The French Touch

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The French Touch: a native sense of quality and poise, an effortless elegance that characterizes a wildflower arrangement in a Normandy cottage as much as it does the choice of objets d'art in a luxury Parisian apartment. Here is the opportunity to explore this unique design style, with hundreds of photographs of France's most charmed residences - from lovingly renovated historic chateaux to farmhouses, flats, a converted loft, and even an old silkworm factory - selected from the pages of Maison Jardin by onetime editor Daphne de Saint Sauveur.
Escorting the reader from home to home and region to region, de Saint Sauveur stresses the importance of local traditions in the fashioning of the French homeplace. The interior organization of a house high in the Pyrenees, for example, could never be mistaken for a villa in sunbaked Provence; similarly, houses lapped by the vineyards of Bordeaux or perched on Brittany's wild coasts demand very different approaches to their decoration.... Tovább

Fülszöveg

The French Touch: a native sense of quality and poise, an effortless elegance that characterizes a wildflower arrangement in a Normandy cottage as much as it does the choice of objets d'art in a luxury Parisian apartment. Here is the opportunity to explore this unique design style, with hundreds of photographs of France's most charmed residences - from lovingly renovated historic chateaux to farmhouses, flats, a converted loft, and even an old silkworm factory - selected from the pages of Maison Jardin by onetime editor Daphne de Saint Sauveur.
Escorting the reader from home to home and region to region, de Saint Sauveur stresses the importance of local traditions in the fashioning of the French homeplace. The interior organization of a house high in the Pyrenees, for example, could never be mistaken for a villa in sunbaked Provence; similarly, houses lapped by the vineyards of Bordeaux or perched on Brittany's wild coasts demand very different approaches to their decoration.
AU the homes featured in The French Touch are lived in, and all reflect in every detail the taste and personality of their owners. Gardens are no less important, and they have all been laid out, embeUished, and cared for with equal devotion and elan, whether they be acres of formal landscape or small townhouse patios. Readers will find this book an inspiration in the grandest sense: all who concern themselves with the design and style of the home in which they live - and everyone who knows or loves France and the French -will enjoy this as an intimate record of a way of life of enviable ease and charm.
ill Vissza