoration
Author: David Hicks
Publisher: World Publishing Company, 1972
Text by David Hicks; 168 pages, 64 color and 84 black and white illustrations
David Hicks on Home Decoration is the fifth and last book in the legendary decorator’s instructional series on furnishings. It marks the culmination of the sequence and provides a visually stunning didactic on the importance of color, lighting, pattern, function, and the injection of personality into a space. Hicks began his forty-year long career in the 1960s as a graphic designer, a perspective that would inform his textile, object, and landscape motifs throughout his prodigious life. This volume was published after Hicks had completed an exhaustive list of public and corporate spaces, an experience that brought his philosophy on the concept of decoration into greater focus. His proclivity for the eccentric, combined with an extraordinary ability to imagine ways in which disparate objects, styles, and historical periods could be melded together to infuse a space with color, visual interest, and ornament while still creating a cohesive room. On Home Decoration features his tablescapes, wallpaper, textiles, and guidelines for aspiring and accomplished decorators to incorporate their own work with a modicum of his flair and panache.
