From the Library of Diana Vreeland
Let’s suppose you were a total stranger – and a very good friend. That’s a good combination. What would you want to know about me? And how would you go about finding it out? To me the books I’ve read are the gateway. My life has been more influenced by books than by any other […]
![Albert Hadley\'s Astor Library (Feliciano for NY Times)](http://www.the-private-library.com/wp-content/gallery/eyecandy/hadley-astor_-feliciano_0.jpg "\\"Perhaps (Albert Hadley\'s) most celebrated work was the library at the Park Avenue home of Brooke Astor. He transformed a high-ceilinged faux-French drawing room into a strikingly elegant space with red-lacquered shelves and brass trim befitting a client who had given considerable philanthropic support to libraries, especially the New York Public Library.\\" Bruce Weber")
