The eagerly anticipated first monograph to celebrate the fifty-years-and-counting career of decorating legend Mario Buatta. Influenced by the understated elegance of Colefax and Fowler and the doyenne of exuberant American decor, Sister Parish, Buatta reinvented the English Country House style stateside for clients such as Henry Ford II, Barbara Walters, Malcolm Forbes, and Mariah Carey, and for Blair House, the President's guest quarters. The designer is acclaimed for his sumptuous rooms that layer fine antiques, confectionary curtains, and sublime colorations, creating an atmosphere of lived-in opulence. This lavishly illustrated survey-filled with images taken for the foremost shelter magazines as well as many unpublished photographs from the designer's own archive-closely follows Buatta's highly documented career from his professional start in the 1950s working for department store B. Altman & Co. and Elisabeth Draper, Inc. to his most recent projects, which inclu...
Les Colonies Francaises, Vol. 2 : Petite Encyclopedie Coloniale; Congo, Madagascar Et Ses Satellites, La Reunion, Cote Des Somalis, Inde, Indo-Chine, Saint-Pierre Et Miquelon, Antilles, Guyane, Nouvelle-Caledonie, Etablissements de l'Oceanie, Append (9780260595911)
Excerpt from Les Colonies Françaises, Vol. 2: Petite Encyclopédie Coloniale; Congo, Madagascar Et Ses Satellites, la Réunion, Côte des Somalis, Inde, Indo-Chine, Saint-Pierre Et Miquelon, Antilles, Guyane, Nouvelle-Calédonie, Établissements de l'Océanie, Appendices La côte, souvent marécageuse, ressemble a celle de la Côte d'ivoire une ligne d'écume blanche, puis des eaux tranquilles mourant sur une laisse de sable et, derrière, soulignant les premiers plans comme d'un gros trait noir, la forèt. A l'hori zon, mais seulement de place en place, l'oeil aperçoit les profils de collines lentement ondulées; ce sont les premiers contre forts des monts de Cristal. Quelques factoreries sont posées à la lisière de la forèt et se reflètent dans la mer toujours calme; elles se signalent de loin par leurs toits blanchis à la chaux. Libreville, encadrée d'une haute verdure, est un décor char mant de nature tropicale, avec ses constructions dispersées parmi les arbres, et qui donnent l'illusion d'une vaste cité. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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- Hardback | 846 pages
- 152 x 229 x 44mm | 1,270g
- 25 Apr 2018
- Forgotten Books
- London, United Kingdom
- French
- 260 Illustrations; Illustrations, black and white
- 0260595918
- 9780260595911
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