House Beautiful Art: Decorating with Art at Home

How can one integrate art, whether a few pieces or a large collection, into one's home and life? In House Beautiful Art: Decorating with Art at Home, design historian Judith Gura and the editors of House Beautiful showcase the many ways in which such decorative bliss can be accomplished, using scale and balance to produce harmonious environments. Whether the setting is a 17th-century Dutch castle, a small cottage in Connecticut or a stark modern manse in Arizona, amazing combinations of old and new, classic and modern, sentimental mementos and priceless objects can all contribute to a satisfying environment which surprises and excites. Two hundred superb color photographs show off the ideas and collections and inspire creative new approaches to those beloved treasures relegated to a shelf or packed away. (Nov.)