{"product_id":"the-house-in-good-taste-8601406029248","title":"The House in Good Taste","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe House in Good Taste\u003c\/strong\u003e by De Wolfe, Elsie. hardcover edition. ISBN: 8601406029248.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter ninety years, The House in Good Taste by Americas \"first lady of interior decoration,\" Elsie de Wolfe, still offers timeless design advice.\n\nCompiled from her articles in newspapers and magazines and first published in 1914, The House in Good Taste is a seminal book on interior design with ideas that have lasted a century because they influenced not only the wealthy clients of Park Avenue and Palm Beach, but popular taste as well.\n\nDe Wolfe advised Americans to shun ostentation and clutter in favor of simplicity, to dismantle the draperies in order to let in the light, and to replace garish colors with beige and ivory. \"I believe in plenty of optimism and white paint,\" she declared, \"comfortable chairs with lights beside them, open fires on the hearth and flowers wherever they belong, mirrors and sunshine in all rooms.\" The rooms that Americans inhabited in the middle of the twentieth century still today owe much to de Wolfes tastes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Rizzoli","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45118089199669,"sku":"ByrdShop_0847826317","price":68.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780847826315_da70361b-4631-4e47-a8d3-fec31ec1c0cb.jpg?v=1779927710","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-house-in-good-taste-8601406029248","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}