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In an age of picture-perfect interior design, best-selling author
Mary Randolph Carter celebrates her highly personal and creative
approach to decor, illustrating how to live stylishly with the many
items you want to treasure forever. Mary Randolph Carter's newest
book indulges our desire to surround ourselves with belongings that
impart beauty and meaning to our lives. Whether you are passionate
about flea market thrifting, have a collection of pedigreed
antiques, or simply find inspiration among the castoffs in your
attic, this book is a tribute to making artful interiors with your
acquisitions.
With her trademark style and love of heirlooms and beautiful old
objects, Carter delves into the interiors of real-life tastemakers
(antique dealers, fashion designers, artists, and boutique owners)
to explore how our homes are the perfect canvas for our
self-expression. In these pages, Carter curates a variety of unique
interiors, from a couple who restores and displays antique textiles
and china to an anglophile with an incredible library of vintage
books to an artist who lives with the old photos and maps he uses
in his work to an antique dealer known for having multiples of
everything. Carter muses delightfully on the universal desire to
acquire while imparting her philosophy and tips for living
creatively and integrating our passions stylishly into our decor.
Chock-full of ideas and inspiration, this book exalts in the beauty
of bounty and is sure to delight Carter's legions of fans.
From the author who taught us that junk in not a four-letter word,
and drawing on her years of experience as a passionate thrifter and
collector, Carter highlights her favourite junking moments, revels
in the thrill of the hunt and imparts many personal tips for
finding treasures in flea markets, yard sales, estate sales, shops,
on the web, or wherever you may find yourself. With her passion for
self-expression and her personal approach to decor, Carter speaks
to our desire to surround ourselves with belongings that bring
beauty and meaning to our lives. Along the way, Carter interviews
other designers and high-profile collectors such as Ralph Lauren,
Bunny Williams, and Mike Wolfe from American Pickers revealing
their favourite treasure hunts and showing us how they live with
their collections. Inspiring and liberating, The Joy of Junk shows
how we can integrate our passions and histories to live creatively
and happily with the special and quirky objects that give our homes
soul.
Lens Wallace is a dutiful art professor's wife and mother of two
teenage daughters. For sixteen years she's been the one organising
schedules and taking care of everyone - especially during Alex's
frequent business trips to Italy. Only after a series of mysterious
phone calls does she start to question his absences. When she flies
out to Florence to visit him, she learns that her husband has a
flat and a mistress there - and he wants to end their marriage.
Stunned and grief stricken, Lena decides she's going to stay in
Florence and get her husband back, but the further Lena goes to win
Alex, the less she recognises herself. And in this magical and
inspiring city, she begins to evaluate what really matters to her
family, and to her own life...
For all those who choose to live "imperfectly" with the messy
things they love, this book shows how to do so creatively, happily,
and with considerable style ideas from leading designers. A
beautiful and inspiring volume, A Perfectly Kept House is the Sign
of A Misspent Life focuses on living well with everything that
makes a house a home. If you have been influenced by the
picturesquely cluttered studios of Pablo Picasso or Alexander
Calder, or by the art- and book-filled house of Vanessa Bell, this
unique style book will stimulate you with its creative ideas.This
volume explores how real-life tastemakers (photographers, textile
designers, fashion designers, writers, artists) integrate their
life and interiors to live well with their passions, histories,
conveniences, and inconveniences. In inspiring essays, Mary
Randolph Carter muses on such key housekeeping concerns as clutter
versus mess; open windows; and unmade beds. Combining practical
tips with liberating philosophy-"Don't scrub the soul out of your
home"; "Make room for what you love"-this volume celebrates living
beautifully and happily, not messily. Lavishly illustrated with
intimate photographs of different living spaces, Carter exalts in
the beauty of imperfection and in living perfectly in our
"imperfect" homes. Life isn't perfect-why should your house be?
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