Provence Style: The Art of Home Decoration

by Noëlle Duck

Book Overview

Proven al houses are true homes. Warm shades of ochre glow from the walls and roofs, weathered doors shine, and reflections glance off glazed ceramics and strike printed cotton tablecloths. This... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 2080108395
• ISBN13: 9782080108395
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Flammarion-Pere Castor
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 2.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.3" x 11.1"

Customer Reviews

Lovely!

Wonderful photos! An inside peek at many inspiring homes! Vibrant colors and rich textures! Beautiful and informative. It's almost as much fun as an actual visit to Provence.

A cultural and aesthetic trip to Provence

Provence Style is a beautiful book. Reading this book is like traveling through the Provence country. It describes the types of Provence houses with the illustration of beautiful pictures. You will feel the ambiance of the outdoors as well as the cozy aspects of the indoors. You will almost smell the lavender fields from the terrace pictures! And your visit will show you incredible flooring, original fireplaces, delicate furniture and other traditional elements of the Provence style. Our preference is biased toward the ceramics, especially the Moustiers ones, and the fabrics. Provence fabrics are so colorful and playful! Also, the Boutis, a white quilting method is presented here with a picture of its transparency through light.

Important for color

So many Provence house books show plenty of details, but this book's strength is the profusion of color throughout. We took it with us to the tile store and could easily see by opening any page what tones, hues are truly Provencal and would work in our new house.

Beautiful

A beautiful book, full of concise details and suggestions for decorating your home to evoke Provence.