by Jocasta Innes · Frances Lincoln · tapa dura · ISBN 9780711207448
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«The New Paint Magic» is Jocasta Innes's guide to paint finishes, published by Frances Lincoln in hardcover (240 pages, in English).
A practical work on decorative finishes for walls and furniture, with the sober style of 1990s interiors. It explains techniques for creating rubbed, stripped and aged effects, fresh-style finishes that imitate Italian plaster, and proposals for painting furniture, such as marbling and transformation with watercolors; all materials mentioned are updated.
The work was published in 1992; this edition, the third, includes 120 color photographs.
For enthusiasts of interior decoration and decorative painting of furniture and walls.
Jocasta Claire Traill Innes was a British writer, journalist and businesswoman. She mainly wrote about cooking, crafts and homemaking, including in her books The Pauper's Homemaking Book (1976) and The Country Kitchen (1987), and worked for publications such as Cosmopolitan. She founded and was CEO of the paint company Paint Magic in the 1980s, inspired by her 1981 book Paint Magic. Two of her children, Daisy and Jason Goodwin, are also writers.
