In The French Connection, best-selling author and interior designer Betty Lou Phillips offers a fresh approach on distinctive, pleasing interiors that are at once a bit English, a dash Swedish, a trace Italian-and, mais oui!-a bit French.
The author of seven best-selling books on French design, including Villa Decor, Unmistakably French, and Secrets of French Design, Phillips now shatters the notion that a room must have elements from one culture only and instead assembles a veritable bazaar of choices that showcase the best from a wide world of countries and cultures.
For a generation or more, the assumption was that it was best to stick with one furniture style and period. Phillips encourages a move beyond that notion, to push the borders of design, creating pleasing and livable interiors that cull the best design elements and styles from Europe, Eastern Europe, and even the Far East. She shows how to achieve a truly artful mix of comfort and chic.
The French Connection effortlessly mixes and mingles in a way that is far from stylistically limiting-sometimes satisfying our cravings close to home, other times taking far-flung journeys to places that ultimately revolutionize our thinking.
"Purists, rejoice . . . Phillips explains French styling in the context of French history." -USA Today
Award-winning designer and best-selling author, Betty Lou Phillips is a professional member of the American Society of Interior Designers. With projects from New York to California, her work has been featured in countless magazines, as well as in her numerous home design books on French and Italian style. Interiors by Design--her 13th design book-is the ultimate guide to home decor. Additionally, she has appeared on the Christopher Lowell Show and the Oprah Winfrey Show. She lives in Dallas, Texas.
Betty Lou Phillips is the author of Emily Goes Wild!, an illustrated children's book, and co-author of The Night Before Christmas in Paris. Later this year Gibbs Smith Publisher will release her Night Before Christmas in New York and Night Before Christmas in Texas.
