Villa Decor

Decidedly French and Italian Style

Digital Edition v1.0

Text © 2002 Betty Lou Phillips

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Front Cover: “Whenever I go, I am surrounded by these beautiful objects . . . and all is Italian; not a house, not a shed, not a field that the eye can for a moment imagine to be American,” Ralph Waldo Emerson once said. But only because he had not happened upon the villa featured on the cover. Although it might well be set in Italy, proudly it stands in the States with the sun streaming through arches framing the loggia. Fountain is from Le Louvre Antiques, Dallas, Texas.