New York Splendor: Rooms to Remember

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The book presents a range of spaces by the design stars of today, alongside rooms that no longer exist but that are remembered by the design cognoscenti. Groundbreaking interiors include Brooke Astor's elegant library by Albert Hadley; Gloria Vanderbilt's sublime patchwork bedroom; Donald Judd's dramatically spare art-filled loft; Adolfo's opulent uptown rooms; a Peter Marino-designed penthouse atop the Four Seasons hotel; Susan Gutfreund's own lavish winter garden; Jamie Drake's stunning designs for the mayor's residence, Gracie Mansion; and strikingly different approaches to rooms at the famous apartment house The Dakota, from Joanne de Palma and Ward Bennett.

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"Stunning photographs and explanatory text offer a rare peak at the handiwork of prominent designers and architects who created Brooke Astors library, for instance, and revived Gracie Mansion." -The New York Times

"If you are looking from some interior inspiration, this lush book is packed with photographs of private rooms that range from minimalist to extravagant. Some are rooms from the past, like Gloria Vanderbilts 1970 patchwork bedroom and Brooke Astors library by Parish-Hadley." Brownstoner

"Complete with engaging written reportage, this personal survey of outstanding rooms in New York's most luxurious apartments, by architecture and design journalist Wendy Moonan, provides a richly illustrated overview of interior design, decoration and architecture during the past half-century." Architectural Record

"InNew York Splendor: The City's Most Memorable Rooms,Wendy Moonan brings readers into the city's finest interior spaces. The book shares images of every type of grand home in New York from opulent French-inspired townhouses to sleek glass and concrete-constructed apartments, outlining their defining design details and what makes them fabulous. Among the covetable residential rooms of the artists, architects, and penthouse dwellers featured in the tome are the beautifully curated homes of several fashion designers. With these spaces, Moonan offers a glimpse into how fashion creators have made a stylish space for themselves." CR Fashion Book.com

"These New York residential spaces elicit gasps of pleasure and surprise when first encountered. Some are very grand, others sparingly modern... or eclectic. All are exceptional." Society Diaries

Author Bio

Longtime New Yorker Wendy Moonan has been writing about architecture, design, and antiques for thirty years for the New York Times, Town & Country, House & Garden, Architectural Digest, Galerie Magazine, and 1stdibs.com. She studied at Wellesley and the Sorbonne, and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard. Nonetheless, she says she learned more by sitting in the living rooms of connoisseurs, artists, and patrons than anywhere else.