Cecil Hayes 9 Steps to Beautiful Living - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cecil Hayes 9 Steps to Beautiful Living write by Cecil Hayes. This book was released on 2006. Cecil Hayes 9 Steps to Beautiful Living available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Utilizing her simple, nine-step process, the visionary interior designer demonstrates how to create home designs that exemplify style, luxury, and grace that will stand the test of time, combining common-sense instructions with innovative design ideas, practical advice, and 250 full-color illustrative photographs.
Cecil Hayes Art of Decorative Details
Cecil Hayes Art of Decorative Details - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cecil Hayes Art of Decorative Details write by Cecil Hayes. This book was released on 2007. Cecil Hayes Art of Decorative Details available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The award-winning designer offers practical suggestions on how to brighten and define any room inexpensively and with unique flair, by selecting fine decorative details to complete that special look and make every room more inviting, more friendly, and more beautiful.
The Grand Surprise
The Grand Surprise - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Grand Surprise write by Leo Lerman. This book was released on 2009-02-19. The Grand Surprise available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A remarkable life and a remarkable voice emerge from the journals, letters, and memoirs of Leo Lerman: writer, critic, editor at Condé Nast, and man about town at the center of New York’s artistic and social circles from the 1940s until his death in 1994. Lerman’s contributions to the world of the arts were large and varied: he wrote on theater, dance, music, art, books, and movies for publications as diverse as Mademoiselle and The New York Times. He was features editor at Vogue and editor in chief of Vanity Fair. He launched careers and trends, exposing the American public to new talents, fashions, and ideas. He was a legendary party host as well, counting Marlene Dietrich, Maria Callas, and Truman Capote among his intimates, and celebrities like Cary Grant, Jackie Onassis, Isak Dinesen, and Margot Fonteyn as part of his larger circle. But his personal accounts and correspondence reveal him also as having an unusually rich and complex private life, mourning the cultivated émigré world of 1930s and 1940s New York City, reflecting on being Jewish and an openly homosexual man, and intimately evoking his two most important lifelong relationships. From a man whose literary icon was Marcel Proust comes an unparalleled social and emotional history. With eloquence, insight, and wit, he filled his journals and letters with acute assessments, gossip, and priceless anecdotes while inimitably recording both our larger cultural history and his own moving private story.
How to Love an American Man
How to Love an American Man - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How to Love an American Man write by Kristine Gasbarre. This book was released on 2011-08-16. How to Love an American Man available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A lovely, warm, and poignant true story that reads like compelling fiction, How to Love an American Man is Kristine Gasbarre’s unforgettable memoir recalling the valuable lessons on love she learned from her newly widowed grandmother—and how Grandma’s advice and memories enabled the author to find and fall for a man with an old-fashioned approach to romance. Fans of Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love, women readers drawn to tales of powerful female bonding, and anyone looking for a beautiful love story will be moved and, perhaps, profoundly inspired by How to Love an American Man.
The Wedding Veil
The Wedding Veil - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Wedding Veil write by Kristy Woodson Harvey. This book was released on 2022-03-29. The Wedding Veil available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This “masterfully woven…literary home run” (New York Journal of Books) follows four women across generations, bound by a beautiful wedding veil and a connection to the famous Vanderbilt family from the New York Times bestselling author of the Peachtree Bluff series. Four women. One family heirloom. A secret connection that will change their lives—and history as they know it. Present Day: Julia Baxter’s wedding veil, bequeathed to her great-grandmother by a mysterious woman on a train in the 1930s, has passed through generations of her family as a symbol of a happy marriage. But on the morning of her wedding day, something tells her that even the veil’s good luck isn’t enough to make her marriage last forever. Overwhelmed, she escapes to the Virgin Islands to clear her head. Meanwhile, her grandmother, Babs, is also feeling shaken. Still grieving the death of her beloved husband, she decides to move into a retirement community. Though she hopes it’s a new beginning, she does not expect to run into an old flame, dredging up the same complicated emotions she felt a lifetime ago. 1914: Socialite Edith Vanderbilt is struggling to manage the luxurious Biltmore Estate after the death of her cherished husband. With 250 rooms to oversee and an entire village dependent on her family to stay afloat, Edith is determined to uphold the Vanderbilt legacy—and prepare her free-spirited daughter Cornelia to inherit it—despite her family’s deteriorating financial situation. But Cornelia has dreams of her own, and as she explores more of the rapidly changing world around her, she’s torn between upholding tradition and pursuing the exciting future that lies beyond Biltmore’s gilded gates. In the vein of Therese Anne Fowler’s A Well-Behaved Woman and Jennifer Robson’s The Gown, The Wedding Veil is “a sparkling, fast-paced joy of a book that celebrates love, family, and the right to shape one’s own destiny” (Kristin Harmel, New York Times bestselling author).
