Private Splendor: Great Families at Home [Hardcover]

Alexis Gregory (Author), Marc Walter (Photographer)

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About the Author

Alexis Gregory is a publisher, author, art collector, and deputy chairman of Sotheby’s advisory board. He lives in New York and Paris.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 192 pages
• Publisher: Vendome Press; First Edition edition (November 7, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0865651701
• ISBN-13: 978-0865651708
• Product Dimensions: 12.9 x 9.7 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #938,138 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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31 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing book with private views of fabulous splendor, February 4, 2007

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H. Marshall "Herb Marshall" (Berlin) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Private Splendor: Great Families at Home (Hardcover)

This is a fabulous book. I bought the book because of my connection and time spent at Harewood House in England. The photographs are so fantastic and the text very competent. Which in the case of Harewood is quite an accomplishment since the history is long and quite complicated. Alexis Gregory is to be congratulated on getting all the facts right. I know this home intimately and the photos show Harewood just as it is in all its glory.

I was also fascinated with St. Emmeram Palace in which I have also spent much time. Again the images and the accompanying text are best examples of their craft.

But the best part of the book was discovering other stately homes and palaces that I did not know about. It was exciting to get a look inside these private spaces. A more beautiful book will be hard to come by. I could not put it down. The only complaint with the whole book is that there was not more of it- more photos and more homes included!

I am often disappointed by such photography/history books, but this is the exception to that rule.

My highest compliments!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Best of Its Type, August 22, 2008

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Classicdude (River City) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Private Splendor: Great Families at Home (Hardcover)

PRIVATE SPLENDOR is by far one of the best of its type. Author Alexis Gregory and photographer Marc Walter are guests in eight great houses still inhabited by their aristocratic families. An intimate view into the lifestyle of today's owners is presented in a good blend of the scholarly and the artistic. Granted, more about the architecture, art, furnishings, family history, etc., could have been told and shown, but each palace is worthy of its own book. This is a very good book that shows life in great houses beyond the velvet rope that would restrict the casual visitor.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful addition to my library, November 14, 2007

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M. biddy - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Private Splendor: Great Families at Home (Hardcover)

I find this to be a beautifully photographed book, I have dupilcated one of the floral arrangements already. A great idea book.