Beige Is Not a Color Spiral-Bound | 2019-09-10

Carlos Mota

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Mota has been a style editor or feature producer for every major design, fashion, style, and travel publication, including Architectural Digest, Elle Decor, Interior Design, Vogue, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, Travel + Leisure, and O

Mota has created environments for catalogs and ad campaigns for major companies and brands including Neiman Marcus, Saks, Bloomingdale's, Estée Lauder, Max Mara, Nautica, and Pottery Barn

Mota has organized special events for such high-profile organizations and companies as DIFFA, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, Christie's, Sotheby's, Condé Nast, Chanel, Valentino, and Missoni

Mota has more than 40,000 followers on Instagram


In this color-saturated volume, creative consultant Carlos Mota celebrates the manifestations of beauty, creativity, and individuality all over the world. Beige is Not a Color is the antithesis of bland and as aspirational as it is inspirational. The perfect addition to your home décor library.

Bland is anathema to Carlos Mota. As he travels the world--from Lisbon to Tangier, India to Santo Domingo, New York to Paris--producing feature stories and ad campaigns for major companies and brands including Neiman Marcus, Saks, Bloomingdale's, Estée Lauder, and Max Mara, Nautica and Pottery Barn, he exults in every spark of originality and creativity he sees. Fortunately for us, he not only documents his sightings with his camera but also collects images by a Who's Who of interiors and architectural photographers.

In this volume, peppered with quotes about color and beauty by a host of designers, he has culled some 280 of his favorite images, all wholly different but all sharing one quality: the beauty of color, both literally and figuratively. There are interiors, table settings, fabric swatches, tiles, floral arrangements, sculptures, architectural ornamentation--whatever captures his discriminating eye.

"This could very well be the best picture book of the year . . ." --Forbes.com
Publisher: ABRAMS
Original Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320 pages
ISBN-10: 0865653666
Item Weight: 5.8 lbs
Dimensions: 10.2 x 1.3 x 13.3 inches
"Carlos Mota advocates intense palettes in his new book comprising 280 of his favorite images...the results are so seductive that refusing to indulge is like turning up your nose at a tasting menu in favor of a rice cracker."--House & Home
Carlos Mota is a creative consultant with extensive experience in styling, interior design, product design, and advertising campaigns. Formerly international style editor for Architectural Digest and editor at large for Elle Decor, he is the author of A Touch of Style. He lives in New York.