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A journey through its emotional itineraries is unveiled for the very first time by the photographic masterpieces of Massimo Listri.

Villa Albani Torlonia, with its collections, the Italian garden, and the hemicycle of the Kaffeehaus, is a sublime testimony of that particular antiquarian taste which came to the fore in the mid-eighteenth century, that for which Rome became a favorite destination on the Grand Tour. The classicist dream of Cardinal Alessandro Albani (1692–1779), was preserved thanks to the Torlonia family, who purchased the villa in 1866, enlarging the collection and the gardens and restoring the most important cardinal residence of the eighteenth century.

More than 300 images by the great Italian master Massimo Listri recount the history of this extraordinary cultural heritage for the very first time. An immersive journey leads the reader between its collections of ancient masterpieces. Statues, bas-reliefs, and fountains are ensconced between the various buildings and gardens of the villa in a composition of environments, landscapes, and works of art forever waiting to be discovered.

About the Authors:

Massimo Listri is a photographer who has published more than 70 books and has exhibited his work at numerous solo exhibitions throughout the world. Carlo Gasparri is emeritus professor at the University of Naples Federico II and has authored several books about archaeology and Greek and Roman art. Raniero Gnoli is an Orientalist and historian of religions. Alvar González-Palacios is an author and art historian and former collaborator of FMR magazine.

The fascinating story of one of the most beautiful historical villas of Lake Como, its exceptional renovation, and the excellence of Italian and French craftsmanship.

Situated on the verdant slopes of Blevio, an ancient Italian hill town, Villa Cagni Troubetzkoy commands sweeping vistas on Lake Como. With a vibrant history spanning more than 175 years, it once provided sanctuary to an exiled Russian prince, and today stands as a beautifully preserved family home, epitomizing the luxury of the Italian lakes.

Pascal Cagni, the current owner, is a globe-trotter passionate about design and architecture who amassed invaluable experiences on his extensive travels. His immersion in diverse cultures instilled him with profound clarity about his vision for restoring the villa to its former glory, with respect for Italy’s architectural patrimony, in harmony with the environment, and integrating local culture and history. With Italy’s top craftsmen at the helm, the villa was meticulously restored with traditional materials, achieving a perfect blend of past and present. Today, it stands as a testament to heritage preservation and Italian elegance; its gardens are a symbol of timeless refinement against Lake Como’s eternal allure and worldly exuberance.

About the Author:

Alexandra Campbell wrote Villa Astor: Paradise Restored on the Amalfi Coast (2017) and Hotel du Cap Eden Roc: A Timeless Legend on the French Riviera (2020). Khanh Renaud, a photographer for the Gamma Agency and regular contributor to Le Point, has contributed to Elle, Der Spiegel, and GQ.

After inheriting a seventeenth-century Tuscan villa, Ned Lambton and his wife, Marina, lovingly restored the estate as a retreat for family and friends. With newly commissioned photographs by Simon Upton, Lambton brings to life the rich history of the villa, its redecoration, its raucous history, and, above all else, the dream of owning and renovating a Tuscan villa.

Located just outside Siena, Italy, Villa Cetinale stands amid vineyards, silver olive groves, and wooded hills that have remained largely untouched since the late seventeenth century, when Cardinal Flavio Chigi, a nephew of Pope Alexander VII, expanded what was a modest farmhouse into the villa we see today.

Cetinale was acquired from the Chigi dynasty in 1978, by the charismatic Lord Antony Lambton, the author’s father, who cultivated the villa’s reputation as one of the most beautiful and glamourous homes in Italy, laying out new gardens and hosting fashionable figures from England (Princess Margaret, Prince Charles, Mick Jagger, Rupert Everett, Tony Blair, and Kate Moss).

The villa has undergone major refurbishment — all without altering the original character of the house—with restoration work carried out by Bolko von Schweinichen, a Florentine architect known for his reverent handling of historic buildings, and interiors by London decorator Camilla Guinness, a lifelong friend of the family.

About the Authors:

Ned Lambton inherited the seventeenth-century Villa Cetinale from his late father and former member of Parliament, Lord Antony Lambton. He lives in London and Tuscany with his wife, Marina Lambton, and their four children. John Pawson, CBE, RDI, is the architect and designer behind such high-profile projects as the West Hollywood Edition and London’s Design Museum. Simon Upton travels the world capturing people and their homes on behalf of major publishing houses and magazines such as World of Interiors, Vogue, Architectural Digest, and Elle Decor.

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The magnificent Italian gardens and water features of the famous 16th-century villa in a spectacular photo book

UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2001, Villa d’Este is an Italian garden masterpiece with an outstanding array of fountains, nymphaea, grottoes, water features and sound effects.

Following the disappointment for not having been elected Pope, Cardinal Ippolito II d’Este in this villa revived the splendour of the courts of Ferrara, Rome and Fontainebleau, echoing the magnificence of Villa Adriana.

Governor of Tivoli from 1550, the Cardinal immediately envisioned the creation of a garden on the slopes of the valley known as Valle Gaudente. But it was only after 1560 that the Villa’s architectural and iconological programme was defined by painter-archaeologist-architect Pirro Ligorio and executed by court architect Alberto Galvani. The palace was decorated by the leading exponents of late Roman Mannerism.

When Ippolito d’Este died in 1572 the villa was almost completed. Further 17th-century interventions were followed by a period of decline, until Cardinal Gustav Adolf von Hohenlohe infused new life into the property also welcoming the musician Franz Liszt (1811–1886). Acquired by the Italian State, Villa d’Este was restored and opened to the public in the 1920s and 1930s.

About the Author:

Javier Molins is an independent curator. He has organised more than 30 exhibitions internationally, including exhibitions devoted to Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Tony Cragg, Jaume Plensa, Manolo Valdés, Julian Opie and Valerio Adami in Spain, France, Italy, United Kingdom, Belgium, Switzerland, Singapore and Dubai. In 2019, on the occasion of the 58th Venice Biennale, he curated a solo exhibition of Sean Scully at San Giorgio Maggiore. His expertise is called upon as an art critic by several Spanish media outlets. Molins has lectured at the Royal Academy of Arts of London and The Courtauld Institute of Arts. He lives and works in London.

Since antiquity, villas have been distinguished by the highest level of living comfort, sophisticated designs, and a detached location. Cleverly conceived layouts and superior materials turn them into unique private residential spaces.

The projects introduced in this volume, created by both established as well as young up and coming architects, reflect a wealth of ideas and the most advanced technological expertise. They embody the dreams of their owners in the form of sculptures or three-dimensional objects, or with a reduced geometry, blend in with the landscape, or protrude from it. Villa Design features a wide range of design options that designers can draw on to create individual residential experiences.

- Villa M in Berlin, Germany (Graft)
- Pensinsula House in Guarujá, Brazil (Bernardes Arquitetura)
- Casa Mi in Zurich, Switzerland (Daluz Gonzales Architekten)
- Glass Villa on the Lake in Lechlade, UK (Mecanoo)
- Quadrant House in Warsaw, Poland (KWK Promes)

The history and art of one of the most important suburban aristocratic residences of the 16th century, among the oldest and most beautiful in the Alps

Illustrated by spectacular images, which are the result of a special photographic campaign conducted by Massimo Listri, this volume documents the architecture and rich artistic treasures of the famous residence, which is the only example in the Trentino region of a suburban villa from the Council period of the mid-16th century characterized by a portico and loggia arrangement, typical of Veronese architecture of the time. Inside the villa, Italian, Flemish, and German artists created frescoed decorations of the highest quality, including the cycle of 12 frescoes dedicated to the victories of Charles V, those depicting episodes from the Old and New Testaments, and those depicting the 12 months of the year.

Alongside these extraordinary frescos, the book presents sculptures and furniture, mainly from the Flemish and German area, and wooden metopes painted with grotesques and male and female portraits that can be traced back to specialists in this type of decoration, influenced by the engraving art of the time.

About the Authors:

Michelangelo Lupo (1948), an architect specializing in art history, was director of the Museo del Castello del Buonconsiglio in Trento from 1978 to 1984. He then went freelance and worked for long periods in the field of architectural restoration in Egypt, Libya, Jordan and Algeria.

Massimo Listri (1953), the master of architectural and environmental photography, has published over seventy books with the most prestigious publishers in Europe and the United States.

Since the origin of the villa culture in ancient times, the term „villa“ has been invested with special magic. Seen formerly as a genteel country estate and companion piece to the city palace, today this type of dwelling is represented more as a refined, noble, free-standing house. The villa is the gleaming diamond of housing construction, the expression of distinguished living style and elevated standard of living. For an architect, the planning or reconstruction of a villa represents the exciting challenge of a new interpretation of a classical building task, guided by their own, special ideas. This volume portrays famous architects as well as exciting works by younger architecture firms. The international selection shows the manifold and intriguing spectrum of contemporary architecture.

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Surrounded by a magical flair, villas have been the gleaming diamond of dwelling construction since ancient times. They are particularly characterized by generous proportions, prestige and individuality. Whether in the city or the countryside, villas are the epitome of exclusive living and a distinguished lifestyle around the globe.

For architects and interior designers involved in the new construction or renovation of a villa, it is an exciting challenge to reinterpret this classic building type with own ideas. Furthermore, the implementation of the villa owners’ desires requires innovative thinking and sophisticated solutions. Minimalist or opulent, traditional or extravagant, this selection of international projects presents a wonderful and multifaceted range of design possibilities.

Over the past three decades, Vincent Van Duysen has become an important force in design through his expressive architecture and serene interiors. This book documents the source of his inspirations and ongoing laboratory: his own homes.

Vincent Van Duysen has had an outsized influence on the world of architecture and design, from the rarefied echelons of interiors to highly successful collections for Zara Home and a nearly decade-long creative directorship of Molteni&C. Through his spare use of pure and tactile materials, Van Duysen employs a unique stylistic language that is both monastic and sensual, brutal and elegant, primal and refined. His commissions have included product design for numerous international brands, and commercial and large-scale architectural projects, among them high-end residences, a hotel, and retail spaces.

Uncompromisingly contemporary and endlessly inventive, Van Duysen’s residences are both his design laboratories and highly individualized spaces. This is especially true of his own homes, the subject of this very personal book. From his base in Belgium, where Van Duysen has carved out modern spaces from a centuries-old former notary office, to his ground-up Casa M in Portugal, where living spaces flow between elemental walls, Van Duysen conjures residential projects from concrete, natural stone, wood, and light.

In collaborating with the photographer François Halard, Van Duysen presents a truly personal vision of his own practice and point of view, where he becomes the architecture, and it becomes him.

About the Authors:

Vincent Van Duysen is an award-winning architect based in Antwerp, Belgium, with ongoing projects the world over. Van Duysen has worked with a number of renowned brands and is currently the creative director of Molteni&C. In 2022 he began his collaboration with Zara Home.

François Halard is a regular contributor to American Vogue, T Magazine, and Cabana, among others. His work for these publications established him as the most prolific and well-known interior and architectural photographer of our time.

Vincent Van Duysen: the first twenty years, over thirty projects

For over three decades, Belgian architect Vincent Van Duysen has created a body of work that is at once sublime and rich, minimal yet tactile. This monograph presents his complete works from 1989 to 2009, including his domestic architecture, office and commercial spaces, as well as furniture and decorative objects for such leading international manufacturers as B&B Italia, Poliform and Swarovski. Over thirty projects are presented in detail, each with a project profile, many accompanied by specially commissioned photographs taken by Alberto Piovano, along with a complete project chronology.

Contents List:

Essays by Alberto Piovano, Marc Dubois and Ilse Crawford • Projects 1989–2008 • Index

About the Author:

Ilse Crawford is one of the world’s leading interior design consultants.
Marc Dubois is a Belgian architecture critic and the author of several monographs on leading contemporary architects.

A new collection of Vincent Van Duysen's work, featuring his most recent projects

Since the release of his first monograph, Vincent Van Duysen has consolidated his reputation for buildings of exceptional spatial mastery and highly refined detailing, and built a growing international following. This beautiful companion volume presents thirty of the Belgian architect’s most recent works produced over the past decade, much of which has been exquisitely captured by renowned photographers Hélène Binet and François Halard. The buildings featured from this latest period include an array of elegant residences in Europe, New York, Paris and The Hamptons, as well as larger-scale commercial and public projects. Product and furniture designs, microcosms of the architect’s rigorous attention to detail, are also featured, including yacht interiors and objets décoratifs.

With a foreword by close friend and Academy Award-winning actor Julianne Moore, the broader context of Van Duysen’s contribution to contemporary architecture is provided by architect Nicola di Battista and architecture critic Marc Dubois. An illustrated chronology provides a complete overview of the architect’s recent projects.

Van Duysen has established a reputation as one of the world’s most refined and artful architects. This major new publication will further cement his uncompromising commitment to creating timeless places and spaces.

Contents List:

Introduction and foreword by Julianne Moore and Nicola di Battista • Photo Essay by Hélène Binet • Nearly forty projects • Photo Essay by Hélène Binet • Chronology

About the Authors:

Hélène Binet is a celebrated architectural photographer.
Julianne Moore is an Academy-Award-Winning actor.
Nicola di Battista is an acclaimed architect based in Rome, Italy.
François Halard is an acclaimed photographer of many years’ experience, notably for Vogue, World of Interiors, Décoration Internationale and House and Garden. He divides his time between New York and Paris.
Marc Dubois is a Belgian architecture critic and the author of several monographs on leading contemporary architects.

The first book on the interiors of sought-after architect Vincenzo De Cotiis collects more than a decade of the atelier’s projects.

Milan-based architect and artist Vincenzo De Cotiis' frequent appearances on Architectural Digest’s AD100 lists attest to his studio’s international renown.  Originally known for interiors in which he strips centuries-old architecture of any later embellishments, creating a conversation between historic settings and his emphatically contemporary design, De Cotiis has since developed a vocabulary of rare stones and polished metals to create striking minimalist interiors for the world’s tastemakers. Following in the footsteps of Italian maestros like Gio Ponti and Carlo Scarpa, De Cotiis works at the nexus of architecture, interiors, and furniture design, prizing top-level craftsmanship above all else. His creations are born out of an assembly of recovered materials and reflective, futuristic surfaces.

Images by photographer Martin Morrell highlight the quiet luxury of nine of De Cotiis’s meditative spaces. An additional section includes earlier projects, sketches, and plans for each of the featured interior projects. Essays by Sarah Medford and Adrian Madlener detail De Cotiis’s references, inspiration, and dialogue with his clients, as well as his material sourcing and research. This book is the only publication on his interior projects to date, following on the heels of Vincenzo De Cotiis: Works, a collection of the studio’s functional sculptures.

About the Authors:

Vincenzo De Cotiis was born in 1958 in Gonzaga, Italy. He studied architecture at the Politecnico di Milano and founded his studio in Milan where he lives and works. Sarah Medford is Contributing Editor, Design, Culture & Lifestyle, WSJ Magazine and Off Duty. Adrian Madlener is a New York–based writer and curator exploring craft-led experimentation and sustainability in art, architecture, and design.

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Stunning and inspirational French-style interiors and chic décor from Carolyn Westbrook.

When it comes to styling interiors, designer Carolyn Westbrook has a distinct signature look that combines her love of French style and vintage charm.

In Part One of this new book, Carolyn first leads us on a tour through 10 specially photographed locations that are perfect examples of her vintage French style. Carolyn’s own Texan plantation family home is included, alongside other stunning houses that evoke the look – a grand château, French farmhouse-style, a mid-century modern take on French design, and more. The homes all feature individual and eclectic styles, skilfully partnering inherited treasures alongside new purchases, and successfully mixing pretty junkstore finds with designer pieces.

In Part Two, Details and Vignettes, pretty displays and vignettes from the homes featured on earlier pages are captured, teaching you how to group collections and showcase treasured items to best effect.

About the Author:

Carolyn Westbrook is a prominent lifestyle designer, known for her brand, The Carolyn Westbrook Home, with a passion for all that is French. Carolyn’s first branded book, The Carolyn Westbrook Home, was published by Sterling and she was a featured designer in the bestselling Where Women Create book. Her products have been featured in many home décor magazines, and she was included in Vintage Vavoom, the book released by the editors of Romantic Homes magazine.

Vintage lifestyle expert and interior designer Bob Richter shows us how to find the best vintage treasures and how living with them brings beauty, comfort and personal meaning into our homes.

Bob Richter has been thrifting and collecting vintage treasures for more than forty years, since the age of six. With a true passion for antiques, or any object with a past and a story, Richter speaks to our desire to surround ourselves with belongings that impart beauty and meaning to our lives. Drawing on his years of experience as a stylist and interior designer, Richter takes us through a trove of beautiful historic homes, illustrating how to live stylishly with our vintage finds and collections (hint: buy what you love, express yourself, and don't be afraid to mix periods!).

A celebration of the art of thrifting and decorating with antiques of every era, Vintage Living is a full-service guide to treasure hunting, from flea markets, antique shows, and estate sales to country auctions, yard sales and the online marketplace. Richter also imparts hard-won practical tips, such as how best to negotiate and haggle.

With chapters on vintage entertaining and cooking; vintage holiday décor for all seasons (including Valentine's Day, Easter, and Halloween among others); giving vintage gifts; embracing vintage ways (write letters, repurpose and recycle); and caring for your old treasures, this bible of vintage living will inspire you to take a personal and creative approach to your décor.

About the Authors:

Bob Richter is an interior designer, stylist, and vintage lifestyle expert and the author of A Very Vintage Christmas. For more than 40 years, he has been visiting flea markets and auctions. He hosts the web series "Flea Market Minute," where he travels to vintage venues worldwide, and is a frequent contributor to Huff Post where he writes about the arts, vintage wares, and collecting. He was a star of the PBS series "Market Warriors" and prior to that was the host of "Minute Makeover" on ShelterPop, where he inexpensively transformed rooms. He also has a store and a regular column on One King's Lane.

Richter is regularly featured in media outlets including The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, The Associated Press, Redbook, The Boston Globe, HGTV, FOX News, ABC and CBS, where he delights in sharing antiques, design and bargaining advice

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This book serves as a design overview and visual manifesto of Virgile + Partners, one of the world's leading interior design agencies.

Specializing in retail and hotel design, Virgile + Partners is a key global player with a wide scope of international projects, from luxury retail, restaurants, and hotel interiors to department stores and malls. The agency has works across the United States, India, Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, the Middle East, China, and Russia, as well as extensive work throughout Europe and the UK.

Virgile + Partners' approach to global design is to decode and absorb various cultures, avoiding classic reinterpretations by presenting an unexpected twist to traditions and conventions. As a result, the diversity between each project avoids a uniform response and instead sparks a desire to communicate the individuality of each brand's vision, as well as to bring their values to life.

The book's narrative structure gives a clear insight into the essence of the work shown. It offers a glimpse into the making-of process and the backstage thinking that inspired the ideas, not just the aesthetic vocabulary, that led to the final design outcome.

About the Author:

The retail, hotels, and restaurant design specialist Virgile + Partners is an integrated offer within the Imagination Group. Created in 1990, the team quickly established a sound reputation for their innovative and personal approach to design. Based in London at the Imagination headquarters, they operate globally through its network of offices.

Astonishing buildings created for casual amusements, the splendid pavilions and garden follies of prerevolutionary France are the glorious productions of an age now past — but they continue to speak to us through the dazzling artistry of Dams and Zega.

Spanning 150 years and the reigns of four kings, the pleasure pavilions, garden follies, and châteaux of Ancien Régime France are fascinating for the stories that surround their creation as well as a visual feast and a delight. Typically the realm of scholars, the subject is given extraordinary life at the hands of the authors, through whose historically accurate, meticulously rendered watercolors the reader comes to see the sometimes grand, sometimes playful, always beautiful buildings, sculpture, and ornament as they were meant to be seen.

Dams and Zega have devoted much of a lifetime to rediscovering and illuminating these great treasures of world heritage, and this volume is the fruit of more than thirty years of passionate investigation. Intensive original research and devoted exploration informs the work, capturing the genius of these buildings through the medium of watercolor, which the author-artists harness to render building materials and surfaces with sensitivity and great range.

From the mannerist and early baroque guard pavilions at Blérancourt to the Château de Rosay, a fantasy realized in the form of an Anglo-Chinese folly park, this volume is a revelation, sure to captivate architects, historians, landscape designers, and garden lovers.

About the Authors:

Bernd H. Dams is an architect and architectural historian. Andrew Zega is an architectural illustrator, designer, and writer. Together, they have authored and illustrated a number of successful books, including Palaces of the Sun King, Chinoiseries, and Central Park NYC for Rizzoli.