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"A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author."
- G. K. Chesterton
(1874 - 1936)
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Hardcover, 1st ed., 224 pages
Edition: 1 ED
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 0060392088
Release Date: Jan 6, 1998
Average Reader Review:  (Based on 1 review.)
| |  | | | In Brief
Put the living back into living room. Forget your worries when a dish breaks and you are left with seven, not eight, dinner plates. Top designer and creator of the Shabby Chic furniture line Rachel Ashwell, who has scoured flea markets since she was a child and is a set designer in Hollywood, provides countless tips for decorating inexpensively in a timeworn style. Learn the trade secrets so that you, too, can find the treasures to make your home and wardrobe charming and chic.
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It helps the healthiness both of body and soul to live among beautiful things. —designer William Morris, 1882
Shabby Chic — the rich, inviting, practical, time-worn style created by one of America's top designers, Rachel Ashwell, is a style of living that reflects the grace and simplicity of another time.
Now you can do more than just dream of living in a Shabby Chic home. You can create one yourself. With invaluable treasure-hunting advice and tips for essential materials, furniture, objects and decorations, you can live a life of simple, but rich, beauty.
With her practiced eye Rachel takes you on a tour of flea markets, antique malls, and a variety of secondhand sales — estate, tag, yard, church, garage — to demonstrate how, with a little taste, imagination, work and ingenuity, you can turn trinkets from the past into treasures for today.
As Rachel sifts through the discarded, the crumbling, the shabby, she takes you step by step through her personal process, sharing how you, too, can spot a fabulous buy, repair and alter it, and by following her guideline words — comfort, function, and beauty — develop your own distinctive, original look that is down-to-earth yet truly exquisite.
Following her sensible advice you can exchange the anonymity of mass-produced furniture and home accessories for unique, inviting surroundings for a fraction of the cost and decorate comfortable, livable rooms in which family heirlooms blend with flea-market finds and the new combines gracefully with the well worn. Lavishly illustrated with lovely and informative photographs and drawings, Rachel Ashwell's Shabby Chic TreasureHunting & Decorating Guide shows you how to have the home you've always dreamed of, a place where children's dinners are served on mix-and-match antique plates at a table covered with lace from a renovated curtain set with unironed linen napkins. A space where fresh flowers stand in antique jugs, complementing comfortable furniture covered in crisp white denim that is enhanced with each laundering.
For Rachel, Shabby Chic is not just style. It is a way of living. With her trademark warmth and charm she reveals how she sleeps on embroidered antique linen and dresses in cashmeres and bias-cut silk dresses discovered in vintage clothing shops and flea markets. Throughout, she teaches you how to recognize and appreciate beauty in unlikely and often overlooked places, as well as how to define and refine your individual taste.
Worn damask, relaxed velvets, tea-stained florals, washed-out cotton prints, tattered lace, monogrammed linen....
Comforting colors: celadon, mint and seafoam greens; dusty rose; ivories, creams and faded grays; a touch of pale sky-blue; crisp, clean white....
Faded grandeur: the incomplete, the neglected, the crumbling, the cracked, the mismatched, the wrinkled....
Ruffles, gathers, tucks; scuffs, chips, imperfections; worn moldings, tired elegance, peeling paint....
An appreciation of vintage and history....
This is Shabby Chic
Author Biography:
Rachel Ashwell was born in England and has spent the past eighteen years in Malibu, California. She created the Shabby Chic style in 1989 and is the founder of the Shabby Chic home furnishing stores and the designer of a line of slipeovered furniture, bedding, and fabric sold worldwide under the Shabby Chic by Rachel Ashwell label. She is the author of the bestselling Shabby Chic and Rachel Ashwell's Shabby Chic Treasure Hunting & Decorating Guide, and is the host of E! Style Network's Rachel Ashwell's Shabby Chic on Style.
Amy Neunsinger is a freelance photographer who lives in Los Angeles and New York City. Her work has appeared in numerous magazines and ad campaigns ranging from beauty to travel. She is currently working on a fine art book of flowers.
Deborah Greenfield, Rachel Ashwell's sister, was born in London. She studied art at the School of Visual Arts and Parsons School of Design in New York. She is a cho reographer and an award-winning flamenco dancer She lives in Los Angeles, where she divides her time among illustration, acting, and dance.
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The essential step-by-step guide to finding the treasures of a lifetime in flea markets, antique shows and malls, auctions, tags sales, and other out-of-the-way markets, from the acclaimed creator of the Shabby Chic style and line of home furnishings.
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I admit it! I'm a 'shabby chic' freak!
-- A reviewer, a bookstore department manager, April 16, 2002
Also Recommended: If you're new to this decorating style, read the original Shabby Chic book by Rachel Ashwell first.
| |  | | | The Word On The Street
"...Rachel Ashwell [is] the founder of the Shabby Chic home-decor empire and the queen of secondhand stylishness...." —Mary Daniels
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