Antique Decorating

Kate's Cake Decorating: Techniques and Tips for Fun and Fancy Cakes Baked with Love

Book Description
Kate Sullivan has baked wedding cakes and party cakes for some of New York?s most interesting weddings and events. Her sought-after recipes, designs, and tips are compiled in this new volume, Kate?s Cake Decorating.

Featured in numerous magazines, Sullivan is a respected and creative baker. For the first time, she brings her knack for creating the unusual to those of us who want to bake more than a layer cake but aren?t sure how.

This book features her recipes and cake-decorating tips as well as personal stories about creating and delivering cakes. She has used cookies as cake toppers, made dozens of multicolored flowers on a hat-shaped cake, and created cakes in the shapes of taxis and diner coffee cups. Whether a lush, vibrant ?Monsoon Wedding? cake or a larger-than-life, 3D ?Cup o? Joe to Go,? Kate?s cakes always inspire people to ask, ?How did she do that??

About The Author
Kate Sullivan's wedding and party cakes have been featured in numerous magazines, including Oprah, the New York Times, Self, and Time Out New York, as well as on VH1 and in Broadway theater. She lives in New York City.

Kathy Peterson's Great Outdoor Decorating Makeovers: Easy, Elegant Transformations on a...

Book Description
This decorating resource shows how to transform outdoor spaces on an extremely limited budget-only $ 250 or less per project-using paint, castaways and thrift store finds, easy crafts and sewing projects, and lots of creativity and elbow grease. Readers are taken through the entire transformation: preparing a space for a decorating overhaul, finding inspiration, achieving decorating goals within a tight budget, planning and organizing a project, and quick fixes and crafts projects that can refresh and beautify any outdoor space. Eighteen makeovers are profiled, showcasing a variety of spaces, including patios, porches, poolsides, balconies, sunrooms, decks, and courtyards. Each of the projects describes the homeowner's decorating dilemmas, his/her goals for the space, Peterson's proposed solutions, a shopping list, and how the makeover was achieved-all supported by full-color before-and-after photos.

Kids' Bathroom Book: Optical Illusions (Kids' Bathroom Books)

Kids' Rooms: A Hands-On Decorating Guide (Interior Design and Architecture)

Book Description
This book takes readers on a design adventure to creating rooms as playful, diverse, and fun as any childs imagination. Kids Rooms includes full-color photos of gorgeous kids spaces, including bedrooms, bathrooms, playrooms, storage spaces, and study nooks. The book is packed with design advice from professionals, parents, and kids on designing to fit a familys unique taste, budget, and available space, and it shows how to create great-looking kid-style rooms that can grow with a child. Smart, realistic, and fun, this hands-on design resource will benefit the whole family.

Anna Kasabian is a writer and editor whose byline frequently appears in Design Times magazine and the Boston Globe, where she writes about interior design, garden design, and travel. The author of East Coast Rooms and Designing with Tile (both from Rockport Publishers), she lives in Boston, Massachusetts.

About The Author
Anna Kasabian has 29 years of experience as a writer, editor and communications professional. She writes about interior design, food, garden crafts, home and garden preservation projects, and architecturally significant properties.

Anna's byline appears in Country Living, Cooks Illustrated, Metropolitan Home, Country Home, Coastal Living, Home Magazine, Yankee Magazine, The Old Farmers Almanac Gardeners Companion, Better Homes & Gardens Garden Rooms, Womans Day Special Interest Magazines, The Boston Globe, Boston Magazine, New England Travel & Life, The Old Farmers Almanac Gardeners Companion, and Boston Elegant Wedding.

She has been featured several times on HGTV and National Public Radios Boston affiliate, WBUR. She has been a featured speaker at House Beautiful and the Boston Design Centers Design Days, and The Boston Center for Adult Education. Kids Rooms has been featured in Time Magazine, Parents, and Better Homes and Gardens.

Her new monthly column, DesignWise, An Ongoing Dialogue with Top Interior Designers will be featured on cDecor.com shortly.

Her other books include: Designing Interiors with Tile; East Coast Rooms; Dream Kitchens; Kids Rooms; The New Home Color Book; Modern Nostalgia; and First Impressions. Her eighth book (co-authored with Tommy Hilfiger), due Fall 2003, is entitled New England Style.

Kilims: Decorating With Tribal Rugs

Book Description
Woven with rich, jewel-like colors and intricate symbols, tribal rugs have a timeless quality that fits into any decor. A handmade rug adds comfort and pulls a room together. This is the story of Persian rugs both ancient and modern. It delves into their history and manufacture, and explores their decorating potential and care. In addition, the foreword explains how to select and purchase these rugs wisely -- a major concern of North American consumers. With their vivid colors and patterns, kilims, decorating potential is not limited to the floor. They can be used as pillows, curtains, and wallhangings or to co ver tables, beds, and sofas. From the oldest known rug found in a frozen Siberian tomb to modern weaving done by women nomads and village dwellers, kilims are living art.

Kitchen Antiques, 1790-1940

Product Description
An outstanding reference featuring virtually every type of kitchen item pictured, described in detail, and evaluated. Also has sizes, dates, histories, values, and over 650 photos. 2000 values. AUTHORBIO: Kathryn McNerney was well-known for her expertise in many fields of antiques and collectibles, including kitchen antiques, antique tools, primitives, blue white stoneware, American oak and Victorian furniture, and antique iron. Her books saw many revised editions, and her books became standard references in the field. She left behind many followers who continue to consult her books and who have made them part of their permanent libraries. REVIEW: This book is one of many by the late Kathryn McNerney, who was noted for her expertise in this field. Hundreds of photos of all types of kitchen antiques are presented with descriptions and current values.

About The Author
Kathryn McNerney was well-known for her expertise in many fields of antiques and collectibles, including kitchen antiques, antique tools, primitives, blue & white stoneware, American oak and Victorian furniture, and antique iron. Her books saw many revised editions, and her books became standard references in the field. She left behind many followers who continue to consult her books and who have made them part of their permanent libraries.

Kitchen Decorating Ideas and Projects

Product Description
The kitchen ranks as the #1 room to remodel. These decorating ideas finish the job!

Tours of the most stylish kitchens, from country to contemporary.

Decorative, space-saving solutions for storage, display, and work surfaces.

18 how-to decorating projects.

Inspired tips throughout.

La Route Antique Des Hommes Pervers

Language Notes
Text: French --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Late Antique and Medieval Art of the Mediterranean World (Blackwell Anthologies in Art...

Product Review
"This volume brings together with much intelligence key essays from across the fields of Ancient, Late Antique, Early Christian, Byzantine, Medieval, and Islamic art and architecture." (David Roxburgh, Harvard University)


"This is a very useful volume of important papers by scholars working on all the different cultures that surrounded the Mediterranean from Late Antiquity on, and juxtaposes them to shed light on their complex interactions and interdependence." (Tony Eastmond, University of Courtauld)

Product Description
Late Antique and Medieval Art of the Mediterranean World is a much-needed teaching anthology that rethinks and broadens the scope of the stale and limiting classifications used for Early Christian-Byzantine visual arts.

• A comprehensive anthology offering a new approach to the visual arts classified as Early Christian-Byzantine
  
• Comprised of essays from experts in the field that integrate the newer, historiographical research into 'the canon' of established scholarship
  
• Exposes the historical, geographical and cultural continuities and interactions in the visual arts of the late antique and medieval Mediterranean world
  
• Covers an extensive range of topics, including the effect that converging cultures in late antiquity had on art, the cultural identities that can be observed by looking at difference of tradition in visual art, and the variance of illuminations in holy books

Latin Style: Decorating Your Home with Color, Texture, and Passion

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Latin Style is the decorating book for bringing the vibrant energy of the Latin culture into your home.

Vibrant photographs and creative, original ideas provide the inspiration anyone needs to bring true Latin style to his or her own life. Whether as a source of inspiration or a defining accent, Latin Style will be the perfect addition to any decor. Style icon Juan Carlos Arcila-Duque defines and celebrates the four key influences of Latin style: Paradiso is the lush abundance of the rain forest, filled with life of every kind. Hacienda is the old world, brick and stone elegance of ranches and country estates set in a rugged landscape. Cabana evokes the cool of the ocean with endless white beaches, turquoise water, and tropical fruits. Pueblo reflects the sun-drenched colors of the marketplace, folk art, colonial architecture, and quiet courtyards. Latin Style will feature a CD of Latin-inspired music.

Layer by Layer: Collage Projects for Home Decorating

Book Description
Blend images, colors, and materials to create lovely, lavish layers! This sophisticated style only seems difficult to duplicate--these home-decor projects reveal how easy it is to master the art.

Choose from more than 15 projects including a floral lampshade, love-letter pillow, and mosaic luminary
Master techniques for collage, decoupage, image transferring, painting, and stamping
Add dimension with charms, eyelets, threads, tags, metal stickers, paper flowers, and ribbons

About The Author
Layer by Layer includes projects from several popular designers, including Dawn Anderson. Dawn also compiled and designed projects for Pretty and Posh, The Blissful Bath, and Handcrafted Garden Accents.

Living in the Arts and Crafts Style: A Home Decorating Workbook

Product Description
Take the best-selling tradition of In the Arts and Crafts Style, add the interactive flair of such fabulously successful home decor books as The Color Book, The Kitchen Planner, and Living Textures, and the result is Living in the Arts and Crafts Style. This definitive guide to the elegant and enduring Arts and Crafts style features over 250 stunning photographs of actual classic and contemporary interiors. Detail shots pay particular attention to the elements, from furniture and flooring, to wall treatments and lighting. Colors, fabrics, carpet, and wallpaper are keyed to matching swatch cards that can be removed for a quick trip to the store. A handy pocket on the inside back cover stores the swatches when not in use. A detailed source list guides the reader to suppliers and artists who carry or produce furnishings in the Arts and Crafts style. Lavishly illustrated and thoroughly practical, Living in the Arts and Crafts Style is an indispensable source of inspiration, giving do-it-yourself decorators all they need to bring the simple elegance and fine craftsmanship of Arts and Crafts into their homes.

About The Author
Charlotte Kelley holds a Masters in art and architecture and currently lives in London, England.