Caroline Seebohm Knihy

This eagerly anticipated companion volume to "At Home with Books" contains beautiful color photographs and detailed advice about collecting, displaying, maintaining, and living with an art collection. 300 full-color photos.

This lushly illustrated book tells the amazing story of the rise, fall, and rebirth the Untermyer Garden, one of the most extravagant and celebrated Gilded Age gardens.

Addison Mizner's Mediterranean-style mansions are much-admired Florida icons, where even today you can find many homes modeled with stucco walls and tiled roofs. In the paperback release of Boca Rococo, Caroline Seebohm's successful biography on the flamboyant architect is more accessible now than ever as it reaches more readers interested in the man himself. Mizner had global experience from San Francisco to China during his early days, before landing in New York and eventually, South Florida. He had no formal training but did possess natural talent, establishing him as architect of the rich and famous. His designs made the city of Palm Beach one of America's most elegant resort spots--and fed his dream of developing a "Venice-on-the-Ocean" in nearby Boca Raton. Mizner's plans ended with the collapse of Florida's real estate boom. He died in 1933, broken and bankrupt. With inspiration from and inclusion of never-before-seen material like floor plans and autobiographical works, and a new foreword written by the author, Seebohm gives readers a complete view of Mizner as one of the greatest architects and more flamboyant Americans.

Wer schon immer einmal einen Blick in die Refugien anderer Bücherfreunde werfen wollte, liegt mit diesem Bildband goldrichtig. Die vierzig Bücherliebhaber, deren Bibliotheken hier vorgestellt werden, teilen das Grundgefühl, dass ihr Zuhause erst durch Bücher wohnlich wird. Erstaunlich aber, wie unterschiedlich ihre Bibliotheken sind! Vom 'Bücherturm' in einem luftigen New Yorker Loft über den behaglichen Raum in einer ehemaligen Scheune bis zur eleganten Herrenhausbibliothek reicht das faszinierend vielfältige Spektrum. Bunt ist auch der Kreis derer, die wir auf diese Weise kennenlernen: der Herzog von Devonshire, Flora Biddle vom berühmten 'Whitney Museum of American Art', Keith Richards von den 'Rolling Stones' ... Zusätzliche Kapitel geben professionellen Rat zu Aufbau und Systematisierung einer Büchersammlung, zu Regalen, Bibliotheksleitern und Beleuchtung, Pflege und Restaurierung von Büchern.