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Veranda Decorating
Veranda Decorating
Veranda Decorating
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Veranda Decorating

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From beautiful design details that inspire to pretty personal spaces you’ll want to call your own, this stunning volume from Veranda captures the allure of luxurious decorating.
 
Learn all there is to know about creating a glorious home. VerandaDecorating takes you on an A–Z journey through the essentials of decorating, from Antiques” and “Art” to “Zoning.” Dozens of spectacular photographs showcase sophisticated furnishings and design aesthetics, and this book—authored by Veranda Senior Editor Mario López-Cordero with a foreword by Clinton Smith, the magazine’s Editor in Chief—perfectly juxtaposes practical decorating advice alongside inspiring images of fabulous rooms, chic home accents, and more.
 
LanguageEnglish
PublisherHearst
Release dateApr 13, 2018
ISBN9781618372642
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    Veranda Decorating - Mario López-Cordero

    MARIO LÓPEZ-CRDERO

    FOREWORD BY CLINTON SMITH

    HEARST BOOKS and VERANDA are registered trademarks and the distinctive Hearst Books logo is a trademark of Hearst Communications, Inc.

    © 2018 Hearst Communications, Inc.

    All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means (including electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise) without prior written permission from the publisher.

    ISBN 978-1-61837-264-2

    For information about custom editions, special sales, and premium and corporate purchases, please contact Sterling Special Sales at 800-805-5489 or [email protected].

    sterlingpublishing.com

    veranda.com

    Cover design by Scott Russo

    Interior design by Suzanne Noli

    For photography credits see page 220

    CONTENTS

    Introduction

    A

    animal prints

    antiques

    art

    art of arrival

    B

    bathtubs

    beds

    C

    chandeliers

    chintz

    curtains

    D

    daybeds

    dining rooms

    door knockers

    E

    enfilades

    F

    fireplaces

    floors

    floor lamps

    G

    gallery walls

    H

    hallways

    I

    ikat

    J

    juxtaposition

    K

    kitchens

    L

    lacquer

    libraries

    living rooms

    M

    marble

    mirrors

    N

    nailheads

    O

    outdoor rooms

    P

    painted furniture

    passementerie

    patina

    pattern

    pendants

    Q

    quiet

    R

    ranges

    romance

    rugs

    S

    sconces

    screens

    sisal

    slipcovers

    staircases

    symmetry

    T

    texture

    tiles

    toile

    U

    upholstery

    V

    vanities

    vintage

    W

    wallcoverigs

    wicker

    windows

    X

    x marks the spot

    Y

    yin & yang

    Z

    zen

    Photography Credits

    A new Greek Revival–style house by Amelia Handegan in South Carolina is airy and gracious, thanks to refined antiques and charming architectural details like moldings and chair rails.

    Editing a decorating magazine, especially one like Veranda, is in many ways the highest kind of education. It’s an incomparable perch from which you get to see the best the field has to offer. There are the serene oases in which every yard of linen, every plush seat back, every gracefully placed chalky lamp seems calibrated to take you far, far away. Or the intensely personal tours-de-force that dazzle you with leopard-print needlepoint, chinoiserie pelmets, lacquerwalls so slick that they reflect your face back at you like a mirror—and you can see yourself grinning from ear to ear with the dizzying deliciousness of it all. And then there are the gorgeous and beautiful iterations that fall somewhere in between, homes that split the difference between

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