Architectural Digest Traditional Interiors (The Worlds of Architectural digest)

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by  Paige Rense

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ARCHITECT URAL DIGEST
TRADITIONAL INTERIORS
When fashions of the moment have
faded, true beauty remains timeless. As
the rush toward the avant-garde finds
perspective, the appeal of the traditional
continues to strike a responsive chord.
Paige Rense, editor-in-chief of
Architectural Digest and America's
foremost journalist of fine international
interior design, presents twenty
outstanding homes that are boldly and
distinctively traditional. Classic and
enduring, familiar and exotic, these
interiors have been created by designers
who continue to find inspiration in styles
that have withstood the test of time:
A princess's apartment in Paris that
displays a modern enthusiasm for living
in a theatrical eighteenth-century setting;
a New York townhouse transformed by
an Edwardian swirl of color; a house on
the Greek island of Patmos that was
reconstructed by local craftsmen to
capture the essence of Mediterranean
rural life, with an unmistakable
homeyness glorified by an aura of ancient
times; a baroness's London retreat so
spare and selective in its arrangement of
traditional elements that it seems almost
contemporary in feeling; a Scottish
baronial estate that captures the leisurely
elegance of country life; a Washington
home filled with mementos of a
distinguished diplomatic career.
All these, and more, v«_ been selected
and adapted from the pages of
Architectural Digest to create a book that is
satisfying to the eye and to the spirit.
Hundreds of full-color photographs have
been beautifully reproduced with the
style that has made Architectural Digest
the world's preeminent journal of design.
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THE WORLDS OF ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST
TRADITIONAL INTERIORS

THE WORLDS OF ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST
TRADITIONAL INTERIORS
EDITED BY PAIGE RENSE
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST
THE KNAPP PRESS PUBLISHERS LOS ANGELES
THE VIKING PRESS DISTRIBUTORS NEW YORK
SA^ J PUBLIC UBRAKY
Published in the United States ofAmerica in 1979
The Knapp Press
5900 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90036
Copyright © 1979 by Knapp Communications Corporation
All rights reserved
First Edition
Distributed by The Viking Press
625 Madison Avenue, New York, NewYork10022
Distributed simultaneously in Canada by Penguin Books Canada Limited
Library ofCongress Cataloging in Publication Data
Main entry under title: Traditional interiors.
(The Worlds ofArchitectural digest)
Selections from the pages ofArchitectural digest, newly edited and designed.
1. Interior decoration. I. Rense, Paige.
II. Architectural digest. III. Series.
NK2130.T7 1979 747'.8'83 79-84682
ISBN 0-89535-034-3
Printed and bound in the United States ofAmerica
CONTENTS
FOREWORD
7
LA MAISON DE SAUSSURE
10
SAN FRANCISCO STYLE
16
SUTTON PLACE TOWNHOUSE 24
DICKENSIAN CHARM IN LONDON 36
AMALGAM OF OLD AND NEW 42
WARM PALETTE FOR OREGON 50
BARONS COURT
56
A COUNTRY VILLA IN PERIGORD 64
A PRINCESS AT HOME IN PARIS 72
IN THE ALLEGHENY FOOTHILLS 80
ONE BOLD STROKE
92
ON A GREEK ISLAND 96
A DIPLOMAT'S HOME 102
RESTORATION IN TORONTO 108
MADAME CASTAING CHEZ ELLE 114
ECHOES OF BALMORAL 124
DECOR FOR MANHATTAN
132
A BARONESS'S LONDON FLAT 138
IN THE GRAND MANNER 146
VILLA NEAR SAINT-CLOUD 154
CREDITS 160