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Manufacturer: Ryland Peters & Small

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The English style in interior design is admired and copied all over the world. At its grandest it means antiques, portraits, and artifacts--but the houses in this book are country cottages, farmhouses and parsonages, urban row houses, and apartments--not mansions. What links them is as much an attitude as a look. The English style of decoration is practical and informal, designed around the people who occupy the rooms rather than decorating to impress. These houses are lived in and loved, they are not afraid to be pretty and above all they are comfortable. Author Ros Byam Shaw divdes the book into Plain English, English Eccentric, English Rose, English Country House, and Classic English to reflect the many facets of English style. Each chapter end with accessible ideas for furnishing a house in that style. *A directory of suppliers will help you achieve the look in your home. *Featured homes include those of writers Rafaella Barker, Leslie Geddes-Brown, and interior designers Emily Todhunter, Gilly and Geoff Newberry of Bennison Fabrics, and Roger Jones of Colefax and Fowler *Evocative photography by Chris Tubbs.


PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS:

Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 747.0942
EAN: 9781845973452
ISBN: 1845973453
Label: Ryland Peters & Small
Manufacturer: Ryland Peters & Small
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 192
Publication Date: 2007-04-30
Publisher: Ryland Peters & Small
Studio: Ryland Peters & Small


SIMILAR ITEMS:

• Bunny Williams' Point of View: Three Decades of Decorating Elegant and Comfortable Houses
• John Fowler: Prince of Decorators
• The English House: English Country Houses and Interiors
• Axel Vervoordt: Timeless Interiors
• Hunt Country Style


CUSTOMER REVIEWS:

Slouchy and comfortable, and very, very English -
This is not really a decorator book--not something you run to for the ideas on how to create a truly elegant dining room, for example. Rather, it's a collection of color pictures of country English homes.

The homes are much more about practical necessity than about decorator style, and they feature the kind of comfy, unmatched style of home that you can picture the characters of some mystery novel by Agatha Christie living in. There are glorious antiques galore, pots of just picked flowers from the garden, and the paintings of ancient relatives hanging above a fireplace.

Just the thing to sit down with a cup of tea, and enjoy browsing through.

I LOVE this book!!!! Anglophiles take note!! -
As an avid Anglophile and future builder of my own English cottage, I'm always on the lookout for books on English architecture and decorating! I got this book today and I have to say of all my books (and there are plenty!) this is THE BEST ONE YET! Instead of a book with one or two really good pictures - this one is chock full of really excellent photos (interior and exterior, but mostly interior) and great ideas for those little English touches as well! Many times these types of books are full of pictures of very dated looking interiors but not this one! This is definitely my favorite book so far and I heartily (can you tell? :o) ) recommend it to fellow Anglophiles! You won't be disappointed! Well done to the author and photographer of this book!

Absolutely Beautiful! -
Great photos, interesting text, flows well. All round a wonderful addition to my interior design library!

A Book with Oodles of Charm! Ooodles, I Say! -
After months, years, decades, MILLENIA of general disappointment with books featuring traditional decor -- we have a WINNAH! Abundant with gorgeous piccies of charming rooms filled with the romantic clutter of life, I drooled over most every photograph as if it were a rasher of crisply fried bacon. But the STAR photograph (it's also on the cover of the book & not the same as the cover featured on Amazon) has to be this ancient monster of a wing chair, large enough for two and upholstered in a faded yellow floral, a deteriorating green velvet & a beige linen. And scrunched together on the seat of this throne are 2 gigantic yellow silk pillows in which one can sink in a billow of joy. Blimey, you don't see chairs like this on Architectural Digest! I really must salute the photographer Chris Tubbs who imbued every image with the glorious shabby Englishness that many of us miss in today's contemporary interiors. This book makes we want to sell my Spanish Colonial & move to a tumble-down English rectory. I must also commend Ros Byam Shaw's well-written & superbly descriptive text, as contributing much to my pleasure.

My Rating: 5 stars & a Cornish pasty!

not so perfect... -
As a lover of cottage, shabby chic, French and English style, I anxiously awaited the delivery of this book. Upon its delivery, I found a comfortable chair and started reading page by page. And, as I approached the middle I thought it would eventually get better, but I found it boring all the way around. I found some of the decorating "way out",some of the art work ghastly, and far from what I would consider English, at least perfect English. My biggest disappointment is that I paid for this book as entertainment. What a loss!

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