In this her tenth book, acclaimed interior designer and
award-winning author Betty Lou Phillips presents spirit-lifting
takes on classic style from a modern point of view. Mingling
elegance with ease, in a manner relaxed yet refined, Phillips
sumptuously layers texture and color with pleasing, unexpected
detail as she creates twenty-first century comfort with Italian
panache and French flair. The dazzling beauty of nearly 200 images
illustrates the fabled French and Italian ways of melding the past
with the present while offering a glimpse of the sweet life-la
dolce vita-that is justly inspiring.
目錄：
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Vive la France!
A Taste for France
The Fine Art of Less
Cherishing the Past
En Plein Air
L''Atelier
Resources
內容試閱：
FOR CENTURIES as we well know, fine French furniture in all
its forms has been revered by the people of France and adulated by
a broad swath of people on this side of the Atlantic. And little
wonder it has held the design world in its thrall. Without
question, it is amazingly graceful, actually markedly distinct,
with carved ornamentation springing from France''s twenty-six
well-defined regions, where local craftsmen once passionately
reinterpreted the noble style of royal cabinetmakers using local
woods and hardware.
Predictably, some early furniture was hardly worth writing about.
But many other pieces were attention-getting, true works of art,
radiating the aristocratic appeal of the French courts while toning
down the ostentation that would eventually bring the monarchy to a
tumultuous end in a bloody revolution that began on July 14, 1789,
with the storming of the Bastille, a detested Parisian
prison.
Yet, pledging sole allegiance to fine French furniture whether
crafted during the reign of the ancient régime or an era later has
lost some of its luster on our shores. And it''s not, like-minded
style setters are quick to say, because economic uncertainty is
giving luxury a bad name. Despite an ongoing obsession for
eighteenth-century rock crystal chandeliers, densely woven
tapestries, statuary fit for kings and, for that matter, seeing
ourselves in gleaming gilded mirrors, we have developed new
appreciation for furnishings from myriad cultures outside the
French Republic
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