Jane Cumberbatch's Pure Style Living
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| Rating | : | 4.50 (929 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0789480158 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 408 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-26 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Jane Cumberbatch's vision is for a more balanced and simple, natural, and focused way of life. Jane Cumberbatch's Pure Style Living is a book about how to make the home a more sensual and practical environment in which to life, from choosing colors for walls to cooking a simple supper with fresh ingredients. There is also a substantial visual directory and a list of suppliers to help you put together all the elements needed to create the Pure Style look.. The book is packed with affordable, inspiring, and achievable ideas that will help you to make the most of your home, even on the tightest budget
Rebecca of Amazon said Down-to-Earth Living Style. "What is this life if, full of care,We have no time to stand and stare?"~W.H. DaviesJane Cumberbatch has a vision for a simpler existence that is more balanced and natural. She enjoys making her home more sensual, while also encouraging a practical environment in which you can really live. She is the mother of three children . OK for a Browse Liberal use of white space and highlighted key words try to lend weight to the flimsy text of this lifestyle book. Unfortunately there is barely enough content for a series of newspaper columns.The photos are first rate, but don't rescue the book.Example: Under SEASONAL PRODUCE, the author says "Buy fresh produce locally and . Peter K. said Irritating format. Random words in bold-face type throughout make an annoying read. The text itself is dull and reads like a bunch of random notes stating the obvious. You will have to plough thru tons of garbage text to find anything useful with no guarantee that there is anything useful in this book.
There are a few easy projects, like making a table runner or a bulletin board, planting bulbs, canning marmalade, or whipping up a raspberry fool (the author is British and so are the recipes). Few people can actually live in those rooms, though, and for those who prefer a little color in their lives, there's Jane Cumberbatch's Pure Style Living. The first third of the book is dedicated to the "sources" of the author's style: the vibrant yellow-orange of a cut melon, the texture and deep rust of freshly dug red potatoes, the orderly rows of a plowed field, the satisfying sturdiness of a heavy, purely functional piece of furniture. The final third of the book, "Directory," is, essentially, a well-designed version of that literary masterpiece known as the IKEA summer catalog, lacking only the prices. Next is a somewhat ephemerally organized section called "Live," in which Cumberbatch's ideas of the simple life are fleshed out with huge photographs of simple
Jane's experience of creating simple, functional and timeless spaces stems from the years she spent restoring an 18th Century house in London, and building an airy white home in Spain. Her work also regularly appears in international magazines. Juggling the demands of family life and three energetic children, Jane divides her time between her Spanish home and her converted warehouse in London. Pia Tryde's