Living a Beautiful Life: Five Hundred Ways to Add Elegance, Order, Beauty and Joy to Every Day of Your Life - Hardcover

Stoddard, Alexandra

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679456236 ISBN 13: 9780679456230

Publisher: Random House Inc, 1996

Synopsis

Offers some five hundred suggestions for enriching one's daily life, including information on organization, decorating, and dining, and discusses the importance of solitude, style, and elegance in one's life. 15,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

Author of seventeen books of contemporary philosophy and design, worldwide lecturer and network television host Alexandra Stoddard is an acclaimed modern guide to our most cherished desire -- to live and develop beautifully in a tumultuous world. She is the mother of two daughters, Alexandra and Brooke, and wife of Peter Megaree Brown, a lawyer. She and her husband live in New York City and Stonington Village, Connecticut.

From the Inside Flap:

ping. Bathing. Chores. These are the things we do every day, yet few of us stop to consider how we perform the routines that occupy 95 percent of our lives: in chaos or serenity, with irritation or with joy.

Here, in one elegant, copious and forever rereadable book, Alexandra Stoddard shows how to live a more beautiful, more ordered life, every single day. Drawing on the wisdom of Emerson, Samuel Johnson, Rilke and many others and warmed by Alexandra Stoddard's personal anecdotes, this book deals with life both philosophically and practically -- from discovering the sources of your well-being to buying the right stationery or sheets; from using solitude to replenish your spirit to using fabrics, ribbon, paper and your own five senses to transform your daily life.

Living a Beautiful Life demonstrates how to use the ordinary in extraordinary ways, suggesting hundreds of techniques for turning dull, irritating routines into life-enhancing rituals; hundreds of simple ways to tran

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0679456236
• ISBN 13: 9780679456230
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 178
• Illustrator: Stewart Pat