Gardening Book With Best Explanations

It's raining decorating books! Ten of them, from 10 top interior designers. Something for everyone, and for your coffee table too...

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Penny Drue Baird's Bringing Paris Home

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Our Favorite Photo in Bringing Paris Home

Who'll like Bringing Paris Home: Francophiles who have a passion for dressier decorative styles: Baroque, Rococo, Régence, and Empire.

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Jeffrey Bilhuber's Defining Luxury

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Our Favorite Photo in Defining Luxury

Best piece of advice from Defining Luxury: "Decorating is an investment in living, not necessarily in furnishings." — Jeffrey Bilhuber

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Darryl Carter's The New Traditional

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Our Favorite Photo in The New Traditional

Who'll like The New Traditional: Pensive people who dream about living in muted, understated rooms.

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Clodagh's Your Home, Your Sanctuary

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Our Favorite Photo in Your Home, Your Sanctuary

Best piece of advice from Your Home, Your Sanctuary: "The door should open with a smooth turn of the key. If your lock does not open easily, get it fixed right away. Cranky locks create cranky people." — Clodagh

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Barry Dixon's Barry Dixon Interiors

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Our Favorite Photo in Barry Dixon Interiors

Best piece of advice from Barry Dixon Interiors: "Don't be afraid to downplay a serious antique with an amusing accent to keep it from becoming too formal and unapproachable." — Barry Dixon

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Our Favorite Photo in Style

Best advice from Style: "Great design can be had at every price point." — Thom Filicia

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Celerie Kemble's To Your Taste

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Our Favorite Photo in To Your Taste

Best piece of advice from To Your Taste: "I warn people to open their mail-order catalogs knowing that in two years' time, much of what is shown will be ubiquitous." — Celerie Kemble

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Mirabel Cecil & David Mlinaric's Mlinaric on Decorating

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Our Favorite Photo in Mlinaric on Decorating

Who'll like Mlinaric on Decorating: Anglophiles, Rothschilds (half their houses are here), historic-house aficionados, and those who swoon at the thought of rush matting on scrubbed wood floors.

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Our Favorite Photo in Houses

Best piece of advice from Houses: "To get to the essence of what you really want, you have to dig through a lot of layers of what you feel is expected or prestigious or impressive. You have to work to find it." — Michael S. Smith

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Carleton Varney's Houses in My Heart

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Our Favorite Photo in Houses in My Heart

Who'll like Houses in My Heart: People who can't get enough pattern and color. Decorating "voyeurs" who love the stories behind the rooms. P.S. The book design itself is dazzling.

Gardening Book With Best Explanations

Source: https://www.housebeautiful.com/shopping/g496/our-favorite-design-books/

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