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The English style in interior design is admired and imitated the world over.The English style in interior design is admired and imitated the world over. At its grandest it is a stately home furnished with antiques, but the houses featured in this book are country cottages, farmhouses, townhouses, and apartments. What links them is as much an attitude as a look. The English style of decoration is practical and informal, designed around the inhabitants of the rooms and their lifestyles rather than to awe or impress. These houses are lived in and loved, with interiors that are comfortable, relaxed and not afraid to be pretty. All are perfect in their own way, and all as endearingly English as saying sorry when someone treads on your foot. The book's chapters - Plain English, English Eccentric, English Rose, English Country House and Classic English - reflect the many and varied facets of English style, and each section ends with pages devoted to suggestions and ideas for furnishing a house in all these versions of English style.
About the Author
Ros Byam Shaw is a freelance journalist and writes on design and interiors for 'The World of Interiors', 'House & Garden' and the 'Saturday Telegraph', among others. She is the author of 'Old House New Home', 'Perfect English', 'Perfect English Cottage', 'Perfect English Farmhouse', and 'English Eccentric', as well as 'Farrow & Ball Living with Color and 'Farrow & Ball Decorating with Color' (all published by Ryland Peters & Small) . Ros lives in Devon with her husband and dog.
