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Shabby Chic | 
 enlarge | Author: Rachel Ashwell
Publisher: Regan Books
Category: Book
List Price: $35.00
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Rating:  44 reviews
Sales Rank: 51085
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 197
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 10.1 x 7.9 x 0.9
ISBN: 0060982047
Dewey Decimal Number: 645
UPC: 099455530002
EAN: 9780060982041
ASIN: 0060982047
Publication Date: July 31, 1996
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Product Description
Valuable flea market finds...
A peeling, antioue vanity in muted sea green...
An elegant, cracked chandelier...
An enormous, slipcovered sofa with deep, cushions... Comfort, the beauty of imperfections, the allure of time-worn objects, and the appeal of simple practical living: these are the cornerstones of what has come to be known as the Shabby Chic style. Like the cozy familiarity of a well-worn pair of faded jeans, the dilapidated elegance of an Italian viIla, or the worn grandeur of faded velvets and mismatched floral china handed down from your grandmother's attic, the Shabby Chic style is a revived appreciation for what is used, well-loved, and worn. It is a respect for natural evolution and a regard for what is easy and sensible. The hundreds of lavish photographs in this book invite you inside the unique world of Shabby Chic. Rachel Ashwell, founder of theShabby Chic home decor stores, for the first time provides her invaluable and much-sought-after advice on how to re-create Shabby Chic style in your own home. With engaging text and easy-to- follow instructions, Rachel details the Shabby Chic basics in a way that will put even the most apprehensive or novice decorators at ease. From flowers to fabrics to lighting, Rachel illuminates all of the elements essential to this unpretentious yet truly exquisite style. A behind-the-scenes look at a flea market lets readers in on Rachel's personal secrets of how to cull hidden treasures from flea market trash--an old trunk, its paint peeling around the edges, can be given new life as a coffee table, while a chipped white iron salvage piece becomes the perfect frame for a vintage mirror. This book tells you not only how to restore these pieces but how to find the perfect place for them in your home. Gorgeous color photographs and accompanying text reveal how this relaxed look works with a variety of different styles, from Victorian to Mediterranean to contemporary.
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 Shabby Chic by Rachel Ashwell December 28, 2008
Chic and Shabby (Los Gatos, USA)
The book was in very good condition. Very fast delivery. Great communication from the seller. Would buy from again!
The book is wonderful... If you like Rachel Ashwell and love Romantic things then this is the book for for you. Her style is warm and subtle and soft. Not in your face baroque and not too cutsie, the guys have to live with it too! Her book inspired me to redo my kitchen in a very warm pale pink and her book taught me how to use my shabby and chic things.
 Uninspired December 11, 2008
K. Huff (Charleston, SC)
Frankly, I was expecting more from this book, particularly because of the lovely cover. However, I was left uninspired. Perhaps it's because it's an older book? Perhaps I had the wrong idea of "shabby chic"? The book is filled with pages upon pages of white rooms with white furniture. I would suggest investing your money in a different book if white rooms aren't your thing.
Magic and Absolutely Must-Have Book July 17, 2008
Mme Yael Bolender (Los Angeles, CA)
This Book, I would say this dream world, is a must-have for any person who loves true design, home or garden decor, flea-markets finds and/or who has children (or even just one kid). The ideas are great and simple, the style is typically Shabby Chic, as its creator wrote this book, but in a little bolder and more flashy colors than in her other books, as many projects are outside and need to be seen under a very harsh sunlight.
It is Rachel Ashwell's fifth book, so, we could imagine it is the same as her four preceding others, but no, she manages to surprise us in it : by remaining true to her palette, we can guess an evolution in her tastes and choices, which are always so chic, so elegant, so British, quite elegant enough for any French Castle, and I know what I am speaking of, as I am French and have been raised in a very chic Parisian family.
As you understood, I am a big fan of Rachel Ashwell's design, I only regret she's not more well-known in Paris.
So, if you like or are curious of Shabby Chic, this book is more that a must, the kind of book you will keep your whole life.
By the way, the pictures are gorgeous, a usually, and the explanations honest and easy to understand, as usually too.
I recommend strongly.
Yael from Los Angeles
Pretty but useless book; bathroom reading January 17, 2007
Carrie White (New York City)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is one of those books that is great to flip through in a bookstore or friend's house but never buy. And I am quite a fan of Shabby Chic and Rachel Ashwell. So if you don't even like her stuff, nothing in this book will sustain your interest. There is not much copy to read, her "tips" are very generic or just off-the-mark (she says it's ok to buy termite-ridden antiques because "a simple commercially available spray" gets rid of termites - somehow I don't see many women attempting this), and the book is mostly photos. While pretty, the photos are sourced from the same few celebrity homes she knows, so one feels a bit shortchanged.
The "Shcbby Chic" home design August 3, 2006
Corliss G. Gardner (San Antonio USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book protrayed the essence of the Shabby Chic home
decoration. It has a good balance between the written word
and photographs. I did enjoy the book and got a lot of
ideas from it.
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