Dreamhouse

Penny Drue Baird is an internationally renowned interior designer, known not only for her design talents but also for her knowledge of history and culture. Her delight in all things French is legendary - her first two books, Bringing Paris Home and The New French Interior, were published by The Monacelli Press - but her first priority is creating designs that bring her clients’ tastes and preferences to life. Baird's firm, Dessins, is based in New York and Paris. An AD Top 100 Designer, she is frequently featured in Architectural Digest and other prestigious shelter magazines.

‘Tells you how to be the best client you can be. How to get the most from your decorator. And like Penny’s earlier books - Bringing Paris Home, The New French Interior - it’s filled with ideas to steal, lighting solutions, closet extensions, tricks to shortcut your needs, luxurious touches to look for in your own flea markets.’ - Gael Greene, 'Insatiable Critic'‘To be sure, Penny Drue Baird's work often incorporates salon- and château-like details drawn directly from France - not to mention plenty of finds from the Marché Biron and Marché aux Puces, in Paris. But her rooms are also suffused with a distinctly American tendency toward casual comfort - often filled with soft, upholstered furniture - and many accommodate children in a way that is decidedly un-French. As she proves in Dreamhouse, elegance and practicality are not mutually exclusive.’ - 1st Dibs' Introspective‘Innovative ideas abound in this classic retrospective of interior design. Most of the selected homes feel lived in rather than staged, in spite of the spotlessness. The sampling of styles, locations, and types of homes display's Baird's range and ability to satisfy any client.’ - Publishers Weekly