Packed with tips of the interior stylist's trade, "Etcetera" is a lavishly photographed interiors book in which every image demonstrates a clear and easily replicable principle that will help transform a room without the need for expensive and permanent renovation. Author Sibella Court's style is very global, combining contemporary elements with antiques and junk-shop finds, textile fragments, wallpapers, collectables and ephemera etc. "Etcetera" draws on four of Sibella's favourite colour themes as a framework for the display of her impeccable eye for detail and her bowerbird tendencies. Each section will draw the reader into Sibella's world of colour and texture, through inspirational room settings to the most intimate of details. Think of opening Pandora's box, or indeed, Darwin's cabinet of curiosities and in turn opening yourself to a world of new possibilities. This title focuses on styling rather than decorating, and as such is the book for these changing economic times. It's about thrift and imagination. It celebrates the individual and the personal rather than the wholesale adoption of a 'look'. Sibella Court's philosophy is an organic and sustainable one, encouraging recycling and creatively re-using rather than consuming new resources.

About the Author

After establishing herself as an Interior Stylist in Australian publications like marie claire Lifestyle, Donna Hay and Vogue Entertaining, Sibella Court moved to New York in 1999. She built a career in the US over nine years, working on advertising campaigns for Jo Malone, Target, Bergdorf Goodman and Brocade home, and as a regular contributor to Travel & Leisure, Town & Country, US Vogue Living, Food & Wine, Gourmet, Real Simple and House & Garden. Sibella also worked on brand development for Jo Malone and Brocade Home. She returned home late last year to pursue her long-held dream of establishing a shop called 'The Society Inc' in a 1860s corner block in the Sydney suburb of Paddington. Sibella is also the Interiors Editor of the recently launched Australian Grazia magazine.