"The Beauty of Home combines refined elegance and innovative simplicity for a fresh, new perspective on traditional interior design. Marie Flanigan's trademark style is evident through her sophisticated use of texture, color, and light. These components combine to create environments in which people love to live. The Beauty of Home details the specific design elements integral to Marie's creative process. Highlighting nine elements-architecture, composition, character, palette, illumination, detail, simplicity, depth, and surprise-each chapter begins with Marie's philosophy of design on that particular element, and is followed by photo collections of individual homes with commentary and meaning behind each image-how it specifically relates to the chapter element, and design as a whole. This is a sophisticated philosophy-of-design work, complemented by gorgeous photography featuring more than twenty diverse homes displaying custom furnishings, antiques, textiles, and fine art"--