Everyday Monet A GivernyInspired Gardening and Lifestyle Guide to Living Your Best Impressionist Life A Giverny-Inspired Gardening and Lifestyle Guide to Living Your Best Impressionist Life

Welcome the timeless beauty of impressionist painter Claude Monet’s art and garden into your home and watch your life be transformed!

In this extraordinary glimpse into the world of iconic painter Claude Monet, Everyday Monet showcases the exquisite taste of a beloved and legendary artist. Monet’s garden, home, and paintings provide inspiration for styling any home—from floral arrangements to dinners to decor and beyond. Whether you are working with a large rural garden or a windowsill in a city apartment, this stunning book is filled with practical tips that will allow you to beautifully emulate Monet’s lifestyle, both inside and outside of your home.

Monet’s aesthetic truly shines through in this breathtaking and essential guide to transforming your home with the magic of Monet and impressionist style. In Everyday Monet, Aileen Bordman—with the support of her mother, Helen Rappel Bordman, an American steward at Giverny—takes you on a magnificent tour of Monet’s home, from the garden to the various rooms to the kitchen. It includes step-by-step instructions on how to grow your own water lilies, roses, tulips, and poppies; how to create a Monet-inspired picnic with delicious recipes; and how to decorate even a bathroom with glimmers of Monet, among many other easy-to-implement ideas.

Gorgeously illustrated and infused with the gentle spirit and quiet beauty of the beloved artist, Everyday Monet is without a doubt a one-of-a-kind, practical, and stunning keepsake that will delight lifelong and new Monet devotees.

As one of the founders of French Impressionist painting, and one of the world’s most famous painters, Monet’s works fill the halls of the most frequented and esteemed museums across the world—from waterlilies to haystacks. The author of Monet’s Palate Cookbook and the writer and producer of the PBS documentary Monet’s Palate, Aileen Bordman has always been surrounded by the influence and beauty of Monet’s work. With direct access to Giverny through her mother, one of the stewards of the Giverny estate, and the head gardener, this book transports the reader to Monet's garden at Giverny—the third most visited site in France—in simple prose, beautiful photography, and how-to graphics.

In EVERYDAY MONET, Aileen pulls from the impressions, the history, the palettes, and designs of Monet’s gardens and paintings to encapsulate a home and lifestyle inspired by Monet. This book gives the reader step-by-step instructions and photographs on how to grow a garden like Monet, preserve a waterlily inside your home, decorate a dining room table or a bathroom inspired by Monet’s aesthetic, and prepare foods that inspire your inner-Impressionist to bring a bit of Monet into your life and home.

Filled with stunning photography—from the gardens of Giverny to the streets of Normandy—and images of Monet’s most famous paintings, this book is not only a keepsake for those who love Monet, but also a practical guide to finding ways to implement Monet’s beautiful designs into your home and garden, whether you live next to sprawling grass or in a city high-rise.