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  Romantic Prairie Style (CICO Books) (Hardback) By (author) Fifi O'Neill

  

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  Short Description for Romantic Prairie StyleRomantic Prairie Style embraces simple pleasures, comfort and the long-cherished ideals of natural beauty, simplicity and harmony with the earth. Packed with stunning photography from a range of never before photographed locations, this style speaks of romance and nostalgia.
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  • Publisher: CICO BOOKS
  • Published: 30 April 2011
  • Format: Hardback 160 pages
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  • Categories: Professional Interior Design | Interior Design, Decor & Style Guides
  • ISBN 13: 9781907563195 ISBN 10: 1907563199
  • Sales rank: 13,551

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Full description for Romantic Prairie Style

• Romantic Prairie Style embraces simple pleasures, comfort and the long-cherished ideals of natural beauty, simplicity and harmony with the earth. It's a style that says 'home' wherever you may be because, more than anything else, it's a mindset: gentle but strong, welcoming and lasting, durable yet sophisticated and, above all, real. Over the centuries, the humble dwellings built by European immigrants to the US in the 1880s have evolved into sturdier, more comfortable homes, which, depending on their geographic location, took on a variety of designs, be it a ranch, cabin, farmhouse, cottage or adobe. Each of these styles plays a role in prairie style and its enduring aura of romance and nostalgia. Here interiors bear the influence of European settlers and the poetry of the heart-warming authenticity of simple, natural textures, hand-hewn beams, bleached wood, weathered planks, woven blankets, cow-hide and Navajo rugs. It's a style inspired by the honesty of homespun materials of the past wedded to a flair for the present. It's flower-sprigged brocade, tawny leather, crisp eyelet and soft linen, corduroy with crochet trims, woolen plaids, cosy flannel and wispy organza. It's history retold and all about the enduring connection between people and places and the nostalgia we feel for a rural country life, a yearning for a simpler life, as embodied in Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie.