PALM BEACH CHIC
All it took was one look at this cover with those amazing parasols in their elephant stands set against a background of glorious glossy green palms and I was promptly whisked away to the wonderful whimsical world of Palm Beach Chic! This gorgeous book arrived on my doorstep this afternoon and I simply could not put it down! I was transfixed by the exuberance and creativity exhibited within its pages. As Jennifer Ash Ruddick writes in the Introduction, "These homes and their magnificent gardens aren't slavish copies of interior design magazines or decorators' dictates but testaments to what can be achieved when inspired by the natural beauty of a unique locale and when imagination is one's only limitation." One of the homes featured, Old Bethesda-By-The-Sea, is where Interior Designer Celerie Kemble grew up! I wholeheartedly agree with her! I think I must have lived a prior life in Palm Beach because this fanciful, whimsica...