Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #996544 in Books
• Published on: 2006-03-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 272 pages

Customer Reviews

Ignore Stars - Synopsis from front inside dust-jacket as follows...
The New Country Style: playful takes on texture and color; inventive uses of existing architecture; and, always, a unique and utterly fresh sense of style.

Rustic chic melds with contemporary taste in charming cottages, warm manors, and magical gardens. In Sussex, a Victorian villa is furnished with antique finds-patchwork curtains, needlepoint cushions, chinoiserie paintings, the muted tones of floral tapestries-in a torrent of color, at once subtle and sophisticated. In Dungeness, a converted coastguard's tower is one family's weekend retreat. There, steel, wood, and stone inspired by the materials found along the beach are softened by cosy woolen blankets and worn leather chairs that seem to keep the elements at bay.

These homes, scattered as they are across England's countryside, speak to a new aesthetic in interior design. The picture of pastoral perfections is being reinvigorated and modernized by the creativity of a new generation of owners, reflected in the stylish (and often unexpected) interiors. Imaginative, enviable, and inspiring, The New Country Style: England celebrates the most wonderful houses the countryside has to offer.