Potterton Books

06/06/2024

Harry's Bar London
Privately produced publication which was originally intended to be only for the members of the world famous London private dining club which was set up by Mark Birley.
The Savoy Cocktail Book
by Harry Craddock, bartender of the Savoy Hotel in London. It features the most popular cocktails of the time in both breadth and depth, with over 700 recipes.

16/05/2024

Antique Woven Cashmere Sample Album
A 20th Century album has been used to safeguard and protect a French collection of antique textile fragment/pieces which cover early examples of woven cashmere and paisley designs. 43 pages with between 4-8 pieces a page. A fascinating glimpse into the past.

08/04/2024

15/11/2023

Creative Interior Solutions by Vincente Wolf
In this book, celebrated AD100 designer Vicente Wolf shares the expertise he has honed over forty successful years in the business for the first time. Wolf s work is characterized by a passion for integrity and simplicity; a sophisticated sense of space, colour, and ease; masterful handling of furniture, fabrics, and art; and the use of rare antiques and exceptional handcrafted pieces (many acquired on annual globe-trotting voyages).

12/10/2023

Visions of Arcadia: Pavilions and Follies of the Ancien Regime
by Bernd H. Dams and Andrew Zega
Spanning 150 years and the reigns of four kings, the pleasure pavilions, garden follies, and chateaux of Ancien Regime France are fascinating for the stories that surround their creation as well as a visual feast and a delight. Typically the realm of scholars, the subject is given extraordinary life at the hands of the authors, through whose historically accurate, meticulously rendered watercolours the reader comes to see the sometimes grand, sometimes playful, always beautiful buildings, sculpture, and ornament as they were meant to be seen.

25/09/2023

Suzanne Rheinstein: A Welcoming Elegance
Presented are beautifully photographed homes of clients Suzanne Rheinstein has worked with before that reflect a vision of richness tempered by restraint. Her longtime fans will find new inspiration in these pages. Throughout, she shares her ideas of how to live in a relaxed way surrounded by artworks and personal collections. A traditional Georgian library is done in a totally untraditional lacquered green, while a San Francisco town house revamp includes a California room filled with Moroccan rugs and rattan chairs, and a serene retreat has a guesthouse evocative of the bohemian 1970s.

12/07/2023

Shawn Henderson: Interiors in Context by Shawn Henderson & Mayer Rus
Collecting fourteen stunning projects by acclaimed interior designer Shawn Henderson, this monograph illustrates how the designer crafts spaces that reflect the lifestyles of his clients, while embodying the serenity and sophistication that have become Henderson's signature.

15/06/2023

Stephen Sills: A Vision for Design by Stephen Sills
Stephen Sills is renowned for his ability to design not just innovative and beautiful rooms but to establish an all-pervading atmosphere of luxury and calm. Yet the homes he creates are always practical and up to date. He knows that the desire for comfort, functionality, and convenience are constants, but he also understands that the quest for beauty, serenity, and refinement is paramount, and in our ever more frantic and disruptive world only more rare and precious. In his new book, he details all the elements that go into bringing to fruition his harmonious, even poetic vision of living as a creative act.

05/05/2023

Gardens in my Life by Arabella Lennox-Boyd
Arabella Lennox-Boyd is one of the foremost garden designers in the world. She has created some of the country's most stunning private gardens, in addition to commissions for the Serpentine Sackler Gallery and projects for Sting and Trudie Styler.

Looking back over her extraordinary career, Arabella takes us on a tour of the gardens that have had a particular interest or meaning to her. She describes the inspirations that led to the final design and plant combination. Famed for her herbaceous borders and a passionate collector of plants and shrubs, Arabella imparts her expert wisdom on planting and offers practical advice on landscaping.

The book will be illustrated with beautiful photography and accompanied by Arabella's sketches and planting plans.

24/04/2023

More is More is More: Today's Maximalist Interior by Carl Dellatore
Rooms of jewellike colour and glorious pattern. Enchanting lacquered ceilings and geometric floors. Brilliantly massed collections of furniture, objects, and art. Although maximalism has always had a place in interior design practiced by noted decorators such as Dorothy Draper, Sister Parish, and the late Mario Buatta today it is bigger than ever. Thanks to its contemporary practitioners, rooms rich with colour, pattern, and everything else have exploded onto the design scene in recent years. More Is More Is More celebrates the best of this work with page after page of lushly photographed vivid inspiration and ideas.