Country and Cozy: Countryside Homes and Rural Retreats

Description

Turning away from traffic-choked streets and onto meandering country paths, urban residents increasingly are choosing to take up residence in greener pastures. Quiet and quaint, the countryside comes with its own pace of living - and depending on where you are, its own regional flair. Country and Cozy opens doors and pulls back the floral curtains to reveal a more characterful approach to interior design and decoration. Whether it's a converted outhouse in the south of France, a Latin American Finca, or a whimsical English cottage complete with a thatched roof, Country and Cozy showcases a series of beautiful country homes and illustrates how their inhabitants have created breathtaking living spaces that make the most of rural life.

"We enter small, cosy rooms, kitchens that have been handed down for generations or other large, open, carefully-designed decor. All of them, although very different in context and image, capture us: they have that intimate, warm, familiar, indefinable atmosphere. And that we observe, almost "spy", through small wooden windows or large windows overlooking an uncontaminated, majestic, poetic nature.Enraptured, it is really the case to say, by the photos of the book, which take us on an ideal tour of the world to discover the country houses, their stories, the people who live there and the private details of their fascinating interiors." -- MARIE CLAIRE