 | Style and Substance: The Best of Elle Decor by Margaret Russell
Buy new: $29.70 / Used from: $32.32 Style, style, style! You'll want to stay in all weekend and read this over & over again! It's really inspirational.
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 | A Passion for Blue and White by Carolyne Roehm
Buy new: $37.80 / Used from: $31.73 Picture-perfect decor by one of the few ladies left in America who actually have folks staying in her servants' quarters. For when your mother-in-law visits.
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 | Design Rules: The Insider's Guide to Becoming Your Own Decorator by Elaine Griffin
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $12.52 It really IS a fun read, educational, practical & entertaining! I promise!
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 | Domicilium Decoratus by Kelly Wearstler
Buy new: $30.36 / Used from: $21.29 Girlfriend accessorizes like nobody else! Pay attention to the tabletops and throw pillows, dahlink.
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 | Decorating Is Fun!: How to be Your Own Decorator by Dorothy Draper
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $20.88 Fun! Fun! Fun! A hoot.
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 | Entertaining is Fun: How to Be a Popular Hostess by Dorothy Draper
Buy new: $17.16 / Used from: $7.39 Ditto!
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 | Michael S. Smith: Elements of Style by Michael Smith
Buy new: $29.70 / Used from: $19.25 Elegant, refined interiors. Fancy. Fun to visit vicariously.
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 | French Interiors: The Art of Elegance by Christiane de Nicolay-Mazery
Buy new: $53.55 / Used from: $52.61 J'adore la beaute. You will, too. This is old world elegance at its most raffine.
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 | The Private World of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Berge by Robert Murphy
Buy new: $59.85 / Used from: $59.80 Beaute extreme! You gotta wonder if Karl Lagerfeld is secretly jealous. :-) I wanted to cry when I read it, so beautiful the images were. [And then I wanted to kidnap his cleaning lady.]
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 | Living with Wine: Passionate Collectors, Sophisticated Cellars, and Other Rooms for Entertaining, Enjoying, and Imbibing by Samantha Nestor
Buy new: $47.25 / Used from: $41.95 When you're ready to store your vin du jour in something other than under the counter, this is the book that will tell you how to do it brilliantly!
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 | The New Traditional: Reinvent-Balance-Define Your Home by Darryl Carter
Buy used from: $20.60 Practical and chic!
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 | In House by Mitchell Owens
Buy new: $37.80 / Used from: $36.00 Erudite and stunning.
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 | Jeffrey Bilhuber: Defining Luxury: The Qualities of Life at Home by Jeffrey Bilhuber
Buy new: $40.95 / Used from: $63.57 Worth a second look. And also a third.
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 | Mlinaric on Decorating by Mirabel Cecil
Buy new: $43.87 / Used from: $29.52 British genius. You will LOVE his style.
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 | David Hicks: Designer by Ashley Hicks
Buy used from: $100.99 David Hicks is in my pantheon of design gurus. We're all secretly channeling at least PART of his style right now, as you will see after you read his son's book.
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 | David Hicks: A Life of Design by Ashley Hicks
Buy new: $40.95 / Used from: $51.56 They shouldn't put another book out after this one. Kids, you've mined his work to death! Re-issue the old ones, and we'll be fine. But go ahead and get this one, too, to add to the colleciton.
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 | Discovering Home with Laurie Smith: Find Your Personal Style by Laurie Smith
Buy used from: $0.25 Approachable and cute Southern interiors.
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 | Island Life: Inspirational Interiors by India Hicks
Buy new: $26.40 / Used from: $16.95 If you can't jet to the Bahamas for the weekend, getting sand in your shoes via print will only set you back $27. And you can re-do your sunroom, to boot! A must.
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 | Celerie Kemble: To Your Taste: Creating Modern Rooms with a Traditional Twist by Celerie Kemble
Buy new: $29.70 / Used from: $22.10 Harvard-educated [hello, I went to YALE] but still fabu, Celerie's tips are great and images delightful. I'm a fan.
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 | Elsie De Wolfe: The Birth of Modern Interior Decoration by Penny Sparke; Mitchell Owens
Buy new: $57.37 / Used from: $53.19 One of the Design Greats who started it all. You NEED to know all about her!
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 | The Land I'm Bound To: Photographs by Jack Leigh
Buy new: $52.37 / Used from: $35.00 Just because I'm from the South . . . If you're a Dixie transplant, you'll need this to look at when you get homesick for a Live Oak.
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