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French Chateau Living

Barbara de Nicolay
French Chateau Living Book PDF

Author : Barbara de Nicolay
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-19
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9782080203106

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French Chateau Living by Barbara de Nicolay Pdf

Providing intimate insight into life in a French château, this volume takes readers on an insider’s tour of the Château du Lude, a private residence that features its original decorative interiors. Nestled in the idyllic Loire Valley, the Château du Lude is one of the most historic châteaus in France; Bluebeard besieged the castle on his way to join Joan of Arc’s crusade, and it earned the rare distinction of having survived the French Revolution intact. Today, the Lude is inhabited and impeccably maintained by the Count and Countess Louis-Jean de Nicolay, whose family has owned the property for over 250 years. They invite readers to discover the château’s well-preserved interiors and gardens, which feature a medieval kitchen, an Italian Renaissance studiolo, and exceptional horse stables, offering a glimpse into the lifestyle of the château’s inhabitants, past and present. Newly commissioned photographs offer unprecedented access into the hidden corners of the estate otherwise closed to the general public.

Château Life

Jane Webster
Ch teau Life Book PDF

Author : Jane Webster
Publisher : Assouline Publishing
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781614286790

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Château Life by Jane Webster Pdf

In a busy modern life, meals are often relegated to five- or ten-minute time slots. The French have long been lauded as culinary experts, and the emphasis they place on time spent around the dinner table is yet another secret worth borrowing. Living la vie de château at Château Bosgouet in Normandy, Jane Webster and her Australian family have embraced the traditions of the French table with surprise and delight at each turn, from navigating the market to setting the table to making the most of a vegetable garden, and their adventures are captured here by the sophisticated eye of photographer Robyn Lea.

The French Château

Christiane de Nicolay-Mazery,Jean-Bernard Naudin
The French Ch teau Book PDF

Author : Christiane de Nicolay-Mazery,Jean-Bernard Naudin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2001-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0500282714

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The French Château by Christiane de Nicolay-Mazery,Jean-Bernard Naudin Pdf

This study offers a view into the privileged world that lies within France's grand historical houses. It is a view hitherto afforded only to a selected circle of the French aristocracy and their friends.

My French Country Home

Sharon Santoni
My French Country Home Book PDF

Author : Sharon Santoni
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-08
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781423642794

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My French Country Home by Sharon Santoni Pdf

Entertaining at home in gracious French style. Born from her experience of everyday living in France, Sharon Santoni reveals the gracious, easy French way of entertaining guests at her countryside home, year-round. Personal stories evoke the spirit of the French lifestyle, while gorgeous photos make us feel right at home. Santoni creates lush bouquets from her garden and utilizes resources from surrounding nature to lay gorgeous tables both indoors and outdoors. Venues range from a Sunday morning breakfast on the patio, to a ladies lunch in her lush garden, a formal dinner in her dining room, and a picnic by the river. Santoni also shares 15 favorite recipes utilizing seasonal foods. Find inspiration for your tables throughout the seasons, and discover the simple pleasure of entertaining friends and family. Sharon Santoni writes the popular blog My French Country Home. She is the author of My Stylish French Girlfriends (Gibbs Smith). She resides in Normandy, France.

French Chateau Living

Barbara de Nicolay
French Chateau Living Book PDF

Author : Barbara de Nicolay
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9782080204486

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French Chateau Living by Barbara de Nicolay Pdf

Providing intimate insight into life in a French château, this volume takes readers on an insider’s tour of the Château du Lude, a private residence that features its original decorative interiors. Nestled in the idyllic Loire Valley, the Château du Lude is one of the most historic châteaus in France; Bluebeard besieged the castle on his way to join Joan of Arc’s crusade, and it earned the rare distinction of having survived the French Revolution intact. Today, the Lude is inhabited and impeccably maintained by the Count and Countess Louis-Jean de Nicolay, whose family has owned the property for over 250 years. They invite readers to discover the château’s well-preserved interiors and gardens, which feature a medieval kitchen, an Italian Renaissance studiolo, and exceptional horse stables, offering a glimpse into the lifestyle of the château’s inhabitants, past and present. Newly commissioned photographs offer unprecedented access into the hidden corners of the estate otherwise closed to the general public.

French House Chic

Jane Webster
French House Chic Book PDF

Author : Jane Webster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Australians
ISBN : 0500500967

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French House Chic by Jane Webster Pdf

The ultimate interior design book for anyone who has ever dreamed of living in a French house

A Chateau of One's Own

Sam Juneau
A Chateau of One s Own Book PDF

Author : Sam Juneau
Publisher : Summersdale
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006-06-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780857653956

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A Chateau of One's Own by Sam Juneau Pdf

Sam and Bud intended to move to France and create a simple life with their children. However they bought a 17th century chateau with over thirty rooms. With modest savings, they restored the building and started a bed and breakfast against resistance from the locals. This is a glimpse into what it takes to leave everything behind to pursue a dream.

The Chateau

William Maxwell
The Chateau Book PDF

Author : William Maxwell
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307809360

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It is 1948 and a young American couple arrive in France for a holiday, full of anticipation and enthusiasm. But the countryside and people are war-battered, and their reception at the Chateau Beaumesnil is not all the open-hearted Americans could wish for.

My Good Life in France

Janine Marsh
My Good Life in France Book PDF

Author : Janine Marsh
Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781782437338

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My Good Life in France by Janine Marsh Pdf

One grey dismal day, Janine Marsh was on a trip to northern France to pick up some cheap wine. She returned to England a few hours later having put in an offer on a rundown old barn in the rural Seven Valleys area of Pas de Calais. This was not something she'd expected or planned for. Janine eventually gave up her job in London to move with her husband to live the good life in France. Or so she hoped. While getting to grips with the locals and la vie Française, and renovating her dilapidated new house, a building lacking the comforts of mains drainage, heating or proper rooms, and with little money and less of a clue, she started to realize there was lot more to her new home than she could ever have imagined. These are the true tales of Janine's rollercoaster ride through a different culture - one that, to a Brit from the city, was in turns surprising, charming and not the least bit baffling.

My Stylish French Girlfriends

Sharon Santoni
My Stylish French Girlfriends Book PDF

Author : Sharon Santoni
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-09
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781423637882

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My Stylish French Girlfriends by Sharon Santoni Pdf

Meet 20 beautiful, creative French women who live with passion; work every day; and love to take care ot their homes and families. Visit them in their grand chateaux or charming little country cottages or Parisian apartments. Learn where they shop, where they work, where they play, how they dress and, how they entertain. Absorb each girlfriend's style and joie de vivre. Santoni's affectionate writing, along with gorgeous photography, tells each woman's story with an intimacy usually reserved for the closest of girlfriends. SHARON SANTONI·SMITH grew up in England but married a Frenchman and has raised her family in Normandy, France. Her blog, My French Country Home, is read daily by thousands all over the world. She writes about life in rural France; the ups and downs of family life; her inspiring French girlfriends; the intricacies of village life; and her love of searching for brocante treasure in the flea markets of Paris and the countryside.

The Best Loved Villages of France

Stéphane Bern
The Best Loved Villages of France Book PDF

Author : Stéphane Bern
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-23
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9782080201836

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The Best Loved Villages of France by Stéphane Bern Pdf

An insider’s tour of France’s most beloved and beautiful villages uncovers the country’s hidden treasures. The Best Loved Villages of France brings the reader on a tour of forty-four of the country’s most treasured destinations. Always picturesque, but often well-kept secrets, the book offers insight into village life and local history. Take a tour of a crumbling medieval fortress with the mayor of Lavardin or peruse the maritime objects found at sea by a mustached fisherman in Saint-Suliac. Stroll along the coast of the Wissant bay windsurfer’s paradise or promenade through the manicured grounds of Vaux-le-Vicomte. Watch the sunrise over the fairy-tale castle in Montsoreau or enjoy a fresh langoustine dinner in Piana, Corsica. This book offers an illustrated tour around all twenty-two regions of France, from Provence and the Alps, to Normandy and the Loire. Aerial and intimate photographs invite the reader to explore these splendid locales, while the descriptions, anecdotes, and interviews with local village-dwellers plunge you into the individual history and character of France’s diverse regions. The villages featured in the book were selected in a popular vote by the French public and they represent an authentic journey into the heart of France.

French Interiors

Christiane de Nicolay-Mazery
French Interiors Book PDF

Author : Christiane de Nicolay-Mazery
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-12
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9782080203342

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French Interiors by Christiane de Nicolay-Mazery Pdf

Christiane de Nicolay-Mazery, a specialist in furniture and antiques at Christies and Honelon, invites her readers to enter the elegantly luxurious interiors of some of France's most exclusive abodes. From the classic taste of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to the creativity of the nineteenth century, she traces the path to the finesse of the twentieth century, which combines tradition and modernity. The interiors portrayed in these nine exquisitely illustrated chapters pay tribute to the refinement of French taste, a savoir-faire that has been continually renewed. Classic hôtels particuliers in the heart of Paris and romantic châteaux, as well as a surprising isba--a traditional rural log house in the Russian style--are but a few of the examples of the kinds of interiors that will inspire readers as they marvel over the art of French designers, including Madeleine Castaing, Hubert de Givenchy, Yves Saint Laurent, Jacques Grange, François Joseph Graff, and Pierre Bergé. Unlike most books on French style on the market, this book is not only a testimony to timeless French elegance, it is an invitation to discover a synthesis of contemporary and classic décor, in some of France's most exclusive residences, firsthand.

Henri Samuel

Emily Evans Eerdmans
Henri Samuel Book PDF

Author : Emily Evans Eerdmans
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9780847861866

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Henri Samuel by Emily Evans Eerdmans Pdf

The first book dedicated to Henri Samuel, considered one of the best French interior designers of the twentieth century and acclaimed for his mastery of historical design, as well as his eye for contemporary presentation and furnishings—a high-point addition to Rizzoli’s continuing coverage of the masters of the field. Design legend Henri Samuel believed that a successful interior was one in which an observer never suspected that a decorator had been involved. This book takes the reader inside some of Samuel’s groundbreaking and inspiring interiors, beginning with his first job assisting Stéphane Boudin of Jansen in the 1920s through postwar Paris society and into the go-go ’80s. During his illustrious career, Samuel created rarefied and beautiful environments for his jet-set clientele—Doris Duke, Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, Susan and John Gutfreund, Valentino Garavani, and multiple Rothschilds and Vanderbilts. Such was his expertise that museums such as Versailles and the Metropolitan Museum of Art consulted him on the installation of period rooms. Samuel was a master at reproducing intimate spaces in various historic styles in addition to mixing those styles in an erudite way: modernist paintings were installed over Empire consoles, Louis XIII furniture shared space with Oriental objects, neoclassical chairs were placed beside tables of brass and Plexiglas. This book records Samuel’s life, his career, and the luxurious interiors he created for his clients and himself—rooms that look as fresh and alive today as they did when they were first arranged. It is a necessary addition to any design library.

Château de Villette

Anonim
Ch teau de Villette Book PDF

Author : Anonim
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9782080203588

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Château de Villette by Anonim Pdf

This intimate tour provides a lesson from Jacques Garcia in the art and technique of historic house and garden restoration. The Château de Villette, situated in a lush woodlandnear Paris, has been an oasis of art and beauty sinceits construction (1663–69) according to François Mansart’s plans. Among its prestigious ownerswas Sophie de Grouchy, wife of the Marquis de Condorcet. As leading political actors of their era,she and her husband hosted some of the most intellectuallyinfluential salons of the prerevolutionaryperiod for an international elite that included Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Paine. The Marquis de Lafayette was a witness at the couple’swedding at Villette in 1786. New owners have commissioned Jacques Garcia to restore the house and gardens to their idyllic former glory. Presented here for the first time, the result is averitable museum of French craftsmanship, with interiors featuring fabulous silks and passementeries, as well as eighteenth-century paintings, decorative arts,and furniture. The original stone features and elegant trumeaux and boiseries of the château’s historic dining room have been restored to their initial splendor.Villette’s austerely elegant facade houses an octagonal grand salon that gives way to magical vistas of formal gardens inspired by Le Nôtre, cascading fountains,reflecting pools, and eighteenth-century sculptures,sphinxes, and an obelisk, alluding to classical artistic traditions and eighteenth-century aesthetics. All-new photography, along with drawings by architectural historians Bernd Dams and Andrew Zega, illustrate this lavish volume.

Fontainebleau

Guillaume Picon
Fontainebleau Book PDF

Author : Guillaume Picon
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9782080202543

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Fontainebleau by Guillaume Picon Pdf

This comprehensive, superbly illustrated, slipcased volume recounts the history of the palace and brings to life the splendors of French culture and history. A visit to the exceptionally well-preserved Fontainebleau—one of the few royal residences left intact during the French Revolution—offers unparalleled access to French history, art, and architecture. From François I to Napoleon, and from Marie Antoinette to Joséphine, Fontainebleau sweeps the reader back in time to experience the traditions and customs of great figures throughout the history of France. Comprised of more than 1,500 rooms on 130 acres of parkland and gardens, and situated thirty-seven miles south of Paris, Fontainebleau welcomes more than 500,000 visitors a year. This book features superb images illustrating the artisanal decorative details of the château and the spectacular works of art still housed within; it includes exclusive access to archival documents and numerous rooms and galleries that are not open to the public. Imbued with over eight centuries of history, Fontainebleau offers unique historical insight into the lives of over thirty-four French sovereigns who inhabited and enhanced this great architectural monument. From hunting excursions to the grand parties and spectacles that took place at Fontainebleau, this book is a private invitation inside a UNESCO World Heritage site and one of France’s most beautiful historical monuments.