Interior designer and founder of home-fragrance and lifestyle brand Slatkin & Co., Howard Slatkin shares his decorating and entertaining secrets as he conducts an intimate tour of his heart-stoppingly exquisite Fifth Avenue apartment.
Read More“The collections discussed and sumptuously photographed on these pages, many pieces of which are published here for the first time, . . . serve to inspire future connoisseurs and provide pleasure to all who peruse this volume.”—Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen (from the Foreword)
Read MoreIn an age when houses exhibiting unchecked exuberance, high drama, or conspicuous luxury get all the attention, leading interior designer Tom Scheerer has cultivated a more restrained brand of chic, a look he modestly describes as “cheerful” and “no nonsense.”
Read MoreThe first color-illustrated book dedicated to the iconic Art Deco posters of the 1920s and 1930s, this beautiful volume brings together history and art to give life to one of the most exciting periods of the 20th century.
Read MoreLocated far and wide across the English country side, the ten houses featured in this exquisitely illustrated book are all still in the hands of their original families. Some, like Kentchurch Court, date back a millennium; others, like Arts & Crafts Rodmarton, a mere hundred years.
Read MoreFollowing his highly successful “The Private World of Yves Saint Laurent & Pierre Bergé,” photographer Ivan Terestchenko opens the doors to the private world of great couturiers Coco Chanel, Azzedine Alaïa, Manolo Blahnik, and a dozen other designers and legendary muses.
Read MoreWhether double stepped, circular, or spiral, staircases are tours de force of architecture and design, and are a testament to human knowledge, skill, and ingenuity. This volume showcases the astonishing variety of the staircase form throughout history, from the stepped pyramids of the ancient Maya to the virtuosic computer-aided designs of today.
Read MoreA striking compendium of extraordinary bronzes, magically endowed natural wonders mounted in jewels, gold, and silver gilt, magnificent Baroque carved-ivory figures, and early Renaissance marble masterpieces from the legendary, newly reopened Habsburg Kunstkammer (Art Room).
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“The most interesting spaces have layers of pattern and color.”–Katie Ridder, featured in Good Houskeeping
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