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Summary: A lady with that rare gift of poise and style, a role model.
Review: ... Carolyne has an aesthetic eye for detail and color, and as in her clothes designs, and in her party preparations and home decorating.
After years of admiring her, Carolyne Roehm has retained her warmth and spiritual grace known as charisma. She is a wonderful inspiration and does not waver her style to fit current trend, yet she is the inspiration that sets her apart.
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Summary: elegant home living
Review: A person's life is expressed in little details. Choosing flowers, wine or table linens can be frustrating. Carolyne Roehm's new how-to visually presents hundreds of options in making your personal vision a reality. The book is thoughtfully divided into spring, summer, fall and winter entertaining sections. Gorgeous photos of table settings include close-ups of flower details, accessories, and best of all -- menus with recipes. Ms. Roehm gives expert advice on where to find similar table accessories pictured and reveals her favorite retail haunts. Encouraging words and thoughtful descriptions liberate the reader, empowering one to learn by many excellent visual examples. If you aren't lucky enough to have your own event planner, use this beautiful new guide year-round for ideas and inspiration. Entertaining secrets from behind the scenes of the best homes in the world will dazzle even your pickiest guests!
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Summary: elegant home living
Review: A person's life is expressed in little details. Choosing flowers, wine or table linens can be frustrating. Carolyne Roehm's new how-to visually presents hundreds of options in making your personal vision a reality. The book is thoughtfully divided into spring, summer, fall and winter entertaining sections. Gorgeous photos of table settings include close-ups of flower details, accessories, and best of all -- menus with recipes. Ms. Roehm gives expert advice on where to find similar table accessories pictured and reveals her favorite retail haunts. Encouraging words and thoughtful descriptions liberate the reader, empowering one to learn by many excellent visual examples. If you aren't lucky enough to have your own event planner, use this beautiful new guide year-round for ideas and inspiration. Entertaining secrets from behind the scenes of the best homes in the world will dazzle even your pickiest guests!
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Summary: Beautiful
Review: A trully exquisite book. Very helpful tips. Up to her usual high standard.
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Summary: Lush Photography on Entertaining, Not on Interior Design
Review: As a fan of Carolyne Roehm's A Passion for Flowers, I was anxious for the release of At Home with Carolyne Roehm. Given her instinctive sense of color, texture, and proportion in designing luxuriously elegant flower arrangements, I was hoping to see her talents applied to interior design in her latest book, At Home. I had expected to see favorite rooms in her houses with tips on decorating, but please be advised, "At Home" refers only to entertaining including menus, recipes, place settings and more flower arrangements. Although I was frustrated at having misinterpreted the title, the sheer loveliness of her ideas on seasonal dinners, afternoon teas and picnics did make up for some of my disappointment.If you're interested in still life photography or design layout, you will enjoy the visual appeal of this book. Chapters are organized by season and subdivided into holidays and other events. Roehm creates poetic tableaux - for example, a springtime picnic photo shows a canoe laden with cushions, picnic basket, fruit and flowers. It's moored at the banks of a grassy island (yes, owned by Roehm) and leafy branches trail at the surface of the water. I have tried a few of the recipes, which are for the most part, simple and tasty. But what makes Roehm's meals extraordinary are not the recipes, but her impressively extravagant collection of china, silverware and glassware. Although there is an appendix ("Details") on table setting design and care of china and linens, etc., this is not for someone who is looking for an extensive "how to" a la Martha Stewart. It probably wasn't meant to be. I believe Roehm simply offers us artistic inspiration. This is her visual interpretation of a year's worth of entertaining. And while most of us don't have the extensive resources she has, we are still able to draw several ideas about presentation that will delight our own guests.
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Summary: Cook Book
Review: At home with Carolyne Roehm is a coffee table cook book
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Summary: Outstanding!
Review: Carolyne is the epitomy of an elegant hostess. This book has extremely beautiful ides for entertaining.
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Summary: At Home with Carolyne Roehm
Review: From the celebrated designer, whose A Passion for Flowers has sold more than 56,000 copies, comes a lavish, gorgeously photographed guide to entertaining at home with stylish flair
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Summary: As Perfect As It Gets
Review: I have collected decorating books over the course of the last 20 years. This book, At Home with Carolyn Roehm, is as perfect as it gets. Gorgeous photography, menues, ideas galore. It will inspire me for years to come.
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Summary: beautiful but....
Review: I must admit I feel like I have waited forever for this book, it was supposed to have been released last year.Well I really like it don't get me wrong,but it's not what I expected.It is very much like the notebook series-the same kind of settings and use of her huge range of dinner sets.I prefer the Martha stewart series they are different from each other and give great ideas rather than setting a range of different tables that end up looking the same.Sorry,I did not spend the weekend looking at it as I thought I would.
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