Customer Reviews

French Connection, The

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Her first couple of books were very good. Her last 2 to 3 books (including this one),she talks alot about the french people. She goes into the history of Madame de Pompadour, Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI and very little about decorating. She compares Americans and French people. Quite boring actually.

Absolutely beautiful!!! I love all her book's.I think that the BettyLou Phillips book's are the very best of French design out there.I love the history she writes on the French royalty and all the scrumptious pages of beauty, page after page.I always look forward to the next book release.

Wonderful. The bland cover really doesn't do the book justice. Excellent resource book for French-style interiors.

The images gave me wonderful ideas, they are peaceful settings with many creative serene areas to incorporate in a home.

The book also give a few paragraphs about history of items used in the images. Did you ever wonder why the term "French Hen" came about or how wicker came into French country design?

Did you ever have some little accent in your house and someone walks in and tells you all about it, where it comes from, why it exists...? It makes you sort of feel silly that you have it on display in your house but didn't know why those little accents were originally created.

THIS book shows you the decor, points out the accents that are indicative in French design but also briefly tells you when they were created, by who and why, in a light way. I say in a light way because its not a history book and the author is careful not to go on and on about the who and why of things but it gives you just enough just in case you want to know.

Author Betty Lou Phillips is fascinated with all things French - and her French Connection hones her interests and focuses on the changing styles of French furnishings over the decades. Any involved in French style and interior design must have French Connection: it surveys distinctive interiors which blend French with other international elements, providing a survey of French designers and patrons of the arts and dual pursuits of glamour and ease in home tastes. Her history of Parisian and French flair and how it translated to home interiors makes for an outstanding introduction.