"The Well-Lived Life: One Hundred Years Of House & Garden" 2003 BROWNING, Dominique

BROWNING, Dominique [239] pp.Assouline Publishing, Inc.200312 1/8" x 9 1/2" Fine/ Fine Scroll Down for (11) Additional Scans:Few magazines can lay claim to a century of history or to having published work by so many extraordinary and distinguished photographers and writers as House & Garden. Now, straight from the pages of this well-loved periodical, The Well-Lived Life presents a lavish chronicle of a country and a culture coming into its own, documenting America's continuing education in matters of house, home and garden over the course of the twentieth century. Selecting high points from the magazine, this book surveys the growing confidence and imagination reflected in American interiors and entertaining over the last century - the dinners, picnics and parties of a country dedicated to welcoming others - and the changing definition of home. It also illuminates the joys - sedentary or sporting - Americans have always found in the out-of-doors. The Well-Lived Life surveys the lan