Goodness gracious, I just need ONE rainy day to curl up with my books! It feels as though it has been weeks since a single raindrop has fallen. While I love blue skies, the prairie here needs a drink of water, doncha know! As temperatures cool and rainy days arrive soon, a special flavor of cozy comes with pumpkin carving, hot cider and colorful turning autumn leaves. Whether grey skies and a Fall-ish mood are already yours, I highly recommend cozying on down with these Fall Rizzoli Titles I have previewed for you! All of them magnificently fill the senses with delight, wonder, and inspiration anew.
Get Cozy With These Rizzoli Titles This Fall!
While the interior design within these volumes is set apart and fantasy level, the cozy factor is all about escapism into the pages…if only for a few hours. (Escape? The lifey-ness of life and the daily grind can feel overwhelmingly real enough!)
AT HOME IN FRANCE: Inspiration and Style in Town and Country
Château or apartment? You won’t have to decide in this, the designer’s third book! Timothy Corrigan invites us inside his 18th-century French home in the Loire Valley, Château de la Chevallerie, as well as his stunning 19th-century Paris apartment.
Ooh lala. Should you admire stunning architectural details such as boiserie or parquet de Versailles floors, your heart will be tres happy.
As for the grand chateau, Corrigan completely restored and modernized it with central heat and air, and get ready for it…thirteen new baths!
Tour Timothy Corrigan’s Chateau
But how does one furnish a dwelling this palatial?
Skillfully. Artfully. Mindfully with experience and help from auction houses and French markets to assemble an interesting mix of styles and periods. It’s a look that appears to have evolved over the centuries. Wait until you see the collection of portraits!
Fine. I’ll Show you…
AD100 and Elle Decor A-List designer Corrigan is positively joyful about decorating and living in his Paris apartment as well. Just steps from the Trocadero and Eiffel Tower, Francophiles will devour the ideas for decorating in a French-inspired style. Readers learn of the history of the apartment building as well as how design plans blossomed.
My favorite elements inside AT HOME IN FRANCE?
The photography! It sings with perfect pitch. But also the trustworthy insider information about antiquing in Paris, how to hang art in the French style, and ideas for French countryside exploration.
The lovely von lovely photographs preserve the exquisiteness of these French properties, and have you ever seen prettier French blues (above)?
THE ART OF GRACIE: Handpainted Wallpapers, Timeless Rooms
You’re going to fall in love with the artfulness awaiting within this new title brimming with timelessness!
Brother and sister team Mike and Jennifer Gracie now carry out their great grandfather’s legacy as the fifth-generation leaders of Gracie wallpaper, founded in 1898.
What a triumph it is. THE ART OF GRACIE is authored by Jennifer Gracie, Mike Gracie, Zach Shea and Brian Gracie, with Judith Nasatir. Simply a treasure trove of a title featuring dozens of rooms with this storied handpainted wallpaper.
Is there a top interior designer who doesn’t think highly of Gracie?
Tour Flower Magazine’s Showhouse Sitting Room and Study by Mallory Mathison Glenn
Best known for their exquisite designs, Gracie papers even graced the White House!
I’m a huge fan of how Marie Flanigan integrates their designs! Other design heroes include: Mark Sikes, Summer Thornton, Ellie Cullman, Brooke Giannetti, Suzanne Kasler, Michael S. Smith, Alexa Hampton, Alex Papachristidis, and Amanda Lindroth.
Instantly recognizable, Gracie’s beautiful handpainted florals and birds, panoramic landscapes of American folk scenes, French pastoral hillsides, hunting and maritime scenes are all set apart in their ability to transform interiors.
Can we discuss the book cover design? A custom-painted design by Gracie! Just the perfect gift for interior design enthusiasts.
CULLMAN & KRAVIS interiors
This AD100 Hall of Fame design firm designs with freshened traditional style with art, antiques, color, and a mix of bespoke furniture and finishes.
Founded in 1984, Cullman & Kravis is led by Ellie Cullman and joined by partners Lee Cavanaugh, Sarah Ramsey, and Alyssa Urban.
All I really need is a dressing room exactly like the blushing beauty above. 🙂 Didn’t Cullman & Kravis outdo themselves here? Small wonder the firm has been included on the AD100 list every year since 2000 and is named an Elle Decor Titan.
Additionally, Cullman received the Albert Hadley Lifetime Achievement Award by the New York School of Interior Design.
Tour This British Colonial by Cullman & Kravis
Their richly layered projects may be rooted in tradition, but bold, stylish, modern elements in the mix result in exquisitely dynamic rooms to stand the test of time.
The projects inside are as varied as they are lovely. Manhattan apartments, a historic home overlooking the Long Island Sound, a Hamptons beach house, and a modern Palm Beach estate.
While spectacularly photographed design eye candy from Eric Piasecki (sighhhh!) is worthy of the utmost praise, you’ll also discover inspiration from the commentary with ideas for infusing texture, personality, and character.
Who is ready to unplug and cozy on down as the season changes yet before the rush of the holidays?
Peace to you right where you are.
-michele
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