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Romantic Prairie Style by Fifi O’neill
Romantic Prairie Style by Fifi O’neill
00[dc]R[/dc]omantic Prairie Style embraces simple pleasures, comfort and the long-cherished ideals of natural beauty, simplicity and harmony with the earth. It’s a style that says ‘home’ wherever you may be because, more than anything else, it’s a mindset: gentle but strong, welcoming and lasting, durable yet sophisticated and, above all, real. Over the centuries, the humble...
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Historic Houses of Paris : Residences of the Ambassadors
Historic Houses of Paris : Residences of the Ambassadors
00A unique glimpse inside a world of luxury, tradition, and splendor. Many historic homes in Paris serve as residences to foreign ambassadors; these historical sites are closed to the general public. From a seventeenth-century hôtel particulier, to a Belle Epoque palace, to a distinctively contemporary setting, each residence rivals the next in its beauty, art collection, and period...
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Nice House by Samuel G. White
Nice House by Samuel G. White
00This is a book of houses where we all would like to live. The locations are diverse—New England, Long Island, Pennsylvania, California—and the architecture encompasses both traditional and contemporary vocabulary. What links them is their livable scale and the architect’s commitment to creating congenial spaces with a handsome and functional design. They are unassuming dwellings...
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Thrifty Chic : Interior Style on a Shoestring
Thrifty Chic : Interior Style on a Shoestring
00When it comes to creating a home, “Thrifty Chic” shows you how to reuse and restore, revive and revamp, and recycle and reclaim, in order to create a stylish yet individual home without spending a small fortune. Room by room, the book explains how to give old furniture a new lease of life and how to bring a vintage charm to a room through an inspired use of fabrics and paints....
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A Passion for Interiors : A Private Tour
A Passion for Interiors : A Private Tour
00In her most personal book, Carolyne Roehm shares her lifelong love of classical architecture and design, graciously inviting us into her favorite spaces in three remarkable homes: her own dazzling Manhattan prewar duplex, her antique-filled Colonial-era stone house in Connecticut, and a special friend’s Aspen residence evocative of eighteenth-century Sweden. Each is an architectural...
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The Encyclopedia of Country Living
The Encyclopedia of Country Living
00For twenty years people have relied on these hundreds of recipes, instructions, and morsels of invaluable practical advice on all aspects of growing and preparing food. This definitive classic on food, gardening, and self-sufficient living is a complete resource for living off the land with over 800 pages of collected wisdom from country maven, Carla Emery–how to cultivate a garden,...
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The Big-Ass Book of Home Decor : More than 100 Inventive Projects for Cool Homes like Yours
The Big-Ass Book of Home Decor : More than 100 Inventive Projects for Cool Homes like Yours
00You have a problem. Your current home “décor” is ugly, shabby, and boring, but you can’t afford lots of new stuff. Or maybe your house is filled with tired old junk that you just can’t bear to throw away. Or maybe you bought all your furniture at a big box store, but it irritates you that it all looks like you bought it there. You have a solution—or, rather, a whole...
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Coastal Living Beach House Style : Designing Spaces That Bring the Beach to You
Coastal Living Beach House Style : Designing Spaces That Bring the Beach to You
00This treasure trove of decorating inspiration showcases coastal homes from the shores of New England down to Key West and the Caribbean. It explores the unique design of seaside homes along the rugged coastline of the Pacific Northwest down to the sunny beaches of Southern California, letting readers experience how the architectural vernacular of a region influences the design of its...
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Recycled Home
Recycled Home
00Discover the potential of rescued objects with “Recycled Home”. In this beautiful book, Mark and Sally Bailey share their passion for the simple and well-made things in life. The look they love is stripped back, focusing on the integrity of the materials and surface quality – perhaps chipped paint showing the layers beneath, combinations of rough textures with clean...
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Handcrafted Modern : At Home with Mid-century Designers
Handcrafted Modern : At Home with Mid-century Designers
00An intimate and revealing collection of photographs of astonishingly beautiful, iconic, and undiscovered mid-century interiors. Among significant mid-century interiors, none are more celebrated yet underpublished as the homes created by architects and interior designers for themselves. This collection of newly commissioned photographs presents the most compelling homes by influential...
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Country Living Aged to Perfection : Adding Rustic Charm to Your Modern Home Inside & Out
Country Living Aged to Perfection : Adding Rustic Charm to Your Modern Home Inside & Out
00Lavishly illustrated and inspirational, this guide reveals the secrets to adding old-world charm and character to any home-even newly constructed houses. From heirloom furniture to classic window treatments, ideas abound for creating a beautiful rustic effect. Add simple architectural details such as crown molding. Or try paint techniques like crackling, mosaics, and staining to keep a...
Chatsworth The House
Chatsworth The House
00Enjoy the Duchess of Devonshire’s highly personal account of what it’s like to live at Chatsworth. With the warmth and wit you expect from one of the Mitford sisters, it transcends any run-of-the-mill guidebook BBC Homes & Antiques … an intellectual and visual treat Period Living As a souvenir of a visit to Chatsworth this beautiful book is flawless; as an insight...
Country Living 500 Kitchen Ideas
Country Living 500 Kitchen Ideas
00Country Living steps into the kitchen with 500 new and exciting ways to transform the heart of the home. Packed with winning photographs of warm and inviting rooms, this inspiring guide covers color and pattern, floors and walls, storage, appliances, sinks, work surfaces, windows and lighting, and other charming accessories. A stunning image accompanies every tip: see how a small kitchen...
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The Finest Rooms in America
The Finest Rooms in America
00The Finest Rooms in America: 50 Influential Interiors from the 18th Century to the Present is a selection by Thomas Jayne, one of America’s best decorators and scholars of American design. It is a definitive record of the finest American interior design with an authoritative text and luxuriant color photography. The book includes a complete cross section of extant rooms covering a...
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Lotta Jansdotter’s Handmade Living
Lotta Jansdotter’s Handmade Living
00Beloved designer Lotta Jansdotter’s smart, organic design has earned her international acclaim. Now she shares her recipe for a stylish home: take a whole lot of Scandinavian influence, mix in a dash of flea-market finds, and then top it all off with expressive handmade touches. The result? An entirely fresh approach to home d cor and contemporary living. In this lavishly...
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Jonathan Adler on Happy Chic Accessorizing
Jonathan Adler on Happy Chic Accessorizing
00Chic with humor and style—that’s Jonathan Adler’s way, and here he reveals the secrets of achieving his unique look. Crafting sentences as dexterously as he does ceramic vases, Adler takes us on a whirlwind tour through gorgeously styled interior. Organized by type of furniture (bed, bookshelf, dining table, dresser, table), Adler divulges all the tricks and tips needed to artfully...
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Jonathan Adler on Happy Chic Colors
Jonathan Adler on Happy Chic Colors
00No one has a happier sense of hue and pattern than Jonathan Adler! Inspiring readers to be fearless in their decorating choices, Adler guides us through color-drenched rooms, from True Blue and Going Rouge to Champagne Sparkle. Every chapter is devoted to his thoughts on one color scheme, and he reveals his go-to paint chips, favorite fabrics, and personal color muses, like Diana Vreeland...
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Perfectly Kept House is the Sign of A Misspent Life
Perfectly Kept House is the Sign of A Misspent Life
00For all those who choose to live “imperfectly” with the messy things they love, this book shows how to do so creatively, happily, and with considerable style ideas from leading designers. A beautiful and inspiring volume, A Perfectly Kept House is the Sign of A Misspent Life focuses on living well with everything that makes a house a home. If you have been influenced by the...
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My Passion for Design by Barbra Streisand
My Passion for Design by Barbra Streisand
00For nearly five decades Barbra Streisand has been one of the singular figures in American entertainment. From the cabaret to the Broadway stage, from television and film stardom to her acclaimed work as a director, from the recording studio to the concert hall, she has demonstrated that the extraordinary voice that launched her career was only one of her remarkable gifts. Now, in her...
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Green Interior Design by Lori Dennis
Green Interior Design by Lori Dennis
00With over 100 color photos of projects and furnishings from the leading green design professionals, this easy-to-use (and easy to read) manual includes extensive resources and vendors who practice green behavior and business strategies and inspirational and cost-effective tips to creating glamorously green interiors. Geared toward homeowners, interior designers, architects, and...
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Environmentally Responsible Design: Green and Sustainable Design for Interior Designers
Environmentally Responsible Design: Green and Sustainable Design for Interior Designers
00At last, there’s an authoritative guide to help interior designers apply green- building and sustainability applications to their environments. Sustainable Interior Design expertly introduces the principles of environmentally responsible design for interior environments. This useful reference provides beginning designers and experienced professionals alike with a comprehensive...
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Liaigre by Christian Liaigre, Thomas Luntz
Liaigre by Christian Liaigre, Thomas Luntz
00Liaigre’s spare, Zen-meets-luxury aesthetic is instantly recognizable in these six sumptuously designed locations. The first spreads are of a house in Orense, Spain: cue lots of dark wood, deep reds and rich leathers, with such Iberian flourishes as a sofa embroidered with motifs drawn from toreadors’ costumes. The rest of the book takes a romp through five similarly lush...
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Syrie Maugham by Pauline C. Metcalf
Syrie Maugham by Pauline C. Metcalf
00Trendsetter, fashion icon, and wife of an internationally renowned novelist, the interior designer Syrie Maugham (1879 1955) created an ultra-chic world that was as unique as it was influential. Her ethereal all-white rooms of the 1920s and 30s were echoed in high-style interiors around the world and translated into sets for movies and theatrical productions. Much of the look we associate...
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Preston Bailey’s Design for Entertaining, Inspiration for Creating the Party of Your Dreams
Preston Bailey’s Design for Entertaining, Inspiration for Creating the Party of Your Dreams
00A party planner to the stars offers guidance to the earthbound on creating the perfect celebration, from designing the ideal lighting to choosing the best floral arrangements. Lavishly photographed by Roger Dong and Alex Kirkbride, this book gives readers glimpses into Matt Lauer’s red-themed wedding reception and the sumptuous anniversary party for Oprah’s magazine, O-content...
