Jane Cumberbatch's unique approach to interior decoration is based on the timeless appeal of all things simple and natural. Her innovative book, Pure Style, pioneered the current trend for uncluttered interiors and has sold over 240.000 copies worldwide. With clean outlines, crisp fabrics and natural materials pure Style reaches beyond the bounds of interior decoration; offering a new way of living that is resourceful and economical.
The book provides a visual catalogue of the elements of Pure Style. Shewing the colours, fabrics, textures, items of furniture, decorative objects and lighting that are appropriate. With the ingredients defined, the following chapters show how to bring them togeter, to create your own interpretation of the look.

Pure Style is a mine of information and ideas, interspersed with trade secrets – like how to give a face lift to almost any has-been piece of furniture or customize awkward spaces. It offers an ethos for living that teaches selectivity and promotes a general paring down of things, down to things, giving truth to the maxim that less is more.

 

Style guru Jane Cumberbatch is the leading light of the new, simple and natural approach to interior decoration. Her uniquely stylish and influential look has been used to sell many home furnishing brands including Habitat, Marks & Spencer and Laura Ashley. A former Home Editor of House & Garden magazine, Jane contributes to numerous magazines including Elle Decoration. Telegraph Magazine, Sunday Telegraph Magazine and Evening Standard Homes & Property. Married, with three energetic children, Jane divides her time between her Andalucian home, and her light, white and airy. Victorian house in south London. She is the author of Pure Style Outside. Also from Ryland Peters & Small.



Henry Bourne has been a photographer for over fourteen years. He photographs interiors and portraits for magazines all over the world. Including the World of Interiors, Elle Decoration, Elle décor .Vanity Fair and GQ.