The French Touch : Decoration and Design in the Private Homes of France
Saint Sauveur, Daphne de199803UU
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The French touch, an effortless elegance found anywhere from cottages to Parisian apartments, is revealed in this book which takes the reader into dozens of the most beautiful homes in France. Organized regionally, it shows chateaux, farmhouses and tiny flats. The French touch is characterized by an effortless elegance that characterizes the arrangement of a vase of wild flowers on a cottage table in Normandy as much as the choice of objets d'art on a Louis XVI escritoire in a luxury Parisian apartment. This book is an opportunity to sample this wonderful way of life, with a wealth of lavish colour photographs that take the reader into the most beautiful homes of France. Chateaux, mansions, farmhouses and village homes, modest townhouses and tiny flats: all reflect in every detail the taste and personality of their owners. Gardens are no less important and they have been laid out, embellished and cared for with equal devotion and elan, whether acres of formal landscape or a small townhouse patio. Everybody concerned with the design of interiors or gardens with find this book an inspiration: everybody who knows and loves the French will enjoy an intimate record of a mode de vie of enviable ease and charm.Review: "'Beautifully photographed' - Traditional Homes; 'Sumptuous... hundreds of colour photographs give the reader an insight into some of the most beautiful homes in France' - France".
Main title:
The French Touch : Decoration and Design in the Private Homes of France / Daphne de Saint Sauveur.
Author:
Edition:
New ed.
Imprint:
London : Thames & Hudson Ltd : [distributor] Thames and Hudson Ltd : [distributor] Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd : [distributor] Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd : [distributor] Peter Hyde Associates (Pty) Ltd, 1998.
Collation:
240 p. : 254 col.ill. ; 26x25 cm.
Notes:
Paperback.
Audience:
Undergraduate
Contents:
Introduction-- Paris: The Decorator's Eye-- Paris: The Personal Touch-- The Ile de France-- The West-- The South-West and the Bordeaux Region-- The South.
Biography/History:
Daphne de Saint Sauveur has worked at Le Figaro, Figaro Magazine and Madame Figaro, and for several years was editor-in-chief of Maison & Jardin.
ISBN:
9780500279823 (pbk)0500279829 (pbk)
Dewey class:
747.24747.2
Language:
EnglishFrench
Subject:
Index terms:
Interior decorationFranceHistory20th century
BRN:
1322606
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