Metropolitan Home American Style

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Summary: disappointment
Review: A handsome book that is limited in scope. It's much too marrow to be "American Style."

Rating:
Summary: Metropolitan Home American Style
Review: If you like the magazine Metropolitan Home, you will like this book. The styles are clean and contemporary without being wierd, and work well in all kinds of settings from traditional homes to student apartments to genuine metropolitan digs (which I do not own). Good pictures. Best part are a number of "decorator secret" type entries with very practical suggestions about how to get the effects -- large or small -- you want.

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Summary: This isn't American style, at all -- it's New York style
Review: In typical NY magazine fashion, this book by a small design magazine shows a narrow range of design approaches with an East Coast bias -- or a bicoastal look, at best. I get the feeling that the editors never venture west of the Hudson, to use that cliche. I returned the book.