Little Book of Tassels by Danielle Chiel, ISBN 1863512608
On pillows, tie-back curtains, and even as hanging art, add luxurious tassels to your home's decor. It takes only four simple steps before you start experimenting with color, texture, and shape. Inspiring color photographs, drawings, and easy-to-follow instructions cover two dozen fabulous projects for tassels--and most use inexpensive materials and need only a few hours to complete.
Scales of Gold by Dorthy Dunnett, ISBN 0375704809
With the bravura storytelling and pungent authenticity of detail she brought to her acclaimed Lymond Chronicles, Dorothy Dunnett, grande dame of the historical novel, presents The House of Niccolo series. The time is the 15th century, when intrepid merchants became the new knighthood of Europe. Among them, none is bolder or more cunning than Nicholas vander Poele of Bruges, the good-natured dyer's apprentice who schemes and swashbuckles his way to the helm of a mercantile empire.
The year 1464 finds Nicholas back in Venice. Plagued by enemies bent on dissolving his assets and smearing his character, he sets sail for Africa, legendary location of the Fountain of Youth, home to a descendant of Sheba and Solomon, and the source of gold in such abundance that men prefer to barter in shells. He will learn firsthand the brutality and grandeur of the Dark Continent, from the horror of the slave trade to the austere nobility of Islamic Timbuktu. He will discover, too, the charms of the beautiful...
Scales of Gold by Dorthy Dunnett, ISBN 0375704809 
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How to Bring the Outside Inside: Let Your Home Reflect the Seasons
Hip and contemporary, combining humor with comfort, Helen Ellery's signature look is inspired by the land and achieved through the use of texture, color, and witty literal references--such as a bright green carpet "growing" up the stairs like a strip of lawn. Presenting a fresh take on home design, Outside Inside is full of creative ways to make your home as uplifting as a garden, with inspiring images, sketches and step-by-step projects for changing your home easily and inexpensively with the seasons. Covering the entire creative process - from cultivating ideas to turning them into reality-it shows how to achieve a neutral backdrop with walls, floors, fixtures and fittings, and change the look with elements like curtains, blinds, cushions and throws.
How to Bring the Outside Inside: Let Your Home Reflect the Seasons
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Quien Es Ese Monstruo? y Ese Otro?
Children will take comfort in discovering that everyone has suffered from fears about monsters--behind the curtains, in the closet, or under the bed. This brightly illustrated and interactive book asks young readers for their advice about vanquishing monsters and teaches them how to take control of their fears.
Quien Es Ese Monstruo? y Ese Otro?
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Les Must de Cartier by Assouline, ISBN 2843234212
Between the gold-embossed pages of this decadent and amusing volume, you'll find the wall-to-wall monogrammed carpeting, lacquered furniture, tinted glass, panther draperies and mirrors reflecting the faces of celebrities that represented the era of the 1970s and 1980s at the height of its glory. Nineteen sixty eight. The year all certainties were shattered, it was in good taste to burn what one loved and to trample underfoot the values of yesterday. If, in this new world of dissent, luxury was no longer appropriate, the taste for beauty didn't completely disappear. No, luxury was not dead! It simply needed to be reinvented. In the midst of this new counterculture, which burned all belongings and lived according to the flames of passion, Cartier enflamed hearts and luxury markets by creating a lighter that landed with the impact of a bomb--"Les Must" de Cartier saw the light of day. Existing somewhere between tradition and modernity, Cartier's lighters, pens, watches, glasses, jewelry,...
Les Must de Cartier by Assouline, ISBN 2843234212
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