Private Palm Beach - Tropical Style, 1992

House Beautiful Color, 1993

The Decorating Book, 1981

The Decorating Book, 1981

California Cottages: Interior Design, Architecture & Style, 1996

This outdoor room had to be protected from the often rainy climate of Napa, so the designers began with waterproof canvas. The key border started them in an Oriental direction - a Japanese wedding basket made into a lamp, and a Japanese cricket cage was hung from the ceiling.

Interior Visions: Great American Designers and the Showcase House, 1988

A truly splendid array of shelves filled with crockery, jugs and mugs creates the effect of a huge dresser, providing a decorative background for this kitchen dining area. For the cook, it is a quick, convenient step from hob or sink to table.

Traditional Country Style, 1991

Shallow steps. This romantic flight of steps sweeps up a gentle incline under an overhanging wisteria. The retaining wall which edges the flight, would be more successful if it encouraged the eye to move with the curve of the steps, but the overall effect is inviting and alltogether grand.

The Garden Book, 1984

Many people decide during the construction process to make the porch all-season. But a sunroom, which is an interior space, has a very different feel from a screen porch.

The Not So Big House - A Blueprint for the Way We Really Live, 1998

Living rooms in new houses often feature many windows. When you add a sunroom to such a house, it merely duplicates functions.

The Not So Big House - A Blueprint for the Way We Really Live, 1998

A screen porch isn't a luxury - it's an essential way to celebrate summer weather and the outdoors.

The Not So Big House - A Blueprint for the Way We Really Live, 1998

Traditionally, large sliding paper doors carried a painting or design. As classical rooms became more Western, sliding doors were replaced by hinged doors, sometimes decorated.

At Home With Japanese Design: Accents, Structure and Spirit, 1990

Japanese craftsmanship sings in every room. The octagonal pass-through window is a perfect circle on the kitchen side. The cupboard's wooden doors slide effortlessly in any weather without metal fittings. The dining table, made of rare Indian laurel, and the cherry wood chairs are by the late George Nakashima, who was considered the elder statesman of the American crafts movement.

At Home With Japanese Design: Accents, Structure and Spirit, 1990

A carved ranma, the delicate transom that fills the space between the top of the wall and the ceiling in the traditional, spans the entrance to the dining room. Craftsman Shigeru Kobayashi imported contemporary ranma from the town of Inami in Toyama Prefecture, but used local wood for framing details.

At Home With Japanese Design: Accents, Structure and Spirit, 1990

In a hall recently acquired clam shell sits on an intricately carved late seventeenth-century Irish mahogany table that came from a house in County Leix. The table is carved on both sides and designed to stand in the centre of a room rather than against a wall.

In an Irish House, 1988

Built on the south-east side of the castle into the courtyard and given its own roof, the staircase hall probably dates from about 1700. The wooden staircase itself displays hand-turned balusters of a type not often found in Ireland. The French tapestry hanging at the top of the stairs was bought by Desmond Guinness when he was at Oxford.

In an Irish House, 1988

The dolls' house in the drawing room came from Newbridge, Donabate; it was probably made by the estate carpenter there in the eighteenth century. Inside there are three great empty rooms and, above child height, utilitarian shelves. Desmond Guinness has commissioned miniature copies of Irish furniture to furnish it once more.

In an Irish House, 1988