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STYLE AND GRACE: AFRICAN AMERICANS AT HOME

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From: Black Issues Book Review
Date: 20040101
Author:Rice, Yanick

by Michael Henry Adams

Bulfinch Press, September 2003

$35.00, ISBN 0-821-22847-1

Our Kind of Style

MICHAEL HENRY ADAMS lives in an old kitchen, but you'd never know it. The architectural historian has transformed the space with antique mirrors, a Chinese carpet, artfully stacked books, a low-hanging chandelier, imported textiles, Bayard Rustin's walking sticks and stone fragments from other old brownstones in Harlem. His eclectic collection of furniture ranges from a carved West African stool to an early 1900s Iyre-back chair that evokes the mahogany suite of Mama Willie, his stylish ...

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