Product Description

For those who have never had the pleasure of a Tuscan sojourn, the simple idea of it is exhilarating; for those who have, the slightest reminder sends a flood of passionate memories rushing to the head. In other words, it is a place that is as mythical in reality as in imagination. Traversing the landscapes, homes, and interiors of the region, this book captures the essence of Tuscany in all its old world magnificence.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #83565 in Books
• Published on: 2008-06-30
• Original language: German, French, English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 190 pages

Review
"More bang for your buck! "... a fast-food, high-energy fix on the topic at hand." The New York Times Book Review"

About the Author
Angelika Taschen studied art history and German literature in Heidelberg, gaining her doctorate in 1986. Working for TASCHEN since 1987, she has published numerous titles on architecture, photography, design, contemporary art, interiors, and travel.

Customer Reviews

Inspiration that ignites your senses
I purchased this book back in 2005, in Downtown Cincinnati, Ohio(USA). Going to school for Interior Design (with aspirations for a future in furniture making), I had to purchase a special book for one of my classes. To save money, I lurked in and out of book stores to make my own purchase rather than paying the school.

For the first time in my life I seen this book on Tuscany Style? Not Country French, not Americana, not anything I had heard or seen before. It took my breath away and took me back in time in consideration of what my own great grandparents left behind in German-Ireland. TRADITION!

This Tuscany Style represents Traditional, family generations of Italian Countrymen and their homes. Their possessions are not materials, but lifelong friends of the family and heirlooms. The home and styles represented in this little book introduce you to true "style" as per the individual. It can not be bottled, prepackaged or regenerated and sold. Tuscany is unique, warm, heartfelt and almost spiritual.

I highly suggest any one with a creative gene and an appreciation for traditions buy this book. It has inspired my heart and mind for the future in a specific style of furniture.

Let it inspire you too.

Don't waste your money.
Bought this book for style ideas for decorating a home in Italy. Barely a useful idea in it.
Photos were poorly composed and rather odd, e.g. an outdoor table with half-eaten food on it and a single chair thrown upside-down on the ground. Another horrible photo of a plastic table-cloth badly wrapped over some sort of plank and the mess after another meal. No beauty. Not shabby chic. Just rubbish to fill a book. And in this mean-spirited book a depressing photo of miserable faces looking as if they were being photographed unwillingly, after yet another meal - perhaps they'd just had an argument.