John Fowler was an interior decorator who set fashions and changed tastes. The English country house style, which he developed with Sibyl Colefax and Nancy Lancaster, his partners in the firm of Colefax & Fowler, has proved a source of continuing inspiration to decorators and home-owners on both sides of the Atlantic and indeed across the world. Today, a hundred years after his birth, his influence is almost as powerful as it was in the mid 20th century, when he was working on many of Britain's finest and most famous houses ...
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John Fowler was an interior decorator who set fashions and changed tastes. The English country house style, which he developed with Sibyl Colefax and Nancy Lancaster, his partners in the firm of Colefax & Fowler, has proved a source of continuing inspiration to decorators and home-owners on both sides of the Atlantic and indeed across the world. Today, a hundred years after his birth, his influence is almost as powerful as it was in the mid 20th century, when he was working on many of Britain's finest and most famous houses, including Uppark, Chequers and Buckingham Palace, as well as dozens of more modest projects. Fowler's style has been so widely imitated that it is easy to forget what an innovator he was. In the 1930s and 1940s his style was a breath of fresh country air, sweeping away heavy velvets and damasks in favour of crisp cotton chintzes, replacing glossy mahogany with painted Regency furnishings, elaborate porcelain and glitzy ormolu with modest pottery and painted tin. Even after the war, when he came to specialize in the decoration of architecturally important interiors, he continued to prefer 'humble elegance' and 'romantic disrepair' to pomposity.
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Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Oversized.
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Like New in Like New jacket. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($60.00 price intact). Published by Francis Lincoln Limited, 2007. Octavo. Gray cloth boards stamped in silver with patterned endpapers. Book is like new; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Dust jacket is like new with very light shelf wear. 288 pages. ISBN: 9780711227118. A fine copy of this photobook of notable designs by British interior designer John Fowler. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York. We Buy Books! Individual titles, libraries, collections. Message us if you have books to sell!
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Very Good in Near Fine jacket. Book 288 pages. Hardcover. Texts in English. There is some wear to the edges with heavier wear (and tiny tears) at the crown and foot of the spine. Else, the binding is tight, the jacket bright, and interior clean and free of markings. Bound in gray cloth covered boards and wrapped in an illustrated paper dustjacket. Beautifully illustrated.
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Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. 071122711X. Has some wrinkled pages due to minimal liquid exposure. -Good overall condition. General wear. No major blemishes. No writing.
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Used-Good. Martin Wood presents a fully illustrated guide to the work of John Fowler, the man who, with his partners, Nancy Lancaster and Sibyl Colefax founded Colefax & Fowler, the legendary British firm that 'invented' shabby-chic and the English Country House style. Frances Lincoln Used copy with light wear. Some staining on end paper verso. Binding is tight no interior marks.
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