A Newport Summer Book by Ruthie Sommers

Name: A Newport Summer Book by Ruthie Sommers
Brand: Ruthie Sommers
Price: 60 USD
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About the Item

A Newport Summer By: Ruthie Sommers Photography by Nick Mele An intimate love letter to summertime in Newport from photographer Nick Mele, the “modern-day Slim Aarons,” and interior designer Ruthie Sommers Newport, Rhode Island, is one of the last bastions of American high society. The grand Gilded Age houses that top its oceanside cliffs and line storied Bellevue Avenue are largely untouched by contemporary renovation and taste, and family heirlooms are passed down from generation to generation with Yankee thrift. Indeed, Newport has an understated elegance that sets it apart from other resort towns. Life behind the facades of these elaborate mansions is rarely revealed, but now, photographer Nick Mele and author Ruthie Sommers, both lifelong Newport residents, share their entrée into the parties, lawn tennis matches, beach clambakes, and family gatherings that make up the glorious days of a Newport summer. Picture the foggy mornings of June, the traditional yacht races of July, the annual meeting of old friends at Marble House in August, and the melancholy close of the season after Labor Day. Through Sommers’s personal, evocative text and Mele’s exquisite photographs of people, parties, beaches, and houses, the intimate charms of A Newport Summer come poignantly to life. Additional information: Portrait Hardcover with jacket 208 pages 180 color illustrations ISBN: 978-0-86565-396-2 Dimensions: 10 x 13 in. (254 x 330 mm.) Published: May, 2022

Creator:

Ruthie Sommers (Author)

Dimensions:

Height: 13 in (33.02 cm)Width: 10 in (25.4 cm)Depth: 3 in (7.62 cm)

Materials and Techniques:

Paper

Period:

21st Century

Date of Manufacture:

2022

Production Type:

New & Custom(Current Production)