建筑师和室内设计师Lee Ledbetter的作品代表了传统细节和时尚现代主义的****的结合。 Lee Ledbetter于1996年在新奥尔良建立了自己的公司，并开发了一系列工作，这些工作源于他融合历史先例以及区域和环境背景的能力。他公司的专业知识让他走出大本营，获得南方之外的专业人士认可。 Ledbetter的室内设计和建筑结合了干净的定制和明亮的现代化与精致和豪华的装饰。 Ledbetter强烈认为设计是与绘画和雕塑并肩的一种精致艺术。他思考家具，艺术品和灯光的位置和规模时与他砌墙和间隔时一样深思熟虑。正如为本书提供标题的Mayer Rus曾在House and Garden中写道那样，Lee Ledbetter很好地反驳了严肃的建筑师也不能成为专注的装饰师这个观点。

The work of architect and interior designer Lee Ledbetter represents a one-of-a-kind combination of traditional details and chic Modernism. Lee Ledbetter established his practice in New Orleans in 1996 and has developed a body of work that emerges from his ability to incorporate historical precedent as well as regional and environmental context, and his firm has received recognition for its expertise well beyond its Deep South roots. Ledbetter s interiors and architecture combine a cleanly tailored and bright modernity with the unapologetic embellishments of refined and luxurious decoration. Ledbetter strongly believes design to be a fine art along with painting and sculpture, and he considers placement and scale of furniture, artwork, and lighting as carefully as he does the creation of walls and the spaces they contain. As Mayer Rus, who provides the text for this title, once wrote in House and Garden, Lee Ledbetter rejects the idea that a serious architect cannot be a dedicated decorator as well.