French Country Dairy 2012: copies of the 2012 edition are still available from Arts & Style Publishing, and from Amazon.com

Snug within the enchanting rose toile-patterned slipcase lies the FRENCH COUNTRY DIARY 2013, with its vibrant linen-textured, floral book cover elegantly displaying the new year '2013.' Each of the fifty-two week-at-a-glance spreads, featuring the stunning photographs of Guillaume de Laubier, offers an intimate vignette of the French countryside, including gardens, private homes, gastronomy, villages and inspiring landscapes.

Among the memorable spots that we visit in this year’s French Country Diary is a chic-rustique weekend home in Le Touquet on France's north coast, above, and a wonderful picnic spot overlooking the vineyards of Viré, a postcard-perfect village in Burgundy. Join us for a year of French country delights!

Photographs © by Guillaume de Laubier

THE FRENCH COUNTRY DIARY 2013 WILL GO ON SALE IN MID-JULY 2012. BELOW IS A LISTING OF STORES THAT USUALLY STOCK THE DIARY. THE DIARY WILL ALSO BE AVAILABLE ON AMAZON.COM. This listing will be updated regularly.

NEW YORK CITY -- Midtown: Rizzoli; Grand Central: Posman Books; Upper East Side: Kitchen Arts & Letters; Soho: Harney & Sons.
BOSTON, Western and Massachusetts -- Brookline Booksmith; Wellesley Books; Signature Stationers, Lexington, MA; La Petite Maison, Hingham; Andover Books, Andover, MA.; Broadside Books, Northampton, MA
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Politics and Prose.
NEW ORLEANS -- Garden District Books.
CALIFORNIA -- BAY AREA: Book Passage, Corte Madera; Spencer's Stationers, Carmel; Fiori's, Los Gatos; -- NAPA AND SONOMA: Copperfield's Books, Petaluma, Santa Rosa, Sebastopol, Napa, Healdsburg, Calistoga; -- SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: Chaucer's Books, Santa Barbara; Warwicks, La Jolla; The Book Loft, Solvang.
CONNECTICUT -- Books on the Common, Ridgefield; RJ Julia, Madison; The Nosey Goose, Madison.
FLORIDA -- Beresford Manor, Lake Worth; Vero Beach Books, Vero Beach; Décors de France, Sarasota.
NEW HAMPSHIRE -- Toadstool Books, Peterborough and Keene.
MAINE -- Books N Things, Norway; Marlows, Kennebunk.
VERMONT -- Vermont Bookshop, Middlebury.
OHIO -- The White Magnolia, Chagrin Falls.
ALABAMA -- Page and Palette, Fairhope.
KANSAS -- Watermark Books, Wichita.
IOWA -- Prairie Lights Books, Iowa City.
NORTH DAKOTA -- Zandbroz Variety, Fargo.
COLORADO -- Cheese Importers, Longmont.
UTAH -- The King's English, Salt Lake City.
OREGON -- Versailles Interiors, Portland; The Arbor, Salem.
WASHINGTON -- University Bookstore, Seattle.

CANADA -- Country Furniture, Vancouver; Buchan's Kerrisdale Stationery, Vancouver; Moricotta, Vancouver.
CAYMAN ISLANDS -- The Book Nook, Grand Cayman.

Copyright © 2012 Arts & Style Publishing

PREVIEW: FRENCH COUNTRY DIARY 2013! 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION!



F R E N C H C O U N T R Y D I A R Y 2013
ISBN 978-0-615-60016-1; Publication July 1, 2012; $21.99

VIVE LA BELLE TRADITION!

The 2013 edition of the FRENCH COUNTRY DIARY from Arts & Style Publishing marks this iconic and elegant desk calendar’s 25th Anniversary. The rose and lavender-hued slipcase of this celebration edition features a gorgeously detailed classic Provençal toile fabric, based on a rare 18th-century pattern called "Les Quatre Saisons" (The Four Seasons) in the archives of the Olivades fabric company in Provence's Saint-Etienne-du-Grès. Vintage typography and the evocative photographs of Guillaume de Laubier enhance the captivating design of this unique engagement calendar. Each of the fifty-two week-at-a-glance spreads offers an intimate vignette of the French countryside, including gardens, private homes, picturesque villages and inspiring landscapes.

This year’s Diary includes a visit to a luminous stone farmhouse surrounded by lavender fields near Saint-Rémy-de-Provence; a sunlit drive through the hidden coves and harbors of the Côtes d’Armor, Brittany’s rocky northern coast; a snowy winter’s day in Paris; and an afternoon discovering the Potager du Roi, Louis XIV’s extraordinary vegetable garden at the Palace of Versailles. Lush four-color endpapers, generous space for jotting daily notes, a ribbon stitched in to mark each week, and back matter that includes decorative address pages are what the Diary’s international legion of fans have come to expect. The forthcoming FRENCH COUNTRY DIARY 2013, produced by long-time author Linda Dannenberg with designer Mary Jane Callister, promises to be one of the most beautiful, sought-after and cherished engagement calendars of the year in markets around the world.

Hardcover; 128 pages. Full-color photographs, 8" x 8"; Saifu cloth spine; Ribbon page-marker; ISBN 978-0-615-60016-1; $21.99.
Publication date: July 15, 2012. From Arts & Style Publishing.
www.artsandstylepublishing.com; T: 914-232-9451.


DIARY DESIGN: Each weekly spread is a small work of art featuring vintage French typography, a color-saturated photograph of a unique location in France, and a dates page adorned with a vibrant strip of Provençal fabric from Olivades.


FOR INFORMATION ON ORDERING THE FRENCH COUNTRY DIARY 2012, PLEASE CONTACT US AT ARTS & STYLE PUBLISHING: artsandstylepublishing@​gmail.com; Telephone: 914-232-9451; Arts & Style Publishing, P.O. Box 495, Katonah, NY 10536. À bientôt!

Decorative mini-calendars at the back of the Diary let you see the current year and the next at a glance.