House Proud

Author : Valorie Hart
Publisher : Glitterati
ISBN 13 : 9780988174535
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book House Proud written by Valorie Hart and published by Glitterati. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience the joy of décor and design, restoration and rebirth, color and comfort--all in the enchanting locale of Louisiana. A New Orleans-based interior designer, Valorie Hart expertly leads a private tour of the most fashionable homes in the state. Sara Essex Bradley's photographs document the personality of Louisiana's homes, from the formal Greek revival house to the warm Creole cottage, the pre-Civil war beauty to the kitschy '50s-style ranch, the grand Victorian to the modern urban loft. This is not simply a design inspiration book, but rather a thoughtful compilation of homeowners' personal stories of restoring and redesigning their dream houses--the stories of the "house-proud." In addition to Debra Shriver's forward, Hart gives her creative expertise on re-purposing furniture, displaying art collections, creating extra rooms, and rethinking storage. Hart presents us with today's Louisiana homes: the feel of southern hospitality married with a look of contemporary chic.

Author : Gail S. Davidson
Publisher : Cooper Hewitt
ISBN 13 : 9780910503907
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book House Proud written by Gail S. Davidson and published by Cooper Hewitt. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the nineteenth century, it became highly fashionable for aristocratic and upper-class homeowners in Europe to commission watercolor paintings of their domestic interiors and to collect them in albums to be passed on to children, given as gifts to visiting royalty, and displayed in drawing rooms. House Proud commemorates the recent gift of a group of eighty-five nineteenth-century watercolor interior drawings - the largest collection of its kind in America - to Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum by Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw. Essays analyzing these beautiful, exquisitely detailed watercolors and their significance to the Museum's collection, accompanied by the watercolors and related objects from the permanent collection, document the evolution of the domestic interior in the nineteenth century, revealing the impact of economic, social, and political developments on the concept of home. AUTHOR: Gail S. Davidson, Ph.D., is curator and head of drawings, prints, and graphic design department at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Her published articles and books include Rococo: The Contining Curve, 1730-2008 and Frederic Church, Winslow Homer, and Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American Landscape. Floramae McCarron-Cates is associate curator of the drawongs, prints, and graphic design department at Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. She is the co-author of Frederic Church, Winslow Homwe, and Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American Landscape. Charlotte Gere is a nineteenth-century decorative arts specialist who has pbulished numerous scholarly books and articles on a wide variety of subjects, including Nineteenth-Century Design from Pugin to Mackintosh, An Album of 19th-century Interiors, The House Beautiful, and Shock of the Old: Christopher Dresser. ILLUSTRATIONS 125 images

Author : Danielle Proud
Publisher : Bloomsbury Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9780747585381
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book House Proud written by Danielle Proud and published by Bloomsbury Paperbacks. This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forget those boring beige sofas and anaemic pine coffee tables. Danielle Proud shows you how to produce fabulous signature pieces for every room - vintage-scarf cushions, sexy hostess aprons, personalised d coupage tables and more - most of which you can make from things you already own. In no time at all, you'll be whipping up your own placemats from old Vogue covers, creating snazzy batik wind wheels for your garden, and giving your hallway an art deco edge with glamorous mirror stairs.

Author : Ibtihaj Muhammad
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 0316518956
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Proud written by Ibtihaj Muhammad and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE FIRST FEMALE MUSLIM AMERICAN TO MEDAL AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES NAMED ONE OF TIME'S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE Growing up in New Jersey as the only African American Muslim at school, Ibtihaj Muhammad always had to find her own way. When she discovered fencing, a sport traditionally reserved for the wealthy, she had to defy expectations and make a place for herself in a sport she grew to love. From winning state championships to three-time All-America selections at Duke University, Ibtihaj was poised for success, but the fencing community wasn't ready to welcome her with open arms just yet. As the only woman of color and the only religious minority on Team USA's saber fencing squad, Ibtihaj had to chart her own path to success and Olympic glory. Proud is a moving coming-of-age story from one of the nation's most influential athletes and illustrates how she rose above it all.

Author : Rhiannon Giddens
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 1536222526
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Build a House written by Rhiannon Giddens and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2022-10-11 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grammy Award winner Rhiannon Giddens celebrates Black history and culture in her unflinching, uplifting, and gorgeously illustrated picture book debut. I learned your words and wrote my song. I put my story down. As an acclaimed musician, singer, songwriter, and cofounder of the traditional African American string band the Carolina Chocolate Drops, Rhiannon Giddens has long used her art to mine America’s musical past and manifest its future, passionately recovering lost voices and reconstructing a nation’s musical heritage. Written as a song to commemorate the 155th anniversary of Juneteenth—which was originally performed with famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma—and paired here with bold illustrations by painter Monica Mikai, Build a House tells the moving story of a people who would not be moved and the music that sustained them. Steeped in sorrow and joy, resilience and resolve, turmoil and transcendence, this dramatic debut offers a proud view of history and a vital message for readers of all ages: honor your heritage, express your truth, and let your voice soar, even—or perhaps especially—when your heart is heaviest.

Author : Pauli Murray
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807072273
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Proud Shoes written by Pauli Murray and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2024-06-25 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1956, Proud Shoes is the remarkable true story of slavery, survival, and miscegenation in the South from the pre-Civil War era through the Reconstruction. Written by Pauli Murray the legendary civil rights activist and one of the founders of NOW, Proud Shoes chronicles the lives of Murray's maternal grandparents. From the birth of her grandmother, Cornelia Smith, daughter of a slave whose beauty incited the master's sons to near murder to the story of her grandfather Robert Fitzgerald, whose free black father married a white woman in 1840, Proud Shoes offers a revealing glimpse of our nation's history.

Author : Kit Wedd
Publisher : Aurum Press
ISBN 13 : 9781845132941
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Victorian Society Book of the Victorian House written by Kit Wedd and published by Aurum Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For any house-proud owner of a Victorian property this book represents a unique and invaluable resource. Packed with information about Victorian architectural ideas, it includes a wealth of practical advice about the maintenance and conservation of Victorian homes. Part One provides a concise overview of the development of the Victorian house, the wide range of architectural styles that came in and out of fashion over the period, and the lifestyles of the original owners the houses were designed to accommodate. Throughout, the emphasis is on family houses of various sizes rather than the great houses of the aristocracy, which are discussed only in relation to their influence on contemporary builders and architects. Part Two discusses structures and materials, covering brickwork, stone, renders and stuccos, roofs, woodwork, windows and doors, ironwork, and conservatories. In each case there is comprehensive advice on symptoms of trouble, techniques for preservation and restoration, and the correct choice of materials. Part Three covers services—fireplaces and chimneys, lighting, kitchens and bathrooms—all subjects requiring particular sensitivity to achieve a satisfactory compromise between preserving the spirit of the original building and meeting modern standards of comfort and convenience. Part Four examines all aspects of interior decoration, including plasterwork, decorative tiles, paint colors and finishes, wall coverings, curtains and blinds, and floor coverings. The book is completed by lists of further reading, places to visit, and useful addresses, including those of specialist suppliers and contractors, and sources of more detailed information and advice.

Author : The Loud House Creative Team
Publisher : Papercutz
ISBN 13 : 9781545802106
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Loud House #6 written by The Loud House Creative Team and published by Papercutz. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lincoln Loud is proud to be Loud. He is a proud brother to his ten sisters Lori, Leni, Luna, Luan, Lynn, Lucy, Lisa, Lola, Lana, and Lily! Find out what it means to be “Loud and Proud” at home and at school with Lincoln’s best friends Stella and Clyde. Plus, Bobby and Ronnie Anne discover “orgullo de familia” as they settle in to living in the Big City with the extended Casa Grande family. Featuring all-new stories from the hit series’ creative team.

Author : Barbara W. Tuchman
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0307798119
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Proud Tower written by Barbara W. Tuchman and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Guns of August, and The Zimmerman Telegram comprise Barbara W. Tuchman’s classic histories of the First World War era During the fateful quarter century leading up to World War I, the climax of a century of rapid, unprecedented change, a privileged few enjoyed Olympian luxury as the underclass was “heaving in its pain, its power, and its hate.” In The Proud Tower, Barbara W. Tuchman brings the era to vivid life: the decline of the Edwardian aristocracy; the Anarchists of Europe and America; Germany and its self-depicted hero, Richard Strauss; Diaghilev’s Russian ballet and Stravinsky’s music; the Dreyfus Affair; the Peace Conferences in The Hague; and the enthusiasm and tragedy of Socialism, epitomized by the assassination of Jean Jaurès on the night the Great War began and an epoch came to a close. Praise for The Proud Tower “[Barbara W. Tuchman’s] Pulitzer Prize–winning The Guns of August was an expert evocation of the first spasm of the 1914–1918 war. She brings the same narrative gifts and panoramic camera eye to her portrait of the antebellum world.”—Newsweek “A rare combination of impeccable scholarship and literary polish . . . It would be impossible to read The Proud Tower without pleasure and admiration.”—The New York Times “An exquisitely written and thoroughly engrossing work . . . The author’s knowledge and skill are so impressive that they whet the appetite for more.”—Chicago Tribune “[Tuchman] tells her story with cool wit and warm understanding.”—Time

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Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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