Views of Wimbledon House & Grounds 1897-98

A pair of painted timber axes from the Ancient Masonic order of foresters. The axe heads decorated with Stag with coronet, lettered and numbered 5481 with Court prosperity.

A pair of early 19th century mahogany bedside cabinets with Carrara marble tops. Square plinth with waisted socle, gadrooned base to the cylindrical body, single handed door to each...

American Contemporary black framed silver gelatin print photograph titled "The Cove" depicting a view onlooking a bay and the road that runs through it. (PETER CAMPUS)

The Well-lived Life: One Hundred Years of House & Garden by Dominique Browning. Assouline Publishing, Inc. 2008. Large hardcover coffee table book. Size: 12 1/8" x 9 1/2" x 1" 1/4. House & Home - 238 pages. Few magazines can lay claim to a century of history or to having published work by some extraordinary and distinguished photographers and writers as House & Garden. Now, straight from the pages of this well-loved periodical, The Well-Lived Life presents a lavish chronicle of a country and a culture coming into its own, documenting America's continuing education in matters of house, home and garden over the course of the 20th century. Selecting high points from the magazine, this book surveys the growing confidence and imagination reflected in American interiors and entertaining over the last century -the dinners, picnics and parties of a country dedicated to welcoming others- and the changing definition of home. It also illuminates the joys -sedentary or sporting- Americans have always found in the out-of-doors. The Well-Lived Life surveys the landscape of our lawns and gardens...