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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )Florence de Dampierre French Chic: The Art of Decorating Houses List Price: $50.00 Amazon.com's Price: $31.50 You Save: $18.50 (37%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 645 EAN: 9780847830596 ISBN: 0847830594 Label: Rizzoli Manufacturer: Rizzoli Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 224 Publication Date: October 21, 2008 Publisher: Rizzoli Release Date: October 21, 2008 Studio: Rizzoli Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: The French have a legendary sense of style that is synonymous with a joyous, sophisticated way of life, joie de vivre. Elegant and witty, French chic—a clever mix of classic and contemporary—sums up de Dampierre’s design sensibility. Using Edith Wharton’s The Decoration of Houses as a model, she provides advice on how to achieve this distinctive look. The fascinating French decorative history of such architectural elements as windows, fireplaces, and doors, along with basic design principles, is given to provide the origins of the essence of chic. Stunning photography of her home—from the striking entrance hallway with its leopard-pattern carpeted staircase to the sensual master bedroom enlivened with charming toile wallpaper and the resplendent gardens dotted with topiaries—captures the designer’s personal invocations of the best of French chic and empowers the reader to duplicate the experience at home. French Chic is the perfect guide for creating vibrant living spaces with flair. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Beyond DecoratingFlorence de Dampierre French Chic: The Art of Decorating Houses This is more than a decorating book. It provides a historical context for critical decorating decisions as well as accent pieces. It drives you to consider the whole in addition to each part. It eases you into considering the past as well as the future. The author does not force her perspective on you, she gently envelopes you with a sense of history, purpose and style -- all of which she takes very seriously while not taking herself ... Read More Rating: - Three books in one !This comprehensive decorating book opens with a quick tour of de Dampierre's elegant house, but then embarks on a historical journey describing French style and its influence on the United States, including the ties between America and France through Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin, two giants of American history, who returned from visits to France shortly before the start of the French Revolution, and who brought back crates of objects, furniture and books, in addition to many ideas for the newly ... Read More Rating: - French Chic is a TreasureFrench Chic is a treasure because it bridges the divide between the great French historical tradition of interior design to practical design for today's home. Many interior designers develop complicated and elaborate interiors only a billionaire could afford. De Dampierre gives the reader beauty and design with historical tradition, yet it is something that most households can acheive and afford on their own. This is the practical bridge that Martha Stewart acheived with cooking and household items; de Dampierre ... Read More Rating:  - Not-so-French, or so-Chic!The cover is beautiful, and that's about the best part of this book. The house is pretty, but in an expected way that has been done before in so many other books, and I would call it more "traditional" than French. Ho-hum...just not enough to hold your interest. I had planned to give this as a Chritmas gift, but changed my mind once I received it. Disappointed. Rating: - Utterly engaging and surprisingly practical approach to French style, history and cultureFlorence de Dampierre's French Chic splendidly accomplishes what few decorating books succeed in: combining practical advice and inspiration with a delicious voyage through French history and culture. Incredibly learned, yet endowed with great common sense, Florencence de Dampierre shows us how each room in the house evolved through time, taking on different functions according to how life was lived. The historical sections seem, at first glance, to be at some distance from the way we live now, but ... Read More 
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