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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.
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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