Miranda Innes Boeken

A selection of leading artists working in the field and commissioned pieces represent papier mache's wide-ranging technical possibilities and creative potential. The projects - jewellery, bowls, frames, clocks, containers, masks and ornaments - are comprehensively explained with easy-to-follow, step-by-step photographs and text. They have been carefully selected to teach the reader techniques of papier mache, from using pulp and pasting, to moulding and using ready-made shapes.

The author takes you beyond the tourist track, behind the dusky pink walls, and deep inside the romance that is Marrakech. With lyrical and evocative descriptions of swirling colours, flavours and aromas, this glorious book will open your eyes to this most exotic of North African cities.

Country style has proved itself to be one of the most enduring and best loved of all decorating styles. The blending of old and new, of simple and sophisticated, provides an oasis of warmth and comfort in today's high-pressure world. Room-by-room, this book considers the essentials of country decoration.

This second title in the craft book series covers a range of ideas for making frames, from classic guilded photograph frames and papier mache mirror frames to collages incorporating found materials. Step-by-step photographs show how to make each project and shots of the finished items in a wide range of decorative settings inspire you to find ways of incorporating them into your home. Most of the frames are easy to make and advice is given on constructing frames from scratch and decorating existing frames with special touches.

A sourcebook for both professional and amateur interior designers. At its heart is an illustrated section providing a chronological overview of different styles of fireplace and their key features. It also discusses practical queries, and the advantages and disadvantages of reproduction pieces.

Offers instructions for creating twenty country craft projects, including quilts, rugs, weathervanes, lampshades, banks, and clocks made with recycled materials