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DESIGNER SPOTLIGHT WHAT INTERIOR DECORATORS ARE READING ON THE BEACH By Sarah Parker Young Besides sunscreen, water, cellphone, and towel, books are part and parcel of what we pack in our beach bag. Here, some nationally renowned designers share their favorite design titles and novels to bring along to the seashore.
JAMES SWAN The House at Lobster Cove, by Jane Goodrich George Nixon Black was Boston’s largest taxpayer with little interest in civic affairs. He was listed in the Blue Book but joined no clubs. His magnificent dining room at Kragsyde, his house at Lobster Cove, rarely entertained visitors.
CATHERINE & JUSTINE MACFEE
The Tyranny of Taste, by Jules Lubbock How do countries acquire their distinctive features and appearance, their look or style? In this stimulating book, Jules Lubbock answers this question by focusing on Britain, with its characteristic terraced houses, Georgian squares, postwar slab blocks, and Victorian floral ornamentation.
Behold the Dreamers, by Imbolo Mbue A compulsively readable debut novel about marriage, immigration, class, race, and the trapdoors in the American Dream — the unforgettable story of a young Cameroonian couple making a new life in New York just as the Great Recession upends the economy. Venetian Chic, by Francesca Bortolotto Possati Venetian art connoisseur, interior designer, and hotelier Francesca Bortolotto Possati knows the intricacies of Venice.
ELISSA GRAYER The Cuckoo’s Calling, by Robert Galbraith A brilliant debut mystery in a classic vein: Detective Cormoran Strike investigates a supermodel’s suicide.
KERRIE KELLY
Victoria Hagan: Interior Portraits, by Victoria Hagan The first book to survey the work of this iconic designer, known for her serene new American classic look.
The Identicals, by Elin Hilderbrand Harper Frost is laid-back, easygoing. She doesn’t care what anyone thinks of her. She likes a beer and a shot and wouldn’t be caught dead wearing anything fashionable. She’s inherited her father’s rundown house on Martha’s Vineyard, but she can’t hold down a job, and her latest romantic disaster has the entire island talking.
The Decorated Home, by Meg Braff Everyone wants a house that is filled with grace and charm. Classic yet cheerful, Meg Braff ’s style has a formality that is never studied, and an elegance that is approachable and pretty.
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