Description: The ultimate in luxury interior design, architect Laura Sessa guides readers through a personalised selection of her most striking interiors and furnishings.With poise, elegance, and attention to detail, Italian architect and interior designer Laura Sessa creates harmony and flow between interior and exterior spaces that are functional, colourful, and aesthetically pleasing. In this, her debut monograph, Sessa offers...
Description: Celebrate a century of Provençal elegance and craftsmanship through the colorful and whimsical world of Maison Fragonard, a historic perfumer and purveyor of lifestyle goods.Fragonard’s rich history in crafting luxurious perfumes and designing fanciful objects for the home is recounted in this beautifully illustrated book. An ode to the essence of a unique Provençal and Riviera lifestyle, it...
DescriptionThe essential guide on what to collect, how to select, and where to find the French antiques of your dreams, complete with expert tips and insider knowledge. After decades of antique hunting throughout France, Sharon Santoni offers invaluable insight on finding and collecting French antiques—from Provençal quilted boutis to floral transferware to landscape paintings—which exude a singular charm and bring...
Elisabeth de Feydeau (author), Alain Baraton (editor)DescriptionA horticultural tour of Marie-Antoinette’s domain, the lavishly constructed gardens at Versailles, accompanied by eighteenth-century botanical watercolors from Pierre-Joseph Redouté and his contemporaries. Plants, flowers, and trees were Marie-Antoinette’s passion; she transformed the Petit Trianon’s gardens into an enchanted refuge from the oppressive shackles of Versailles. Based on archival documents, this book meanders through Marie-Antoinette’s estate as the queen herself...
Description: Marin Montagut’s charming guide takes readers inside more than 475 shops, museums, neighborhoods, gardens, restaurants, and cafés that exude the enchanting essence of Paris. To discover every beguiling corner of Paris like a local, follow Marin Montagut to his favourite places; in operation for thirty years or more, these addresses define what makes the city so captivating....
Description This ultimate reference on fine watchmaking offers a comprehensive overview of the history and anatomy of luxury timepieces.Taking readers behind the scenes to discover the captivating realm of mechanical watches, this indispensable reference provides rare insight into the world of fine watchmaking. Designed for watch enthusiasts, experts, and industry professionals alike, the book examines every detail of the anatomy...
Every culture is rooted in an artisanal tradition that combines locally sourced materials, time-honored savoir faire, and a desire to adorn and embellish objects from daily life. Here, thirty-eight women and men—from the United States, United Kingdom, Japan, India, Italy, France, Mali, Mexico, and beyond—open their workshops to share their heritage, skill, and unique vision.
A certain kind of alchemy takes place when you decorate from the heart and style with conviction. In Expressive Interiors, designer Jo Berryman celebrates a sense of adventure and self-expression in decoration. Jo opens the door to a selection of her own projects as well as paying tribute to other interiors that embrace authenticity over conventionality, personal...
Atelier Vime, established in Vallabrègues Provence in 1878 in a grand eighteenth-century house, draws on the long tradition of wickerwork in this village of basket-makers on the banks of the Rhône River.
This magnificent book invites the reader to explore the poetic settings of their homes across France in Provence, Brittany, Paris, and Normandy.
Many of us have been inspired by the recent beautiful images of the buildings in Paris, which may have prompted your own desire to visit, but it’s not just Paris that can fire our imagination.
Every country, including our own, has the most beautiful architecture and its own style of interior design; all it needs is a little focus, and taking the opportunity to observe the beauty that surrounds us.
This scintillating volume takes readers on an exclusive journey through Paris, guided by Mathilde Favier—the charismatic public relations director at Dior Couture.
A richly illustrated sourcebook of two-dimensional pattern and three dimensional ornamentation, presenting more than 1,000 historic and contemporary examples from around the world.
The art of collecting—from artist’s palettes still freckled with oil paint, to sculpted picture frames, to a menagerie of wooden toy animals—associating an accumulation of kindred objects is at the core of timeless French style.
The founders of Antoinette Poisson take readers inside their historic townhouse on the Atlantic coast to discover a style and art of entertaining rooted in French tradition and elegance.
Maison Lescop—the historic residence of an eighteenth-century French importer for the Indian trading company in Port-Louis, Brittany—seemed predestined to become the new home and restoration project for the creative duo behind Antoinette Poisson, a Parisian design team dedicated to reviving the savoir faire of domino paper for home decoration and furnishings.
Fulfilling a lifetime dream of finding a house by the sea, Pearl Lowe now brings her laid-back decorating style to coastal living with Faded Glamour by the Sea. Pearl Lowe's gloriously decadent yet perfectly lived-in decorating style was featured in her bestselling interiors book Faded Glamour.
This definitive survey of one of the most popular, collectable and dynamic periods of international design offers a rich overview of all aspects of the subject. Mid-century furniture, lighting, glass, ceramics, textiles, product design, industrial design, graphics and posters are covered, as well as architecture and interior design, exemplifying post-war optimism and energy...
Bargain Hunt is a British institution, entertaining audiences for over 20 years, and encouraging us to look for diamonds in the rough at antique fairs and shops across the country.
Coming Home to Nature is a wonderful book, how did you create it working as a team? When all three of us met in the countryside a year and a half ago, the idea of writing a book about urban migration and a new lifestyle came up quickly; we realised that we were part of a...
A pioneer of the Arts & Crafts Movement, William Morris (1834–1896) is one of the most influential designers of all time. Morris turned the tide of Victorian England against an increasingly industrialized manufacturing process towards a rediscovered respect for the skill of the maker. Morris’s whole approach still resonates today, and his designs are popular...
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An essential sourcebook of prints from a key fashion decade.
The 1950s was the decade when an analytical approach to design, with a lightness and freshness, combined with whimsical imagery and idiosyncratic subject matter. Showcasing hundreds of print designs, this book celebrates the heyday of postwar fashion design.