A LIFE LESS ORDINARY Interiors and insights, love and life Home & Garden AUTHOR Zoe Ellison & Alex Legendre ISBN 978-1-908862-79-2 PRICE £25.00 PUBLICATION April 2013 BINDING Hardback with jacket FORMAT 280 x 220 mm EXTENT 192 pages on woodfree paper plus 12 pages of tracing paper inserts ILLUS 200 colour photographs
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The Art of Handmade Living ISBN 978-1-908170-86-6
Be inspired by Igigi’s unique textures and natural palette to create your own haven of calm Zoe Ellison and Alex Legendre have created a beautiful shopping and interiors experience with their unique store i gigi – a haven of beautiful gifts and unique pieces for your home. The muted, earthy colour palette is chic and modern and yet utterly timeless, allowing their pieces to fit seamlessly into any home. In this, their first book, they share their secrets and open their hearts as they describe the journey they have taken, what makes them tick, their philosophy, their friendship, their inspirations, ideas and interiors. i gigi is a destination store, selling the idea of a beautiful yet practical and achievable lifestyle. Their interiors feature reclaimed and revamped pieces and rooms that have been created on a shoestring. With stunning photography throughout, this is a truly fascinating look into their world. KEY SELLING POINTS • Featuring beautiful specially comissioned photography • The muted palette used is a perennially popular decorating trend THE AUTHOR Zoe Ellison trained as a florist and artist before turning her attention to interiors and retail. With Alex Legendre she owns and runs i gigi, a unique homewares and clothing store in Brighton. This is their first book. The authors are based in Brighton, Sussex.
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COLOUR RECIPES FOR PAINTED FURNITURE AND MORE 40 step-by-step projects to transform your home
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Quick and Easy Paint Transformations ISBN 978-1-906525-75-0
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With this book in one hand and a brush in the other, you can learn how to transform everyday furniture into something special, all for the price of a pot of paint. Annie Sloan is a paint legend and one of the world’s most popular experts in the field of decorative painting. In Colour Recipes for Painted Furniture and more, Annie presents 40 new projects and ideas, showing you the easy way to update tired furniture and transform your home. Working with her own range of chalk paints, Annie shows how to mix colours and how to achieve certain looks. Whether your taste is for colourful boho chic or restrained Swedish hues, cosy and comforting rustic shades, a modern and contemporary approach or an elegant French look, here you will find a project to suit you. Start off by mastering the simple art of colourwashing, and work your way up to transfer printing, gilding, stencilling and glazing. There are even instructions for dyeing fabric using paint. As well as painting furniture, the projects range from a staircase painted in a rainbow of colours to stencilled walls, transforming floors with a coat of paint to dyeing linen curtains and even painting a vintage chandelier. Throughout the book, Annie offers expert tips, techniques, shortcuts and guidance, showing you the easy way to create a stylish home. KEY SELLING POINTS • A new collection of 40 step-by-projects from paint legend Annie Sloan • Ideas range from painting tables and chairs, bedsteads and chests of drawers, to ceilings, floors and doors, learn how to paint, gild, wax, dye, stencil and print • Quick and Easy Paint Transformations, Annie’s last book, has sold over 13,000 copies THE AUTHOR Annie Sloan is one of the world’s most respected experts in the field of decorative painting. She runs highly successful workshops from her store in Oxford, and teaches in the US and Europe. Annie has written more than ten books, including the bestselling Quick and Easy Paint Transformations, Creating The French Look, The Painted Garden and Annie Sloan’s Painted Kitchen (all published by CICO Books), and has featured prominently on PBS television and the Homes & Gardens TV channel. She also sells her own highly acclaimed range of chalk paint which is available from almost 300 locations worldwide, including over 200 outlets in the US. The author is based between Oxford and France.
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Home & Garden/Craft AUTHOR Annie Sloan ISBN 978-1-908862-77-8 PRICE £14.99 PUBLICATION March 2013 BINDING Paperback with flaps FORMAT 276 x 208 mm EXTENT 160 pages ILLUS 300 colour photographs CATEGORY
COUNTRY IN THE CITY Relaxed Style for Modern Living Home & Garden Liz Bauwens & Alexandra Campbell ISBN 978-1-908862-78-5 PRICE £19.99 PUBLICATION March 2013 BINDING Hardback with jacket FORMAT 254 x 216 mm EXTENT 160 pages ILLUS 230 colour photographs CATEGORY
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Flea Market Chic ISBN 978-1-908170-15-6
Everyone has a dream of the perfect country house: beautiful, warm and welcoming with a sense of comfort and style that comes naturally. The word ‘country’ evokes a timeless simplicity, where classic form is married to a soft, decorative feel, where colour and pattern are used informally, and where light and space are at the heart of every room. The re-introduction of colour and pattern to interior design, and the perennial popularity of natural materials make a stylish, country look easy to attain. Chapters include specific country styles such as Shaker, New England and modern Ethnic, along with practical ways to really bring the outside in – from using natural textiles and textures, to incorporating seaside checks and country-style florals. With more than two hundred stunning colour photographs, Country in the City is an inspiration to those wanting to make every day in the city a dream of country living. KEY SELLING POINTS • Liz Bauwens creates an urban country look that will appeal to city dwellers looking for an easy and relaxed style of decoration. • Taps into the current trend that has moved away from minimalism towards a more comfortable and ‘shabby chic’ look • Features beautiful locations, many of which have never been photographed before THE AUTHOR Liz Bauwens is a freelance stylist who has worked for many publications, including House and Garden, Good Housekeeping, and Country Homes and Interiors. Liz Bauwens and Alexandra Campbell are the authors of Flea Market Chic, Simply Country, and Thrifty Chic, all published by CICO Books. Alexandra Campbell is a writer whose work has appeared in many national newspapers and magazines, including The Times Magazine, The Independent, and Financial Times. Her novels, written under the name Nina Bell, include The Empty Nesters, Lovers & Liars, Sisters In Law, and The Inheritance. Simon Brown is a renowned photographer, well known for his lifestyle and interiors shots which appear in many magazines and books.
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CREATING YOUR GARDEN FARM How to grow fruit and vegetables and raise chickens and bees
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Home & Garden AUTHOR Nicki Trench ISBN 978-1-908862-84-6 PRICE £12.99 PUBLICATION February 2013 BINDING Paperback with flaps FORMAT 235 x 190 mm EXTENT 192 pages on woodfree paper ILLUS 200 colour photographs CATEGORY
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A Guide to Natural Housekeeping ISBN 978-1-908170-21-7
If you dream of growing, harvesting and eating your own produce, here’s how to begin. Author Nicki Trench, who has created her own garden farm from scratch, shares with you everything there is to know about growing vegetables, fruit and herbs, including making your own compost, growing in raised beds and protecting your crops from pests and disease. Nicki also explains how to rear chickens for eggs and bees for honey, and gives advice on keeping goats and pigs. The benefits of creating your garden farm are not just economic – the energy once obsessively expended on the exercise bike can now be channelled more productively by digging the vegetable patch, turning the compost or cleaning out the hen coop. Communities are reappearing over garden fences as neighbours share their harvest of courgettes, spinach and eggs. Whatever you choose to grow or rear on your garden farm, this book offers a taste of the good life that is easy, satisfying and inexpensive to achieve. KEY SELLING POINTS • Thanks to the economic downturn, the self-sufficient lifestyle has surged in popularity • Advice on which varieties to choose, and how to grow healthy crops • Anyone with a garden can undertake these projects to live more naturally
THE AUTHOR Nicki Trench is a bestselling author, crafter and vegetable grower. As well as teaching, lecturing and feature writing on knitting, crochet, sewing, cake decorating and hen keeping, she is the founder of Laughing Hens, the UK’s leading online yarn store, and Rooster Yarns. Some of her books include Geek Chic Crochet, Cute & Easy Crocheted Baby Clothes, A Passion for Quilting and Cute & Easy Crochet. The author is based in Radlett, Hertfordshire.
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ROMANTIC FRENCH HOMES Home & Garden AUTHOR Lanie Goodman ISBN 978-1-908862-76-1 PRICE £30.00 PUBLICATION March 2013 BINDING Hardback with jacket FORMAT 292 x 244 mm EXTENT 176 pages ILLUS 200 colour photographs
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Romantic English Homes ISBN 978-1-907563-29-4
LANIE GOODMAN photography by SIMON BROWN
A unique collection of timeless French houses featuring original photography make this a book to treasure. From a chic and sophisticated Parisian pied-à-terre owned by an acclaimed musician to an authentically restored Alpine ski lodge, from a grand château filled with antiques collected by generations of the same family to writer Marcel Pagnol’s beach cottage in St Tropez, Romantic French Homes presents a stunning selection of homes, most of which have never been photographed before. Author Lanie Goodman has gathered a collection of 14 amazing properties which sum up all that is French and romantic, from the city streets of Paris to Mégève in the French Alps, from the windswept coast of Normandy, to the heart of Provence and the sunbaked shores of the Riviera. There are classic country houses which have been in the same family for generations, tiny boltholes, city apartments, quirky seaside homes, and more. Each home has its own individual character, reflecting the people who live there and their passions. The book is divided into four chapters: Châteaux which covers castles, châteaux, grand country houses, and town houses; Bastides which features old manors and farmhouses; Maisons Bohemes which includes bohemian artist’s, writer’s, and seaside homes; and Paysannes and Pavilions, which focuses on small and simple, thrifty and humble town houses and country houses. With stunning photography capturing the grandeur, charm and mystery of these properties, their romance and sense of history shine through. KEY SELLING POINTS • Atmospheric photography by renowned interiors photographer Simon Brown • The majority of the homes featured have never been photographed before • Romantic Irish Homes sold over 15,000 copies THE AUTHOR Lanie Goodman is an American arts and travel writer, originally from New York but based in the south of France since 1988. An expert on twentieth-century French culture, her articles appear in international newspapers and magazines including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Interior Design, Elle Decor, and Condé Nast Traveller. She has also translated four contemporary novels from English into French and is currently a member of the teaching faculty at the SKEMA Business School, near Antibes. The author is based in Villefranche-sur-mer, France.
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ROMANTIC IRISH HOMES Home & Garden Robert O’Byrne ISBN 978-1-908862-90-7 PRICE £14.99 PUBLICATION March 2013 BINDING Jacketed paperback FORMAT 245 x 182 mm EXTENT 176 pages on woodfree paper ILLUS 250 colour photographs CATEGORY
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Luggala Days ISBN 978-1-908170-78-1 ROBERT O’BYRNE photography by SIMON BROWN
Irish houses have a character and personality quite different from that found anywhere else. Quixotic, often whimsical and definitely quirky, they provide a sanctuary from the Irish climate, which is frequently grey, cold and damp. No wonder, therefore, that over the centuries Ireland's domestic architecture and interior design have developed a distinctive personality in which colour and vivacity are highly prized. Romantic Irish Homes presents 15 of the finest examples of these traits, each one of them distinctive and yet sharing the same native spirit. From vast ancient castles through sturdy Georgian manors to small farmhouses, the majority of them never previously photographed, the homes featured here offer a unique insight into the Irish temperament and an exploration of a style of decoration that, while adapted to meet 21stcentury demands, still retains an historic integrity. Photographed by Simon Brown, Romantic Irish Homes is every bit as charming and memorable as the Irish people themselves. KEY SELLING POINTS • Atmospheric photography by renowned interiors photographer Simon Brown • The majority of the homes featured have never been photographed before • The previous edition of Romantic Irish Homes has sold over 15,000 copies THE AUTHOR Robert O’Byrne is one of Ireland’s best-known writers on architecture, fine art and design. A former journalist with the Irish Times, he has written extensively on the country’s historic houses and their decoration. Among his previous books are Romantic English Homes, Luggala Days and The Perfectly Dressed Gentleman (also published by CICO Books). The author is based in County Meath, Ireland.
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TEENY TINY GARDENING 35 step-by-step projects and inspirational ideas for gardening in tiny spaces Home & Garden AUTHOR Emma Hardy ISBN 978-1-908862-80-8 PRICE £14.99 PUBLICATION February 2013 BINDING Hardback with jacket FORMAT 235 x 190 mm EXTENT 144 pages ILLUS 250 colour photographs
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The Balcony Gardener ISBN 978-1-908170-18-7
Teeny Tiny Gardening is horticulture on the smallest of scales. No matter how tiny your space – indoor or outdoor, garden, yard, balcony or even just a windowsill or tabletop – here you will find original, fun and inspiring ideas. The 35 projects range from an elegant fern terrarium and a scented spring bulb basket to colourful woven bags and hessian sacks filled with cheerful summer blooms. There are edible gardens, including fruit bushes planted in catering-sized kitchen pans and a vertical garden of herbs grown on a wooden stepladder. You will find lots of ideas for using recycled and salvaged containers, such as a metal bathtub filled with vegetable plants, metal food tins used for an indoor garden of wildflowers and a stack of wooden drawers filled with trailing plants. And at the teeniest end of the scale, there are even miniature tabletop gardens created in eggshells and bottle tops! Children can learn basic gardening skills, too, by following the step-by-step photos to make their own magical fairy garden or a mysterious dinosaur den. Whether you are looking for ideas for all-year foliage or for a summer display of flowers, wanting to grow your own veggies and herbs, or needing to revamp your balcony, Teeny Tiny Gardening will provide you with all the inspiration and practical knowledge you need. KEY SELLING POINTS • 35 fun and inspiring step-by-step projects for the small-scale gardener, from succulents to edibles • Includes ideas for every season, why not make a spring basket or an alpine teacup? • No specialist skills or equipment needed, just some creative containers THE AUTHOR Emma Hardy is a stylist and designer with a background in lifestyle and interiors magazines, including Country Homes and Interiors and Marie Claire. Her previous books include Sewing for Children, Green Crafts for Children, Making Children’s Clothes, Quilting in No Time, Sewing in No Time, and Cute and Easy Costumes for Kids, all published by CICO Books. The author is based in London.
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