Book Description From its earliest days as a burgeoning colonial port blending European, Caribbean, and Asian influences, Charleston has maintained a unique brand of southern cosmopolitanism. Charleston Style, Then and Now, a condensed editionof the bestselling Charleston Style: Past and Present, traces the city"s allure through its exquisite and sometimes eccentric architecture, decorative arts, and garden designs, which express a wide range of European and American styles, including Georgian, Federal, Chinese, Chippendale, Gothic and Greek Revival, Queen Anne, Eastlake, and more. Author Susan Sully explores Charleston as a medium through which this spectrum of styles becomes transmuted into a distinctive regional mode. Sully"sCharleston is a place where antique and modern, fantasy and reality, playfully intersect. During Charleston"s ascendance as one of America"s wealthiest cities, its most privileged citizens acquired sophisticated, even decadent, tastes that continue...