Twenty residences from Manhattan to Southampton fill the pages ofLiving in Style: New York(teNeues, $60), each one selected for being “daring, original, and certainly not predictable,” according to the introduction by the book’s editor, Vanessa Weiner von Bismarck, a German countess who also works as a Manhattan public-relations guru. (Writer Jean Nayar produced the rest of the text). The selections are smart, jazzy, colorful, and often sensationally bold, such as interior designer Jamie Drake’s rainbow-bright Chelsea apartment (originallyfeaturedin金博宝188app网址) and fashion magnate Tommy Hilfiger’s Central Park South penthouse, a mod-baronial spread splashed with Warhols, Basquiats, and Harings.
A few soothingly neutral spaces infiltrate the pages, but the overall look ofLiving with Styleis swellegantly mod, with an emphasis on party-ready pleasure domes. There are vertical gardens (indoors and out), sofas with roller-coaster curves, dining chairs shaped like rib cages, walls paneled with antiqued mirror, acres of button tufting, a staircase carpeted in zebra stripes, and view after view to die for. In fact, the views are likely to be the only unchanging aspects of the homes between this book’s covers. As Weiner von Bismarck cannily explains, style in New York is often as transitory as its inhabitants: “You arrive here, you decide who you want to be, and then you go out and do your best to become that—just as many times and as frequently as you’d care to.”
Living in Style: New York($60) is available now fromteNeues.
