Praise for The Irish Country House: “This is country house porn of the sweetest, most insinuating kind and will probably be a smash.”—World of Interiors “An intimate glimpse of life inside ten wonderful Irish country houses.”— Min Hogg The Irish Country House chronicles a remarkable group of houses and castles that have survived the...

Who first introduced Manolo Blahnik to American consumers: British Vogue or a canny buyer at Bendel’s? And where under one roof can shoppers find Chanel, Yves Saint Laurent, Prada, Hermès, and Louis Vuitton? And where, besides the great department stores of Europe, Japan, and America, was it possible for shoppers, generally women, to spend the...

The temples of Cambodia are among the most complex and imposing architectural creations in the world, offering nothing less than the embodiment of Khmer culture. Over a period of five hundred years, from the seventh to the twelfth centuries, successive rulers sought to build sacred spaces that bore witness to the presence of the gods and the...

In 1900, at around the time of his nineteenth birthday, Pablo Picasso went to Paris to visit the Universal Exhibition and to have his first experience of the art capital of the world. His training had been in provincial Spanish art schools, but the following year he was offered a large exhibition at the prestigious Vollard Gallery and he became...

Monumental Paris presents breathtaking panoramic views of Paris’s famed monuments and historic sites, as well as little-known gems. Covering many fascinating styles and periods, it features the sprawling Louvre museum complex, imposing churches and abbeys, such as Notre Dame and St. Denis, tranquil parks and gardens, and royal palaces and...

Katie Ridder’s extraordinary palette of primary and secondary colors, her playful mix of antiques and modern pieces, and her eye for unusual decorative accents have established her as a leading figure in the world of interior design. Clients from Argentina to Yonkers have commissioned Katie Ridder to design the interiors of their lofts, Japanese...

As trade with the exotic East grew in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, through the activities of English, French, Portuguese, and Dutch merchants, Chinese-inspired design—Chinoiserie—became highly fashionable in the French court, and in its many imitators throughout Europe. Since then, stylistic influences from the Far East, India,...

In Chicks with Guns, Lindsay McCrum has created a cultural portrait of women gun owners in America through photographs that are both beautiful and in a sense unexpected. The book explores an indelible part of our national identity, but is not thrown off balance by the natural suspicions and political ideology often associated with firearms. It...

The homes of some of the world’s most celebrated artists are featured in this lavishly illustrated volume. From Frederic Church’s castle on New York’s Hudson River to Claude Monet’s house and garden at Giverny in France to Giorgio de Chirico’s sophisticated Roman apartment and William Morris’s Arts and...

Profuse. Profound. Transcendent. Jubilant. In his life as in his art, Hunt Slonem is all of these things and more. He is an inveterate collector of the inanimate (chandeliers, furniture, candlesticks) and animate (a menagerie of exotic birds), and his art, too, is accumulative; a governing principle of his painting and sculpture is multiplicity...