Architecture

Through compelling narrative and stunning photography, authors Heather Hebert and Chase Ewald feature the architecture, style, and design of 17 homes-plus 4 unique auxiliary structures-in California's picturesque wine country.

Interior design should not be sterile or static; it's a living extension of art meant to be touched, used, and admired.

Holly Kuhn's signature style combines patina finishes, leather, classic home furnishings, and personal collections with ease and sophistication.

Despite the grandeur in which Louis XIV and his descendants Louis XV and Louis XVI lived in the magnificent Chateau de Versailles, extravagance rarely suggests elegance these days.

People who embrace traditional interior style are people who love heritage and story.

The houses designed by Wade Weissmann and his firm tell the stories of the homeowners.

With well-told stories and stunning photography, author Heather Hebert features the architecture of 25 California wineries in her alluring new book, The New Architecture of Wine.

Arthur Elrod was the most successful interior designer working in the Palm Springs area from 1954 to 1974.

Si Mazouz, curator of the popular blog FRENCHBYDESIGN, introduces a dozen sophisticated French families in her debut book, How the French Live to engage and inspire.

Authors Amanda Pays and Corbin Bernsen share ideas for remodeling older homes to create modern, open floor plans while sharing lessons learned along the way.

Drawing on inspiration from his personal style, world travels, and client experience, Grant K.

Andy and Candis Meredith believe there's nothing that can't be fixed.

The Great Lakes State has always been known for its contributions to twentieth-century manufacturing, but it's only beginning to receive wide attention for its contributions to Modern design and architecture.

Take a peek inside private upper class homes that reveal why D.

Attention to detail.

The Coastal Cottage ushers you into summer with its quintessential exteriors and sunbathed interiors.

Today's modern living is more than great style and good decorating; it's a way of life.

In 2008, Daniel Chavkin began photographing some of the more discreet and off-the-beaten-path midcentury modern homes and buildings in the Palm Springs area.

An intimate look at rustic homes, cabins, architecture, and decorating in true American rustic style.

For more than four decades, the Kips Bay Decorator Show House has presented the creations of a stellar roster of interior designers in what is regarded as one of the finest decorator show houses in the world.

In this memoir/design book, Emmerling takes her readers sleuthing and partying at Round Top antiques fair; reminisces on her days at Mademoiselle, House Beautiful and other top magazines; shares oodles of her favorite things; and shares personal, fresh country decorating in her own home and those of a few close friends.

In his fourth coffee table book, Butera takes his readers through a 20-year journey and tour of the interiors crafted for his own private homes-all lovingly designed, all still very au courant.

Celebrating the lifework of the much-loved icon of Country French design.

Whether built by a 1770s French Huguenot or a 1940s American starlet, cottages capture hearts and imaginations for generations to come.

Escape to 22 lush garden retreats through exquisite photography and delightful stories.

Meet 20 beautiful, creative French women who live with passion; work every day; and love to take care ot their homes and families.

Leta Austin Foster is among House Beautiful's most influential interior designers of the 20th century, and has been hailed by House and Garden as one of the "e;100 Greatest Interior Decorators.

A new look is emerging in France's apartments as well as its imposing chateaux and country manors.

Architects and designers are breaking new ground on the West Coast, incorporating tested ideas with modern technologies, materials, and concepts in thrilling and sustainable designs.

This first book on the interior designs of San Francisco-based Paul Vincent Wiseman and The Wiseman Group showcases distinctive homes where clients find themselves at peace in a profound way.

Everybody has a favorite season and place to vacation, unwind, and escape!

Early American Country Interiors is the ultimate idea book for designing beautiful interiors that embody the essence of early American country style-a sense of warmth, comfort, and familiarity.

A privileged look at never-before-photographed rustic homes,Ralph Kylloe's Rustic Livingpresents a myriad of stunning rustic treasures scattered across North America, from Vermont to Arizona, Montana to North Carolina.

A formidable textiles house and decorative tastemaker for more than 80 years in the world of high-end interior design.

The simple, unique and interestingly appointed cottage is a place for escape, filled with art, books, color scents, sounds, textures, and memories.

Kathryn M.

Nostalgic yet modernly apropos, Porch Living provides the venue of venues to grasp the goodness of both the home and garden.

Whether winding greenery onto a wreath form with your own hands and florist’s wire, or transforming a store-bought wreath, the secrets are in the garden (and the produce section of the market): roses, hydrangeas, citrus, berry bushes, complementary greens and herbs, fruits, vegetables and flowers in season.

A well-designed Swedish room, whether an antique-filled country home or a contemporary industrial loft space, has a calm and feel-good quality that literally permeates the atmosphere.

Manufactured in Venice, Italy, textiles by Fortuny have borne the standard of quality and excellence for a hundred years.

France and Italy have long been the go-to spots for fashionistas, serious foodies and design mavens.

The Giannettis have developed a home design style that embraces age, patina, weathered and worn surfaces, and rough surfaces.

In her book, Villa Decor, Betty Lou Phillips discusses how to mix styles, furnishings, inspirations, and colors from different eras and locations to create the looks for which the French and Italian people are known-wisps of elegance, hints of regal color, textures that delight and inspire.

Unmistakably French, the fifth book in Betty Lou Phillips' best-selling series on interpreting French decor for American homes, broadens yet again the limits of what French style can do for a home.

In The French Room, best-selling author and interior designer Betty Lou Phillips explains the age-wisdom and fervent beliefs that have long defined French decorating and reveals the principles behind designing the perfect French room.

In this luxurious new book, best-selling author and acclaimed interior designer Betty Lou Phillips presents fresh and inspiring design ideas from France, Italy, England, Portugal, and beyond, bringing old-world artistry to uptown European glamour.

In Home, best-selling author and designer Charles Faudree invites a few of his friendsdesigners, artists, family and clientsto introduce the different rooms of the house andadd their unique insights on how to make the most of the space we live in.

Twenty restored or renovated Early American country homes feature the myriad of different styles from around the country.

Lifelong landscape design means thinking about more than your garden.

When it comes to deciding on the size of a home or living space, one question must be asked: How much space is enough?