Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This unique book of 36 spectacular houses and gardens - whose owners include Madonna, Donna Karan, Christian Louboutin and Karl Lagerfeld to name a few - draws not only on stories that have appeared in Vogue and Vogue Living over the past two decades, but also on previously unpublished images. These dazzling photographs take readers into the style-makers' private realms - bringing to life interiors and exteriors that are both inspiring and transporting. Features photographs by Mario Testino, Cecil Beaton, Annie Leibovitz and many more!

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Library Journal Review

Business success brings privilege. Celebrity, which can feed business success, brings privilege. Large inheritance brings privilege. Entry to the privileged class can also be inherited. This hefty volume is a robust tribute in scrapbook form to the homes, rooms, gardens, lawns, clothes, fabrics, colors, art, and so on of privileged people. The images celebrate grandeur where more had better be more to prove the point. These are fine photographs of luxury-beautiful lifestyles in beautiful wrappers. But quality photography is hardly the point here. This is a peepshow exposing stone, mahogany, rugs from heaven, art from the gods, and the highest level of our species calling this rarified world home and lolling around inside it in front of a camera lens. But instead of recommending this book, this reviewer suggests subscribing to Vogue magazine instead, because it's at least good for the economy.-David Bryant, New Canaan Lib., CT (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Booklist Review

Nearly 40 years after the first Vogue Houses, Garden, People debuted, another appears as glorious as the first, yet with a different aesthetic that sets the time squarely in the millennium. As to be expected, the collection of 36 homes and celebrities is breathtaking, more so when considering the theme: the symbiosis between fashion and decor. Names such as shoe designer Christian Louboutin and mistress-of-music Madonna join such not-so-well-known luminaries as Lisa Perry, Marian Rust, and Janet de Botton, showcased in decors as various as western U.S. ranch and Marrakech villa. Color photographs are copious, shot by name-brand artists (Bruce Weber, among others). Personalities are captured as only an international luxury magazine can; imagine Isabella Rossellini, with a barn-home in Bellport, New York, confessing one reason for buying the property: I don't drive and you can get here on the train. Or the phenomenally diverse four residences of Karl Lagerfeld. And the final touch: a foreword from Calvin Klein, with the introduction from Hamish Bowles. Move over, Robin Leach.--Jacobs, Barbara Copyright 2007 Booklist