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Title: Shabby Chic: Sumptuous Settings and Other Lovely Things
ISBN: 006052393X
Author:
Rachel Ashwell
Publicate Date: 2004-12-01
Publish: 2004-12-01
List Price: $34.95
Average Customer Rating: 4.0
Format: Hardcover
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1: Shabby Chic Settings and Lovely Things
The ideas and photos are just superb! Rachel is a romantic Goddes with all that soft and lovely collors and treasures! Very inspiring!
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2: Shabby Chic Gorgeous
As usual Rachels books never fail to delight the eye with the sumptuous photography, attention to detail and her style of putting together the simplest objects to create visual feasts. A book to devour over and over with a lovely cup of tea !
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3: Shift in Focus to Parties, Away from Home Decorating
Maybe "Elegant Shabby Chic" would have been a better name for the book. The photos are gorgeous. The events the author created are lavish affairs for Hollywood socialites. The reader can find inspiration from these and depending on the budget, create your own event.
Each chapter covers a separate affair or decorating challenge. There's Jennifer Lopez' restaurant and Pamela Anderson's son's birthday party. Paper parasols, vintage/flowery hats, a mixture of china teacups, and lots of old-fashioned flowers.
I picked this up, originally thinking it was a decorating book. As a party planning book, it's can be an inspiration.
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4: Beautiful picture book.
I was in great anticipation of this book because I found her previous ones (with the exception of the Gift Giving one which I have not read) to be beautiful, inspiring and filled with great, new to me, information. I wasn't expecting another book like the first ones and had I, I think I would have been disappointed. What I was expecting, however, was just another beautiful book filled with wonderful images to give my brain a creative spark. And it did just that.
It's not really a how to, it doesn't lay things out easily, and it's not really for home ideas and living. But it is beautiful, thoughtful, unique and true to Shabby Chic. So if you're in the need of some more inspiration and love her books, this would be a great match. If you're looking to learn more about shabby chic for home and how to do all that, her other books are much, much better.
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5: best cottage style reference
If you like the casual comfortable look of overstuffed slip covered furniture, this is the best reference you could buy.
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