Antique Decorating

Stylish Napkins: 5-Minute Ideas to Transform Your Table

Product Description
Give your table that elegant finishing touch in just 5 minutes with elaborately folded napkins. For an informal gathering, try the Asparagus fold: roll up the napkin, letting its “tips” peek out from within the design. A deluxe meal deserves a sumptuous, finely pleated Swirl of Cream. A few tucks here and there turn a simple cloth triangle into a cockerel’s crest or a lacy napkin into a butterfly. And several Oriental styles capture the feel of origami. Whether it’s a crisp, linen cloth arranged with care or an eye-catching organza extravaganza, these fabulous designs will make any meal extra special.

Success with Sharpening

Product Description
Accessible and jargon-free for even inexperienced woodworkers, and illustrated with 200 color photographs and diagrams, this first in the Success with Woodworking series tackles a fundamental, yet vital for success, woodworking process: tool sharpening. From the reasons why blunt tools ensure poor-quality work to advice on how to achieve the perfect cutting edge, this introductory guide makes the theory and mechanics of sharpening easy to understand. It covers sharpening by hand, from oilstones and honing to slips and strops; machine sharpening, including controlling heat buildup and grinding wheels; and how to sharpen specific tools: turning and carving tools, marking devices, scrapers, planer blades, green woodworking tools, and household items. With these hands-on exercises and practical advice, top-quality work is guaranteed.

Svenska Mobler (Swedish Furniture)

Product Description
Impossible to find and certainly charming hardback book of Swedish and Scandinavian furniture before 1948!! All text is Swedish. There is also a year listed, which is helpful for non-Swedish readers as well as owner or provenance of the piece of furniture and I can even figure out a few words myself! Black and white sharp photos on almost every page. (The title of the book is also the name of some high-end US modern furniture stores, but of course it has nothing to do with the book!) Truly an antique collector or furniture lover's must have. Un paralleled reference for identification and historical note! Small hardback, large pocket sized. Pages are coated, matte.

Sweet Celebrations: The Art of Decorating Beautiful Cakes

Amazon.com Reviews
Sylvia Weinstock designs beautiful cakes. Sharing that opinion are Oprah Winfrey, Donald Trump, and several Kennedys, among other clients of Weinstock's New York cake business. In Sweet Celebrations, Weinstock and coauthor Kate Manchester show readers how they can produce similar edible fantasies--bedecked beauties for all occasions, from weddings, birthdays, and anniversaries to bon voyages, bar mitzvahs, and baby christenings. Readers wanting to learn or refine cake-decorating skills, or those interested in this ever-evolving craft, will welcome the book.

Beginning with basic cake, filling, icing, and wash (syrupy soak) recipes, Weinstock then presents fundamental and advanced cake-designing techniques, including sugar dough work, flower and ribbon creation, and piping methods of all kinds. She then offers 24 cake projects of her own design, each illustrated in color, with detailed blueprints for their construction. Of these, readers will doubtlessly be most entranced with Weinstock's signature flower- and fruit-wreathed marvels such as her Peach Rose Wedding Cake and Marzipan Fruit Cake, but other Weinstock classics, including the Hatbox Cake, the "lace"-covered Cornelli Heart Cake, or the Clown Cake (perfect for children's parties), will prove equally tempting. Weinstock offers a level of difficulty notation for each cake so readers can choose their projects wisely and advance as their decorating skills develop. Not the least of Weinstock's success is due to her commitment to producing cakes that taste as good as they look, further cause for celebrating with her special creations. --Arthur Boehm

Product Review
Town & Country

Exquisite, edible sculpturesunforgettable.



Pepole

The rich and famous call Sylvia Weinstock to make their sweet dreams come true.

Symbols of Native America

Product Description
Over 1000 illustrations show the fascinating origins and meanings of 300 symbols and signs used by North American tribes. The magnificent variety of symbols are shown as they were used in pottery, clothing, masks, shields, totems, and other settings, carved, sewn, and painted. The collection starts with the simplest symbols--from lines, circles, and curves, to crosses, triangles, and squares--then traces their combinations into ever-more complex designs. Many symbols depict bonds with nature--particularly animals and landscape features--which appear in clan identifications, picture-writing, rituals, legends, and stories that convey heroism and wisdom. A special section explains how more than 80 different animals may have different meanings among cultures of the Southwest, Plains, Northwest Coast, Sub-Arctic North, and the Northeast. 320 pages, 150 b/w illus., 5 5/8 x 7 1/2.


Language Notes
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German

Table Decor: Festive Occasions, Weddings, and Other Special Events

Book Description
We all know how to set tables, but do we know how to make them beautiful? With this book, you can realize the magic of table decor. With over 300 color illustrations and many practical and inventive solutions, this book covers the table, from soup to nuts or gardens to dining rooms, and many places in between. This book acquaints you with the charm of table dcor, whether it is traditional, romantic, modern, or simple. The decorators featured are both professional and gifted, from many diverse backgrounds, and working in dozens of styles. There are ideas for every occasion and taste. By keeping the focus on texture, color, simple containers, and lots of ordinary household items, you can turn a simple meal into something fabulous by varying the items you use together. Here you will find the inspiration to create table settings with style, using your own china and silverware. See how designers and decorators mix, experiment, and create table d cor with modern accouterments or pair antiques with new, ornate, or simple.

Tattered Treasures: Stylish Decorating with Flea Market Finds

From Library Journal
These books provide a multitude of projects to transform items found in salvage yards, thrift stores, flea markets, and yard sales into beautiful decorative accessories. In Junk Chic, Elliot uses her own home as an example of what can be done with cheap finds, and the transformation is quite remarkable and innovative. Powell focuses on how to incorporate flea market finds into decorating schemes, illustrating her suggestions with color photographs and interspersing projects throughout. Rhatigan discusses items found in architectural salvage yards where pieces of houses wind up before demolition. His projects range from simple (transforming a metal porch support into a corner shelf) to more complex (building a blanket chest from salvaged doors), and safety tips on working with metal, glass, and wood are provided. Though for each book, too few illustrations are provided with the well-written directions, skilled crafters will still find the projects here useful. Recommended for public libraries where there is an interest.
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist
No room-by-room rehabilitation of found objects for Georgia artist Powell. Instead, the focus is on groups of like items--lamps, metal ware, and wooden chairs--and how to "revive" them. Color photographs take up most of the space; a bakers' dozen or so of make-it-yourself ideas and directions allow readers the luxury of simply browsing or actually doing. Her creations are wondrously whimsical and imaginative. Barbara Jacobs
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Teach Your Child to Sleep: Solving Sleep Problems from Newborn Through Childhood (Hamlyn...

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When a baby doesn't sleep well, the entire family suffers. Now, parents and children can sleep soundly through the night using these proven and effective methods from one of Europe's preeminent sleep clinics. Covering a range of common scenarios, parents will learn to identify the root cause of their child's sleepless nights and take simple steps to correct the situation--and can see results in as little as two to three weeks! The most frequent sleep problems and their causes are detailed, and parents also will find pros and cons of popular sleep techniques, as well as tips for encouraging good sleeping habits.

Textile Style: Decorating with Antique and Exotic Fabrics

Product Description
Decorating with antique and exotic fabrics can make a home warm, lively, and distinctive. Within their weaves, colors, and patterns, textiles contain the story of interior decoration, and Caroline Clifton-Mogg delves into their history to encourage an understanding and a love of the great variety of world fabrics. Capturing some of the world's most imaginative and unusual interiors, this sumptuous book is a rich source of ideas for using everything from old linen sheets to scraps of silk embroidery in clever and original ways. Professional decorators demonstrate the importance of including unusual textiles—the antique, ethnic, hand painted, and rare—in designing a room, as accents to the scheme or to set the theme for the whole room. The interiors featured are full of the unexpected, including carpets used as tablecloths, painted fabrics masquerading as pictures, and layer on layer of linen and lace as upholstery. This collection is a real inspiration—a fascinating read and a photographic insight into textiles.

About The Author
Caroline Clifton-Mogg is a writer and journalist who specializes in interior design and gardens. A contributing editor of both Harpers and Queen and Christie's Magazine, she also writes regularly for House and Garden and the Financial Times. Her books include Textile Style, Decorating with Antiques and The White Home.

Textile Style: The Art of Using Antique and Exotic Fabrics to Decorate Your Home

Book Description
Textile Style explains how to transform boring to unique with common fabrics as well as sumptuous lengths of Indian jewel-colored silks, intricate kelims and rugs from the East, and woven Scottish shawls. These and many more can be used around the home in a context very different from their original purpose.

About The Author
"Caroline Clifton-Mogg is a writer and journalist who specializes in interior design and gardens. She is a contributing editor of both Harpers & Queen and Christie's Magazine and also writes regularly for House and Garden, The Financial Times, and many other magazines and newspapers. Her books include The Curtain Book and Decorating with Antiques. She lives in London with her husband, two daughters, and a variable number of cats.

Andrew Wood is a photographer of interiors and gardens who travels the world in the course of his work. His photographs illustrate a number of books and many magazine articles. He lived in Asia for many years and still retreats there to his boat, which is moored in Thailand."

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