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| Mary Emmerling's Beach Cottages: At Home by the Sea | 
 enlarge | Author: Mary Emmerling
Publisher: Clarkson Potter
Category: Book
List Price: $32.50
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Avg. Customer Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 22509
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.1
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 7.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 0307338223
Dewey Decimal Number: 747.8872
EAN: 9780307338228
ASIN: 0307338223
Publication Date: April 15, 2008
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Product Description
beach house.
The words alone have the hypnotic associations Henry James once famously ascribed to summer afternoon–“the two most beautiful words in the English language.” Lifelong beach girl Mary Emmerling captures that implicit promise of freedom in her captivating volume celebrating the American beach cottage.
Much of the beach house’s allure is in its reflection of a simpler way of life, a pared-down existence where the breeze is the housekeeper, the furnishings don’t mind a damp swimsuit, and the most precious treasures are seashells and memories. In Mary Emmerling’s Beach Cottages, Mary invites us into seventeen coastal retreats that capture that spirit, and introduces us to the people who take joy from them.
Join Mary on a warm, intimate tour of unique seaside escapes, including:
•A pint-sized artist’s studio in Key West
•A dramatic black-and-white retreat in Newport Beach, California
•A shell-lined jewel box in Laguna Beach, California
•A nautically inspired Cape Cod getaway
•A haven in Galveston, Texas, with sea-grass rugs and matchstick blinds
•The homes of designers such as Barclay Butera and Rachel Ashwell
•Mary’s own charming cottage, complete with beach balls, sailfish, and beaded curtains
With gorgeously photographed profiles of easy-going seaside homes and innovative design solutions for everyday living, Mary Emmerling’s Beach Cottages is both beautiful and inspirational. Like a beloved seaside haven, this is a book to return to again and again.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 6 more reviews...
 Not her best April 18, 2008
7 out of 12 found this review helpful
If you loved Mary Emmerlings first cottage book you will probably be disappointed with this new book. It lacks the charming, evolved over time look that the homes in her previous books have had. There are a few that have that comfy beach cottage put up your feet on the coffee table feel to them but most are cold ,austere and seem to have been plopped down yesterday. This may be in part to some of the huge dollar locations that these houses reside in, the owners just called someone and said put what is currently popular in my home. One house has every single pillow in the place with that annoying yet seemingly popular "knife chop" down the center which just screams" DON'T SIT ON ME" you'll mess me up and the same photos of Rachel Ashwell's house have been in print many, many times before. I will keep this book because I love Mary's previous books and I too live in a house a short walk from the Atlantic ocean but sadly it wasn't what I was hoping for. I did give it three stars because I enjoyed reading the text.
 Loved this Book! May 8, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I have been waiting for this book as I am one of Mary's devoted fans. After reading the reviews from other customers, I was feeling let down before I even saw the book. I have to say that I was happily surprised and thought it was BETTER than her previous books. I love the size of the book - it has a cozy feeling - and the photographs are perfect. I, for one, enjoy seeing pictures of people's swimming pools (even if they are part of a beach house). I loved her choice of homes and don't really care if some are redundant (Rachel Ashwell) because a lot of these designers/homeowners move all the time and there is always something fresh to see. Count me in as a continuing huge fan of her taste and joie de vivre. So many books today (in the dying era of coffee-table tomes) are sterile and boring. You can tell she cares about her subjects - both the homes and the people who inhabit them. Go Mary!
I must not be looking at the same book May 7, 2008
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
as the previous reviews. I found the book to be full of wonderful pictures and very evocative of a wonderful stay by the seashore. The houses were not the usual beach cliches.... they were very elegant and had a lot of personality and individuality. I would recommend. A concise, nice little volume.
Seaside Sublime June 1, 2008
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I'm a longtime fan of Mary Emmerling's work, and was thrilled to find BEACH COTTAGES. I've dog-eared favorite pages, and find myself returning to them over and over again for inspiration. I loved the diversity of design styles, and even when the homes shown are waaaay out of my own budget, I enjoyed seeing how the other half lives. This is a book for dreamers as well as doers.Of course, it doesn't hurt that she recommended one of my books, SAVANNAH BREEZE, in her list of great beach reads. I'll be buying more copies of BEACH COTTAGES for my beach dreamer buddies.
Mary Kay Andrews
 Missing Mary's Charm April 27, 2008
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
As much as I love Mary and her work, the title 'beach cottages' is misleading. The pictures of the homes did not lead me to believe there was a beach nearby and most I would not consider cottages at all. My favorite was of a shingled shack with no heat and laid back beach charm. This one falls short and is disappointing. Please don't show me pictures of pools in a beach book! Mary's charm is missing from this one.
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