Article: Home decor sails along smoothly

Home decor sails along smoothly

By CLAIRE WHITCOMB

Sunday, May 30, 2004

One of the most delightful ways to reinvent your decorating style is to head to sea -- in your imagination or on the pages of "Sailing Style: Nautical Inspirations for the Home" (Clarkson Potter, $30).

Designer and author Tricia Foley shows how much of our architectural and design vocabulary is linked to the sea.

"Think bunk beds and mother-of-pearl," she says. "Think deck chairs and hammocks and blue-and-white stripes. All have a seafaring legacy."

In "Sailing Style," she journeys with photographer Michael Skott and writer Jill Kirchner Simpson to lighthouses and saltboxes and converted boathouses up and down the East ...

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