Tag Archives: Books

Our design and architecture clients create distinctive and timeless interior and exterior spaces from the most traditional to more modern. Their work is often featured in magazines, online, and now in the books they have written. One of the most recent additions to my library is the glorious folio of the work by the firm of Mark Ferguson and Oscar Shamamian called New Traditional Architecture: Ferguson & Shamamian Architects published by Rizzoli.

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Thomas Jayne, friend and decorator extraordinaire, has written the outstanding new book: The Finest Rooms in America. It celebrates the decoration of fifty American rooms from the 18th century to the present. He writes about places he knows personally—from grand houses to small apartments—and the elements that contribute to the success of each room. Thomas, himself a Winterthur trained classicist and connoisseur, has deliberately featured a cross section of rooms from California organic to unexpected, elegant and stylish spaces for living and sleeping, relaxing and entertaining. The rooms have been decorated over time and demonstrate the changing preferences for certain colors from the vivid schemes at Mount Vernon, to Mark Hampton’s silver papered bedroom, to the earth tones in Rose Tarlows’ house.

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The very talented interior designer, Francophile and author—Betty Lou Phillips—has recently released her new book, French Impressions. In the book we are treated to an abbreviated history of three Bourbon monarchs—the Louis—-whose passion for beauty has influenced hundreds of years of finely crafted furniture, regal woven textiles, gilded mirrors and crystal chandeliers. The French self assured approach to design, its old-world elegance and understated luxury is the approach taken by Betty Lou as she decorated her own house. French Impressions gives us an in depth look at her personal style and sophisticated taste.

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