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We love the neighborhood and it's location is what attracted us to the area. The home is beautiful to look at and we are very comfortable here. Our building supervisor (Ron) was great to work with, however, we haven't seen him come back to finish up the list of things we found needed to be done during our final walk through. Once our building process got started, it was mostly a good experience though we did have an unusually long wait for plumbers, cement workers and stone workers. However, we wish you could make both of those initial visits then come back in a month or so to see if the self-imposed 'waiting period' produced any new thoughts.and not get charged for changes that you decided to make. Both of those Ivory employees did a great job and really listened to our thoughts.

The design center agent (Sarah) was also wonderful and really helped us with everything we were choosing and the meeting with the architect (Dave) went well, too. Our agent worked so hard to help us find exactly what we needed/wanted in our home and she did a great job, but there are already a few things we wish we had taken a good look at before the building process started.like storage space. In a perfect world, you could 'test drive' your model of home for a week or so to see what it will actually be like living in it. While the process after initial contact with Vicki Wood, our wonderful sales agent, was a bit intimidating, our agent worked closely with us through every phase and we appreciate her! Then thereвЂ™s in Home: A Celebration, edited by Charlotte Moss, in which figures as wonderfully different as Julian Fellowes, Lee Radziwill, Gloria Steinem, and Al Roker all agree that thereвЂ™s no place like it-especially for the holidays.Д«rowse all of those volumes-and a heaping armful more-in the list below.We moved into our beautiful Ivory home nearly one month ago and are very excited to be here! This is our first time building a home, so we have no other experience with which to compare the whole process. Fraioli add new flavor to the culinary catalog. Film fans will get a kick out of Garbo by Robert Gottlieb, a seductive portrait of one of HollywoodвЂ™s most beguiling women, and Solid Ivory: Memoirs, from the director and screenwriter James Ivory (one half of Merchant Ivory Productions).ДЇor the writerly, thereвЂ™s A Splendid Intelligence: The Life of ElizaВbeth Hardwick by Cathy Curtis, while Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America by Mayukh Sen and New Native Kitchen: Celebrating Modern Recipes of the American Indian by Freddie Bitsoie and James O. Memoirs and biographies are in similarly high supply: Franny MoyleвЂ™s The KingвЂ™s Painter: The Life of Hans Holbein, bidding readers to Tudor England Ann MarksвЂ™s riveting Vivian Maier Developed: The Untold Story of the Photographer Nanny and Naomi ParryвЂ™s Amy Winehouse: Beyond Black, arriving 10 years after the singerвЂ™s tragic death.

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The artistвЂ™s perspective more broadly is celebrated in Spring Cannot Be Cancelled: David Hockney in Normandy, which is bursting with HockneyвЂ™s saturated lockВВdown nature studies Judy Chicago: In the Making, which surveys an intrepid career of feminist art A Life of Picasso: The Minotaur Years, 1933-1943, the final chapter in John RichardsonвЂ™s epic and incisive series and Toyin Ojih Odutola : The UmuEze Amara Clan and the House of Obafemi, in which illustrated tales ofВ two fictional Nigerian families are coupled with essays by Zadie Smith and other writers. And Assouline gives us Uzbekistan: Avant-Garde Orientalists, a dazzling look at the Karakalpakstan State Museum of ArtвЂ™s (considered the вЂњthe Louvre of the SteppesвЂќ) collection of works inspired by Uzbekistan. From Aperture comes a different perspective with the haunting Gregory Crewdson: Alone Street and the deeply personal Gillian Laub : Family Matters, in which both artists consider questions of space, community, and culture.

Simon UptonвЂ™s first monograph, New York Interiors, chronicles the many fashionable homes heвЂ™s visited and Synagogues: Marvels of Judaism (Rizzoli) considers some of the most significant-and breathtaking-houses of worship in the world. Happily, youвЂ™ll find that the book lovers in your life are well looked after this season-whether theyвЂ™re drawn to design or photography, painters or writers, food or travel, thereвЂ™s something for everyone. With the holiday season not a long way off, the eagerest shoppers among you may already be drafting your gifting lists.

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