If you didn’t receive everything that you wanted this holiday season (or if you simply want to add another great book to your library), then consider contributor Susan Sully’s reasons to pick up a copy of Phoebe Howards’s book The Joy of Decorating.
Now that my book is off to the copy editor, I have time to catch up on reading. At the top of my list was Paul R. Williams: Classic Hollywood Style. With a career spanning six decades, architect Paul Revere Williams came to define “gracious living” for the Hollywood elite. Although his hey-day was the 1930’s and 40’s, he designed from the 1920’s to the early 1970’s bringing something new to each period. Williams mastered an array of architectural idioms—including American Colonial, Spanish Mediterranean, English Tudor, French Normandy, Art Deco, and, of course, the California ranch style.
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Revered and collected by design connoisseurs and enthusiasts alike, the work of husband-and-wife team Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne defies categorization. In the first intimate visual biography of their work, their long-time gallerist Paul Kasmin shares never-before-seen photographs of their studio and home life in CLAUDE & FRANÇOIS-XAVIER LALANNE: Art | Work | Life.
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Brooke and Steve Giannetti are two of the nicest (and most talented) people you could ever hope to meet. If you read design blogs (or shelter magazines) you have most certainly read Brooke’s blog Velvet & Linen and seen their work featured across the web.
Do you ever find yourself thinking about a book or a character long after you’ve closed the final page? The most recent book to hold my thoughts is Paradise Rules written by Jimmy Gleacher. Tweet
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Do you ever have those moments when you become acutely aware of a person or place, and then suddenly it’s the word on every lip? Litchfield, Connecticut has been the place occupying my mind and conversations for the past three months. It started with the arrival Annie Kelly and Tim Street Porter’s new book...
Read more →I was beyond thrilled when a copy of Richard Gillette’s The Art of the Interior (Rizzoli) recently showed up at my office. While I knew little of the talented Gillette, it did not take long to realize that the designer clearly has the eye of an artist. Tweet
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