With more than 600 spectacular full-color photos and an illuminating text, "Caribbean Style" brings home the houses, gardens, and buoyant lifestyle of this enchanting region.
The rich history of garden tools is explored in this lushly designed volume, illustrated with hundred of color photos of tools, as well as vintage lithographs, engravings, posters and ads.
This lavishly illustrated volume opens a window into the world of one of the most extravagant and wide-ranging stylemakers of the last century, a pioneer of the cosmetics industry who was also celebrated for the daring and prescience of her art collecting, her decorating, and her personal couture. Four hundred vintage images and a meticulously ...
India, perhaps as no other land, possesses an extraordinary mix of religions, people, and traditions. This book reveals the opulent palaces of fabled maharajahs as well as the native dwellings few visitors ever see. The authors introduce the variety of Indian style in more than 500 full-color photographs.
No other country in Europe presents such an exciting and unusual heritage as Spain. In Spanish Style, the authors explore this rich design heritage in more than 650 full-color photographs. Divided into chapters on Living in Spain, Spanish Accents, Family Traditions, Contemporary Views, and more.
This beautiful book captures the authentic simplicity of Greek interior design, the vivacity of contemporary Greek culture, and the bountiful delights that lure seven million travelers to Greece each year. More than 800 full-color photographs.
Lifestyle experts Suzanne Slesin, Daniel Rozensztroch, and Stafford Cliff, whose previous books have proclaimed the pleasures of collecting such everyday items as garden tools and kitchen ceramics, now shine their spotlight on glass. Featuring cruets and canisters, inkwells and lanterns, pitchers and paperweights, Glass shows how a discriminating ...
Forty prayers from Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Islam, Tao, Buddhism, Confuncianism and Native American faiths. The prayers are primarily those for rites of passage: marriage, birth, healing, death. This book contains color photos and six die-cut chapter openers.
The authors of Have Some Sand present a devilishly delightful book for this most uninhibited holiday that blends stories, recipes, spells, quotes, and vintage postcards into a doubled-sided treat that's frightfully clever and ghastly good fun. 75 full-color illustrations.
In a book designed to enchant and inspire the burgeoning number of spiritual seekers--from traditionalists to twelve-step groups--this collection of illuminated translations and transliterations of The Lord's Prayer is enhanced by cultural motifs and 100 full-color modern photographs. 8 six-page gatefolds.
A visual feast of some of the most spectacular and ingenious residential lofts throughout the world, from Slesin and Cliff, the bestselling team responsible for French Style, English Style, and Caribbean Style. Over 370 full-color photographs.
The authors of the Valentine's Day hit Have Some Sand first took an irreverent view of love and marriage; now they turn their collective jaundiced eye--logically enough--toward babies. Those curly dimpled lunatics, so darling, so innocent, so deficient in the social graces, have inspired this collection of vintage postcards, advice and aphorisms ...
The center of the old Austro-Hungarian empire comes alive in this guide to the architecture, interiors, and folk arts of the cities and countryside of Mittel Europa.
Foreword by Robert Rosenblum. Preface by Andr*e Putman. French Style captures the celebrated art de vivre of the contemporary French life-style. 450 full-color photographs.
Beginning with FRENCH STYLE, Suzanne Slesin and her coauthors created an acclaimed series of high-quality color books that focused on international areas of cultural and domestic interest. Now THE LITTLE STYLE BOOKS revisit this classic material in a new format. Snappy and appealing, each contains pictures and text from the original, selected and ...
Snappy and appealing, each volume of The Little Style Books series contains pictures and text to highlight what is quintessential about the style of the subject country. The Cooking chapter, for example, shows not only what other people cook and eat, but how our kitchens might be adapted. This treasure trove of ideas indeed presents the essence of ...
This text presents examples of residential lofts in London, New York, Paris, Chicago, Berlin, Los Angeles and Milan. Whether in former warehouses, converted schoolhouses, suites of offices, or one-time woodworking shops, the lofts all represent contemporary design and living. Confronted by the challenge of dealing with hundreds or often thousands ...
From the ordinary eggbeater, to the whimsical birdcage, to the extraordinary monogrammed trousseau basket, wire objects have worked their way into virtually every human activity. Since the 18th century, such occupations as housekeeping, cooking, gardening, fishing, and hunting have been unthinkable without them. Many pieces such as fruit bowls, ...
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