Books & Stationery

Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner

The vivid and masterful story of Isabella Stewart Gardner—creator of one of America’s most stunning museums—an American original whose own life was remade by art. Includes archival photos of Isabella’s world,...

When America First Met China: An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money in the Age of Sail

Ancient China collides with newfangled America in this epic tale of opium smugglers, sea pirates, and dueling clipper ships. Brilliantly illuminating one of the least-understood areas of American history, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin now traces our...

Boards and Spreads: Shareable, Simple Arrangements for Every Meal

Go beyond cheese with 65 recipes for delicious boards and epic spreads, whether you’re in the mood for a girl dinner or appetizers, breakfast, snacks, and more.In Boards & Spreads, you won’t find cheese boards--instead, you’ll...

The Fragrant Flower Garden: Growing, Arranging & Preserving Natural Scents

Make your garden and home look and smell heavenly with this accessible gardening guide that explains how to grow fragrant flowers outdoors and bring natural scents indoors by creating floral arrangements, scented beauty products, and more...

Why We Garden: The Art, Science, Philosophy, and Joy of Gardening

Explore the mystery of what makes us love gardening, via history, science, art, and philosophy.Whether you seek sanctuary in your potting shed, find paradise amongst your patio plants, or enjoy the simply solace of your hands in the soil, there is...

Home In Bloom: Lessons for Creating Floral Beauty in Every Room

A vivid, inspiring look at the role of flowers and plants in interior design through the stunning, wild work of Ariella Chezar.Home in Bloom celebrates the seamless integration of architecture, light, and natural landscapes into Ariella Chezar's...

Dracula, Bram Stoker

With wonderfully detailed covers, sparkling gilt edges, creamy pages and stitched binding, Chilterns Publishing has reimagined the classics into a collection of the most beautiful books published in this genre. Jane Austen’s original books...

Pocket Nature Guide to Flower Finding

Find peace and stillness among the flowers with this lovely pocket guide to observing, identifying, and appreciating wild blooms.Explore the charmed world of flora with this delightful flower book, part of the Pocket Nature series. Learn...

Grace Kelly: The Illustrated World of a Fashion Icon

Grace Kelly: The Illustrated World of a Fashion Icon is a stunning illustrated biography of style and screen legend Grace Kelly, from internationally renowned fashion illustrator Megan Hess.  Oscar-winning actress, muse to one of the greatest...

Rosie Sanders' Roses: A Celebration In Botanical Art

This book will make you stop in your tracks and instantly pick it up – words cannot describe the beauty of this stunning book, all painted by the very talented Rosie Sanders. Award-winning and hugely popular artist Rosie Sanders showcases the...

An American Renaissance: Beaux-Arts Architecture in New York City

The Gilded Age, also referred to as the American Renaissance, is an era associated with unparalleled growth, technological advancement, prosperity, and cultural change. Spanning from the 1870s to the 1930s, it marks the first time that the titans of...

An American in Provence

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLet Jamie Beck transport you to the South of France with An American in Provence: part art book, part travelogue, part memoir, and part cookbook, and perfect for art lovers, Francophiles, and armchair travelers alike.An...

The Pocket Butler by Charles MacPherson

Author Charles MacPherson lays out the essentials of entertaining and business etiquette in this small, easy-to-follow guide. With a combination of his best tips from the first book and a wealth of new information, The Pocket Butler is the...

A Field Guide to American Houses (Revised)

Now in paperback: the fully expanded, updated, and freshly designed second edition of the most comprehensive and widely acclaimed guide to domestic architecture: in print since its original publication in 1984, and acknowledged everywhere as the...

Well Behaved Women Seldom Make History

From admired historian—and coiner of one of feminism's most popular slogans—Laurel Thatcher Ulrich comes an exploration of what it means for women to make history. Ulrich explains how that happened and what it means by looking back at women of...

The Art of the Swap

Hannah Jordan lives in a museum…well, sort of. She is the daughter of the caretaker for mansion-turned-museum The Elms in Newport, Rhode Island. Hannah’s captivated by stories of The Elms’s original occupants, especially Maggie Dunlap, the...

Murder At Chateau Sur Mer - A Gilded Newport Mystery

Late nineteenth-century Newport, Rhode Island, is home to some of America’s wealthiest citizens. For society reporter Emma Cross, a less well-heeled cousin to the illustrious Vanderbilts, trailing gossip and glamour will lead her straight into...

Newport Mansions Cream & Gold Feather Pen

Newport Mansions Cream & Gold Feather Black Ink Ballpoint Pen Letter writing played a crucial role in Newport's Gilded Age society, serving as a primary means of communication for coordinating social engagements, maintaining transatlantic...