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Alexandra Stoddard. HarperResource, $16.95 (240pp) ISBN 978-0-380-71624-1
A platitudinous but practical guide to middle-class, suburban interior design. (Nov.)
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Reviewed on: 11/01/1993
Genre: Nonfiction
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