Country Style [Paperback]

Judith Miller (Author), Martin Miller (Author), James Merrell (Photographer)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 28, 2006

Welcome the definitive book on a perennially popular approach to decorating. People love country-style design because it celebrates simplicity, warmth, and the enduring rural tradition—and this informative volume beautifully traces its origins. It features more than 400 stunning photographs of homes throughout Europe and North America that convey the country essence, while all the essential stylistic elements (furniture, floor and wall surfaces, and architectural details) are covered in detail.

 

 

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About the Author

Judith Miller is the co-founder of the hugely successful annual publication Miller's Antiques Price Guide. She is the co-author and author of several other Mitchell Beazley titles, including Classic Style, The Style Sourcebook, Victorian Style, Country Finishes and Effects, Period Details, Period Finishes and Effects, Period-Style Soft Furnishings and Care and Repair of Antiques and Collectables. Judith appears regularly on TV and radio programmes, including BBC2's House Detectives.

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: MITCH (July 28, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 185732465X
• ISBN-13: 978-1857324655
• Product Dimensions: 11.4 x 9.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #915,185 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A dream of a book, January 2, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Country Style (Paperback)

This book is a dream. If you like warmth, wood, natural finishes, natural shapes, a relative degree of simplicity where humaness rather than layers of chinz fabric or in-human white lines rules, truth, age and interiors full of love, then this is the most wonderful book on the subject I have ever seen. Of course its dominated by hundreds of full page, color photographs, each one stunning.

The main body of the book (about two thirds) is dominataed by chapters which divide up interior looks according to different countries. Miller covers English Country style, American colonial, Scandinavian/Swedish, Italin and Spanish plus a couple of others. Under each country, we get a tour of a number of special houses which represent the country style of that land. Under Italy, a beautiful Tuscan villa is visited room by room. Under England, a mid-sized Elizabethan home. And so on.

The remainder of the book, is divided into chapters which look at country style according to different rooms: kitchens, living rooms, bedrooms etc. Also a brief, but enlightening tour of country style through the ages - ie by period.

What more could you ask for? Sensational, utterly inspiring photographs - (is the text EVER really that useful in these sort of books?) Incidentally, if you love wood for your interiors, I also HIGHLY recommend Wooden Houses by the same author. all just glorious and real and definitely make one want to either move out of the city or somehow bring the warmth and beauty of this style into one's town house.