by Dominique Browning

 

Drawn from the pages of House & Garden Magazine by its editor-in-chief, Dominique Browning, The Well-Lived Life is a lavish chronicle of America’s continuing education in matters of house, home, and garden over the course of the 20th century. The book surveys the growing confidence and imagination reflected in American interiors and entertaining—the dinners, picnics, and parties of a country dedicated to welcoming others—and the changing definition of home.

 

The Well-Lived Life illuminates the joys Americans have always found in the out-of-doors as it surveys the landscape of our lawns and gardens, from rigid formality to exotic beauty. It also travels to the places we build to get away from it all—the cabins, cottages, and summer palaces where we shed the stress of everyday life. The sumptuous book features the work of such legendary photographers as Irving Penn, Horst P. Horst, John Rawlings, Andre Kertesz, and Alfred Eisenstaedt.