Vogue Living: Houses, Gardens, People

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This unique book of thirty-six spectacular houses and gardensx2014;whose owners come from the worlds of fashion, music, art, and societyx2014;draws not only on stories that have appeared in the pages of Vogue and Vogue Living over the past two decades but also on images that have never before been published. Vogue Living: Houses, Gardens, People takes you to these style-makersx2019; private realms around the world, captured by such celebrated photographers as Miles Aldridge, Cecil Beaton, Jonathan Becker, Eric Boman, Oberto Gili, FranxE7;ois Halard, Horst P. Horst, Annie Leibovitz, Sheila Metzner, Mario Testino, Tim Walker, and Bruce Weber, among many others. Their dazzling photographs bring to life interiors and exteriors, modern and classical, that are both inspiring and transporting. Writers like Hamish Bowles, Joan Juliet Buck, Dodie Kazanjian, Eve MacSweeney, Julia Reed, Marina Rust, and Vicki Woods take us behind the scenes to give us an intimate view of the owners and how they live.Here are Madonnax2019;sromantic rural retreat in the depths of the English countryside and the Oscar de la Rentax2019;s coral-stone Palladian mansion on the coast of the Dominican Republic; Michael and Eva Chowx2019;s epic Los Angeles manse and shoe maestro Christian Louboutinx2019;s magical houseboat on the Nile; Donna Karanx2019;s Zenlike Manhattan aerie and legendary tastemaker Marella Agnellix2019;s enchanted villa and gardens in the Palmeraie of Marrakesh; Julian and Olatz Schnabelx2019;s operatic downtown loft and childrenswear designer Rachel Rileyx2019;s miniature chxE2;teau on the Loire; celebrated landscape gardener Fernando Carunchox2019;s innovative Spanish gardens and Houghton, David Cholmondeleyx2019;s magnificent English stately home; Janet de Bottonx2019;s idyllic ProvenxE7;al estate; and four decades of Karl Lagerfeldx2019;s endlessly surprising houses, both innovative and palatial.Lavishly illustrated in full color, Vogue Living: Houses, Gardens, People is an irresistible voyage through some of the worldx2019;s most beautiful and private gardens and interiors.

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Hamish Bowles is European editor at large for Vogue and editor in chief of Vogue Living. He was curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Artx2019;s 2001 Costume Institute exhibition, x201C;Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years.x201D; He lives in New York, London, and Paris.