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Summary: Pls have the publisher reprint this book asap.
Review: An excellent guide to the english country style tradition. It stands out in a field that is already crowded with good works, and at this point is to be considerer a classic.
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Summary: Learn Every Aspect of English Country Living
Review: Knowing that I love English Country style homes, my husband gave this book to me as a Christmas gift. What he did not know was that I had ordered it at the same bookstore and had not been able to pick it up. When I opened it on Christmas morning, what a surprise! This book gives lovely accounts of living life in a true English Country house. With scores of rooms to inspire your own decorating it truly tells the English Country story. Opening this book is like taking a journey to a beautiful land in another time. I highly recommend it and have seen a copy in many, many homes in articles of decorating magazines. It seems everyone has a copy of this fabulous book.
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Summary: misleading
Review: The content of this book is great, but the size of the book is ridiculous. When they say a little style book, they mean literally a little book. Yes, the book has style, but who want to look at a 4" x 4" book on style or decorating? Too much money for such a book.
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Summary: misleading
Review: The content of this book is great, but the size of the book is ridiculous. When they say a little style book, they mean literally a little book. Yes, the book has style, but who want to look at a 4" x 4" book on style or decorating? Too much money for such a book.
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Summary: misleading
Review: The content of this book is great, but the size of the book is ridiculous. When they say a little style book, they mean literally a little book. Yes, the book has style, but who want to look at a 4" x 4" book on style or decorating? Too much money for such a book.
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Summary: A favorite for an Anglophile style fan
Review: This book has a chatty, at times even gossipy tone, that makes it read like you're listening to a very knowledgeable friend. What I find amusing, and enlightening, in the photographs is how English homes can be so unlike an American's idea of "rich people's decorating." The wallpaper can be faded and peeling, the slipcovers faded and shrunken, the furniture needs refinishing, the rugs are unravelling, and things don't always match well. An "accidental" style, rather. But it's elegant and comfortable in ways that rooms with brand-new "matchy-matchy" things never are. And the architecture, no matter how grand or modest the house, is always classy. The English just have a way with style, which any Anglophile will recognize and love in this book.
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Summary: A favorite for an Anglophile style fan
Review: This book has a chatty, at times even gossipy tone, that makes it read like you're listening to a very knowledgeable friend. What I find amusing, and enlightening, in the photographs is how English homes can be so unlike an American's idea of "rich people's decorating." The wallpaper can be faded and peeling, the slipcovers faded and shrunken, the furniture needs refinishing, the rugs are unravelling, and things don't always match well. An "accidental" style, rather. But it's elegant and comfortable in ways that rooms with brand-new "matchy-matchy" things never are. And the architecture, no matter how grand or modest the house, is always classy. The English just have a way with style, which any Anglophile will recognize and love in this book.
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