Showing posts with label DDB Book Club. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DDB Book Club. Show all posts

Friday, October 21, 2011

DDB Book Club: Reflections on American Beauty with Jeffrey Bilhuber

Jeffrey Bilhuber needs no introduction—his innovative approach to contemporary design has earned him commissions from high profile clients in the worlds of the arts, media, and business that are regularly featured in the pages of leading national and international shelter magazines. Next week, Jeffrey will bring his newest book The Way Home: Reflections on American Beauty with him to the DDB's next Book Club event.




In The Way Home: Reflections on American Beauty, Jeffrey takes an intimate look at twelve recent projects that embrace tradition while seamlessly accommodating the way we live today. Jeffrey will take us through urban townhouses and lofts, to oceanfront cottages and country estates, sharing the glory in personal style, and celebrated comfort.


Jeffrey is one of a handful of preeminent American decorators who takes his design clues from understanding the importance of history while optimistically looking toward the future. His first book, Jeffrey Bilhuber’s: Design Basics, with a forward by Anna Wintour, is now in its fourth printing. Its follow up, Defining Luxury: The Qualities of Life at Home, continues a tradition of reaching a broad and diverse market.


The event will take place October 25 at 9:30 a.m. at Astra Café on the 14th floor of the DDB. A reception will follow at the Quadrille showroom. For reservations, please call 212-759-2969, or email RSVP@ddbuilding.com.


Friday, September 9, 2011

Event Spotlight: DDB Book Club with Potterton Books

As part of the DDB Design Series, the DDB Book Club is perfect for those with a craze for collecting and adding to their coffee table book anthology. This series brings a selection of engaging authors to the DDB and Potterton Books to celebrate the launch of their fresh releases.


First up is Gladys Montgomery presenting Roots of Rustic in Adirondack Style with her new book An Elegant Wilderness: Great Camps and Grand Lodges of the Adirondacks, 1855-1935.' Gladys will show why and how rustic style has come full circle.




The rustic style has evolved over time into a mannered look that’s quite different from the style’s beginnings in the Victorian period. During the Gilded Age, wealthy New Yorkers—J.P. Morgan, Alfred Vanderbilt, Otto Khan and others—escaped the heat of the city and the formality of the Newport cottage, finding refuge in vast private estates in the Adirondacks. Explore this style through her book that is resurging today in grand proportions.


The event will take place September 13 at 9:30 a.m. at Astra Café on the 14th floor of the DDB. A reception will follow at Andrew Martin showroom. For reservations, please call 212-759-2969, or email RSVP@ddbuilding.com.