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 This lavishly illustrated survey-filled with images taken for the foremost shelter magazines as well as many unpublished photographs from the designer's own archive-closely follows Buatta's highly documented career from his professional start in the 1950s working for department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 include
The American Home Book : With Directions and Suggestions for Cooking, Dress, Nursing, Emergencies, House Furnishing, Home Education, Home Reading, Etc (Classic Reprint) (9780484349703)
Excerpt from The American Home Book: With Directions and Suggestions for Cooking, Dress, Nursing, Emergencies, House Furnishing, Home Education, Home Reading, Etc A Practical Education Economy of Time What to do with the Memory How to cultivate the Memory Things that impair the Memory Memorandum Books, etc. 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 | 994 pages
- 152 x 229 x 52mm | 1,465g
- 23 Apr 2020
- Forgotten Books
- London, United Kingdom
- English
- 116 Illustrations; Illustrations, black and white
- 0484349708
- 9780484349703
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