Praise for Decorating with Carpets: “No element in a room is as important as a carpet, and no firm has more beautiful, creative, and original carpets than Stark. Decorating with Carpets brilliantly showcases the full range of Stark floor coveirngs, ...

Soon after Giorgione introduced the fresco to Venice in the early 16th century, Venetian noble families began to commission the greatest masters of European painting to create grand fresco cycles for the interiors of their city palaces and their sple...

Owning a yacht is the ultimate status symbol. Universally perceived as the exclusive domain of the rich and the famous, yachting is a decidedly rarified world. Arguably the most well-known private yacht of all time, the 325-foot (99-meter) Christina ...

Katie Ridder’s extraordinary palette of primary and secondary colors, her playful mix of antiques and modern pieces, and her eye for unusual decorative accents have established her as a leading figure in the world of interior design. Clients from Ar...

200 full-color and black-and-white illustrations Named one of the best architecture firms of 2008 by Best of  Boston®, Albert, Righter & Tittmann Architects create finely crafted houses that pay homage to classic American house styles yet are ad...

Posters by their very nature are ephemeral: crookedly plastered on a roadside billboard, tacked to the back of a tabac, they lasted a few weeks until advertisers issued another imaginative argument for soap or an ocean voyage. While few contemporary ...

Ranging from Kentchurch Court, a former fortified medieval manor house that has been the seat of the Scudamore family for nearly 1,000 years, to a delightful Strawberry Hill-style Gothic house in rural Cornwall to a ducal palace (Badminton) to car-cr...

In an age when houses exhibiting unchecked exuberance, high drama, or conspicuous luxury get all the attention, leading interior designer Tom Scheerer has cultivated a more restrained brand of chic, a look he modestly describes as “cheerful” and “no ...

The park of the palace of Versailles spreads out from the foot of the chateau to as far as the eye can see. In designing it, Louis XIV shared the same aim as the Medicis in Florence and Henri IV at the Louvre to manifest the ideal of rational governm...