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Fanciful Furniture Decorating with Paint: Decorating with Paint by Anita Rosenberg, ISBN 1402705883

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Handcraft unique pieces of furniture and accessories that make a big decorative statement and give any home that personal touch. It just takes paint and simple tools, plus these incredible, inspirational designs and projects. Every beautiful pattern and creative technique is broken down in detail, with information on finding furniture to personalize, discovering unusual motifs, and incorporating feng shui principles on color. Try a little fun with themes taken from magazines, dig for ideas in vacation and travel brochures, and go wild for patterns like a bright leopard scroll. Great projects include a gothic-style table, which uses a variety of techniques including staining, swirling, and wood cutouts; rejuvenate a night table with a lovely mosaic and paint design; and decoupage a chest with assorted papers from maps to newspaper articles.

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Through beautiful and inspirational photographs, "Country Living's team of experts shows how to create a comfortable environment, take advantage of natural views, and incorporate color in the living room--and, as always in the "Easy Transformations series, arrows and sidebars make the images interactive and easy to use. Home decorators looking to revive their living rooms will find a special focus on white-on-white rooms, colorful moods, displays, slipcovers, simple storage, and focal points. Want to encourage interaction among family and guests? Move the furniture away from the walls and toward the center of the room. Need to add warmth to the space? Try patterned kilim pillows and a richly-hued paisley throw. From modern living to cottage appeal, the look you want is here.
"Will inspire amateur decorators. Practical projects, such as pillow-making, are included. If patrons are looking for more ideas...[this] book will serve them well. Living Rooms
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William Eggleston's Guide by John Szarkowski, ISBN 0870703781

William Eggleston's Guide was the first one-man show of color photographs ever presented at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Museum's first publication of color photography. The reception was divided and passionate. The book and show unabashedly forced the art world to deal with color photography, a medium scarcely taken seriously at the time, and with the vernacular content of a body of photographs that could have been but definitely weren't some average American's Instamatic pictures from the family album. These photographs heralded a new mastery of the use of color as an integral element of photographic composition. Bound in a textured cover inset with a photograph of a tricycle and stamped with yearbook-style gold lettering, the Guide contained 48 images edited down from 375 shot between 1969 and 1971 and displayed a deceptively casual, actually super-refined look at the surrounding world. Here are people, landscapes, and odd little moments in and around Eggleston's hometown... William Eggleston's Guide by John Szarkowski, ISBN 0870703781
Furneture > William Eggleston's Guide by John Szarkowski, ISBN 0870703781