Laura Ashley


Book Description

Discover Laura Ashley's tips on using fabric to bring color, pattern, and texture to an entire home. Extraordinarily versatile, fabric can dramatically define a room with sweeping curtains or a child's tented bed, or add decorative touches with cushions, covered boxes, and screens. Ideas are included for every room -- living rooms, kitchens, dining rooms, bedrooms, children's rooms, bathrooms, and garden rooms. Inspiring photographs display finished projects in beautifully styled rooms, and each project is easily accessible with fully illustrated step-by-step instructions.




Laura Ashley Guide to Country Decorating


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The timeless appeal of rustic living, with its emphasis on comfort, function, and simplicity, gets a crisp, contemporary interpretation--in classic Laura Ashley style--now available in trade paperback. An exquisite sourcebook for decorating with the distinctive Laura Ashley touch. 300 full-color illustrations.




Step-by-step Home Decorating Book


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A practical guide to decorating walls and doing needlework projects.







Laura Ashley Color


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Now in paperback, LAURA ASHLEY COLOR is a stunning, large-format compendium of delightful, surprising, and pleasing color schemes for the home. The book focuses on shades of a particular color and features double-page spreads of charts illustrating the full spectrum of the rainbow. Easy projects and practical decorating ideas add to the book's value. Full-color throughout.




Laura Ashley


Book Description

Whether home is a city apartment, a suburban condominium, or a rambling country house, it is the living room that creates a first impression. With 250 full-color photos and drawings, this book is packed with hundreds of decorating ideas for creating that first--and lasting--impression.




Laura Ashley at Home


Book Description

A tour of seven elegant homes transformed by Laura Ashley illustrates color schemes, fabrics, and details for all decorating tastes, from the luxurious to simple country style




English Decoration


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In English Decoration, architectural and interior designer Ben Pentreath presents a major new survey of the best of the English style. Eighteen homes, many of which have never been previously photographed, provide the source material for his wide-ranging investigation of this classic look. The houses include Ben’s own homes in London and West Dorset, alongside those of Earls and artists, writers and architects, book designers and gardeners. The book opens with an essay on the English style in decoration, and then entrance halls, living rooms, kitchens and dining rooms and bedrooms and bathrooms are considered in turn, together with simple Rooms of Utility and spectacular Rooms of Display. There is also a foreword by Nicky Haslam, suggestions for further reading, and a style directory that reveals Ben's own favorite sources—helping you to achieve the classic English look, wherever you live.




Laura Ashley


Book Description

Against the background of Laura Ashley's life - from her birth in South Wales in 1925 to her sudden death in 1985 - Martin Wood tells the story of the iconic brand she and her husband, Bernard, created. Beginning with the textiles they designed and printed at home in their three-room flat in the 1950s, Wood looks at how, when they began designing and selling dresses, blouses and other clothes, and launched a range of household textiles and furnishings, `Laura Ashley style' became a phenomenon. The story is richly illustrated with more than 200 photographs and drawings, many never previously published, from the company's archives and the Ashley family's private records. From reviews of Nancy Lancaster 'Excellent . . . the best title on taste and design published this year' Financial Times 'Of all the books on houses and gardens . . . this one takes the cake' Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire, Spectator 'A rare treat, fluently written and superbly illustrated Daily Telegraph