French Style at Home

I'll admit that I'm one of those people who actually reads the text in design books. I feel like I'm cheating if I don't. And this probably explains why it seems to take me forever to get through my very tall stacks of books. But I confess- there are some nights when I'm so tired that I just can't absorb anything, and that's when I only want to look at beautiful photos in books. (Thank goodness I got over that trashy fiction phase of my teenage years. My father still hasn't gotten over my enthusiastic declaration that The Thorn Birds was the best book I had ever read in my then sixteen years of life. And that was the day that I almost got shipped off to boarding school.)

One book that fits the bill on those bone tired nights is French Style at Home: Inspiration from Charming Destinations by Sebastien Siraudeau. Though there is interesting text, this book to me is about the gorgeous images of French historical homes, country homes, chateaux, and the like. The photos are so dreamy that you can't stop staring at them. So for those of you who only look at photos in design books (and trust me, that's quite all right), I'll stop writing and show you some enchanting French style:









(All images: Sebastien Siraudeau from French Style at Home, published by Flammarion, 2009)