Bringing Paris Home

By Penny Drue Baird

Bringing Paris Home invites the reader to re-create the panache of French interior style in an American setting. Author Penny Drue Baird shares her love and knowledge of French history and decorative arts and describes the design elements essential to an elegant French interior--architectural details, furniture, paint and wall covering, fireplaces, lighting, and tabletop settings. A special chapter on shopping offers tips on finding treasures in the famed Marche aux Puces in Paris. Penny Drue Baird's highly engaging text, filled with reminiscences and anecdotes, brings the charm and pleasure of Paris to life. Lavishly illustrated with Parisian scenes and completed interiors by Baird, Bringing Paris Home is an essential resource for capturing the atmosphere of Paris.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580932053
• ISBN13: 9781580932059
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Monacelli Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 2.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.4" x 11.2"

Customer Reviews

Wishing You were in Paris?

If you can't get to Paris, this book will satisfy a little of that urge. Beautiful photographs of lush homes furnished and accessorized as only Parisions do. Especially intriguing is the window fabric on the cover and in the inside pages. Exactly what is it, and how was it made? So very ooh-la-la!

Fabulous

Just by looking at the pictures, you are with Penny in Paris, seating outside with a "cafe" and a "croissant" It is a wonderful book. Thank you Penny, for taking the time and the research about our Paris.

My Only Holiday Gift For Everyone On My List!

Amazing text, design insights, and photographs. Should be on everyone's shopping list and coffee table!!!!!!!!!!!!! I stocked up so I could have enough on hand for the Holidays.