Bowerbird: Creating Beautiful Interiors with the Things You Collect - Hardcover

Sibella Court

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9781742705194: Bowerbird: Creating Beautiful Interiors with the Things You Collect

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1742705197 ISBN 13: 9781742705194

Publisher: Hardie Grant Books, 2012

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bowerbird [bow*er*bird] n. 1. Any of various songbirds of the family Ptilonorhynchidae. The males of which build large elaborate structures of grasses, twigs, and brightly colored materials to attract females. 2. A person who collects miscellaneous objects. Bestselling author Sibella Court has always been a bowerbird. Her first bowerbird tendencies were noticed when, at the age of three, she put together collections of shells, sequins, beads and ribbons. Like her avian counterpart, she goes far and wide to add to her collections, enjoys arranging and rearranging the pieces and, ultimately, believes that collections, containing the memories they do, are a vital part of any home.

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In The Life of a Bowerbird, Sibella Court reveals her very personal and surprising approach to collecting and collections. She shows how to procure the elements of a collection, how to organize and store them, and how to display them in creative and ever-changing ways. With the help of The Life of a Bowerbird, you will view your belongings in a whole new light.

A bowerbird is an Australian native bird that builds a reedy ground nest and goes to extraordinary lengths to decorate it with "stolen" goods & found objects like shells, bones, pegs, & shiny milk caps.

About the Author:

Sibella Court is an interior stylist, creative director and author. Her previous books include the award-winning, Etcetera: creating beautiful interiors with the things you love, The Stylist's Guide to NYC and Nomad: bringing your travels home. She has worked as a stylist for Anthropologie, Bergdorf Goodman, Bloomingdale's, and Saks on Fifth Ave, and written and styled for publications such as Gourmet, Marie Claire, Grazia and Vogue Living.

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