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Tuscan Style Homes

Tuscan & Andalusian Reflections: 20 Beautiful Homes Inspired By Old World Architecture

Product DescriptionThe most popular Tuscan Home-Design book ever published is now available in Paperback! The Hardcover version of this book spent 100 weeks on the National Bestseller List! Dazzling beautiful, this book is a tour de force of twenty Old World-inspired homes designed by Bassenian/Lagoni Architects of Newport Beach, CA. Built in the canyons and [...]

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The Tuscan Year: Life and Food in an Italian Valley

Product DescriptionThe Tuscan Year recounts the daily life and food preparation of a family living on a farm in Tuscany. Elizabeth Romer chronicles each season’s activities month by month: curing prosciutto and making salame in January, planting and cheesemaking in March, harvesting and threshing corn in July, hunting for wild muchrooms in September, and grape [...]

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Around the Tuscan Table: Food, Family, and Gender in Twentieth Century Florence

Product DescriptionIn this delicious book, noted food scholar Carole M. Counihan presents a compelling and artfully told narrative about family and food in late 20th-century Florence. Based on solid research, Counihan examines how family , and especially gender, have changed in Florence since the end of World War II to the present giving us a [...]

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Too Much Tuscan Sun: Confessions of a Chianti Tour Guide

ISBN13: 9780762736706 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionOver the past several years, “the American in Tuscany” has become a literary subgenre. Launched by the phenomenal success of Frances Mayes’s Under the Tuscan Sun, bookstores now burgeon with nimble, witty accounts of this clash in cultures-Americans trying to do American [...]

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Italian Rustic: How to Bring Tuscan Charm into Your Home

Product DescriptionA celebration of Tuscan farmhouse style, with practical advice on how to bring the look home. For anyone who has ever dreamed of living under the Tuscan sun, Italian Rustic is the next best thing—a step-by-step guide to recreating the romance and appeal of the weathered Italian farmhouse. This nuts-and-bolts guide to building Italian-style [...]

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Tuscan & Andalusian Reflections

Product DescriptionWithin the pages of this dazzling book, readers will find 20 of the most significant new homes designed by Bassenian/Lagoni Architects of Newport Beach, California. Inspired by the architecture of Southern Europe, yet totally new, these graceful, time-tempered homes display up-to-date floor planning, the finest amenities and picturesque landscaping. Built in the canyons and [...]

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Decorating A Large Entry Or Foyer

Halls and foyers are receiving infinitely more attention than they did. They are rather an indication of the rest of the house and one seldom hears as we used to so often, “Oh, I’ll stick it in the hall.” It is a problem to get away from the commonplace in halls, as the essentials are [...]

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The Reluctant Tuscan: How I Discovered My Inner Italian

Product DescriptionRising From The Mist in the sun-blushed hills of Tuscany is Il Piccolo Rustico, a 300-year-old stone farmhouse that Nancy Doran dreams of lovingly restoring into an idlyllic home. All her husband Phil can see is a crumbling money pit that, as far as dreams go, is more of a nightmare. Reluctantly leaving behind [...]

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