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An Elle Decor Top Design Coffee Table Book of Fall 2025 An Architectural Digest Best Design Book of Fall 2025 An interior-design book by renowned interior designer Penny Drue Baird that features 12 distinctiveresidential projects across the United States, with a focus on full-pageimages and in-depth designer insights. PowerHouse: Interior Designs for Self, Style, and Sanctuary invitesreaders into a collection of distinctive homes across the UnitedStates, each an expression of its owner’s spirit and style. Known forher “couture” approach to interiors, Baird combines her expertise indesign with her background in psychology to create homes that are equalparts refuge, celebration, and sanctuary. This stunning volume showcases sumptuous contemporary and traditionalhomes, from apartments in New York City and Hamptons beach retreats andmountain getaways, West Coast deserts, and more. In each project, Baird’s design process bringstogether a unique trifecta: the location, the look and feel, and theindividual personality of the client. By blending these three elements,Baird tailors every home to the specific needs and desires of its owner,resulting in a space that enhances their sense of well-being, beauty,and personal expression. Key Features: Personal sanctuaries: Each project showcases Baird’s talent for translating individual client needs into uniquely expressive spaces.Sumptuous full-bleed images: Lavish photographyimmerses readers in the elegance of each design, capturing the beautyand atmosphere of the homes in stunning detail.Design and the psychological underpinning of home:Baird’s background in psychology informs her understanding of howatmosphere affects well-being, and she discusses her in-depth thoughtprocesses surrounding each project.Trend-free style: Timeless materials and thoughtful details ensure these designs transcend fleeting trends.Behind-the-scenes insights: Baird shares her experience of sourcing furnishings from diverse markets, antique dealers, galleries, and auctions.Distinctive locations: Projects span New YorkCity; the Hamptons; La Quinta, CA; Montecito, CA; Vail, CO;Williamstown, MA; Cresskill, NJ; and Atherton, CA.Each chapter in PowerHouse offers insight into howenvironment and atmosphere foster emotional well-being, strength, andjoy, creating spaces where anyone can feel truly at home.

Architectural Digest Top 100 interior designer Penny Drue Baird’s rooms are universally admired for their seamless weaving of past and present. From luxurious Manhattan apartments and a jewel-toned Parisian pied-à-terre, to family homes in Connecticut and New Jersey, and a whimsical Bucks County barn, Baird’s work is the result of deep client relationships that have lasted for decades.A Tudor-style house is redesigned to feel fresher as its owners’ tastes mature, an airy Beverly Hills villa follows a young bachelor’s first apartment in The San Remo, and sumptuous fabrics and textures provide a modern backdrop for the vintage collections of “the chicest person Baird knows.”Baird incorporates bold architectural gestures - tufted niches, gold-leaf and turquoise coffered ceilings, classical moldings and other made-from-scratch details - with fabrics from taffeta to practical corduroy, and unexpected finishes like mother of pearl and strié painted walls, trompe l’oeil limestone, classic bead board, or end-grain wood wallpaper. In his warmly written foreword, Mario Buatta lauds her skill and taste in sourcing unique pieces for each room.Art Deco cabinets, Sputnik chandeliers, and gracious European antiques discovered in France, England, and Italy are received with the same delight as salvaged barn siding and old crates. Au courant but never trendy, with elements both classical and contemporary, each dreamhouse is infused with Penny Drue Baird’s irresistible sense of romance, charm, and joie de vivre.

Crown moldings or cabinetry? Vintage or Victorian? Orange or ocher? Successful interior design - creative, comfortable rooms with a personal touch - is built from layer upon layer of colour, texture, pattern, embellishment, and more. But the plethora of choices available in the early twenty-first century has made it almost impossible to assemble these layers thoughtfully. Prominent decorator and author Penny Drue Baird is here to help with On Interior Design, an incisive exploration of the essential aspects of contemporary interiors.Baird considers architectural details, furniture, colour, fabric, flooring, lighting, and accessories, offering equal servings of expertise, history, and recommendation. She illustrates her topics with dozens of photographs of her own work, from apartments in New York City to houses in the Hamptons and Palm Beach to a residence in Paris. Building on her three previous books, in On Interior Design Baird imparts the lessons and principles gleaned from her thirty-plus years in practice.