设计界的传奇人物Henri Samuel 认为，观察者完全看不出有室内装修设计师参与的室内设计才是成功的。本书将带领读者进入Samuel的一些具有开创性和启发性的室内设计作品，从他的**份工作开始——20世纪20年代担任Stephane Boudin的助理——一直到战后的巴黎社会，再到蓬勃发展的80年代。在他**的职业生涯期间，Samuel为他的富豪客户群Doris公爵、Sadruddin Aga Khan王子、约翰•古弗兰和苏珊夫妇、瓦伦蒂诺•加拉瓦尼登，以及多位罗斯柴尔德家族的人和范德比尔特家族的人打造过高深精妙的漂亮环境。他是如此专业，以致于连凡尔赛宫和大都会艺术博物馆也要向他咨询时代展示间的装置艺术。Samuel 非常擅长用各种各样的历史风格复制私密空间和用博大精深的方式混合这些风格：现代主义的油画被挂在Empire橱柜的上方，路易十三的家具与东方的物件摆在同一个空间，新古典主义的椅子放在用黄铜和树脂玻璃做的餐桌旁。本书记录了Samuel 的生活、职业生涯，以及他为客户和他自己打造的奢华室内，现在来看，这些房间和它们初次被布置完一样新鲜、有活力。

Design legend Henri Samuel believed that a successful interior was one in which an observer never suspected that a decorator had been involved. This book takes the reader inside some of Samuel s groundbreaking and inspiring interiors, beginning with his first job assisting Stephane Boudin of Jansen in the 1920s through postwar Paris society and into the go-go 80s. During his illustrious career, Samuel created rarefied and beautiful environments for his jet-set clientele Doris Duke, Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, Susan and John Gutfreund, Valentino Garavani, and multiple Rothschilds and Vanderbilts. Such was his expertise that museums such as Versailles and the Metropolitan Museum of Art consulted him on the installation of period rooms. Samuel was a master at reproducing intimate spaces in various historic styles in addition to mixing those styles in an erudite way: modernist paintings were installed over Empire consoles, Louis XIII furniture shared space with Oriental objects, neoclassical chairs were placed beside tables of brass and Plexiglas. This book records Samuel s life, his career, and the luxurious interiors he created for his clients and himself rooms that look as fresh and alive today as they did when they were first arranged. It is a necessary addition to any design library.