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Glamorous Living

Glamorous Living

(2020) A room-by-room journey through some of the most luxurious and glamorous homes in America Dallas-based interior designer Jan Showers returns to the concept ?rst introduced in her bestselling book, Glamorous Rooms. Jan takes the reader through luxurious private residences across the United States room by room. This book invites readers into 20 never-before-photographed homes, in some of America’s most idyllic locales, including a glamorous New York apartment, a London townhouse in Belgravia, an architecturally signi?cant house in Paradise Valley, Scottsdale, a historic residence in Austin, a country estate, a stunning home on Bu?alo Bayou in Houston, a duplex apartment at The Mansion Residence in Dallas, and many more

Down to Earth: Laid-back Interiors for Modern Living

Lauren takes you beyond the basics and invites readers to incorporate the main components of her familiar design nature, easy living, and approachability. She wants to help you create a home where humble materials and found objects are celebrated, a home in which both style and soul might endure throughout the years.

With evocative photos and substantive design advice, Down to Earth focuses on creating a lifestyle that inspires creativity and functionality. Chapters here include Point of View; Timelessness; Something Old, Something New; Nature; and Simplicity. Lauren believes that creating a home means creating the lifestyle you want—relaxed, unplugged, natural, and full of beauty. Here she shows readers how to incorporate six guiding principles in six unique Lauren writes, “ Down to Earth explores the key elements of my aesthetic through a collection of homes that I believe embody the natural, relaxed, collected, and easy way of living I’ve come to love so much. . . . I hope this exploration into what down-to-earth means to me inspires you to create your own carefree, easy, and most important, fully present kind of life at home.”

City Farmhouse Style

City Farmhouse Style

(2017) Come along on the hunt to coveted country sources and the best secret antiquing spots, and learn how to create country farmhouse style in your city dwelling. Author Kim Leggett is the creator of City Farmhouse, an interior design business, pop-up antiquing fairs, and vintage store. She is also a legendary “picker” and favorite designer to celebrity clients (and country-style mavens) including Meg Ryan, Ralph Lauren, Sheryl Crow, and Phillip Sweet and Kimberly Schlapman of Little Big Town. In City Farmhouse Style, Leggett offers great style advice, breaking down the design vocabulary that makes for fresh country style (no matter the setting). The popularity of farmhouse style has designers, home­owners, and fans in search of inspiration to create this look in all its rural glory. City Farmhouse Style is the first design book of its kind to focus entirely on transforming urban interiors with unfussy, welcoming, country-style decor.

Markham Roberts

Markham Roberts

(2020) Called ‘a master of timeless American style’ by Vogue, Markham Roberts is renowned for his boundless creativity and ability to work in a wide range of styles. In this, his second book, he examines his working method, identifying the key elements of a project and explaining how he addresses them. He begins with his top priority – taking into account his clients’ point of view by interpreting their needs and reflecting their style, rather than imposing his own vision. In the process, he helps them focus and edit, respecting their wishes while making it work. Other elements include establishing a sense of place, layering and embellishing to make spaces more personal and interesting, acknowledging the need for practicality in the choice of materials, and doing the unexpected, from upholstering walls to mixing disparate materials and styles of furniture. Throughout, specially commissioned photographs of an array of his latest projects illustrate his solutions to the challenges each of the elements pose. He concludes the book with a chapter on a single project that encompasses all of the elements, making this book a must-have resource for anyone interested in interior design.

Katie Ridder

Katie Ridder

(2020) Bold combinations of primary and secondary colours; exquisitely crafted trims, embroidery, lampshades and countless accessories (all designed by her); imaginative room surfaces from silver leaf to custom stencilling … These are but a few of the signature elements of a Katie Ridder interior. Katie Ridder: More Rooms explores her unique aesthetic room by room to underscore the astounding breadth and depth of her decorating ingenuity. The illuminating text by Jorge Arango details Ridder’s singularly creative approach to the essential elements of the room, including furniture plan, colour, lighting, finishes, pattern, layering and scale. Illustrated with specially commissioned photographs by Eric Piasecki and featuring a foreword by former editor-in-chief of House & Garden Dominique Browning, Katie Ridder: More Rooms provides endless inspiration for design aficionados.

Two Women in One

Two Women in One

(2020) ‘At a time when nobody else was talking, (El Saadawi) spoke the unspeakable.’ Margaret Atwood Bahiah Shaheen, an eighteen-year-old medical student and the daughter of a prominent Egyptian public official, finds the male students in her class coarse and alien. Her father, too, seems to belong to a race apart. Frustrated by her hardworking, well-behaved, middle-class public persona, her meeting with a stranger at a gallery one day proves to be the beginning of her road to self-discovery and the start of her realisation that fulfilment in life is indeed possible.

Fall of the Imam

Fall of the Imam

(2020) ‘At a time when nobody else was talking, (El Saadawi) spoke the unspeakable. Margaret Atwood Bint Allah knows herself only as the Daughter of God. Born in a stifling male-dominated state, ruled by the Imam and his coterie of ministers, she dreams of one day reaching the top of a distant hill visible through the bars of the orphanage window. But Bint Allah’s ambitions do not escape the attention of the Imam, who never feels secure no matter how well he protects himself. When the Imam falsely accuses Bint Allah of adultery and sentences her to death by stoning, he is not prepared for what happens next.

Love in the Kingdom of Oil

Love in the Kingdom of Oil

(2019) At a time when nobody else was talking, [El Saadawi] spoke the unspeakable. Margaret Atwood A woman disappears without trace. Nobody, including the police commissioner investigating the case, can understand how a woman could simply walk away, leaving husband and home behind. After all, in the Kingdom of Oil where His Majesty reigns supreme, no woman has ever dared disobey the command of men. When the woman finally reappears, there is a blurring between the men in her life, as she leaves one to join another, then returns to her first husband who has since taken a new wife. She is trapped in a man-made web, unable to escape from a male figure who continually fills urns that she must carry.

The Greatest Secret

Greatest Secret

(2020) the long-awaited major work by Rhonda Byrne, lays out the next quantum leap in a journey that will take the reader beyond the material world and into the spiritual realm, where all possibilities exist. The book reflects Rhonda s own journey, and shares the most direct way out for those experiencing hardship and the path to end pain and suffering endured by so many, and shines a light on a future without anxiety or fear. Filled with accessible practices that can be immediately put to use and profound revelations that take the reader on an incomparable journey, Rhonda s discovery is reinforced throughout by the revelatory words of sages from around the world, past and present.

The Secret showed you how to create anything you want to be, do, or have. Nothing has changed it is as true today as it ever was. This book reveals the greatest discovery a human being can ever make, and shows you the way out of negativity, problems, and what you don t want, to a life of permanent happiness and bliss. From The Greatest Secret

كيف ترى أعمدة القصر كأنها النخيل

كيف ترى اعمدة الصر كأنها النخي
وذلك حين ينطق الشعراء ، فتَتَبدى الأشياء أقرب إلى ظلها، ثم يمتلئ فم الشاعر بالخيل وبالرخام، ثم تلمع في قصيدته الأنهار، ثم تعود الأنهار لتتدفق في القصر الموصوف. وكذا، يحمل الشاعر ما قاله وما امتلأ به، كأنما يحمل القصر على راحتيه، ثم يجوب البلاد، ثم يندثر القصر بعد ذلك، وتتغير البلاد والأمم، فلا يبقى من ذلك كله سوى ما رآه الشعراء، ولا يبقى مما رآه الشعراء سوى ما آمن به الناس، ولا يبقى من ذلك إلا صورته في الدواوين، ولا يبقى من ذلك بعد أن تغرق المكتبات وتُحرق سوى ما وجد في الحواشي، ولا يبقى في الحواشي سوى ما نُحل عليه ألف ألف مرة.