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The Dining Room
This book whets your appetite for creating the dining space of your dreams and gives you plenty of practical, inventive, budget-conscious tips on how to go about it.
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"In this lusciously illustrated volume, author Diane Berger treats us to a feast of dining room styles and trends, from stately formal to cozy country kitchens. Whether your taste runs to the traditional or the outré, the book whets your appetite for creating the dining space of your dreams and gives you plenty of practical, inventive, budget-conscious tips on how to go about it, including wall and window treatments, furnishings, and table settings. It also contains an invaluable list of sources in the United States, Great Britain, Europe, and Australia.

"Much of the pleasure of dining is in the ambience, and with the wealth of ideas in this book you can transform the daily act of meal-taking into an aesthetic delight. Featuring Fritz von der Schulenberg's masterful photographs of delectable dining rooms throughout Europe and the Americas — including those of Valentino, David Hicks, Fendi, and Bill Blass — The Dining Room is a book that will appeal as much to the host or hostess as it will to the interior designer."

 

 

The Dining Room
by Diane Berger, photographs by Fritz von der Schulenberg
published by Abbeville Press (1993)
$29.95
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