Rachel Ashwell's Shabby Chic Guide to Treasure Hunting and Decorating
Language: English
Published by HarperCollins Publishers Inc, 1998
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In her second beautifully photographed and richly detailed book, Rachel Ashwell takes readers step-by-step through flea markets, antique shows and malls, auctions, tag sales, and other out-of-the- way markets, helping to select treasures from trash and integrate the extraordinary items to be found into individual lifestyles and tastes.From tips on starting and expanding collections to specific techniques for restoring wooden furnishings, Ashwell shows how to accomplish a unique, personal decorating effect that combines practicality, beauty and livibility. Combining her veteran flea marketer's instinct for quality and value with her flawless sense of style, she makes the process of discoveryu both a joy and a terrific adventure.
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- Title
- Rachel Ashwell's Shabby Chic Guide to Treasure Hunting and Decorating
- Author
- Rachel Ashwell
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Inc
- Publication year
- 1998
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Hardback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0060392088
- ISBN 13
- 9780060392086
Shabby Chic—the rich, inviting, practical, time-worn style created by one of America's top designers, Rachel Ashwell, is a style of living that reflects the grace and simplicity of another time.
Now you can do more than just dream of living in a Shabby Chic home. You can create one yourself. With invaluable treasure hunting advice and tips for essential materials, furniture, objects, and decorations, you can live a life of simple, but rich, beauty.
With her practiced eye Rachel takes you on a tour of flea markets, antique malls, and a variety of secondhand sales— estate, tag, yard, church, garage—to demonstrate how, with a little taste, imagination, work, and ingenuity, you can turn trinkets from the past into treasures for today.
As Rachel sifts through the discarded, the crumbling, the shabby, she takes you step by step through her personal process, sharing how you, too, can spot a fabulous buy, repair and alter it, and by following her guideline words—comfort, function, and beauty—develop your own distinctive, original look that is down-to-earth yet truly exquisite.
Following her sensible advice you can exchange the anonymity of mass-produced furniture and home accessories for unique, inviting surroundings for a fraction of the price and decorate comfortable, livable rooms in which family heirlooms blend with flea-market finds and the new combines gracefully with the well worn. Lavishly illustrated with lovely and informative photographs and drawings, Rachel Ashwell's Shabby Chic Treasure Hunting & Decorating Guide shows you how to have the home you've always dreamed of, a place where children's dinners are served on mix-and-match antique plates at a table covered with lace from a renovated curtain set with unironed linen napkins. A space where fresh flowers stand in antique jugs, complementing comfortable furniture covered in crisp white denim that is enhanced with each laundering.
For Rachel, Shabby Chic is not just a style. It is a way of living. With her trademark warmth and charm she reveals how she sleeps on embroidered antique linen and dresses in cashmeres and bias-cut silk dresses discovered in vintage clothing shops and flea markets. Throughout, she teaches you how to recognize and appreciate beauty in unlikely and often overlooked places, as well as how to define and refine your individual taste.
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