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$Keeneland: A Thoroughbred Legacy Keeneland\'s history is peopled with fascinating, sometimes brilliant, and occasionally idiosyncratic characters, and the story is inspirational. Join us as we celebrate the seventy-fifth anniversary of this remarkable institution through the pages of \Keeneland: A Thoroughbred Legacy.\$

Keeneland: A Thoroughbred Legacy (104958)
$39.95

$William Yeoward At Home: Elegant Living in Town and Country \William Yeoward At Home\ is all about enjoyment and the joie de vivre of living and entertaining. Whether it is supper for a couple of close friends, a weekend house party for ten or a birthday bash for a hundred, William Yeoward shows you how to create a relaxed and welcoming atmosphere in his usual inimitable and effortless way by revealing how he lives and entertains. Each chapter covers a different style of entertaining, and William highlights all you\'ll need for each occasion. \Rooms for Living\ features the drawing room, living room and guest rooms, focusing on creating comfortable areas to make your guests feel at home. In \Weekend Guests and Entertaining\, William offers his take on the essentials you\'ll need, whether hunting in winter or picnicking in summer. \Garden Living\ covers hosting guests in the garden and summerhouse and how to create stylish outdoor settings. \City Living\ features formal dinners in the dining room and relaxed evenings playing cards and backgammon.$

William Yeoward At Home: Elegant Living in Town and Country (103092)
$35

A Passion for Parties Carolyne Roehm, one of America’s leading tastemakers, trendsetters, and lifestyle experts showcases her passion for entertaining in this glorious sequel to At Home with Carolyne Roehm.

In A Passion for Parties, Carolyne Roehm presents her dazzlingly creative ideas for every kind of event, from a black-and-white dinner dance to a spring tulip celebration. Original themes, detailed decorating tips, gorgeous table settings and floral arrangements, as well as more than forty outstanding and surprisingly easy recipes–are all here to lend your next occasion the sumptuous touches that are the hallmarks of Carolyne Roehm’s style.

The book offers practical advice and inspiration and even a way to partake in these breathtakingly exquisite events, both behind the scenes and as they take place.

Whether it is an intimate Valentine’s Day in Paris or an Autumn Barn Dance for seventy, all of the events depicted here are equally splendid. Organized seasonally, the book features ideas for small gatherings (Christmas Dinner in Aspen) or big blowout events (a Fourth of July dinner with fireworks) and family festivities (a seventy-fifth birthday party, a Dickens-inspired Halloween; a children’s Christmas cookie-decorating party). Recipes include Mini Lemon Crepes Stuffed with Lobster, Chilled Zucchini Soup with Toasted Coconut, Baby Back Ribs with Rhubarb Barbecue Sauce, and Bread Pudding with Bourbon Sauce.

As stunning and stylish as its author, and stamped with her inimitable flair, Carolyne Roehm’s A Passion for Parties is a must for the party planner or daydreamer in us all.

A Passion for Parties (1828)
$50

Charlotte Moss: A Flair for Living Gaufraged leather, a hand-painted porcelain tassel, silk-embroidered cushions on a Louis XIV chair, parquet de Versailles flooring, handcarved book cases. It is the details that transform spaces into eclectic and inspiring environments for living. In an elegant and innovative volume, Charlotte Moss invites us on a lavish tour of every component of a home. From breakfast rooms to powder rooms, sconces to centerpieces, Moss shares her ideas on living graciously, entertaining with exuberance, and expressing refined glamour. Room by room, accent by accent, A Flair for Living is an inspirational design book like none other, presented in an oversized luxury format with original photography.

Charlotte Moss: A Flair for Living (103989)
$65

Equestrian Style Elegant equestrians in impeccable attire; glorious hunt balls held in museums; a procession of regal foxhunting paintings in a home fit for a polo king and his brood—the world of horses is full of imagery. Extending far beyond the stable, the racetrack, and the polo field, our love of all things equine appears everywhere from our closets to our dining rooms.

Now journalist and horse-world fixture Vicky Moon captures the equestrian way of life with an unprecedented peek into dozens of stunning residences. You’ll visit a French-accented mansion decorated with contemporary horse art; an equestrian resort on 395 acres, complete with cottages for rent and a large private collection of carriages; a spa with a swimming pool for horses; and a working barn that Kathryn Ireland decorated to do double duty as a home for a professional horseman, riding instructor, and model whose students included Jackie Kennedy Onassis.

Horse enthusiasts will be delighted to find familiar names and faces of the horse world gracing these luxurious pages, from art masters of the past such as painter George Stubbs and sculptor Herbert Haseltine to today’s most popular artists, including Liza Todd Tivey and Beverly Zimmer. Equestrian devotees, such as the up-and-coming star Mayan Lopez, show jumper Georgina Bloomberg, and the late Allaire du Pont, are profiled with their beloved horses and the collections and fashions that reflect their passions. With beautiful photographs, richly detailed stories, and practical advice, Equestrian Style is certain to inspire horse lovers everywhere to bring a stylish bit of the stable into their homes.

In this luxurious tour through stylish equestrian-themed interiors, Vicky Moon captures the rich details—from the coveted to the quirky—of the art, architecture, clothing, and people inspired by the classic horse motif.

Equestrian style begins with a basic love of horses. It is more than a feisty, wet Jack Russell terrier, a pair of Wellington boots, and a tweed jacket. It goes beyond hanging a hunting print on the dining room wall to actually leaping over stone walls on your favorite hunter. An unspoken equestrian philosophy surpasses wearing an Hermès scarf; it celebrates riding over jumps in an Hermès saddle. Equestrian style reaches its apex among people who not only love horses, but also practically live with them. It is an enduring tradition.

Equestrian Style (94547)
$65

$Houses in My Heart: An International Decorator\'s Colorful Journey \Houses in My Heart is not so much an autobiography as an illustrated memoir,\ writes Charelton Varney in the introduction to this lavish book, which celebrates the interior decorator\'s colorful career. From his days as a young designer at Dorothy Draper & Company Inc. to the culmination of such long term and important projects as the Greenbrier resort, in White Sulfur Springs, West Virginia and the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island, in Michigan, Varney\'s talents and professionalism have elicited the admiration of faithful clients. Early and loyal-for-decades fans of his work, including show business stars Joan Crawford and Ethel Merman, were followed by dozens of clients who gravitated to Varney\'s exuberant personality as well as to his luxurious, bold, and glamorous rooms. Writing in the first person, Varney weaves captivating talesof his decorating adventures, imbued with his own brand of warm humor. Varney offers us rare and surprisingly honest behind-the-scenes glimpses into not only his own personal life but the lives of his fabulous clients - many of whom became lifelong friends. His is a world of what he calls \real glamour,\ one that he was introduced to in 1962 and that, he recalls, was filled with \castles, hotels, resorts, residences, and nightclubs.\ Varney never looked back. Here, more than two dozen of Varney\'s best, most original, and never-before-published projects - including his own private residences - are freshly documented in Michael Arnaud\'s striking, evocative photographs taken all over the United States and in Europe. Houses in My Heart is a wonderful journey, and we invite you to join us.$

Houses in My Heart: An International Decorator's Colorful Journey (53007)
$95

$True Prep: It\'s a Whole New Old World From Lisa Birnbach, the author of The Official Preppy Handbook - and designer Chip Kidd- comes a whole new take on the prep world that Birnbach turned into an international best-selling phenomenon thirty years ago. \True Prep\ is a contemporary look at how the old guard of natural-fiber-loving, dog worshipping, G&T-soaked preppies adapt in the new order of things. Birnbach considers the prep attitude towards money (ambivalent), schools (good investment), wardrobe (now your clothes fit), work (some careers will never be prep), decorating (ask Mummy), scandal (including rehad and prison), and food and drink (with some classic recipes for both). She also looks at weekends (and what to do to get asked back), sports (including sailiing and shopping), weddings, etiquette, music, the internet, and electronic gadgetry, political correctness, reality TV and ... polar fleece. And last but not least: a do it yourself eulogy. With more than 200 original illustrations and photographs, True Prep promises to be a whole new, old sensation.$

True Prep: It's a Whole New Old World (103090)
$19.95

$Oxymoronica: Paradoxical Wit and Wisdom From History\'s Greatest Wordsmiths You won\'t find the word \oxymoronica\ in any dictionary (at least not yet) because Dr. Mardy Grothe introduces it to readers in this delightful collection of 1,400 of the most provocative quotations of all time. From ancient thinkers like Confucius, Aristotle, and St. Augustine to great writers like Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, and G.B. Shaw to modern social observers like Woody Allen and Lily Tomlin, Oxymoronica celebrates the power and beauty of paradoxical thinking. All areas of human activity are explored, including love, sex, and romance, politics, the arts, the literary life, and of course, marriage and family life. The wise and witty observations in this book are as highly entertaining as they are intellectually nourishing and are sure to grab attention of language lovers everywhere. \Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad\ Victor Hugo \To lead the people, walk behind them\ Lao Tzu \You\'d be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap\ Dolly Parton$

Oxymoronica: Paradoxical Wit and Wisdom From History's Greatest Wordsmiths (81710)
$14.99

Bluegrass Winners Cookbook (584)
$19.95

Fish: 77 Great Fish of North America (88443)
$50

Keeneland Entertains: Traditional Bluegrass Hospitality and Favorite Recipes by Fran Taylor (103971)
$39.95