Book Description:
'Letting nature into your home through flowers, sunlight and objects that take nature as their inspiration can add incredible richness to your home.' April Cornell In APRIL CORNELL AT HOME: Glorious Prints and Patterns to Decorate and Enhance Your Home (Glitterati Incorporated; November 1, 2003), artist, designer, and lifestyle entrepreneur, April Cornell, opens her home and her life, to reveal how she captures the beauty of nature and expresses it throughout her living space. In this refreshingly eclectic and intimate assemblage of home design inspirations, April takes the reader on a walk through her world of color, textures and style, using her charming Victorian style family home in Vermont as the showcase for her personal approach to design and decorating. In doing so, she inspires readers to rethink their own relationship with the natural world and suggests ingenious ways to enhance any home using nature s perfect palettes. Beautifully illustrated throughout, the book is a cornucopia of refreshingly simple, yet sumptuous home decorating ideas. It is also the inspiring story of an artist who has 'looked' at her life and has been so dazzled by its inherent beauty that her focus is unwaveringly uncomplicated. Readers need not mimic April s style to appreciated the sagacity and sensuality of her design philosophy; her serene approach to home decorating is both infectious and achievable. The book itself is threaded together in the same fashion that she has assembled her home, as well as her international fashion and accessory business, and that is with captivating bursts of color, texture from her own life experience, and with art intermingled throughout, all in a practical and natural manner. In her hands, a list of plant names in Latin and English becomes beautiful to behold, but equally as interesting to know. The book also features April s own introspections and illustrations, homey sketches that perfectly punctuate each page. According to April, her intention was to create a book that reflected her own approach to life: 'Use nature as a guide, good memories as a reference point to build style, and a happy atmosphere to bind it all together, and make it all worthwhile.' And millions of fans are listening! April s home decorating and apparel chain has grown to over 100 stores throughout North America.It is a book that belongs on every home decorator s shelf, professional and novice alike.
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