Leading The Artful Life Mary Engelbreit [Hardcover]

Engelbreit (Author)

Book Description

Series: Home Companion Magazine | Publication Date: October 1, 2000

First Edition, 2000. Hardcover with nice dust jacket. "Interiors designed with artistic intuition." "Mary Engelbreit's "Editor in Chief' Home Companion". Text by Vitta Poplar. Andrews McMeel Publishing, Kansas City, Publisher. Printed in Great Britain by Butler & Tanner Ltd., Frome and London. Contents include: Introduction, new traditionalists, primarily colors, bohemian rhapsody, drawn from nature, the bare necessities. Originally sold for $27.95. Total 139 numbered pages, with a few unnumbered. Boards are clean, sharp corners, green with decorations and light brown and beige on the front board. The endpages are light blue ginghum. "For anyone who loves a garden, Mary brings nature's beauty right into your home, with fabric, light, garden artifacts, and of course flowers and plants. Mary tells you how to achieve the look with grace and comfort. Scattered among dozens of luscious color photographs are Mary's favorite tricks, techniques, and tips for leading an artful life, with humor and beauty. Beautiful colored illustrations throughout the book that are rich and exciting looking. For the interior designer in yourself, be sure to get this to teach you some wonderful new and exciting ways to decorate your home or someone else's. The spine is tight and straight, the pages are clean and without markings or tears. The dust jacket has only normal shelfwear. A beautiful book! Giftable condition. *9BC0

Product Details

• Hardcover: 144 pages
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing; First Edition edition (October 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0740709976
• ISBN-13: 978-0740709975
• Product Dimensions: 11.5 x 9.6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #831,359 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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29 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars reruns are so disappointing!, January 13, 2001

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Anya (Deep in the Colorado Rockies) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Leading The Artful Life Mary Engelbreit (Hardcover)

I imagine there are already used copies of this brand new book for sale because if you are a ME fan, you've seen it all before in the magazine. It's really annoying to open a new book by a favorite author to find that you recognize the material on every page! To some extent the last book by ME, "Paint" presented the same situation...lots of reruns, but this one has even more used material. I wish authors would reveal that previously published material is being used in a book. Most true ME fans are always hungry for more, I hope she gives it to us in her next book.

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A Mary Engelbreit Re-Do, June 28, 2001

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"cricket88" (Southern Oregon, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Leading The Artful Life Mary Engelbreit (Hardcover)

Disappointment as I am a charter subscriber to Mary Englebreit's magazine. Subscribers to Mary's wonderful magazine entitled Home Companion should note that much of this work is reprinted from the magazines. This should've been stated so unsuspecting buyers wouldn't repurchase what they already have. If you don't subscribe to the magazine this would be a wonderful book to own. It is filled with great photos of inspirational ideas for incorporating into our own homes.

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, December 27, 2000

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Sweet Jane (Utah) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Leading The Artful Life Mary Engelbreit (Hardcover)

I am a big fan of ME and her magazine, Mary Englebreit's Home Companion. I received this book as a gift, and was excited, since I would have bought it for myself. However, most of the photographs have already been used in the magazine. Very few were new, so there was not much new inspiration generated.