Sunset Curtains Draperies and Shades by Sunset Books, ISBN 0376017392
This step-by-step book lets readers choose from over 40 updated window treatment projects that showcase today's more casual approach, such as softer pleats on draperies, looser folds on curtains, and panels that puddle gracefully on the floor. 74 photos. 260 illustrations.
The Magic Curtain: The Mexican-American Border in Fiction, Film, and Song by Thomas Torrans, ISBN 0875652573
Borderlands -- especially the United States-Mexico borderland -- have long served as backgrounds for depicting social instability, according to Thomas Torrans. And borders -- or magic curtains -- have readily been fashioned into exotic backdrops for films, novels, ballads, and tales in which characters shift easily from one culture to another. The protagonists are equally at home in both societies, or, at worst, at home in neither.
True border novels form a literature that deserves a category all its own. There is an uneven quality -- a coarseness sometimes mixed with polish, running the gamut of emotion from the tragic to the comic.
One recent fictional attempt to exploit the border's historical aspects is Fandango by Ron McCoy (1984), while one of the older efforts is that of the early twentieth-century novelist Will Levington Comfort in Somewhere South in Sonora (1925). Border fiction is often just part of a larger whole and a number of books, whether fiction or nonfiction, seldom...
The Magic Curtain: The Mexican-American Border in Fiction, Film, and Song by Thomas Torrans, ISBN 0875652573
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The Fabric Quantity Handbook: For Soft Furnishings by Catherine Merrick, ISBN 0953526720
Essential for anyone involved in curtain making and design. Accurate and easy to use - for fabric fringe and trim quantities. Includes quantity tables for curtains valences pelments swags blinds bed valences covers table cloths etc. Measurements are in inches and yards.
The Fabric Quantity Handbook: For Soft Furnishings by Catherine Merrick, ISBN 0953526720
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The House in Good Taste
After ninety years, "The House in Good Taste" by America's "first lady of interior decoration," Elsie de Wolfe, still offers timeless design advice.
Compiled from her articles in newspapers and magazines and first published in 1914, "The House in Good Taste" is a seminal book on interior design with ideas that have lasted a century because they influenced not only the wealthy clients of Park Avenue and Palm Beach, but popular taste as well.
De Wolfe advised Americans to shun ostentation and clutter in favor of simplicity, to dismantle the draperies in order to let in the light, and to replace garish colors with beige and ivory. "I believe in plenty of optimism and white paint," she declared, "comfortable chairs with lights beside them, open fires on the hearth and flowers wherever they 'belong, ' mirrors and sunshine in all rooms." The rooms that Americans inhabited in the middle of the twentieth century still today owe much to de Wolfe's tastes.
The House in Good Taste
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Westchester Burning -To-Be and 3 Copies of Diary of a Mad Bride: Portrait of a Marriage by Amine Wefali, ISBN 0385335148
Amine Wefali had four beautiful children and houses in Westchester, Nantucket, and Florida--but her marriage had become acrimonious. She had moved into the attic of her exclusive home in Westchester, a suburb of New York, while Phillip, her prosperous husband, remained downstairs. Torn between ambivalent emotions about her marriage and the inability to articulate her own longing for freedom, Wefali channeled her frustration into a whirlwind of domestic activity. Emotionally estranged, financially dependent, she was landlocked.
Parting the curtains on the intimate stage of contemporary marriage, Wefali delicately coaxes from beneath the surface of domestic life the poignancy, tragedy, loss, and humor that punctuate a long-term relationship. With lacerating wit and candor--about herself and the upperclass world around her--Wefali finds her way out of the attic and into the selfhood she always wanted. And along her journey, she has recorded a stunning personal odyssey both unique and universal....
Westchester Burning -To-Be and 3 Copies of Diary of a Mad Bride: Portrait of a Marriage by Amine Wefali, ISBN 0385335148
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