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Style and Substance: The Best of Elle Decor

by Margaret Russell

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Editorial Reviews

Style and Substance: The Best of ELLE DECOR offers a unique, closer look at hundreds of dazzling rooms the magazine has published during its first two decades. The book provides an intimate view inside breathtaking homes from around the world with 240 pages of striking images culled from the archives of ELLE DECOR - America's most elegant interiors magazine.

A lush compendium of inspiring spaces, Style and Substance is your room-by-room guide to living well. Showcasing points of view that range from classic to cutting-edge, the book focuses on inviting, personality-packed decorating and how
to do it yourself. With ravishing photos and smart how-to advice from the magazine's coterie of tastemakers and design experts, it features page after page of fabulous yet functional interiors that prove luxury needn't be pricey and affordable design can surely be chic.

- A-list designers, architects, and tastemakers reveal helpful trade secrets and essential inside information

- User-friendly Style Guide boxes deliver experts' how-to advice and inspiring decorating ideas for every room

- ELLE DECOR's Sourcebook provides a compre-hensive list of the magazine's favorite shops and websites for everything you need to furnish your home, all in a wide range of price points.

Customer Reviews

Good Book Bad handling, 2009-11-11
by "Audiofile"

I bought this book to be given to a friend of mine for her birthday; unfortunately handling of the book during the shipping process was not as good as i would have hoped and the corners of the book arrived dented and squashed.

Another Elle Decor Hit!, 2009-11-04
by Susan (New York, NY USA)

Style and Substance is truly the very best of Elle Decor and, if you're a decor junkie like myself, this will soon become your go-to guide for stylish ideas with substance - across a wide range of design genres. Definitely one of my favorites right now.

A great resource for a designer at any level!, 2009-11-03
by Vicente Wolf (New York, NY USA)

As an interior designer I'm always looking for material to use as reference. I think the Elle Décor book offers the best of this venue, especially if one is looking to redo one's space. It offers different styles of approach for a variety of rooms in your home, ranging from more traditional to more contemporary. It's a great tool for interior designers, or anybody interested in redoing their home.

Not SO CHIC, but great!, 2009-11-01
by Charles F. Allen Jr. (Daytona Beach, FL USA)

As an ardent fan of SO CHIC for its depiction of private lives and private homes, I ordered STYLE AND SUBSTANCE (kind of) expecting more of the same. The book is a delight to the senses and the interiors are elegantly charming and beautiful. I realize that the homes shown in it are ones previously featured in ELLE DECOR, but I was hoping for more of the details of the decorating and just a little more biographical info. These are not intended to be disparaging remarks; instead, they are personal opinion. It is an elegant book that I have now begun reading for the second time since I got it just about a month ago. Ms Russell has done a marvelous job in the editing. You'll once again be inspired, intrigued, and feel glee in peeking into the beautiful private worlds of some very elegant, charming people.

more of the same, 2009-10-29
by Carlos Raffo (Lima, Peru)

What can you expect for the price? I should have asked myself that question when I ordered this book! If you buy Elle Decor magazine, and you have some books about some of the designers featured in Elle Decore magazine, save yourself a few bucks and re-read your magazines....you will find exactly the same pictures....this is just a quick way for the publishers to make some money using old material.