Summers In France

by Kathryn Ireland

Overview

Excursions to flea markets and antiques shops and snapshots of outdoor activities punctuate this luscious book of French country living, which includes home design and ideas plus favorite recipes for Mediterranean-inspired lunches and convivial candlelit dinners.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781423615323
Publisher:	Smith, Gibbs Publisher
Publication date:	04/01/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	12 MB
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About the Author

Kathryn M. Ireland is among House & Garden's "10 to Watch" architects and designers expected to influence 21st-century style. For the last decade, House Beautiful has named her one of the top 100 designers in the United States. She is the author of Creating a Home and Classic Country. She divides her time between Santa Monica, California, and Montauban, France.

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Table of Contents

8. Foreword

12. Introduction

17. The Towns and Markets

37. The House I Call La Castellane

58. Settling In

67. The Cow Barn

97. Main House Bedrooms

117. The Pigeonnier

145. The Gardens

155. Everyone to the Table

197. Outdoor Life

220. Resources

222. Acknowledgments

Editorial Reviews

Kathryn M. Ireland, designer of fabrics and interiors, creates a warm, delightful book about her fixed-up farmhouse near Toulouse. This travel guide, family photo album and decor dossier treats readers like friends.

Veranda

Near Toulouse, designer Kathryn Ireland (Seen her hilarious self on 'Million Dollar Decorators?' Yo.She tells it like it is.) brought a rural, rundown property back to life.

Nicholas Coleridge (Managing Director, Conde Nast Britain) refers to Kathryn's house as "a sophisticated exercise in sustainable upscale bohemia where the atmosphere is gloriously relaxed but everything somehow works perfectly."

Goodness gracious...don't you love the sound of 'upscale bohemia????' And isn't Kathryn's palette in here brilliant?

Such upscale bohemia is throughout the Southern France farmhouse in Kathryn's glorious book Summers in France (Gibbs Smith). Like Kathryn, S.I.F. is not a fussy decor book, BTW. Rather, we are treated to glimpses and tastes and whispers of what it is truly like to abide as a guest at this amazingly rustic chic getaway.

Nicholas Coleridge captures the essence of Summers in France eloquently:

"Kathryn brings a tumbledown farm glamorously back to life in bohemian style, with marketplace food, sunshine,
and the laughter of friends." Would you spend your summers in a tumbledown farmhouse if you could? Can you describe how it looks?

Hello Lovely Inc - Michele Ranard

Kathryn M. Ireland, designer of fabrics and interiors, creates a warm, delightful book about her fixed-up farmhouse near Toulouse. This travel guide, family photo album and decor dossier treats readers like friends.

Veranda

Near Toulouse, designer Kathryn Ireland (Seen her hilarious self on 'Million Dollar Decorators?' Yo.She tells it like it is.) brought a rural, rundown property back to life.

Nicholas Coleridge (Managing Director, Conde Nast Britain) refers to Kathryn's house as "a sophisticated exercise in sustainable upscale bohemia where the atmosphere is gloriously relaxed but everything somehow works perfectly."

Goodness gracious...don't you love the sound of 'upscale bohemia????' And isn't Kathryn's palette in here brilliant?

Such upscale bohemia is throughout the Southern France farmhouse in Kathryn's glorious book Summers in France (Gibbs Smith). Like Kathryn, S.I.F. is not a fussy decor book, BTW. Rather, we are treated to glimpses and tastes and whispers of what it is truly like to abide as a guest at this amazingly rustic chic getaway.

Nicholas Coleridge captures the essence of Summers in France eloquently:

"Kathryn brings a tumbledown farm glamorously back to life in bohemian style, with marketplace food, sunshine,
and the laughter of friends." Would you spend your summers in a tumbledown farmhouse if you could? Can you describe how it looks?

— Michele Ranard

Hello Lovely Inc