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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherRyland Peters & Small
ISBN-101845973453
ISBN-139781845973452
eBay Product ID (ePID)57169862
Product Key Features
Book TitlePerfect English
Number of Pages192 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicInterior Design / General, Furniture
Publication Year2007
IllustratorYes
GenreDesign, Architecture
AuthorRos Byam Shaw
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight46.5 Oz
Item Length11.8 in
Item Width9.9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2006-034661
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal747.0942
SynopsisThe English style in interior design is admired and imitated the world over. At its grandest it is a stately home furnished with antiques, but the houses featured in this book are country cottages, farmhouses, townhouses, and apartments. What links them is as much an attitude as a look. The English style of decoration is practical and informal, designed around the inhabitants of the rooms and their lifestyles rather than to awe or impress. These houses are lived in and loved, with interiors that are comfortable, relaxed and not afraid to be pretty. All are perfect in their own way, and all as endearingly English as saying sorry when someone treads on your foot. The book's chapters--Plain English, English Eccentric, English Rose, English Country House and Classic English--reflect the many and varied facets of English style, and each section ends with pages devoted to suggestions and ideas for furnishing a house in all these versions of English style. At the back of the book, there is also a comprehensive listing of suppliers to help readers create their very own take on perfect English style.