Charleston Style: Past and Present
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| Rating | : | 4.76 (931 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0847821013 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 200 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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She is a former Guggenheim Fellow and winner of the PEN/Hemingway Prize.. John Blais is a New York-based photographer whose work has appeared in publications for Historic Charleston Foundation and in such magazines as Colonial Homes and This Old House. Josephine Humphreys is a Charleston-based novelist whose works include Dreams of Sleep, Rich in Love, and The Fireman's Fair. About the AuthorSusan Sully has written numerous magazine articles on southern interiors and lifestyles, and has published Fish & Soup, an illustrated children's book, with Rizzoli
Also featured are some of the city's most charming gardens, inspired by the formal and picturesque landscape designs of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe as well as by the exotic gardens of Japan. With rich color photography by John Blais and a delightful foreword by acclaimed novelist, Josephine Humphreys, Charleston Style: Past and Present delivers an evocative portrait of this fascinating city.. After the Civil War, hardship, pride, and nostalgia shaped an aesthetic in which peeling gilt and tattered lace became badges of honor. Charleston Style: Past and Present traces the city's allure through its exquisite and sometimes eccentric architecture, decorative arts, and garden designs, which express a wide range of European and American styles, including Georgian, Federal, Chinese Chippendale, Gothic and Greek Revival, Queen Anne, Eastlake, and more. During its ascendance as one of America's wealthiest cities, Charleston's most privileged citizens acquired sophisticated, even decadent, tastes that continue to infuse their homes and gardens. Author Susan Sully explores Charleston as a medium through which this spectrum of styles becomes transmuted into a distinctive regional mode.Sully's Charleston is a place where antique and modern, fantasy and reality, playfully intersect. Thanks to one of the earliest and most energetic American
A Customer said Recent press on Charleston Style. Praised in House Beautiful (May '99) for author Susan Sully's "evocative text [that] lifts this book a notch above many similar style books," Charleston Style was listed by The State newspaper from Columbia, SC as one of the top ten books by or about South Carolinians published in 1999. The State's reviewer, Willi. stanley j schneider said Five Stars. Very nice addition to my collection on southern interiors. where to find printed reviews of this book A Customer This book received a favorable review in House Beautiful, May 1999 (p. 130)
She is a former Guggenheim Fellow and winner of the PEN/Hemingway Prize.. John Blais is a New York-based photographer whose work has appeared in publications for Historic Charleston Foundation and in such magazines as Colonial Homes and This Old House. Josephine Humphreys is a Charleston-based novelist whose works include Dreams of Sleep, Rich in Love, and The Fireman's Fair