Kathryn Ireland

Basically a scrapbook of this woman's summers in France in an old farmhouse she remodeled. She's apparently an interior decorator and textile designer and is not the same person as the model turned designer Kathy Ireland, as far as I can tell. Anyway pretty photos and brief text that amused me on my deck while I pretended I too have a Provence farmhouse and the time to spend summers there with loads of friends, cooking and drinking and riding ponie in sunflower fields on my way to buy fancy cheese at the weekly market in a charming French town. The book is basically like drinking a mojito. Not really actual helpful tips for interior design, the text gets a bit "lives of the wealthy" & precious at times, the recipe chapter for casual fresh French farm food was actually inspiring, and the photos were fun.… (altro)