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Nora Murphy’s Country House Style Book by Nora Murphy
Located in New York, NY
Nora Murphy’s Country House Style
Making Your Home a Country House
By: Nora Murphy
with Deborah Golden
Photography by DuAnne Simon
“Nora Murphy is in a country state of mind. The founder of Connecticut Country House, a venture that encompasses an online magazine and blog about all things country, her dedication goes way beyond milk paints and Americana crafts. Instead, the former Executive Vice President of Style at Ethan Allen has built a business and a lifestyle around embracing the concept of the country house.” —Connecticut Cottages & Gardens Nora Murphy has turned her passion for country house style and its embodiment—her own home in Newtown, Connecticut—into a multimedia juggernaut. Her blog, website, e-magazine, strong presence on social media, and increasing visibility in print media and on TV have earned her a devoted following all over the country and around the world. And now she has distilled the essence of her knowledge about the fundamentals of country house style and how to achieve it in this irresistible volume. In the introduction, Murphy lays out the universal elements of country house style: creating a place where everyone is always welcome; where comfort is always in style; where there’s always room for our favorite things; where there’s always a reason to celebrate; where we honor tradition by changing it up; where home extends well beyond our walls. The body of the book shows how the elements of this comfortable, comforting, easy aesthetic and approach to life can be applied in different ways and in different locations to striking, individual effect. Murphy features six homes, beginning with her own, each of which expresses a unique take on the style, from elegant country to English cottage country to vintage farmhouse country to historical country. Part primer, part wish book, Nora Murphy’s Country House Style, illustrated entirely with specially commissioned photography, is all inspiration.
Nora Murphy studied interior design at the Fashion Institute of Technology and founded her own interior design and architectural and product illustration...
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Checkered Past A Visual Diary of the ’60s and ’70s Book by Peter Schlesinger
By Peter Schlesinger
Located in New York, NY
Checkered Past
A Visual Diary of the ’60s and ’70s
By: Peter Schlesinger
In 1968, Peter Schlesinger, wide-eyed and twenty years old, arrived in London from his native California at the invitation of artist David Hockney to study at the Slade School of Art. He was introduced by Hockney to a bohemian set...
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The Maine House II Book by Maura McEvoy, Basha Burwell, and Kathleen Hackett
Located in New York, NY
The Maine House II
By: Maura McEvoy, Basha Burwell, and Kathleen Hackett
Photography by Maura McEvoy
The authors of the highly successful The Maine House continue their quest to rec...
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Mexican A Journey Through Design Book by Newell Turner
Located in New York, NY
Mexican
A Journey Through Design
By: Newell Turner
Foreword by Susana OrdovasAn American expat searches vibrant cities and quiet pueblos for the essence of Mexican style
Revealing the richly visual and cultural details that are the essence of Mexican style, design editor and photographer Newell Turner has done for Mexican design what legendary culinary pioneer Diana Kennedy did for Mexican food. Elegantly organized around nine decisive decorative periods that have shaped México’s unique design journey to the present day, Turner establishes a visual dialogue with the reader that beautifully captures the depth and subtleties of the country’s aesthetic legacy. Ushered behind the walls, gates, and doors of private México, we are introduced to an intriguing world of interior design and architecture—including the highly developed civilizations pre-dating the arrival of Columbus; the Spanish colonial arts; the dynamic response to global movements such as Art Deco and Surrealism; and a rich survey of modernist and contemporary work. Woven intricately into this history is Turner’s own story of discovering the distinctive soul of México, where —in the spirit of memoirs in which a traveler discovers another country —he finds himself along the way. In this vivid volume of color, texture and contrasts, Turner examines the extraordinary range of Mexican design with the insight of a true devotee. The breathtaking
photography shows how every room, courtyard, loggia—and even a chair, or an arrangement of flowers—are part of a rich design heritage. Turner spent his magazine career chronicling American style, and now his unerring eye...
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John Baeder’s Road Well Taken Book by Jay Williams
Located in New York, NY
John Baeder’s Road Well Taken
By: Jay Williams
Echoing Paul Gauguin’s momentous decision of a century earlier, John Baeder, in 1972, suddenly made up his mind to forgo the growing riches of a career on Madison Avenue to become a full-time painter. With little more to bank on than an offer by the legendary Ivan Karp of a future show at his New York gallery, Baeder bravely gambled his livelihood on Karp’s evaluation of his first four efforts at serious painting: a diner, a motel, a gas station, a tourist camp. “They were works of cultural consequence, . . . works of visual power.” Based on color-postcards in his growing collection of roadside memorabilia, John had made blow-ups of the cards “to see what they’d look like as paintings.” It was a bold, inventive move, but typical Baeder as he continued to lay the groundwork for what soon became known, through his efforts, as “Diner Culture.” And his masterful technique inevitably put him at the forefront of the growing photo-realist movement, along with Ralph Goings and Richard Estes. Baeder’s paintings, particularly of vintage diners...
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Anna Hu: Symphony of Jewels Opus II Book by Janet Zapata with Sarah Davis
Located in New York, NY
Anna Hu: Symphony of Jewels
Opus II
By: Janet Zapata with Sarah Davis
Foreword by François Curiel
Anna Hu is a focused and single-minded artist, reaching new ...
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Behind the Blue Door Book by John Demsey
Located in New York, NY
Behind the Blue Door
By: John Demsey
Written by Alina Cho
Photography by Douglas Friedman
The decor of entrepreneur John Demsey’s six-story townh...
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Inspired Design The 100 Most Important Interior Designers Book by Jennifer Boles
Located in New York, NY
Inspired Design
The 100 Most Important Interior Designers of the Past 100 Years
By: Jennifer Boles
Most decorating books focus on one designer; the rest focus on one period, one tre...
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Sunnylands America’s Midcentury Masterpiece Book by Janice Lyle
Located in New York, NY
Sunnylands
America’s Midcentury Masterpiece
By: Janice Lyle
Foreword by Michael S. Smith
Photography by Mark Davidson
The definitive story of the most ambitious and glamorous midcentury-modern house in the United States—Sunnylands, the estate of Walter and Leonore Annenberg, in Rancho Mirage, California—now revised and expanded
The pinnacle of midcentury style, an English country estate reimagined for the American desert, there is no other house like Sunnylands. A stately home, designed by A. Quincy Jones, one of California’s most signifi cant architects, it contains the only completely preserved interior by Hollywood’s legendary decorator-to-the-stars, William Haines, that is open to the public. A new book, Sunnylands: America’s Midcentury Masterpiece (The Vendome Press, October), offers an intimate tour of this legendary property. It was the early 1960s when Walter and Leonore Annenberg visited the Palm Springs area, bought hundreds of acres of desert, and created a modernist dream house at the center of their own golf course. Like the landed British aristocracy—Walter Annenberg had been the Ambassador to the Court of St. James’s in London—the couple built a retreat, where politicians, movie stars, and corporate leaders could meet, relax, and refl ect in comfort and privacy. For four decades, an invitation to New Year’s Eve at Sunnylands was the ultimate social prize. Their good friends, Ronald and Nancy Reagan, would land Marine One on the greens. Frank Sinatra was married there. Richard Nixon’s golf clubs still sit in the men’s locker room. It was a vortex of plaid pants, sherbet pastel hats, de la Renta gowns, and socio-economic power. In hundreds of photographs and architectural drawings, Sunnylands captures the careful restoration of the estate’s historic rooms, examining the drawers and the closets, the trapunto quilting and embroidery on Haines’s iconic furniture, the dinner seating charts...
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Moscow and St. Petersburg 1900–1920 Art, Life and Culture Book by John E. Bowlt
Located in New York, NY
Moscow and St. Petersburg 1900–1920
Art, Life, and Culture of the Russian Silver Age
By: John E. Bowlt
The twilight of Imperial Russia witnessed a sudden renaissance of the visual, literary, and performing arts, alongside the more exuberant pomp and circumstance of the court and high society. Here was a Silver Age, as it is known in Russia. Much of this new energy was indebted to the movement known as Symbolism, which fell on fertile soil in Mother Russia. Seeking to transcend the conventional barriers of bourgeois civility, the Russian Symbolists lived and created on the edge, which often earned them the sobriquet of Decadent or Degenerate. But, as Sergei Diaghilev declared, theirs was not a moral or artistic decline, but a voyage of inner discovery and a refurbishing of a national culture. Some of the individuals and institutions associated with the Russian Silver Age are well known—Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes, the painting and decoration of Alexandre Benois, Leon Bakst, and Mikhail Vrubel...
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Sean Scherer’s Vignettes Book by Sean Scherer
Located in New York, NY
Sean Scherer’s Vignettes
By: Sean Scherer
Designer, collector, and proprietor of the contemporary curiosity shop Kabinett & Kammer, Sean Scherer shares h...
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Ladurée Tea Time The Art of Making Tea Book by Marie Simon
Located in New York, NY
Ladurée Tea Time
The Art of Making Tea
By: Marie Simon
Photography by Marie-Pierre Morel
Illustrations by Hélène Le Duff
Tea time is a moment for sharing, when the mind wanders to faraway lands and calm returns to our crazy world. In Ladurée Tea Time, the prestigious and iconic Parisian luxury patisserie, Maison Ladurée, pays tribute to this libation of the gods in its inimitable fashion. With mouthwatering photography and beautiful illustrations, the leaves of this chic book are steeped with tea-time menus and more than sixty sweet and savory recipes fit for Marie Antoinette. Wrapped in mint-green tissue paper, with a padded cover and green metallic edge stain, and packaged in an elegant gift box, this sumptuous guide reveals the secrets of taking tea the Ladurée way and is topped off with a concise history of tea, a guide to the finest tea varieties, and tips on ultimate tea pairings...
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Country Life Book by William Abranowicz and Zander Abranowicz
Located in New York, NY
Country Life
Homes of the Catskill Mountains and Hudson Valley
By: William Abranowicz and Zander Abranowicz
A celebrated photographer focuses his lens on distinctive period and contemporary residences amid the natural beauty of New York’s Catskill Mountains and Hudson River Valley
The majestic panoramas, lush vegetation, and bucolic vibe of the Catskill Mountains and Hudson River Valley in upstate New York have long proved irresistible for city dwellers seeking respite from urban life and inveterate country lovers alike. Their homes, whether hundreds of years old or brand new, all resonate with their natural surroundings, as each of the 20 houses that photographer William Abranowicz captured for this volume attests. They range from the historic houses of Thomas...
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Natural Elegance Luxurious Mountain Living Book by Rush Jenkins and Klaus Baer
Located in New York, NY
Natural Elegance
Luxurious Mountain Living
By: Rush Jenkins and Klaus Baer
Photography by William Abranowicz
Text by Nancy Greystone
Natural Elegance showcases the award-winning int...
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Jake Arnold: Redefining Comfort
Located in New York, NY
The first book from a rising star of the interior design world, whose signature style has earned him celebrity clientele, coveted design collaborations, and a place on the AD100 list.
In just a few years, the pioneering young British designer Jake Arnold...
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David Monn The Art of Celebrating Book by David Monn
Located in New York, NY
David Monn
The Art of Celebrating
By: David Monn
Imagine seeing the world through event planner David Monn’s eyes for just one minute of your life. Imagine walking into a room and k...
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The Art Glass of Louis Comfort Tiffany Book by Paul Doros
Located in New York, NY
The Art Glass of Louis Comfort Tiffany
By: Paul Doros
Photography by David Schlegel
Foreword by Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen
Louis Comfort Tiffany considered his Favrile glass, produc...
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Made for Maharajas A Design Diary of Princely India Book by Amin Jaffer
By Amin Jaffer
Located in New York, NY
Made for Maharajas
A Design Diary of Princely India
By: Amin Jaffer
The Indian princes of the British Raj lived lives of unparalleled opulence and luxury. Made for Maharajas returns...
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Rose Uniacke at Work
Located in New York, NY
Author Rose Uniacke, with Alice Rawsthorn, Photographs by François Halard and Simon Upton and Luke White
An unprecedented level of craft is the key signature of Uniacke’s design eth...
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Beachside Windsor Architecture and Design Book by Hadley Keller
Located in New York, NY
Beachside
Windsor Architecture and Design
By: Hadley Keller
Photography by Jessica Klewicki Glynn
Introduction by James Reginato
Tropical living at its most chic
The planned community of Windsor, on a barrier island in Vero Beach, Florida, offers elegant yet casual seaside living at its best. This sublimely landscaped village, planned by the renowned New Urbanists Andrés Duany and Elizabeth Plater‑Zyberk, boasts houses by A‑list architects and top interior designers, among them John Stefanidis, Steven Gambrel, and Alessandra Branca. The exteriors, Anglo‑Caribbean in style, feature steeply pitched roofs, open eaves, cantilevered balconies, and palm‑shaded...
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Pietro Cicognani Architecture and Design Book by Karen Bruno
Located in New York, NY
Pietro Cicognani
Architecture and Design
By: Karen Bruno
Photography by Francesco Lagnese
Foreword by Isabella Rossellini
For the past thirty years, Itali...
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Life at the Top Book by Kirk Henckels and Anne Walker
By Anne Walker
Located in New York, NY
Life at the Top
New York’s Most Exceptional Apartment Buildings
By: Kirk Henckels and Anne Walker
Photographs by Michel Arnaud
There’s a parlor game that sophisticated New Yorkers have been playing since the Gilded Age: What are New York’s best apartment buildings? Before the turn of the (last) century, the Dakota and the Osborne were obvious answers; by the 1920s the list had grown to include McKim, Mead & White’s 998 Fifth, and the ultra-soigné 820 Fifth Avenue. The Roaring Twenties witnessed the construction of some of the most luxurious apartment buildings ever designed: 740 Park Avenue, the Art Deco–inspired River House, and Rosario Candela’s extraordinary 778 and 720 Park Avenue. Now, nearly 130 years after the Dakota’s cornerstone was laid, the New York skyline features numerous new palatial residential buildings, including Robert A. M. Stern’s 15 Central Park West, Richard Meier’s glass-walled Perry Street towers, and 432 Park Avenue, New York’s tallest residential building. Kirk Henckels and Anne Walker, real estate and architectural insiders, chronicle the fortunes and features of fifteen outstanding apartment houses, bringing them to life with evocative vintage photos of exterior and interior architectural details, as well photographs of chic New Yorkers at home in their elegant abodes by the likes of Beaton, Horst, and Aarons. Accompanied by Michel Arnaud’s expressive photographs and newly commissioned architectural plans, Henckels and Walker tour some of the most beautiful apartments in these buildings as they look today, designed by the talented hands of Robert Couturier, Michael S. Smith, Thomas Jayne, Katie Ridder, Markham Roberts...
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Charming Pepe le Pew: Black and White Taxidermy Skunk Delight
Located in New York, NY
Meticulously crafted black and white taxidermy skunk, elegantly mounted to captivate the eye and heart alike. Immerse yourself in the essence of sophistication as you welcome your ve...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Victorian USA - Collectibles and Curiosities
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McAlpine: Romantic Modernism
Located in New York, NY
Author Bobby McAlpine, with Susan Sully, Photographs by Simon Upton
A celebration of the recent work of McALPINE, the award-winning architectural and in...
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The Boudoir Bible The Uninhibited Sex Guide for Today
By Rizzoli International Publications
Located in New York, NY
Written by Betony Vernon, Illustrated by Francois Berthoud
A comprehensive and instructional guide to the new sexual landscape, covering "new territories" such as bondage, role playing, and sex toys that would make your parents blush. Since the publication of The Joy of Sex in 1972, the sexual landscape’s boundaries have been expanded to include a host of practices that are unthinkable in that classic tome. Although it also covers the basics, The Boudoir Bible...
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21st Century and Contemporary North American USA - Collectibles and Curiosities
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Palm Beach Chic Book by Jennifer Ash Rudick
By Jennifer Ash
Located in New York, NY
Palm Beach Chic
By: Jennifer Ash Rudick
Photography by Jessica Klewicki Glynn
Palm Beach interiors have long reflected the travels, penchants, and whimsies of the town’s worldly inh...
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The Art Deco Poster Book by William Crouse
Located in New York, NY
The Art Deco Poster
By: William Crouse
Introduction by Alastair Duncan
Posters of the Art Deco period, which once graced billboards and walls to advertise every variety of product, ...
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Chanel and Her World Book by Edmonde Charles-Roux
Located in New York, NY
Chanel and Her World
By: Edmonde Charles-Roux
The best-selling, most abundantly illustrated biography available of fashion icon Coco Chanel, writ...
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Evoke: Nina Magon
By Phaidon
Located in New York, NY
The first monograph of interior designer Nina Magon, featuring the glamorous spaces that have made her sought-after by jet-set clientele
Growing up in Houston, yet born in Canada, i...
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2010s Chinese USA - Collectibles and Curiosities
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Decorating with Carpets A Fine Foundation Book by Heather MacIsaac
Located in New York, NY
Decorating with Carpets
A Fine Foundation
By: Ashley Stark Kenner and Chad Stark
with Heather MacIsaac
In decoration, a carpet’s influence is never outsized. In fact, more than any other element of a room, and as the largest and most expensive component of any design scheme, the effect a carpet has on a space is every bit as great as its size. Decorators have long recognized the importance of a fine carpet, its impact on the colors and textures of a space, its contribution to creating an atmosphere, its feel of luxury, and, with the best examples, its lasting value. Despite their essential role as the bedrock of any design scheme, beautiful carpets have lived in the shadows of recognition. Decorating with Carpets: A Fine Foundation aims to change that oversight, tapping the extensive and remarkable archive of Stark Carpet for interior design’s greatest examples. Over the course of its 75 years, Stark Carpet, the premier purveyor of carpets to the trade in the country, has worked with the each era’s most notable designers, from Billy Baldwin and Dorothy Draper to Sister Parish and Albert Hadley to Mark Hampton and Mario Buatta to contemporary leading lights such as Diamond Baratta, Victoria Hagan, Katie Ridder, and Stephen Gambrel...
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Haute Bohemians Book by Miguel Flores-Vianna
By Miguel Flores-Vianna
Located in New York, NY
Haute Bohemians
By: Miguel Flores-Vianna
Foreword by Amy Astley
Named Design Book of the Year in the 2017 New York Times holiday gift guide! Who, exactly, is a haute bohemian? Leave...
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The French Country House Book by Christiane de Nicolay-Mazery & Bernard Touillon
By Christiane de Nicolay-Mazery
Located in New York, NY
The French Country House
By: Christiane de Nicolay-Mazery and Bernard Touillon
Epitomizing what the French call l’art de vivre (the art of good living), The French Country House is ...
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An Entertaining Life
Located in New York, NY
An Entertaining Life: Designing Town and Country
By: Paolo Moschino, Philip Vergeylen
Foreword by Bunny Williams
250 color illustrations
ISBN: 978-0-86565-426-6
Hardcover
Join two ...
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2010s USA - Collectibles and Curiosities
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Taxidermy Black Hairy Clawed Cochin Chicken
Located in New York, NY
Exquisite Taxidermy Black Hairy Clawed Cochin Chicken, a stunning representation of the Cochin breed, which boasts a rich history dating back to the 1840s and 1850s when large feathe...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Victorian USA - Collectibles and Curiosities
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Star Style Interiors of Martyn Lawrence Bullard Book by Martyn Lawrence Bullard
By Martyn Lawrence Bullard
Located in New York, NY
Star Style
Interiors of Martyn Lawrence Bullard
By: Martyn Lawrence Bullard
Foreword by Cher
Photography by Douglas Friedman
Martyn Lawrence Bullard,...
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Second Bloom Cathy Graham’s Art of the Table Book by Alexis Clark
Located in New York, NY
Second Bloom
Cathy Graham’s Art of the Table
By: Alexis Clark
Foreword by Joanna Coles
Photographs by Quentin Bacon and Andrew Ingalls
People in the know turn to entertaining guru C...
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Architectural Digest The Most Beautiful Rooms in the World
By Rizzoli International Publications
Located in New York, NY
An unrivaled survey of the most exciting contemporary interior design across the globe, curated by the editors of ten international editions of Architectural Digest.
Since 1920, Architectural Digest has celebrated design talents, innovative homes, and products--providing endless decoration, lifestyle, and travel inspiration. With ten global editions, the magazine is an authority renowned all-over the world for publishing only the very best of today's interior design.
In this new volume--spearheaded by AD France's editor in chief, Marie Kalt...
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21st Century and Contemporary American USA - Collectibles and Curiosities
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Torti Gallas + Partners Book by John Francis Torti, Thomas M. Gallas & Cheryl
Located in New York, NY
Torti Gallas + Partners
Architects of Community
By: John Francis Torti, Thomas M. Gallas, and Cheryl A. O’Neill
Foreword by Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk and Andrés Duany
Passionate about designing buildings and neighborhoods that quietly transform the urban environment, Torti Gallas is committed to improving the living conditions of distressed communities throughout the United States and around the world. Combining the disciplines of architecture, planning, and urban design into a single practice, they have leveraged lessons from their early history as a suburban-based housing firm to create a practice devoted to designing and creating the housing that brings catalytic change to urban neighborhoods. Their residential commissions are not the “one-offs” of elite houses, but the multiple housing forms—mixed-use apartment buildings, rowhouses, single-family homes—that comprise the fabric of a city. Torti Gallas is dedicated to raising the level of this architecture to a new high. This aspect of the built environment is largely neglected by the architectural profession today but hearkens back to a tradition that, before World War II, was not only a respectable segment of the profession but also created some of the country’s finest neighborhoods, including Forest Hill Gardens...
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Tuscan Countess The Life & Extraordinary Times of Matilda Book by Michèle Spike
Located in New York, NY
Tuscan Countess
The Life and Extraordinary Times of Matilda of Canossa
By: Michèle K. Spike
This is a fast-paced and colorful exploration of the life of Matilda of Canossa (c. 1046–1115), the woman who loved a pope and was loved by him, successfully defied the Holy Roman Emperor, and changed the map of Europe. A new kind of history, this biography also carries the flavor of present-day Italy. Matilda of Canossa, the “Great Countess,” was a remarkable woman. Her personal power was so extraordinary that even centuries after her death she became the first woman to be interred in St. Peter’s Basilica. She is best remembered for her role in the conflict between the papacy and the Holy Roman emperor, the climax of which took place at her castle of Canossa. This unique biography is also a journal of the author’s travels through contemporary Tuscany as she explores the palaces where Matilda held court, the blood-stained plains on which her soldiers battled, the churches and cathedrals she endowed, and the fortified aeries where she sought refuge. Readers will be swept along on this engrossing journey retracing the steps of a courageous and brilliant woman.
Michèle K. Spike is a lawyer and historian who has lived in Florence since 1989. She has collaborated with her husband, John Spike, on numerous books on...
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Palm Beach Living Book by Jennifer Ash Rudick
By Jennifer Ash
Located in New York, NY
Palm Beach Living
By: Jennifer Ash Rudick
Photography by Nick Mele
Explore the pleasures of life in the homes and gardens of the legendary tropical island of Palm Beach
Could it be the subtropical climate and seaside breezes that have drawn multiple generations to Palm Beach for more than a century? Or does its timeless appeal lie in its unique mixture of charming bungalows, sleek minimalist houses, chic apartments, and iconic Mediterranean Revival residences by such legendary architects as Maurice Fatio and John Volk? Though the nation’s most exclusive barrier island is perennially thronged with visitors, few have seen the private homes and gardens showcased in Palm Beach Living. Some of the homes incorporate the exuberant colors of the island’s tropical flora; others opt for a soothing, more neutral palette to contrast with the surrounding landscape. All embrace indoor/outdoor living, and each reflects the singular aesthetic of the owner, realized with the help of renowned architects, including Fairfax & Sammons, Chris Stone and David Fox, Daniel Kahan, and Jeffrey W. Smith; superb landscape architects such as Mario Nievera, Jorge Sánchez...
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Markham Roberts Decorating: The Way I See It Book by Markham Roberts
By Markham Roberts
Located in New York, NY
Markham Roberts
Decorating: The Way I See It
By: Markham Roberts
Photography by Nelson Hancock
Known for his ability to work in any design vernacular,...
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Versailles The Hidden Splendors of Sun King’s Palace Book by Catherine Pégard
Located in New York, NY
Versailles
The Great and Hidden Splendors of the Sun King’s Palace
By: Catherine Pégard
Photographs by Christophe Fouin, Thomas Garnier, Christian Miles, and Didier Saulnier
Versail...
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Décors Barbares The Enchanting Interiors Book by Nathalie Farman-Farma
Located in New York, NY
Décors Barbares
The Enchanting Interiors of Nathalie Farman-Farma
By: Nathalie Farman-Farma
Photography by Miguel Flores-Vianna
Foreword by David Netto
A ...
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John Ike 9 Houses, 9 Stories Book by John Ike, Mitchell Owens
Located in New York, NY
John Ike
9 Houses, 9 Stories
By: John Ike, Mitchell Owens
Principal photography by Richard Powers
Nine recent projects by renowned architect John Ike
A...
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Peter Pennoyer Architects Book by Anne Walker and Robert Stern
By Anne Walker
Located in New York, NY
Peter Pennoyer Architects
Apartments, Townhouses, Country Houses
By: Anne Walker and Robert Stern
Peter Pennoyer Architects practices a refined archite...
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Made to Measure Architecture & Interiors Book by Will Meyer and Gray Davis
Located in New York, NY
Made to Measure
Meyer Davis, Architecture and Interiors
By: Will Meyer and Gray Davis
with Dan Shaw
Foreword by David Netto
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Gray Davis was born in Tennessee and studied at Auburn University. Before forming Meyer Davis, he worked for designers John Saladino and Thomas O’Brien on homes for clients such as Ralph Lauren and Giorgio Armani. He lives with his husband in Greenwich Village and Copake, New York, where they build and restore houses.
Dan Shaw, a founding editor of the New York Times Style section, is a regular contributor to Architectural Digest and writes the “What I Love” column for the New York Times Sunday Real Estate section. He is cofounder of the online magazine Rural Intelligence and has cowritten several books on design, including In the Pink: Dorothy Draper—America’s Most Fabulous Decorator;Class Act: William Haines—Legendary Hollywood Decorator; Mary McDonald Interiors: The Allure of Style; and Bunny Williams’ Point of View.
David Netto, a Los Angeles–based interior and furniture designer and writer, grew up in New York, where he founded his studio in 2000. In 2002 he launched NettoCollection, a pioneering line of modern children’s furniture. From 2010 to 2012 he worked for Deborah...
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