Rooms celebrates some of the most luxurious and bold interiors around the globe and the creative sensibilities of the people who inspired them. Beautifully presented through the sumptuous photography of Derry Moore, the 12th Earl of Drogheda, who has photographed some of the world's most spectacular houses as well as some of the most notable personalities in their homes, this lavish publication captures the dramatic spirit of such vivid figures as famed early twentieth-century interior designer Elsie de Wolfe, contemporary design legend Renzo Mongiardino, and the legendary decorator Nancy Lancaster. Moore revolutionized interior photography with his technical acuity, his keen aesthetic eye and his impeccably good taste. This vision culminated in an inspired collaboration with Joseph Holtzman, founding editor in chief and art director of the celebrated and controversial magazine Nest, and one of the great tastemakers of our age. This long-awaited book features a remarkable array of spectacular interiors, ranging from Charleston, the famed haunt of the Bloomsbury group, to India's Falaknuma Palace, Pauline de Rothschild's London residence, and Chatsworth Hall, Derbyshire, the grandest of English country houses.
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“Rooms is without a doubt the most eccentric décor book I’ve ever come across… I simply could not leave the store without it.” ~styleNorth
“For sheer visual indulgence, drink in Joseph Holtzman, Carl Skoggard, and Derry Moore’s Room (Rizzoli, $55), which included everything from Madeleine Castaing’s Parisian digs to an Irish pile of mesmerizing decay.” ~Home & Garden
“One of the odder books to come down the pike is Rooms (Rizzoli, $55), which collects the photography of Derry Moore and includes text by former Nest writer Carl Skoggard. Moore, also known as the 12th Earl of Drogheda, has been shooting interiors for more than 30 years, frequently for Architectural Digest. This book captures his fellow aristocrats in their frescoed, treasure-stuffed palaces, villas and chateaus around the globe. If you have friends or loved ones with a more-is-more take on decorating, this is the book for them.” ~The Philadelphia Inquirer
“For sheer visual indulgence, drink in Joseph Holtzman, Carl Skoggard, and Derry Moore’s Room (Rizzoli, $55), which included everything from Madeleine Castaing’s Parisian digs to an Irish pile of mesmerizing decay.” ~Home & Garden
“One of the odder books to come down the pike is Rooms (Rizzoli, $55), which collects the photography of Derry Moore and includes text by former Nest writer Carl Skoggard. Moore, also known as the 12th Earl of Drogheda, has been shooting interiors for more than 30 years, frequently for Architectural Digest. This book captures his fellow aristocrats in their frescoed, treasure-stuffed palaces, villas and chateaus around the globe. If you have friends or loved ones with a more-is-more take on decorating, this is the book for them.” ~The Philadelphia Inquirer
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Derry Moore has published his photographs in numerous books, including Inside the House of Lords and The Gardens of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. He lives in London. Joseph Holtzman is the founding editor in chief and art director of the influential design magazine Nest. He lives in New York City. Carl Skoggard, most recently the staff writer for Nest, lives in New York City.
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45 of 49 people found the following review helpful:
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a deep dream of a book,
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The Earldom of Drogheda was created in 1661. Soon there was a home worthy of the title --- Moore Abbey. It was large. It was Gothic. It was hugely impressive. And, of course, expensive. In 1945, the family sold it to The Sisters of Charity of Jesus and Mary.
Derry Moore --- that is, Henry Dermot Ponsonby Moore --- is the 12th Earl of Drogheda. In the orderly way of English succession, Moore Abbey would have been his. He is, however, very happy it went to the nuns: "Had I inherited it, I would've become an alcoholic and done nothing with my life." Instead, Derry Moore became a photographer. A very special kind of photographer. Three decades of documenting great homes for Architectural Digest --- to some, that might not seem like doing much with your life. But Derry Moore's pictures are light years from the homes and apartments that, in the shelter magazines, increasingly look like "house porn." For one thing, Moore knows a thing or two about rooms the public never gets to see. He is not bored with them, or protective of them; he grew up in them and visited them, and his privilege is just a fact. So his focus is never on the trillion-dollar painting or the opulent curtains --- he sees a room whole. For another thing, he also has a brilliant eye for the telling detail. And so he leads you gently into a room, rather like a kindly tour guide. He does not turn up the lights; if anything, his pictures seem to be shot in the quiet of a late afternoon, when the kitchen staff is preparing tea and the lady of the house is still out with the dogs. 'Rooms' is thick (225 photographs) and diverse (eight of these 24 residences are rural; a third are ancestral). Most, as you'd expect, belong to the very rich and very mannered: Pauline de Rothschild's London apartment, Elsie de Wolfe's Versailles pavilion, the Marques de Casa Torres's town house in Madrid. For all that, Moore has particular affection for homes that don't bear the mark of an interior decorator --- "I don't think anything in the book was done by an outside decorator, except maybe Nureyev's apartment in Paris, but even that was distinctive and could only have been his," Moore says. What impresses Moore most? India. Thirty years ago, he was knocked to his knees by Hyderabad's Falaknuma Palace. The telling detail? "Although it hadn't been lived in since 1911, there were sheets on the bed," he recalls. There the book starts. As a result, you will see, in the very first spread, rooms with paneled walls, giant rugs, ceilings high enough for basketball and chandeliers for miles. No people, though --- feel free to insert yourself. For all but a few, "Rooms" is a book from another world, now mostly lost. Not because no one can afford to maintain these residences; many hedge fund managers could keep these up without flinching. It's the sensibility that's gone: the world of ladies' maids and footmen, tea in the late afternoon, invitations on the mantel. There was much that was cruel about that world; most of us would have been on the losing end of power in it. So it's with mixed feelings that I turn these exquisite pages. For there's no question: In this book, Derry Moore has assembled photographs that are essential for those who love great homes. But in a time of change --- of dramatic upheaval --- he also makes the reader nostalgic for an immutability and order that was built on exploitation and rank. I emerged from 'Rooms' dazed and dazzled. I went somewhere; where did I go? It took some time to return to myself. But it took no time at all to realize that this curious book had given me a remarkable experience. This book is a drug. Be warned. And then....plunge in.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
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simply beautiful, highly recommended!,
This review is from: Rooms (Hardcover)
by far one of the most beautiful books for interior design lovers. i love classic interiors, and the book is a glimpse to beautifull mansions and appartments you couldn't see alsewhere. the photos are superb and the text goes so nicely with the phosts. pure dlight!
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Rooms with a viewpoint,
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If you are a room and interior design junkie, as am I, you will be amazed and thrilled with the sensitive and dazzling series of photo essays enclosed in these pages. I was greedy for more.
However I found the very aggressive design of the book itself very puzzling. I often had to hold my hand over the facing page in order to prevent myself being blinded by the stripes.
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