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A guide to decorating the home using objects acquired at flea markets, auctions, and garage sales features before-and-after photographs, prices, a listing of auction houses, and tips on bargaining, cleaning, and camouflage. Tour.

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  • Hardcover: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Studio; 3rd.printing edition (March 30, 1994)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0670844004
  • ISBN-13: 978-0670844005
  • Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 9.5 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,018,716 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars One man's Martha Stewart is another's Mary Randolph Carter, December 19, 1999
By Jill Van Vliet (Nashville, TN) - See all my reviews
This review is from: American Junk (Paperback)
Indeed, Mary Randolph Carter is a kindred spirit to anyone who finds Martha Stewart's ideas too pricey and exclusive. This eye-boggling array of color, texture and whimsy is not only helpful to those of us who appreciate junk treasures, but also inspiring simply as a visual workout; Carter's way with disparate objects and her eye for composition is helpful to anyone contemplating any interior project, whether dealing in new OR vintage. One of my all-time favorites and one I consult again and again, whenever I want to wriggle free my artistic sensibilities.
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5.0 out of 5 stars fabulous help in finding one-of-a-kind treasures, August 18, 1999
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Fabulous! Fabulous! Fabulous! As a decorator/designer this wonderful book was just a marvelous help to me in finding and paying the right price for those one-of-a-kind treasures clients just love you to death for. I found most of Ms. Carter's tips on junk just ever so clever; the type that make you say "now why didn't I think of that". And the wonderful color photos alone make this book something you'll want to keep looking at over and over.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Fun to Give and Receive, January 29, 2002
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American Junk is not a how-to book as its subtitle suggests. Far more specific advice about hunting and haggling is available in flea market directories, and there really is no rescue or transformation involved: items acquired move directly to the table top, shelf, desk, floor, wherever. This is a celebration of cheap old stuff that others might ignore or take pains to avoid, an annointment of its value by someone of influence (the author is a vice president at Ralph Lauren, I believe). It's a quasi aesthetic, with loving photographs of the items in assembled in haphazard tableaus. It is of an innocent age, published before e-bay seized collectibles from the trash, before absolutely everybody got into flea market hunt, before Antiques Roadshow--and that was less than 10 years ago! The author does not explain to a doubter's satisfaction how one lives and cleans with so much stuff. Not all of it is really junk, of course--a vintage set of Zane Grey novels, some folk art carving, old textiles are not what I'd call junk. Dirty old Tupperware or small harvest gold appliances that no longer work are what I call junk and they are not to be found in this book. Ah, well; it is fun to give or receive, but take the author's approach and try to get it cheap.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Calling All Packrats
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1.0 out of 5 stars not happy
Ordered this book May 2nd for a gift. The recipient STILL has not received the book so i really can't tell you any details of the product.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Great Pictures, Few Ideas
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5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome!
The book was great! Wonderful pictures, and helpful hints on the "how-to's"! I highly recommend this book to anyone who is hunting for good old AMERICAN JUNK!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Something to really consider.
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3.0 out of 5 stars It really was about lots of "junk"
I bought it then wanted to return it, but didn't. It gave me alot of ideas for garage sale hunting, but the items were really not appealing to me, and i think its written more... Read more
Published on July 26, 1999 by Lawrence M. Robinson

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