Kathryn’s Books
A Life In Design:
Celebrating 30 Years of Interiors
Organized by location, the book takes an overview of the interiors Kathryn has designed over the past 30 years, including her own homes in Los Angeles, London, and the south of France. She shares her story of a life in design, from the early days in LA, where she started her career by decorating a home for Steve Martin, to designing houses all over the world, from California to the Cotswolds. This lavishly illustrated deep dive into Kathryn’s work is paired with a wealth of chatty, informal, and invaluable advice on creating comfort, adding color, finding and hanging art, designing great spaces for entertaining, and the design rules she brings to every project. A Life in Design is full of character and charm, just like Kathryn herself.
By Kathryn M. Ireland | CICO Books, 2023
Kathryn At Home:
A Guide to Simple Entertaining
By Kathryn M. Ireland | Gibbs Smith, 2016
Beyond pulling a room together with great fabrics and furniture pieces, Kathryn M. Ireland has an extraordinary talent for pulling together stunning tabletops and delicious meals. Here she celebrates good friends and great food in the French countryside and in southern California. In an elegant scrapbook style, she shares her notes and advice on entertaining, particularly outdoors. Join Kathryn and her talented friend Ithaka for a breakfast, lunchtime picnics, a candlelight dinner, afternoon tea, a barbecue, and a wedding―all interlaced with signature Kathryn M. Ireland fabrics.
Inspired By…
By Kathryn M. Ireland | Gibbs Smith, 2014
In this rare look inside a top designer’s inspiration book, Kathryn M. Ireland shows journeys she has taken and the places and people that inspire her creativity, from rural England to Southwest France, from the East Coast U.S. to California. Mixing textiles and fabrics with furnishings gathered on trips to Morocco, France, London, and other international destinations, Kathryn creates sophisticated but welcoming room designs in the States and abroad, from city apartments to ranch homes to French farm houses.
Timeless Interiors
By Kathryn M. Ireland | Gibbs Smith, 2012
From a bohemian 1960s beach house in Malibu, California, to a grand nineteenth-century manor on the coast of Normandy, France, the diverse collection of Kathryn M. Ireland interiors showcased in this book move up and down the sliding scale of formality. No matter the client, the style idiom, or the degree of playful unorthodoxy, Timeless Interiors demonstrates that a Kathryn Ireland–designed space is always inviting and livable, original and appealing. While Kathryn’s design mind may have blossomed in the hothouse of cool California style, her roots are unapologetically European. The result is a highly evolved personal style that marries a deep reverence for tradition with the blithe spirit of fresh reinterpretation.
Summers in France
By Kathryn M. Ireland | Gibbs Smith, 2011
Home decorating has never been more simple and easy than Summers in France. Come along to Europe with designer Kathryn M. Ireland who celebrates summer living and entertaining in the French countryside. Ireland introduces readers to the town of Montauban, which is near the farmhouse she renovated and remodeled in her classic shabby chic style. Kathryn shares inside details of her remodel along with tips and ideas about entertaining, and how to make guests comfortable.
Through family photographs, journal-styled entries, and detail shots of the bedrooms, living rooms, and kitchen areas, readers are treated like family as they discover how Kathryn makes a room come together. Using her signature fabrics — seen in draperies, linens, cushions, duvets, bedding, and more — Kathryn shows what she did to brighten and enliven the atmosphere of each room. Kathryn’s style also illustrates how easy it can be to decorate while on a budget by combining fabrics with antiques and vintage decor found at local flea markets.
Summers in France is an eclectic decorating book overflowing with country home design inspiration. Kathryn presents her favorite summertime recipes and entertaining tips as well as stunning before-and-after photographs of the remodeled and decorated rooms. Also included are centuries-old charcoal drawings of the various buildings on the property; lists of guest room must-haves; tips for house gifts; even several recipe ideas and marketplace shopping lists.
Creating a Home
By Kathryn M. Ireland | Gibbs Smith, 2009
Kathryn M. Ireland is a maven of materials. In addition to having her own fabric line, she freely and deftly mixes other designers’ fabrics as well as international market “finds.” Blending those with quality ironwork, wood, tile, and furniture pieces, Ireland pulls together a magnificent home of unpretentious grandeur. Creating a Home chronicles the sympathetic restoration of a Wallace Neff–designed estate in Ojai, California, including the home and stables.
Classic Country
By Kathryn M. Ireland | Gibbs Smith, 2007
In Classic Country, Kathryn M. Ireland has gathered together her favorite interiors and fabric designs in one inspirational volume, sharing her inspirations and complete design, color, and fabric schemes for kitchens, living rooms, bedrooms, guest rooms, children’s rooms, outdoor living spaces, and more. Sumptuously photographed and illustrated, this book showcases Ireland’s boldly hued, brilliantly patterned designs along with detailed explanations of inspiration and construction.