Verona Author: Here’s How To Live Like Claude Monet

VERONA, NJ — A Verona resident is using the work of famed Impressionist painter Claude Monet to breathe new life into people’s homes and gardens.

Aileen Bordman, the president and founder of Monet's Palate Inc., is the author of the recently released “Everyday Monet” (Dey Street Books), a work that she calls “a one-of-a-kind book of gardening, design, and lifestyle steeped in the history and aesthetic of the celebrated artist.”

Bordman said that she has long been influenced by the work of Claude Monet, one of the founders of French Impressionist painting whose esteemed works capturing the simple beauties of fin de siècle French life—from waterlilies to haystacks—have fetched astonishing sums at private auction houses and can be found in the greatest art museums around the globe.

With direct access to Giverny through a pair of insiders—her mother, a steward of the Giverny estate, and its head gardener—she transports readers to Monet's garden at Giverny, the third most visited site in France, in “Everyday Monet.”

Combining the history, palette colors, and designs of Monet's gardens and paintings in this one-of-a-kind volume, Bordman shows how to encapsulate a home and lifestyle inspired by the artist. With insights, step-by-step instructions, musings, recipes, gorgeous photography, and how-to graphics, “Everyday Monet” teaches how to grow a garden like Monet, preserve a waterlily inside the home, decorate a dining room table or a bathroom inspired by Monet's aesthetic, and prepare foods that inspire your inner-Impressionist.

Bordman is the President and Founder of Monet's Palate, Inc., a company dedicated to sharing the world of Claude Monet. She is the author of Monet's Palate and co-author of Monet's Palate Cookbook: The Artist & His Kitchen Garden at Giverny with Derek Fell, including a foreword by Meryl Streep. She is also a filmmaker and photographer, and the creator, writer, and producer of the acclaimed documentary film titled Monet's Palate: A Gastronomic View from the Garden of Giverny, which has been broadcast nationally through American Public Television, screened from Cannes to New York, and was featured during the six-month "Monet's Garden" exhibit at the New York Botanical Garden.

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