Bringing Tuscany Home: Sensuous Style From the Heart of Italy Audiobook (Free)

I always imagine each one of the signoras who lived within this house-where she shelled peas, rocked the grandchild, placed a vase from the red roses. Now I would like to take among these women back again to my house in California showing her how Bramasole journeyed to America and had taken root, the way the doors there are open to the air flow from San Pablo bay also to the faraway view of Support Tamalpais, how the desk has expanded as well as the garden offers burgeoned…

The “bard of Tuscany” (NY Times) now offers a about Bringing Tuscany House: Sensuous Design Through the Heart of Italy lavishly illustrated book for everybody who dreams of integrating the Tuscan lifestyle-from house decoration and cooking, to eating and taking in, to gardening, socializing, and celebrating-into their own lives.

When Frances Mayes fell in love with Tuscany and Bramasole, millions of visitors basked in the knowledge through her three bestselling memoirs. Now Frances and her spouse, In Tuscany coauthor Edward, talk about the fact of Tuscan existence as they possess lived it, with specific ideas and inspiration for readers stateside to create the beauty and heart of Tuscany to their own home decoration, meals, gardens, entertaining and, most significant, outlook on life. In her inimitable warm and evocative firmness, Frances helps readers develop an eyes for genuine Tuscan style, with advice on how to:

• Select a Tuscan color palette for the home, from earthy apricot tones to invigorating tones of antique blue.

• Personalize a room with fanciful door frames, unique painted furniture, and fresco murals.

• Cultivate a Tuscan garden, adding fountains, vine-covered pergolas, and terra-cotta urns among the herbs and flowers

• Select the greatest Italian vino. (Frances details lunches at regional vineyards and imparts techniques for pairing food and wines.)

• Create an atmosphere of irresistible, anytime hospitality-a casa aperta (open up home).

• Make primo discovers at neighborhood antiques marketplaces. (And to help truly bring Tuscany house, shipping information and market times for many Tuscan towns are included.)

• Arranged an imaginative Tuscan table using majolica and vintage linens.

• Enjoy the abundant flavors and easy simpleness from the Tuscan kitchen, with information on everything from olive oil and vino santo to pici and gnocchi, plus particular homegrown menus and recipes.

• Take full advantage of a vacation to Tuscany, going to Frances’s favorite hill cities, restaurants, small museums, and other soothing places.

With an increase of than 100 photos by acclaimed photographer Steven Rothfeld (including several of the Mayes’s California home and its Tuscan accents), twenty-five all-new quality recipes, and lists of assets for travelers and shoppers, Bringing Tuscany Home is a treasure trove of practical advice and memorable images.