Product Description

Claude Monet's magnificent Giverny gardens are well documented, such as in the award-winning Monet's Garden: Through the Seasons at Giverny. Now there is a companion book that takes another look at the gardens as well as inside the accompanying family home. With colour photos and illustrations, Monet enthusiasts get an insider's peek at the impressionist's vibrantly decorated home, just as thousands of annual Giverny visitors do.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #483508 in Books
• Published on: 2006-05-11
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 144 pages

From Amazon.com
Not only was Claude Monet (1840-1926) a leading member of the impressionist movement, he was also, as this charming book reveals, a master interior decorator. A virtual room-by-room guided tour of Monet's beautiful and much-visited home at Giverny, this volume offers a vivid impression of daily life in the beloved house where the artist lived for 40 years with his second wife and their eight children. With its pink stucco walls, green shutters, and brightly painted original furniture, the house reveals Monet's brilliance and innovation as a colorist, which transcended his light-infused canvases to inform his choice of hues for wall paint and furniture. Each room is explored in its own chapter with glorious color photos: the dining room, painted in two shades of yellow and adorned with Japanese prints; the blue-and-white-tiled kitchen; the blue drawing room; the studio as it appeared in its heyday. Enlarged paint swatches of Monet's unique color combinations accompany each chapter so that readers can reproduce them in their own homes.

Ingram
This book is the first to take readers on a tour of the glorious house where Monet and his wife and their eight children lived for 40 years. Exquisite photographs by Guy Bouchet reveal each room, authentically propped to appear exactly as it did when the artist lived there. 200 color photos.

About the Author
Heide Michels studied interior design and then became a journalist, writing about interiors. Guy Bouchet is a French photographer specializing in interiors.