Nantucket Style - Hardcover

Leslie Linsley

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0847811654 ISBN 13: 9780847811656

Publisher: Rizzoli, 1990

Synopsis

A photographic essay of Nantucket's unique style covers the arts, interior design, crafts, gardens, cuisine, and architecture that flourish on the island

About this title

About the Author:

Leslie Linsley and Jon Aron, a well-known husband-and-wife team specializing in books on crafts and design topics, have produced over forty top-selling volumes, including Key West Houses. Linsley, a writer on home decoration subjects, and Aron, a graphic designer and photographer, contribute regular features to the major shelter magazines. Linsley also writes a weekly newspaper column called "Homestyle." The couple has lived on Nantucket Island for over twenty-five years.

From Publishers Weekly:

This lackluster valentine takes the reader on a tour of the architecture and interior design of Nantucket, Mass., homes, with 300 photographs, 200 of which are in color. The black-and-white pictures fail to illustrate the text adequately: they are captioned on occasion with descriptions of color, and their somber tone is at variance with Linsley's assertion that "everything is light and airy." Often photographer and writer (a husband and wife who have produced 35 style books) seem to be at cross-purposes, as when a caption refers to a claw-footed bathtub not seen in the picture, or describes details barely visible. And the text reads like a provincial gossip column, seasoned with inane or inconsequential commentary: "It's interesting that there's no shoemaker on Nantucket," or "There's nothing more traditional in a Nantucket home than an arrangement of freshly cut flowers." Devotees of the island would do better to turn to Taylor Lewis and Virginia Heard's Nantucket (Nonfiction Forecasts, May 11).
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About this edition

• Publisher: Rizzoli
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0847811654
• ISBN 13: 9780847811656
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 228