Designer Window Fashions

An exceptional guide to window coverings featuring nearly 2000 photographs and illustrations. Designer Window Fashions is both unique and compelling in covering the scope of window products available on the market today. You will be encouraged to explore and consider all your options, including sections on specifications and fabric quantities, should you wish to do so. Designer Window Fashions not only provides an inspiring visual catalog of ways to use draperies, blinds, shades, and shutters imaginatively, but also delves into the details, providing vital information on the pros and cons of various products, and how to choose fabrics and treatments that create the right atmosphere for any room of the house.

"The most comprehensive, elegant, and up-to-date window decorating book available." —Grace McNamara, publisher of Window Vision Magazine and Sponsor of the International Window Coverings Expo.

"This is an amazing compendium of window treatment styles, history, and application information. It's a must-have book for every designer, DIY homeowner, and drapery workroom." —Jamie Gibbs, ASID, IFDA, WCAA

Charles Randall is the award-winning author of the best-selling window decorating series Window Fashions, first published in 1986 with over one million copies sold. Charles is also a leading expert in window coverings. When looking for the world’s expert in all things related to window treatments, Samantha Ettus, author of the acclaimed “Experts’ Guide” series, selected Charles Randall for her Experts’ Guide to Life at Home book focusing on improving the aesthetics of a home as well as living well within it. Ettus asked Randall to discuss how to select window treatments. In her book, Charles can be found between Barbara Guggenheim on hanging paintings and Debbie Travis on choosing interior colors. Charles’s books are available in Arabic, Turkish, Spanish, Russian, and French. He has also found a place on national talk radio shows, completing one in Canada and one in the US. Books by Charles Randall: • Window Fashions • The Encyclopedia of Window Fashions • The Encyclopedia of Window & Bed Coverings • Designer Window Fashions (Winner of the Benjamin Franklin Award) • Charles Randall's Designer Sketch file • The Window Decorating Book • The Complete Home Decorating Idea Book • The Dream Series: Dream Windows, Dream Walls, Dream Floors • Fatherless: Lessons from my Boyhood (March 2023) • My Adult Coloring Book: Window Coverings • My Adult Coloring Book: Bed Coverings Fatherless is his deeply personal memoir about growing up in an atheist and fatherless family.