Tom Kligerman 

Summer by the Sea — Cottages from Watch Hill to Little Compton

Noted architect Thomas Kligerman celebrates the magic of summer, exploring the seaside setting and design of secluded cottages facing the Atlantic along the Rhode Island coast

Summer by the Sea is the first book to focus on the seaside cottages of Rhode Island, the birthplace of the shingle style, lauded as the 'architecture of the American summer'. This in-depth tour of seaside communities begins with Watch Hill and moves along the coast, weaving together the history of the state, the evolution of the shingle style, and descriptions of the geology and wildlife that create a unique sense of place.

Each chapter explores a different town - Watch Hill, Weekapaug, Haversham, Block Island, Saunderstown, Jamestown, Middletown, Little Compton - capturing landscape and seascape and studying both historic and contemporary shingle style designs.

Featured are works by 19th century masters Calvert Vaux and Charles L. Bevins, new houses by Jens Risom, Gil Schafer, and Peter Bohlin, and vernacular cottages by unknown builders that have descended through generations of the same family. The most recent is Tom Kligerman's own house in Weekapaug, a gabled, shingled form that he describes as 'an architectural madeleine for my family, ' evoking the sounds and scents of his own boyhood summers by the sea.

Lush photographs specially taken for the book by Read McKendree capture the spirit of the place - interiors filled with personal histories, generous, inviting porches, and views out over meadows and ponds to the Atlantic beyond. Tom Kligerman's own photographs of beaches, harbours, and houses- views taken while biking along narrow roads and sandy paths - complete the portrait of this special summer world.

Libby cameron

Notes from a decorator’s life

Libby Cameron tells the story of her journey as a designer, from her beginnings as a protégé of famed decorator Sister Parish to a storied career that includes many awards and honors.

Libby Cameron opened Libby Cameron LLC in 1995 after spending 14 years at Parish-Hadley, Inc. in New York City, where she had become a partner in 1989. Her successful career as a designer has garnered her multiple awards and honors, including being named, several years running, by House Beautiful as one of the 100 Best Designers in the US.

In Notes from a Decorator's Life, Libby shares the secrets of her design, including incorporating color and pattern, upholstery, the art of imperfection, collaboration, and sustainability. She believes in creating rooms that provide comfort and shaping living spaces that tell a story.

Scott Sottile

Transformations, Houses Places, Stories

This renowned architecture firm offers a fresh vision of traditional architecture for both new and historic residences, shaping sophisticated environments for today.

While Ferguson & Shamamian’s previous volume, Collaborations, focused on new houses and estates in the classical tradition, this volume explores the art of restoration, reinvention, and the creation of new designs inspired by storied places. Ferguson & Shamamian adapts existing houses and landscapes for modern living, preserving craftsmanship and history while introducing fresh spatial ideas.

In this volume, fifteen remarkable homes showcase regional character and historical precedent while also featuring interiors by leading designers who work closely with the firm, including Michael S. Smith, Pierre Yovanovitch, Beata Heuman, and Victoria Hagan. Together, they reveal a wide range of lifestyles and design approaches in the traditional idiom.

Among the residences featured are several iconic American properties: Grey Gardens in East Hampton; Lasata, the childhood summer home of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy; Villa Artemis in Palm Beach; and Gloria Vanderbilt’s former manse in Manhattan. Also included are thoughtfully designed new residences and architectural renovations in Connecticut, New York, South Carolina, Ohio, Idaho, and Missouri.

Transformations illustrates Ferguson & Shamamian’s enduring philosophy: honoring the legacy of remarkable homes and communities while shaping timeless, livable spaces for today.

Simon Upton

A - Z Interiors

A sweeping, authoritative portrait of interior design today--revealing the homes, voices, and visions shaping how we live now.

This expansive volume is a panoramic survey of the most influential interiors of our time, opening doors to houses that define taste, set direction, and embody the art of living beautifully.

Organized alphabetically, it moves effortlessly from one distinctive world to the next. Readers encounter the refined classicism of Alidad, the architectural poetry of Gil Schafer, the cultivated restraint of Rose Uniacke, the soulful warmth of Bobby McAlpine, and the singular visions of designers such as Carolina Irving, Remy Renzullo, and Robert Kime--among many others.

For more than three decades, Upton's trusted eye has granted him rare access to extraordinary private interiors across the globe. Drawing on long-standing relationships and unparalleled insight, this volume captures these spaces with intimacy and emotional depth.

Lavishly illustrated and global in scope, the book stands as both a definitive directory of today's most important interiors and a lasting record of where design is headed.

Kathryn Herman

A Moment in Time: Designing a Country Garden

The renowned and award-winning landscape designer presents a four-season exploration of her own home, the beloved historic Pepperidge Farm estate in Connecticut, which she has tended and developed lovingly over thirty years, gradually developing various garden rooms with plenty of details to inspire home gardeners.

The eminent and much-awarded designer is well-known and respected for her high-end, poetic gardens that are contemporary yet full of elegant softness inspired by quintessential English gardens—perfect for today’s lifestyles and a lovely way to update and complement a historic house. Here, she fully explores her own twenty-acre garden, which she has developed and cared for meticulously over decades—the historic Pepperidge Farm estate in Fairfield, Connecticut—breaking down her design process by touring the garden in sections and adding thematic essays full of a career’s worth of tips and tricks so all home gardeners can adapt elements of her approach themselves, including the following: form and structure, color, ornament, incorporating history, layering plantings, creating meadows, cultivating an orchard, planning a perennial garden, creating a pool garden, incorporating edibles and vegetables, making a garden appealing to wildlife, and planning for seasonality (winter structure and interest).

Herman believes that a great garden is laid out to create a series of changing experiences. She guides the reader through the importance of sound, through rustling of leaves or moving water, scent from fragrant shrubs, the touch of a soft, velvety perennial, and many other seasonal and intimate moments, all to enhance the sensual experience of spending time in nature, in one's own garden.

Andrew TORREY

Torrey: Private Spaces

Text by Gay Gassmann

New York–based modernist interior design firm TORREY delivers its first signature monograph showcasing a decade in design.

Growing up in America’s heartland, Kansas, and hitting New York City at age twenty-one, the young designer Andrew Torrey brought his big dreams, ambition, and strong work ethic with him. The self-taught Torrey took the leap and founded his eponymous firm in 2013.

This first monograph showcases twenty-three of the designer's extraordinary projects, from vibrant Manhattan and sun-soaked Miami to London, Los Angeles, and Cabo San Lucas. This debut book explores Torrey’s distinctive approach: a seamless blending of cool, clean, modern designs with opulent finishes, sumptuous materials, and a reverence for the historical and vintage. A passion for contemporary art and an approach combining modern glamour with effortless charm also define Torrey’s signature.

This volume features photographs by Manolo Yllera, Douglas Friedman, and Tim Lenz, among others.

About The Author

Andrew Torrey launched his eponymous firm TORREY in 2013 in New York City, focusing on private residential commissions. Gay Gassmann is a communication and special art projects consultant, writer, and contributing editor for Architectural Digest, Elle Decor, Vogue Arabia and Vogue Arabia Living, Architectural Digest China, Galerie, The World of Interiors and The Architect’s Newspaper.