A lavishly illustrated tour of thirty-six spectacular houses and gardens, whose owners come from the worlds of fashion, music, art, and society—drawn from the pages of
Vogue
and
Vogue Living
as well as never-before-published images by iconic photographers
Foreword by Calvin Klein
Vogue Living: Houses, Gardens, People
takes you to the private realms of style-makers 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
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.
is an irresistible voyage through some of the world’s most beautiful and private gardens and interiors.