Takes the reader into the houses of forty booklovers to view their personal libraries and reading spaces. This book includes professional advice on editing and categorizing your library; caring for your books; preserving, restoring and storing rare books; finding out-of-print books; and choosing furniture, lighting and shelving.

Written by a French-born and bred author, this book shows how to eat with balance and control. It combines memoir, wisdom, wit, delicious recipes, and French common sense.

Explores over 150 ways in which books can not only be stored, but made to play a part in the character of a home. Space-saving devices are illustrated for storing books in odd spaces within the home. Special double-page features appear in each chapter on topics such as designer solutions, book plates, and creating furniture out of books.

Bunny Williams, one of the America's premier interior designers and John Rosselli, one of New York City's most respected antique dealers, reclaimed an 18th-century New England manor house. This book describes how they restored each room of this well-worn house and resurrected its abandoned gardens. It also includes simple decorating solutions.

Starting in the North of India, this compact guide to the Indian style takes the reader on a tour down through to the south of the country, exploring a range of Indian architecture and interior design.

The mother of modern interior decoration, Elsie de Wolfe is a familiar name to many who practice this art. This book covers 29 of her projects.