Design Books Archives - Quintessence

At Home with Sara Story in her Gramercy Park Brownstone

When seven months pregnant with her first child and apartment hunting in New York City, designer Sara Story received a… Read More

Inspired by an article they read, shop owner and author Ted Kennedy Watson and partner Ted Sive read, they decided… Read More

When designer Caleb Anderson of DRAKE/ANDERSON purchased his 1926 Manhattan apartment, it hadn’t been touched in years. Belonging to the… Read More

Little did we know, when Susanna Salk and I first embarked on our video collaboration nine years ago, where and… Read More

The house was a wreck, filled with years of hoarding, one room overflowing with 500 dolls, but Pieter Estersohn was… Read More

As designer Markham Roberts explains in his inspiring new book, Notes on Decorating, “There are thousands of moving parts that… Read More

Madeline Stuart may have come to her current career in design via a somewhat circuitous route, yet it is clear… Read More

Cathy Graham‘s party invites have always been some of the most coveted on the upper east side of New York… Read More

Yesterday, when single digits here in New England shocked us into acknowledging that winter was just getting started, a post by… Read More

We have celebrated Carolyne Roehm’s many talents here before – in the garden, setting the table, the renovation and decoration… Read More

With design attributed to François Mansart (architect to Louis XIV) and gardens inspired by, if not actually designed by Le… Read More

Not only is my talented video partner Susanna Salk an insightful interviewer on our YouTube series, but a creative and… Read More