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Title: House & Garden Book of Style : The Best of Contemporary Decorating by Dominique Browning ISBN: 0-609-60928-9 Publisher: Clarkson Potter Pub. Date: 30 October, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: A handsome volume from a classic magazine
Comment: Dominique Browning, editor of HOUSE & GARDEN magazine, has a triumph on her hands with "House & Garden Book of Style." HOUSE & GARDEN has long been the sophisticated cousin to the more accessible HOUSE BEAUTIFUL, and that chicness is in evidence here. The HOUSE & GARDEN cool austerity--sometimes sacrificing warmth for hard-edged style, but many times not--is amply displayed throughout.
The book covers a panoply of styles, from "Country Luxe" to "New International" to "Mid-Century Modern" and beyond. The shabby warmth of English-inspired rooms is covered, as is the prissier French look--but as HOUSE & GARDEN so often does, there is almost always a visual wrench thrown into the works to get your attention and make you rethink your assumptions about a particular genre. Perfectly making the point is the photograph on p. 25, which shows an 18th-century settee decorously covered in a taupe damask, above which hangs what appears to be a piece of Spirograph art made with screamingly bright primary oil paints. The effect is jarring--but it works.
The thinking which goes into the decoration of these rooms is explored just as deeply as the looks themselves. Although photographs take up most of the room--as they should, since this is a case when a picture telling a thousand words is not only desirable, but necessary for instructing the reader--the text is informative and enlightening. The end result is that these profoundly individual rooms make their own cases, and what beautiful cases they make.
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Title: Around the House and in the Garden: A Memoir of Heartbreak, Healing, and Home Improvement by Dominique Browning ISBN: 0743226933 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 02 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Room by Room: Contemporary Interiors by Carol Meredith, Lloy Hack ISBN: 1564966968 Publisher: Rockport Publishers Pub. Date: August, 2000 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Chris Casson Madden's New American Living Rooms by Chris Casson Madden ISBN: 0609610023 Publisher: Clarkson Potter Pub. Date: 29 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Dwellings: Living with Great Style by Stephen Sills/James Huniford ISBN: 0821228463 Publisher: Bulfinch Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Elle Decor: The Grand Book of French Style by Jean Demachy, Francois Baudot ISBN: 0821227645 Publisher: Bulfinch Pub. Date: 05 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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