French by Design

by Betty Lou Phillips

Book Overview

The enduring appeal of French-country style spans the centuries, a gracious mingling of elegance and ease. After years of largely echoing the furniture, fabrics, and accessories linked with the region... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0879059729
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: Gibbs Smith
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.8" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Condition Misrepresented- Broken Spine, bottom chewed by dog

Disappointed in misrepresentation of condition. Two books in this shipment were fit for the trash.

Good is meant to indicate “all pages intact” but this volume has about two dozen dented, crushed, to

Photographs are beautiful and the descriptions and text and lovely to read.

Beautifully presented.

Another of Philips' beautiful French decorating books. Homes presented in this book, as with her other books are high end showing us the sumptuous fabrics, and lovely French furniture she specializes in. Homes shown are mostly mansions, not the average house. Good coffee table book.

Brilliant, Great Sense of Design, a Visual Delight

Not unlike all of Phillips' books, this book is a masterpiece of European syle and design. No detail is left unnoticed. The furniture, fabrics, antiques, architecture, artwork, and carved stone are each carefully considered and beautifully photographed. Every page is a visual delight. I cannot recommend it highly enough!

Beautiful!

If you like French design, you should get this book. I really love the photographs. While this book is mostly photographs, I was pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed reading about the French and their attitudes on decorating and love for their homes. Betty Lou Phillips has wonderful taste, and her style is so enjoyable. Thank you to Country Living magazine for featuring her work!

Showcases a distinctly upscale series of interior designs

Enhanced with 130 beautiful color photographs, Betty Phillips' French By Design showcases a distinctly upscale series of interior designs. Whether displaying a storage space or an entire room, a piece of furniture or a single door frame, a decorative object d'art or a functional piece, French By Design reveals how to incorporate a exquisite French-country style motif into any living room, dining area, kitchen, bedroom, bath, library, children's room, garden or terrace, fabric or furnishing. French By Design is a wonderful addition to any personal, academic, profession, or community library interior design reference book collection.