Country French

French Country Decorative Wood Wall Clock $23.79 No matter what theme you have created for your home or office, you can be confident that your clock's vibrant artwork and quality construction will provide enjoyment and functionality....

Old Dutch 051SR 2-Tone Rooster-Design Standing Paper-Towel Holder, Red $15.00 This French country-style rooster paper towel holder will make a lovely addition to your kitchen countertop. It measures 16-inches tall and is a wonderful deep red color with its simple rooster design truly reminiscent of the French countryside....

Butter Bell Le Bistro Bell Crock, White with Blue Banding $18.95 In the classic tradition of dinnerware found in Parisian bistros and brasseries, Le Bistro BellT Butter BellR crock is glazed in a creamy white color with French royal blue banding around the edges and bottom. It's the perfect piece to compliment your dinnerware or simply to use on its own....

Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music Director's Cut (40th Anniversary Two-Disc Special Edition) $12.97 The three-day Woodstock music festival in 1969 was the pivotal event of the 1960s peace movement, and this landmark concert film is the definitive record of that milestone of rock & roll history. It's more than a chronicle of the hippie movement, however; this is a film of genuine historical and social importance, capturing the spirit of America in transition, when the Vietnam War was at its peak ...

Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace and Music (40th Anniversary Edition) [Blu-ray] $18.47 Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 08/03/2010 Run time: 225 minutes...

ZZ Top: Live from Texas [Blu-ray] $10.91 That Little Ol' Band from Texas comes up big in ZZ Top: Live from Texas, a concert recorded in Dallas in November, 2007. The hirsute trio (guitarist Billy Gibbons, bass player Dusty Hill, drummer Frank Beard) has been at it for nearly four decades now, and notwithstanding their synth-tinged commercial breakthrough in the `80s, they haven't changed a whole lot in that time--not that that's a bad t...

Beauty and the Beast [VHS] $11.88 This is definitely not the Disney version. While it remains faithful to the plot of the classic fairy tale by Leprince de Beaumont, Jean Cocteau's 1946 French romantic fantasy is the product of a sophisticated, mature sensibility in its tones and textures and, above all, in its surprising emotional power. With sparkling black-and-white imagery that, for once, is actually dreamlike rather than cute...

A Sunday in the Country $27.98 ...

Diary of a Country Priest [VHS] $24.00 Diary of a Country Priest is the first masterpiece by the great Robert Bresson, a towering and slow-working figure in French cinema. Starkly adapted from a successful novel by Georges Bernanos, the film locks in to the mind of a sickly, ineffective young priest trapped in an unfriendly rural area. Bresson charts the priest's collapse with a series of brief scenes, a minimalist style that makes the...

Fleur De Lis French Metal Towel Ring Holder Bath Room $18.99 Elegant Fleur De Lis Towel Ring Keep towels handy and organize with this ultra classy and beautiful metal fleur de lis towel ring. Where sophistication and elegance meet function, this piece is the perfect addition to your bath decor. Don't let your guests or yourself be left empty handed when it comes time for drying. Made of HEAVY DUTY metal with a rustic bronzed finish Fleur-de-lis design is...

The magazine Veranda often features French country kitchens and you can find it at the home improvement stores. The style embodies a lot of different looks because it can be high country, provinceal, cottage country, etc. Toile in black and white is often the fabric of choice, as is yellow and blue. You can find some really neat sayings on wallwords.com and translate any of the sayings into French, although they have some already. It is a really easy to apply system that isn’t terribly expensive.

Most of what characterizes the French Country style is large chunky columns, long wooden tables with ladder back chairs, table linens, napkins and placemats that reflect patterns from nature like leaves, florals or scenes from everyday life. The French are big on flowers, plants, fresh fruit and vegetables as art on display.

I took a tour of France from the north near Verdunn all the way down to the mediterranean sea looking at architecture and design. I found the concept in French country design to be varied widely, but all had one thing in common. There is an elegant, yet functional simplicity to food preparation and dining.
It is more of a feeling that you want to evoke from those entering your kitchen that the food prepared here is for enjoyment. You will often see the items used in food preparation like oils, vinegars, even beans, pasta and coffee used in decorative containers as accessories.

And, you are right the French love their roosters. In almost every kitchen I visited, there was either a collection of them or a very large ceramic rooster placed in a position of prominence.