Shell Chic: The Ultimate Guide to Decorating Your Home with Seashells

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Hardcover
2008
$25.91

In all, 14 step-by-step illustrated projects and 20 design ideas cover everything readers need to know to create richly marvellous objects. To lend inspiration, there are profiles of contemporary shell artists photographed with their creation. One profile features Marion McEvoy, editor of House Beautiful, who has embellished her home with an estimated 15,000 shells. While most shell enthusiasts will not be working on quite this scale, there are ideas, photographs, profiles and inspiration for all!

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In all, 14 step-by-step illustrated projects and 20 design ideas cover everything readers need to know to create richly marvellous objects. To lend inspiration, there are profiles of contemporary shell artists photographed with their creation. One profile features Marion McEvoy, editor of House Beautiful, who has embellished her home with an estimated 15,000 shells. While most shell enthusiasts will not be working on quite this scale, there are ideas, photographs, profiles and inspiration for all!

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 160
Publisher: Storey Books
Published: 04 Jul 2008
ISBN 10: 158017440X
ISBN 13: 9781580174404

Media Reviews

This well-illustrated book by Marshall and Vollmer von Falken contains step-by-step projects...interspersed with a colorful running narrative... ?Library Journal

Learn new ways to display summer's curvaceous souvenirs from Marlene Hurley Marshall. ?Coastal Living

Marshall has produced one of the most unusual crafts-home decor books yet ? unusual in the more than 15 projects offered, in the elegant photography by Sabine Vollmer von Falken, and in the wealth of information on collectors, artists, history, and shell life. ?Booklist Shell Chic awash in color photos of shell-shellacked interiors, has no shortage of ideas. It includes 14 step-by-step projects that also incorporate sand dollars, sea biscuits, starfish and even buttons. - Palm Beach Post

Looking at sea shells as elegance, Marlene Hurley Marshall in Shell Chic pictures shells as stylish home decorations for walls, ceilings and furniture. Photos profusely illustrate the lavish designs from art works to dress wear. - Newsday

Learn new ways to display summer's curvaceous souvenirs from Marlene Hurley Marshall.

- Coastal Living

These beach souvenirs are the rage - from shell chandeliers and shell encrusted claw-foot bathtubs to Christmas trees adorned with shell garland. - USA Today

From the marvelous to the bizarre, there's a project in it for anyone - with complete instructions. -The Times-Picayune