Arts & Architecture

The Newport Experience

The Preservation Society of Newport County gives more than 1 million tours to visitors from over 100 countries annually, making it one of the most-visited museums in New England. The Society has welcomed 40 million visitors since its founding in 1945...

Lost Newport: Third Edition

Featuring more than 190 vintage views of cottages built from the early nineteeth century to the early twentieth century, Lost Newport recreates 59 summer houses, now lost, in an evocative guide that gives depth to any Newport experience. softcover 199...

The Gilded Life of Richard Morris Hunt: Architecture and Art for an American Civilization

The illustrated story of the life and times of architect Richard Morris Hunt, his forty-year career, and his impact on American culture after the Civil War. Celebrated internationally in the nineteenth century as America’s premier architect,...

Newport Cottages: 1835-1890 The Summer Villas Before the Vanderbilt Era

Advance copies available exclusively at Newport Style! A compelling account of the luxury and splendor of Newport's nineteenth-century summer “cottages.” In his latest contribution to America's architectural record, Michael C. Kathrens gives...

How to Read Buildings: A Crash Course in Architectural Styles

This practical primer is a handbook for decoding a building's style, history, and evolution. Every building contains clues embedded in its design that identify not only its architectural style but also the story of who designed it, who it was built for,...

Julian Abele: Architect and the Beaux Arts

Julian Abele, Architect and the Beaux Arts uncovers the life of one of the first beaux arts trained African American architects. Overcoming racial segregation at the beginning of the twentieth century, Abele received his...

How to Read Houses - A Crash Course in Domestic Architecture

By Will JonesSmall enough to fit in a pocket yet serious enough to provide real answers, this charmingly illustrated book is the ultimate field guide to domestic architecture. This sixth entry in the hugely popular How to Read series is a one-stop guide...

A History of New York in 27 Buildings

by Sam Roberts From the urban affairs correspondent of the New York Times--the story of a city through twenty-seven structures that define it.As New York is poised to celebrate its four hundredth anniversary, New York Times correspondent...

Newport the Artful City

Written by John R. Tschirch Newport: The Artful City is a richly illustrated portrait of Newport, Rhode Island as a work of urban art, from colonial times to the present, both documented and celebrated in the maps, paintings, photographs, poetry and...

The Decoration Of Houses: New Edition

In addition to her fame as a novelist, Edith Wharton has now been recognized as an arbiter of taste and correct usage in the making of domestic interior rooms, and Odgen Codman, Jr., has achieved recognition as a revivalist architect of the first rank...

Cheekwood

Written by Leslie Jones, Preservation Society of Newport County Director of Museum Affairs. One of the finest remaining American Country Place era estates in the nation, Cheekwood is a 55-acre historic estate, comprised of a botanical garden, arboretum,...

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...

Edith Wharton at Home: Life at The Mount

By: Richard Guy Wilson The Mount, Edith Wharton’s country place in the Berkshires, is truly an autobiographical house. There Wharton wrote some of her best-known and successful novels, including Ethan Frome and House of Mirth. The house itself,...

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...

Cocktails with a Curator

Cocktails with a Curator joins the engaging histories of works of art with creatively inspired cocktails—a crash course in art history and a delightful introduction to the treasures of the esteemed New York collection.Based on the critically...

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,...

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...

American Modern Home

Readers will respond to American Modern Home, the warm and sophisticated work of Hugh and Simon Jacobsen, whose style of architecture and interiors might best be described as American modern vernacular—the place where traditional comfort and modern...

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...

How to Read Modern Buildings

Small enough to fit in a pocket yet serious enough to provide real answers, this is the ultimate field guide to understanding modern architecture. This volume takes the reader on a tour of modern architecture through its most iconic and significant...