Emily Post, The Personality of a House
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Post, Emily. The Personality of a House. Fourth Edition. 1948. Book is in very good minus condition; dust jacket is in good condition—a price is written in ink on the and front endpaper and again on the flyleaf; jacket shows chipping, fraying, and edge tears. A previous owner signed the book “RC Ferguson” and above that executed an caricature of a dapper gentleman in bowtie—a self-portrait?
Applying the same rules of charm, logic, and common sense that she used for her classic etiquette manual, Emily Post offers guidance on how to best decorate a home to suit one’s personality, budget, and lifestyle. She spends the first half reviewing historical design periods and then explaining how they relate to the present day. In the second, she delves into specifics for the various types of rooms in a typical home.
“Except those few who are so rich as to have no need to count the cost of anything, or so poor as to have nothing to spend, we all have our pet extravagancies or pet economies.”
Applying the same rules of charm, logic, and common sense that she used for her classic etiquette manual, Emily Post offers guidance on how to best decorate a home to suit one’s personality, budget, and lifestyle. She spends the first half reviewing historical design periods and then explaining how they relate to the present day. In the second, she delves into specifics for the various types of rooms in a typical home.
“Except those few who are so rich as to have no need to count the cost of anything, or so poor as to have nothing to spend, we all have our pet extravagancies or pet economies.”
--Emily Post
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