Lifestyle and design author Susanna Salk has written many books, including the successful Be Your Own Decorator and At Home with Dogs and Their Designers. She also hosts and coproduces the At Home With video series featuring visits with leading international tastemakers.
"Though Paolo Moschino and Philip Vergleyen’s French bulldog Jack,
who graces the cover of Susanna Salk’s At Home in the English
Countryside: Designers and their Dogs, would not be my choice for a
canine companion (too precious), the pooch does illustrate the
thesis of the book, namely that dogs have the ability to tie a room
together in a way that a Ming vase can’t quite. Through seventeen
chapters, each featuring a famed British interior designer and his
or her dogs—from Labradors to lurchers, Jack Russells to jaunty
spaniels—Salk demonstrates how both canine art, and the dogs
themselves, can alleviate the frightful grandeur of certain country
homes, humanizing us in the process." —NEW CRITERION
"Much to our delight, Salk is back with a follow-up that is sure to
have Anglophiles and their canine compatriots drooling. For At Home
in the English Countryside: Designers and Their Dogs, out last week
from Rizzoli, the author set out with photographer Stacey Bewkes on
a road trip through rural England to visit 19 designers, their
sprawling estates, and their resident pups. The residences—which
range from stately Queen Anne mansions to Tudor farmhouses—are
escapist treats on their own, of course, but they are made even
more delightful by the four-legged friends who animate their
well-appointed interiors. The book captures scenes of levity and
grandeur: leggy whippets lounging on chintz cushions; a dachshund
trotting down a hornbeam tunnel; a pug posing on a vintage Persian
runner. Here, we present a few of our favorite tableaux."
—ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST
"Celebrating British country life, At Home in the English
Countryside: Designers and Their Dogs (Rizzoli; $50) offers
charming design ideas on how to live stylishly with canine
companions. From rose bushes to Retrievers and antique porcelain to
Cavalier King Charles spaniels, some of Great Britain’s best—like
Paolo Moschino and Kit Kemp—take readers on romps all around their
dog-friendly abodes." —ATLANTA HOMES & LIFESTYLES
"You will see that even the most elegant,
stylish, and well-appointed house is
nothing but a shell without its inhabitants,
especially the canine kind. At Home in the English
Countryside features over 200 pages of beautiful images offering
readers a personal, guided tour into some of England’s most
spectacular homes and grounds. While we’re all grounded and
sheltering in place in our homes, there’s never been a better time
to get lost in a gorgeous book such as this." —THE ENTERTAINING
HOUSE
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