From an elegant, curved modern library with sunny picture windows to a simple apartment library with floor-to-ceiling bookshelves, this guide showcases 40 libraries and offers professional advice on editing and categorizing, caring for books, restoring and storing rare books, finding out-of-print books, and more. 350 color photos.
The Jersey Shore is many things to many people. It is 127 miles of sand and surf, a sanctuary of untamed marshlands and endless dunes, a home to kitschy boardwalks, quirky shops, pulsing casinos, and countless examples of offbeat culture. But, above all, it is a powerful repository of nostalgia. The local historical societies are filled with ...
"No Regrets" is the never-before-told story of one of this century's most influential women. This enthralling portrait of Marietta Tree, political activist and society doyenne, is also a vivid recreation of a bygone era of American life. Marietta Tree's rich, full life is filled with the names of the famous and the powerful with whom she shared ...
In this historical novel on a grand scale, twin sisters forsake all that is known and familiar to serve on the battlefields of World War I, where their newfound passion leads them to make the ultimate sacrifice. Dorothea and Iris Crosby were born into a life of wealth and privilege. New York City's Park Avenue circa 1915 is a society immune to ...
A colorful overview of contemporary interior design combined with the riveting life and times of the founding mother of the decorating profession. Broadway star, decorating pioneer, international hostess, suffragette, and self-made millionairess de Wolfe mixed styles and periods and arranged seats for conversation's sake--innovative ideas that ...
Examining the art of displaying books effectively, this book offers advice on organizing and caring for books, looking at the collections of 40 well-known booklovers, including Loren and Frances Rothschild, the Duke of Devonshire, Jack Lenor Larsen, Roger Rosenblatt, Keith Richards, Paul Getty, Jean Stein and Bill Blass. Each room has been ...
New Jersey is called the Garden State with good reason - some of America's most strikingly beautiful homes and gardens can be found within its borders. Caroline Seebohm and Peter C. Cook have captured them in this book to present the architectural story of the state.
This eagerly anticipated companion volume to "At Home with Books" contains beautiful color photographs and detailed advice about collecting, displaying, maintaining, and living with an art collection. 300 full-color photos.
Despite a plethora of gardening books today, few show gardens in their entirety, with all the elements and their interrelationships. This elegant and inspirational volume fills the gap, presenting 19 American and English gardens in minute detail through watercolor plans and 400 gorgeous full-color photos.
Born into a poor family in Ecuador, Pancho Segura was an undersized and undernourished kid working as a ball boy at an exclusive tennis club when he first picked up a racket. "Little Pancho" is the story of how this improbable athlete, with his bandy legs, infectious smile, and unorthodox two-handed style of play, became one of the greatest and ...
The great gardens of the world depend for their lasting and universal appeal on the shapes, views and suprises that linger in the mind's eye. This book takes a look at 19 selected gardens so designed that every corner is a visual and sensory delight. An inspirational and informative look at selected English and American gardens, from the small to ...
A study of art lovers, their passion for art and their desire to bring home the works that have captured their hearts. It demonstrates how more than 50 collectors have integrated their finds into their living spaces. Each home has been chosen for its personal expression of art and decor, from airy lofts and old farmhouses to sleek city ...
The "Essence of Style" series provides design ideas from around the world. Each book examines country houses, churches, decorated homes, rooms filled with antiques, and gardens. They are aimed at country-lovers and those decorating their homes. This text looks at the English countryside.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Date Published: 1980
Description: Very good+ in Very Good+ jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Copy has light shelf wear, with lower corner bumps, small erasure on fep, dj has rubbing, edgewear with knicks. This is a big, lavish look at how we have lived for the past 80 years, this volume presents the most dramatic and important developments in interior design, architecture, and gardens as they first appeared to american and European readers. Writers such as Dorothy Parker, Aldous Huxley, Daphne du Maurier and Vita Sackville-West ... read more
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