The first book from the AD100 interior designer renowned for joyful, vibrant, intensely personal homes imbued with art, pattern, and craftsmanship
A decidedly global outlook best described as 'a punk take on preppy' brings passion and a playful spirit to AD100 designer Rodman Primack's projects. His work with his partner Rudy Weissenberg has garnered attention over two decades for breaking hierarchies by layering textures, patterns, art, and bold colors to create vibrant, joyful spaces.
The first book from the globetrotting designer, Love How You Live takes readers to thirteen international projects-including Primack and Weissenberg's own homes-each reflecting the culture and conditions of their locations and the passions of their inhabitants while embodying Primack's radical philosophy. The book reveals that spontaneity, juxtaposition, collection, and emotion in any setting lead to satisfying spaces, and that objects we value need not be expensive, making high design relatable.
Callout features highlighting fourteen artists and artisans living across the United States and around the world encourage readers to look to their own local sources and craftspeople-from farmers markets to art fairs-for inspiration and accent pieces to give rooms depth, joy, and personality. A belief that beauty can always be found in site-specific authenticity enriches all the projects presented in this book, spanning locations from Mexico City, Guatemala, and London to New York, California, Kentucky, Hawaii, Cape Cod, and Miami.
Primack and Weissenberg's international interiors practice is driven by cultural amplification and cross-disciplinary conversations, and is focused on collaborative relationships with architects, artists, and craftspeople. The firm is included in Architectural Digest's AD100 list of the world's top design talent, the Wallpaper US 300, and has had projects featured in the New York Times T Magazine, W, World of Interiors, Vogue Mexico, Casa Vogue Brasil, Elle Decor Japan, Architectural Digest, and Architectural Digest Spain, among other publications.
Venture beyond the impeccably styled rooms and into the private gardens of the world's most celebrated interior designers
Through stunning photography and intimate narratives, Glorious Gardens offers a glimpse into the outdoor sanctuaries that serve as sources of endless inspiration for renowned interior designers. From Timothy Whealon's urban oasis above Gramercy Park in New York City to Michelle Nussbaumer's exuberant San Miguel de Allende retreat in Mexico to Veere Grenney's magical hideout in Tangier, Morocco - as well as other gardens across the United States, England, and Scotland - each is a verdant reflection of its creator's unique design philosophy.
The book invites readers into the enchanting outdoor spaces that serve as personal retreats and wellsprings of inspiration for famed designers including Katie Ridder, Maxine Sloss, Stephen Sills, Thomas O'Brien, Mark D. Sikes, Martyn Lawrence Bullard, Paul Wiseman, and Charlotte Moss, among others. Richly illustrated with hundreds of stunning images across the book's oversized pages, Glorious Gardens is a feast for the eyes, showcasing the intricate details and sweeping vistas of these extraordinary gardens.
The legendary Schumacher design house presents a masterclass on one of the world's most iconic interiors motifs
Celebrating the versatile power of stripes in all their myriad variations, Everybody Loves Stripes offers a treasure trove of ideas for incorporating the dynamic pattern into your home.
This inspiring sourcebook from legendary design house Schumacher reveals how stripes can transform any space.
Readers will discover decorating inspiration for every style imaginable - coastal, classic, eclectic, modern, bohemian, rustic, and charming - with beautiful color photographs highlighting the many ingenious ways that stripes can be applied in everyday interiors, from subtle strategies like ticking-stripe upholstery and sheer window treatments, to over-the-top techniques such as tented rooms and graphic painted floors.
Richly illustrated with contributions from a roster of internationally celebrated designers, including Veere Grenney, Rita Konig, Miles Redd, Tom Scheerer, Amanda Lindroth, and Markham Roberts, Everybody Loves Stripes is a must-have for any design lover looking to make a bold statement.
Interior designer Alexandra Kaehler shares her secrets for creating beautiful, livable, and sophisticated family homes
Interior designer Alexandra Kaehler is renowned for her deft hand with color, pattern, fabrics, and finishes; her clever decorating solutions; and the undeniably pretty spaces she creates for her clients. To Kaehler, function is as important as form, and designing homes that are authentic to the day-to-day lives of those who live in them is an indispensable part of her work.
In A Welcome Home, Kaehler invites readers to explore eight stunning homes created for young families. Richly illustrated with more than 200 photographs, the book underscores her exceptional ability to blend style with practicality and create rooms that are skillfully tailored to everyday life.
Across all her projects, Kaehler combines playful prints of various scales and motifs, incorporating vibrant wallpapers and fabrics by celebrated design houses such as Schumacher, de Gournay, and Lee Jofa.
Featuring an elegant design that reflects her penchant for pattern, A Welcome Home offers a masterclass in creating gorgeous, functional living spaces.
A celebration of parks and public gardens by renowned landscape architecture firm Nelson Byrd Woltz, whose designs reflect the histories that are held in the land
Nelson Byrd Woltz (NBW) is one of the most in-demand and respected firms working in landscape architecture today with major commissions across the United States. This collection of twelve projects illustrates the power of design to create vital public realms at the heart of communities. Through the celebrated firm's process, ecological and cultural histories are revealed and integrated into meaningful public experiences.
The firm has worked with exceptionally sensitive sites across the United States, including those that hold the vital histories of enslaved peoples, the rich cultures of indigenous peoples, and the natural habitats that have been threatened by infrastructure and construction.
These projects are found across the firm's geographic reach. One, in southern Texas, is the revitalization of Memorial Park in Houston, a 1500-acre landscape that interweaves city infrastructure with a vibrant ecology. In the northeast, a burial ground adjacent to the Brooklyn Naval Yard has been reclaimed as a contemplative meadow filled with native plants, pollinators, and birds. And thousands of miles to the northwest, the Aga Khan Garden in Alberta, Canada, stands as a regenerative sanctuary in opposition to the surrounding landscape often battered by the pollutants, mining, and fire.
The work of NBW is set in a broad context through the book's inclusion of authoritative essays by noted scholars, ecologists, and cultural historians. It articulates the central role of landscape architecture in reshaping public space to meet challenges of ecological and social resilience.
The long-awaited debut book on Craig Bergmann, pre-eminent designer of traditional gardens along the North Shore of Chicago
For more than four decades, Craig Bergmann has been recognized for intertwining design, horticulture, and architecture, establishing a true dialogue between the garden and the architectural site. Revered as a plantsman, Bergmann layers his designs with vibrant blooms and textured foliage. The Art of Fine Gardening features twenty gardens that span his career and are located in the North Shore of Chicago. A special chapter is dedicated to the Gardens at 900, the historic estate designed by architect David Adler, that he developed and reimagined as a series of lush private garden rooms with hedges, towering topiary, perennial borders, and interspersed with classical figures and ornament. Featuring stunning garden images by noted photographer Scott Shigley and texts written by Bergmann, the book describes all the gardens in his own voice - a voice of true experience - offering anecdotes and practical tips to gardeners.
An extraordinary first book celebrating contemporary floral designer Emily Thompson, known for her unique and dramatic artistry
For the first time, innovative floral designer Emily Thompson showcases her 15-year body of work, which reveres the raw and wondrous beauty of flowers, plants, and trees. With an inspirational and transportive journey, this new book demonstrates Thompson's signature style of infusing a sense of the exotic and mysterious into her stunning compositions by using wild, unruly materials from the forest, field, and beyond.
Featuring nearly 200 vivid images of her spectacular floral design work, the book includes projects ranging from indoor studio and outdoor in situ photography, to high-profile public and private commissions for restaurants including The Grill and The Modern in New York, fashion designers Jason Wu and Ulla Johnson, cultural institutions like the MAD Museum, New York, and Sotheby's, and editorial work for T Magazine and AD China.
Organized by theme, the book features chapters evocatively named and inspired by the life forces and organisms that influence and make up her work. In her own words, she walks the reader through her creative process, explaining the visceral and intellectual approach for generating and germinating the seeds of her ideas for her lush and kaleidoscopic floral arrangements. In addition to her own text, the book includes a foreword by esteemed floral designer and florist to the British Royal Family, Shane Connolly, and an introduction by lauded design writer Nancy Hass.
A fascinating biographical monograph of Charles J. Stick, the Virginia-based landscape architect renowned for his historically and culturally based gardens filled with luxuriant blooms
Charles Stick lives and works in the Piedmont region of Virginia, a land of rolling hills and dramatic vistas filled with echoes of the early history of America. Stick draws on all of this in his designs, which refer back to the classical designs of Thomas Jefferson at Monticello and the University of Virginia.
Stick focuses on residential gardens, drawing on the principles of Palladio, Charles A. Platt, and Russell Page to connect the architecture to the land and develop enticing pathways between the formal planting and the landscape beyond.
This new book is the first to explore and bring together four major estates-Crab Tree Farm on the North Shore of Chicago, Illinois; Mount Sharon near Charlottesville, Virginia; Sleepy Cat Farm in Greenwich, Connecticut; and Waverley, a previously unpublished farm in Central Virginia-offering new insights into the design process and the intimacy of his client relationships. Ten featured smaller gardens also demonstrate the breadth of Stick's creative response to topography and climate.
The book's glamorous package includes lush garden imagery from noted photographers, including Roger Foley and T.S. Elliott, together with Stick's elegant pencil renderings and plans. Featuring gardens in prominent communities across the United States, including Isleboro, Greenwich, Southampton, Jupiter Island, Winnetka, and Dallas, as well as Stick's home base in Virginia, and first-person commentary from Stick giving a unique personal dimension to the work, this volume is perfect for all garden enthusiasts and horticulturalists.
A compilation of the most inspiring interiors featured in the pages of FREDERIC magazine
Since its launch in 2021, Frederic magazine has become one of the design world's most lauded publications, showcasing the work of legendary decorators and up-and-coming talents alike. In this volume, readers are invited to step inside a curated collection of the most memorable homes covered in its pages.
FREDERIC: The Last Word in Chic visits the personal residences of Veere Grenney, Neisha Crosland, Anne-Marie Midy, and other notable figures, with never-before-seen images shot by the world's leading interiors photographers. Projects from around the world by top decorators including Redd Kaihoi and Betsy Brown, architects Jeffrey Dungan and Joel Barkley, and industry insiders Elizabeth Mayhew and Dara Caponigro, to name a few, celebrate the joy of the unexpected, transcend rules and trends, and embrace personality and creativity.
From lovingly restored historic houses to breathtaking new residences, each of the 28 homes within captures the commitment to originality and pursuit of beauty that makes this veritable treasure trove of inspiration essential reading for any design lover.
A celebration of the power of design, FREDERIC is your guide to a more beautiful life. Unbeholden to trend and always open to the unexpected, FREDERIC showcases the work of the most interesting, important, and adventurous figures in the world of interior and garden design, architecture, fashion, art, travel, and more.
An exploration of the balance between the hand of the gardener and the power of nature in the New York Botanical Garden landscape
The world-renowned New York Botanical Garden is a 250-acre multifaceted cultural destination situated in the heart of the Bronx. NYBG's natural features - rolling hills punctuated by rock outcroppings, an old-growth forest, the dramatic gorge of the Bronx River - were incorporated into its original design and have been celebrated throughout its 130-year history, creating a tapestry of gardens and plant collections that blend seamlessly with the incredible landscape.
Today, NYBG embodies the principles of sustainable horticulture, and Gardening with Nature demonstrates their application. This richly illustrated new book highlights seven distinct horticultural environments captured by photographer Larry Lederman. Through his lush images, readers will witness the process of decay and regeneration in the Thain Family Forest, the carpet of millions of naturalized daffodils on Daffodil Hill, the vibrant azaleas emerging from rocky outcrops and sheltered by majestic trees, the recently installed Native Plant Garden, and more. Featuring authoritative text by Todd A. Forrest - complemented by historic images and Lederman's contemporary photographs - Gardening with Nature offers a model for professional and home gardeners alike, encouraging and inspiring readers to adopt sustainable, nature-based processes and techniques.
A celebration of Planting Fields, one of the few surviving estates of the Gold Coast of Long Island in New York
Planting Fields is an English Country House transported to the North Shore of Long Island, about 48 kilometres/30 miles east of Manhattan. Once home to William R. Coe, chairman of Johnson & Higgins, and his wife, Mai, an heir to the Standard Oil fortune, this lavish Tudor-revival mansion sits on a 400-acre landscape of rolling lawns, formal gardens, and woodlands. Now open to the public as a New York State Historic Park, Planting Fields is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and its lawns and gardens draw more than 250,000 visitors annually, hosting both informal gatherings and celebrations.
This new book tells the story of Planting Fields through stunning new photography by David Almeida, historic images, and sketches and plans by the Olmsted Brothers which capture the spirit of this rare survivor of the Country Place Era. A compelling introduction by noted historian Witold Rybczynski explores the designers who shaped it and the families who lived there, and additional essays examine the history of the site and the displacement of indigenous peoples in addition to outlining the future plan for sustainability and resilience in restoring the landscape.
Celebrates the Du Pont family heritage of land stewardship and horticultural creativity.
Renowned as the first family of American horticulture,the du Ponts created magnificent landscapes and gardens that complement the Brandywine Valley, a beautiful rolling landscape nestled between Philadelphia and Wilmington, Delaware. Five of their estates - Hagley Museum and Library, Nemours Estate, Mt. Cuba Center, Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, and Longwood Gardens - are open to the public, each a showplace of formal plantings juxtaposed with carefully nurtured natural woodland. Larry Lederman's photographs capture the essence of these sites, moving through the seasons and through the day from dawn to dusk.
Visit the homes of designers, artists, and tastemakers across the southern United States in this celebration of gracious living and personal style
In Southern Interiors, the first book from acclaimed design editor Tori Mellott, creatives across the American South welcome readers into their private homes to share what Southern living means to them. Spotlighting 28 residences in country towns, coastal resorts, and major metropolises, this stunning new book features homes in a variety of architectural and interior design styles, from modern and minimalist to Georgian-inspired to Southern Gothic.
Each of these deeply personal residences illustrates how the region's traditions of hospitality and easy elegance are being interpreted by the South's most stylish people today-by mixing heirloom antiques with contemporary art, pairing high-end furnishings with flea-market finds, and drawing inspiration from a rainbow of color palettes.
Peek inside Beth Webb's coastal South Carolina getaway, artist Hunt Slonem's historic Louisiana manor, and fashion insider Ann Mashburn's airy Atlanta home. Among the many other luminaries featured in the book are interior designers Suzanne Kasler and Thomas Jayne, architects Stan Dixon and Bobby McAlpine, and tastemakers Elizabeth Damrich and Kerry Moody.
Since its founding in 1889, luxury design house Schumacher has been committed to design that transcends time and rises above the ordinary. It is the ultimate resource for extraordinary textiles, wallpapers, trim, and home accessories and is renowned as a style leader worldwide.
The first publication to document the International African American Museum's landscape design by Hood Design Studio, illuminating its mission and historic site
The African Ancestors Garden is the first book to be published in conjunction with the International African American Museum (IAAM) in Charleston, South Carolina. The museum's landscape design by Hood Design Studio, led by award-winning Walter Hood, exemplifies the museum's mission to reflect on its location at Gadsden's Wharf, the point at which nearly half of all enslaved Africans arrived in North America.
With contributions by figures critical to the realization of the International African American Museum, this significant book presents the intensive site research and concepts that went into the distinct spaces at the museum, including an infinity reflecting pool and an ethnobotanical showcase of African plants brought to North America though that landing. Hood's design response to these historic grounds addresses memory, tragedy, and culture, a moving homage to the living Charleston community and the African diaspora at large.
Hood Design Studio, led by MacArthur 'Genius' Grant-winner Walter Hood, is at the forefront of the expanding field of social activism through design, and this book allows us a detailed overview of the conceptualization and creation of a remarkable and deeply meaningful landscape, proposing a way of designing public spaces and cultural institutions that embody the African American experience.
Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates' 23-year story of transforming 85 acres of Brooklyn waterfront into parkland that reconnects New Yorkers to the East River.
Reclaimed from 1.3 miles of New York's postindustrial waterfront, Brooklyn Bridge Park is a place for escape, recreation, and immersion in the natural world. Transforming parking lots and crumbling piers into a living ecosystem, the project is an exemplar of climate resilience, fiscal innovation, and joyful public space. This book examines Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates's process of designing a park that went from a remote possibility to an essential part of the city around it.
A captivating collection of stylish getaways and the modern innkeepers who crafted them
The Inn Crowd invites readers into more than than 20 unique, stylish independent inns across the Northeastern United States. These charming and gracious properties aren't just places to stay - they are dreams realized, reflecting the innkeepers' creativity, ingenuity, and drive.
Ranging from quaint escapes to luxurious retreats, the one-of-a-kind spaces are a testament to the vision and passion of the innkeepers behind them.
Featured inns include The George, beauty mogul Bobbi Brown's hotel in a landmarked Georgian Revival building; Glenmere Mansion, a stunning Gilded Age estate restored and transformed into a luxury resort; The Inn at Kenmore Hall, the exceedingly handsome white-columned guesthouse co-owned by Frank Muytjens, former head of menswear at J.Crew; Inns of Aurora, the veritable village of historic properties assembled by Pleasant Rowland, creator of the American Girl doll; and Long Island's Silver Sands, a beloved midcentury motel reinvented as a modern beach club.
Lushly illustrated with more than 250 evocative photographs and featuring lively profiles of the innkeepers themselves, The Inn Crowd invites readers to experience firsthand these unforgettable destinations.
