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Vogue Living: Houses, Gardens, People [Hardcover]

Hamish Bowles , Calvin Klein
4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)

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October 30, 2007
This unique book of thirty-six spectacular houses and gardens—whose owners come from the worlds of fashion, music, art, and society—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-makers’ private realms around the world, captured by such celebrated photographers as Miles Aldridge, Cecil Beaton, Jonathan Becker, Eric Boman, Oberto Gili, François 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 Madonna’s romantic rural retreat in the depths of the English countryside and the Oscar de la Renta’s coral-stone Palladian mansion on the coast of the Dominican Republic; Michael and Eva Chow’s epic Los Angeles manse and shoe maestro Christian Louboutin’s magical houseboat on the Nile; Donna Karan’s Zenlike Manhattan aerie and legendary tastemaker Marella Agnelli’s enchanted villa and gardens in the Palmeraie of Marrakesh; Julian and Olatz Schnabel’s operatic downtown loft and childrenswear designer Rachel Riley’s miniature château on the Loire; celebrated landscape gardener Fernando Caruncho’s innovative Spanish gardens and Houghton, David Cholmondeley’s magnificent English stately home; Janet de Botton’s idyllic Provençal estate; and four decades of Karl Lagerfeld’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 world’s most beautiful and private gardens and interiors.

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About the Author

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

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Knopf; 1st edition (October 30, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0307266222
  • ISBN-13: 978-0307266224
  • Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 1.8 x 13.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 6.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #16,877 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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64 of 67 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars sumptuous living December 29, 2007
Format:Hardcover
There is no disputing that this is a sumptuous volume. Lavishly produced, its oversized 384 pages are crammed with images of exquisite rooms and lush gardens from 36 unique homes, owned by the rich and/or famous in Europe, America and North Africa and into the likes of which you and I will never set foot. (Which is the reason, thankfully, such books are produced and why we lesser mortals buy them.)

There are rooms modern and rooms classic, arranged with the taste, elegance and restraint of the world's best decorators and captured by the world's greatest photographers. And yet the rooms are not museum pieces, but are demonstrably inhabited by their owners, their well-scrubbed children and their adorable dogs, such as the greyhound on page 317 filching a piece of cheese from the dinner table.

My favourite room which is featured on the front jacket cover is of Janet de Botton's breakfast room in Provence, its French chateau décor a study in white, cream and faded pastel, the background, literally a wall of china - floral motifed white plates and platters displayed on white-painted, floor-to-ceiling wooden plate racks built into the walls. (Already I've been measuring my walls to see how I can incorporate something similar - though less vast - into my old house).

At the opposite end of the décor spectrum is Amanda Brooks NYC loft, all kitsch and brash eye-popping colour like a Barbie Doll house with Brooks herself photographed in a Barbie Doll style gown in a Barbie Doll pose. (It's not to my personal taste but cleverly done & I had to look twice to be sure the figure lying stiffly across the bed wasn't a mannequin).
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42 of 43 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars The best decorating book of the holiday season November 29, 2007
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
Flash review: The perfect gift book for this season.

This new book, timed for Xmas giving, features a selection of the best homes shown in Vogue in the past several years. It is a large-scale book, filled with wonderful color photography. Although Elle Decor and Architectural Digest have come out with similar books this season, neither can hold a candle to Vogue's tome. If you are familiar with the 1968 publication, "Vogue's Book of Houses, Gardens, People", which now sells for $400 and up if you can find it, you will know what is in store for you.

Maximum emphasis on homes you would love to see in person, owned by people of impeccable style: Janet de Botton in the south of France, Marella Agnelli in Marrakech, David Cholmondeley's stately, etc.; minimal number of celebrity digs done by decorators of questionable taste which you tend to see in Architectural Digest. The style and taste of the featured houses, gardens (and, yes, people) are on an entirely different plane than those shown in the new books by the other two lifestyle magazines.

July 2010 Follow up review:

Just how tight is the upper class of England? On page 312 we meet the Hanbury girls, mom looking beautiful and daughters Marina, 21 at the time the story was originally done in 2003, and Rosie, then 19, obviously both gorgeous, as they gambol about their lovely Devon estate. Now, in the June 2010 issue of Tatler, we read about the marriage several years ago of Rosie Hanbury, at age 25, to David, Marquess of Cholmondeley, 49, who was discussed on page 358 of the book as the owner of Houghton Hall. You may remember that name from the Treasure Houses of Britain exhibit. He is one of the wealthiest men in England, an intimate of the Queen, and Rosie has now given him two sons.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars So Dissapointing September 30, 2011
Format:Hardcover
I have been a Vogue subscriber since I was a young girl and have loved every glossy. You can't imagine my anticipation for this delicious book of loveliness when my husband said he'd ordered it for me! As I thumbed through the pages I was so unimpressed and not in the least bit inspired. This book is published in 2007 but feels like its from the 1990's. That wouldn't be so bad as long as it carried some timeless style. I couldn't even bear to keep it around on the coffee table since I will never want to read it. Perhaps this is someone's style and I just don't appreciate it? I usually love all styles from Iris Apfel eclectic and vintage to crisp modern chic. Just a fair warning.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Art December 26, 2010
Format:Hardcover
This book has an abundant amount of amazing artwork from private collections-beautifully displayed in worthy homes. For some of the artwork it was the first time I had ever seen it, or even knew it existed- my new favorite book for that alone. If you're an art lover you'll LOVE this book!
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Divine Shelter Books December 29, 2009
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
I first discovered this gorgeous book at an
Anthropologie in California.Much to my delight it was at Amazon at a much lower price.Perfect!
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20 of 28 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Vague Living November 27, 2007
Format:Hardcover
Photography is extraordinary. The people featured therein, not so much. Still, it's a beautifully done publication and worth the cash but buy it at discount.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Great coffee table book and to be inspired and put the thinking hat on!
Enjoy! I'm getting the VOGUE,PEOPLE&PLACES also :)
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Great gift! March 5, 2010
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
I bought this book for a friend as a coffee table peice who is interested in fashion and home design. She absolutely loves it and it now has a prominent place in her new home. I'd absolutely recommend this book for the right kind of person. It is beautiful and a different kind of gift!
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book
Came in perfect shape. Great timing and fabulous book. It is a great book for arm chair travel Love it,
Published 1 month ago by Sherry Stuart
4.0 out of 5 stars Vogue Living Houses Gardens People
The styles in this book are so varied - from super modern, 70's super expensive tacky, Classic, English to Moroccan rustic to Lagerfeld who is a class of opulence all by himself. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Lori A. Lathrop
5.0 out of 5 stars Vogue houses gardens and people
This one is my favorite out of the series. Beautiful pictures, great lay outs- full of inspiring ideas. Also purchased extra copies and gave as gifts....
Published 11 months ago by Sloan P. Winters
5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding
This is a huge beautifully made book full of stunning high quality photos depicting a group of the most stylish interiors that I've seen. Read more
Published 18 months ago by Lilly Ford
5.0 out of 5 stars Simply lavish and entertaining
Hamish Bowles' lavish book is gorgeously produced and it's utterly absorbing. This is the perfect coffee table book or gift.
Published on August 8, 2010 by Jennifer
5.0 out of 5 stars Vogue Living: A rare look inside the houses of the great international...
I ordered this book for Christmas.It is the best of stylish living as seen through the eyes of the great international tastemakers captured by a compendium of famous Vogue... Read more
Published on January 9, 2010 by William G. Uhles
3.0 out of 5 stars review
Book new therefore very good condition - delivery unbelievably slow and very unhappy with service from Amazon after numerous emails finding out what is happening with this order... Read more
Published on November 29, 2009 by K. Mccrystal
5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect
I just want to thank Amazon for such quick delivery and perfect condition of the book.
And now I am going back to reading it, can not sleep, can not eat:)
Book is just... Read more
Published on March 30, 2009 by Liubou Minniyeva
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