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"\u201CBuy the best and you\u2019ll only cry once\u201D seems to be the mantra for mother-daughter design duo Suzanne and Lauren McGrath. The pair\u2019s latest project is Good Bones, Great Pieces: The Seven Essential Pieces That Will Carry You Through a Lifetime (Abrams Books, $30), a helpful guide that illustrates how you can hedge your bets\u2014and tears\u2014with a few indispensible pieces of furniture capable of anchoring any home, from a first apartment to an empty nest (and every renovation and redecoration in between).\n\nPinterestFacebook\u00A9 Lucas Allen\n\nThrough lush imagery and both personal and professional accounts, mother Suzanne\u2014a Martha Stewart Living alum\u2014and daughter Lauren\u2014a former fashion features writer for Teen Vogue\u2014demonstrate the many lives of such multitasking furnishings as the love seat, the demilune, and the dresser (the latter, they reveal, can serve equally well as a bedside table or a living room bar).\n\nPinterestFacebook\u00A9 Lucas Allen\n\nFail-proof guides to insider sources, suggestions on how to reincarnate tired pieces of furniture, and expert weigh-ins from iconic designers like Miles Redd and Robert Couturier are the gloss on the paint.\n\nPinterestFacebook\u00A9 Lucas Allen"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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