A01=Darren Poupore
A01=Laura C. Jenkins
architect
architect gifts
architecture
architecture book
architecture books
architecture coffee table books
architecture gifts
art books
Author_Darren Poupore
Author_Laura C. Jenkins
barns
best seller books
best sellers
best selling books
cabins
Category=AMK
Category=AMR
Category=NHK
civil engineering
coffee table book
coffee table books
coffee table decor
crafts
decor books
decorating
decorating books
decorative books
design
design book
design books
entertaining
eq_art-fashion-photography
eq_bestseller
eq_history
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_new_release
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
feng shui
flowers
furniture
home
home decor
home decor books
home decor inspiration
home decorating
home decorating books
home design
house
houses
hygge
interior decorating
interior design
interior design books
interior design inspiration
interior designer gifts
luxury home decor
luxury interiors
timeless interiors
top 10 best sellers
traditional interiors
Product details
- ISBN 9780847876181
- Dimensions: 241 x 305mm
- Publication Date: 17 Feb 2026
- Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
George W. Vanderbilt created one of the biggest self-sustaining American country estates in the late nineteenth century at its center, Richard Morris Hunt s splendid 250-room French Renaissance chateau as well as assembled a notable collection of fine and decorative art that he displayed there. Explore the wealth of treasures within the awe-inspiring house: paintings by Monet, Renoir, Sargent, and Whistler; important Renaissance tapestries; fine Chinese porcelains; rare books; and exquisite French and English furniture. Establishing it as one of the finest repositories of fine and decorative arts in the nation. Beyond the imposing architecture and acres of gardens by Frederick Law Olmsted, the father of American landscape architecture, the focus is on the storied interiors the Winter Garden, Banquet Hall, Louis XV Suite, and Oak Sitting Room. Visit the family s private apartments, with their hidden corridors, as well as the kitchen, butler s pantry, and the many workrooms needed to maintain an opulent lifestyle. Offering readers a glimpse of the interior design and furnishings of the North Carolina manse during the 1890s, the book explores Vanderbilt s relationships with leading architecture and decorating firms and dealers from New York to Paris, as well as with the designers and gardeners who devised manicured lawns, gardens, and terraces that unite seamlessly with the surrounding landscape. Together these magnificent spaces and priceless objects tell a story both highly personal and representative of a social milieu. Paired with superb new photography taken specially for the book by Abranowicz, they add depth and sparkle to the history of a glittering era.
Darren Poupore is the director of curatorial affairs and archives at Biltmore. Laura C. Jenkins is an art historian and interiors specialist based in London. William Abranowicz is an interiors photographer and the author of eight books on his work. Richard Guy Wilson is an authority on the architecture of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
