Product Description: The eagerly anticipated first monograph to celebrate the fifty-years-and-counting career of decorating legend Mario Buatta. Influenced by the understated elegance of Colefax and Fowler and the doyenne of exuberant American decor, Sister Parish, Buatta reinvented the English Country House style stateside for clients such as Henry Ford II, Barbara Walters, Malcolm Forbes, and Mariah Carey, and for Blair House, the President’s guest quarters...read more

Product Description: One of the most influential American interior designers of the twentieth century, Naomi Leff is best known as the creator of the flagship Ralph Lauren store in Manhattan. There she established the brand image, combining a distinctive architectural form with feminine grace, patrician elegance, and luxurious comfort...read more

Product Description: Meet Pierpont Tree and China Carlyle. He's the devastatingly handsome and urbane scion of an old Santa Barbara family; she's the ravishingly beautiful, flame-haired film star who retired at the peak of her career. Together, they investigate murders...read more

The editor-in-chief of Architectural Digest presents a novel about murder, money, beauty, and good taste at the California headquarters of a lavish design magazine, starring an attractive couple of detectives, Pierpont Tree and China Carlyle. A first novel. 40,000 first printing.

Shows how mansions, houses, and apartments have been arranged to serve as backdrops for their owners' collections of paintings, sculpture and antiques

Apartments in New York, Paris, London, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Hong Kong illustrate varying approaches to modern interior design

Product Description: Active Tectonics is a carefully organized, easily understandable book. Extremely current throughout, this book thoroughly explores the effects of earthquakes and active tectonic systems on humans, geomorphic systems, and Earth's topography...read more

Filled with treasures of the past, these classic homes from around the world feature widely admired traditional styles that have been refined to perfection