Product Description

Our systems of home organization have a direct bearing on the efficiency or otherwise with which we perform everyday tasks and a successfully organized home allows you to put your hands on what you need and when you need it. "Storage" is an inspirational resource to help us organise every room in our home. Terence Conran demonstrates how getting organized is not a question of rigorous discipline but a means of simplifying and streamlining everyday life. This book is divided into two principal sections, one on planning and assessment, the essential starting point for reorganization including different types of storage available, and the other providing an area-by-area breakdown of every room's particular storage requirements and approaches, including the optimum conditions for storing different types of belongings.More than 270 inspiring photographs provide original solutions and case studies provide in-depth coverage of specific solutions from where to store all your CDs to how to hide all the children's' toys.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #54562 in Books
• Published on: 2009-04-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

About the Author
Terence Conran is one of the world's leading designers, furniture-makers, restaurateurs, retailers and founder of the Habitat group of stores, which revolutionized home furnishings in the 1960s. He is Chairman of Conran Holdings, the parent company of his retail and restaurant businesses, and Chairman of Conran & Partners, his architecture and design practice. Conran & Partners is responsible for a wide range of residential and commercial buildings around the world, including airport terminals in London and New York, the Roppongi Hills project in Tokyo, Butlers Wharf in London, and hotels such as Myhotel and the GEH in London, The Fitzwilliam in Dublin, Trieste in Vienna, The Park in Bangalore and Delhi, and Niki Club in Japan. There are Conran Shops in London, Paris, New York, Tokyo, Marunouchi, Nagoya and Fukuoka. Terence Conran also designs furniture for Content and Benchmark. Terence Conran's books include The Essential House Book, The Essential Garden Book, Terence Conran on Design, Kitchens, The Ultimate House Book, Bathrooms, Storage, How to Live in Small Spaces, Eat London, Design: Intelligence Made Visible and Outdoors all published by Conran Octopus.

Customer Reviews

Comprehensively Great
It is good to know even the design gurus in the world suffer from clutter like us mere mortals. Another entertaining read from Terrence Conran with great ideas and strategies for keeping everything organised and in its place. Informative, all ways amusing and never condescending this book makes tidying up cool!

Lots of style, very little substance
This book might just be useful if you have:
- a big house
- enough money to commission bespoke fitted furniture from skilled craftsmen
- very little 'stuff', all of it chosen for visual effect
- a careful cleaner who dusts open shelves every day
and you find it helpful to be told (for example) that poisons should be kept under lock and key if there are children around, and that the first-aid box should be easily accessible.
For anyone who hasn't and doesn't it's a waste of money.