(Photo courtesy of Clarkson Potter, Random House)

Photo of Vicky Moon & Liza Todd-Tivey (Photo courtesy of Taylor Shapiro)

Author Vicky Moon greeted Liza Todd Tivey this week at a private party in Saratoga Springs, New York to celebrate the publication of her new book: “Equestrian Style: Home Design, Couture, and Collections from the Eclectic to the Elegant.” The reception was hosted by Jeanne Chisholm owner of the Chisholm Gallery, LLC, Fine Equestrian & Sporting Art  (Pine Plains, NY)  in architect Tom Frost’s renovated carriage house on Starbuck Lane which is featured in the book.   Sculptor Liza Todd Tivey’s (daughter of Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Todd) monumental bronze of the famous race horse, Nashua takes up several beautiful pages in the coffee table tome. Thoroughbred race horse owners such as Campbell’s soup heiress Charlotte Weber and DD Matz (of King Ranch and wife of Barbaro’s trainer, Michael Matz) and Hall of Fame trainer Shug McGaughey and his wife, Alison were among those gathered for the celebration. 

Signed copies of Equestrian Style are available at Chisholm Gallery, LLC, Three Factory Lane, Pine Plains, NY 12567 Telephone: 518.398 1246 or visit http://www.chisholmgallery.com 

Interior photo of Chisholm Gallery featured in the book
(Photo courtesy of Kathy Landman Atelier, Amenia, NY)

Images from Equestrian Style

Diana Vreeland, et al.
Man and the Horse
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1984
Beautiful and fascinating catalogue of the landmark Costume Institute exhibition: a must-have for horse lovers. 

Richard Walker 
Savile Row: an Illustrated History 
New York: Rizzoli, 1989 
Fascinating history of the great locus of men’s tailoring.

A selection of our books on great houses is shown below. Many more titles can be found at our gallery in Pine Plains: please visit!

James T. Maher
The Twilight of Splendor
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1975
Hard-to-find study of five of the greatest houses built in the US including Vizcaya and Whitemarsh Hall; a fine work of literature as well as history.

 
The Maharaja of Baroda (text) and Virginia Fass (photographs)
The Palaces of India
London: Collins, 1980
First edition of this marvelous volume with color and black-and-white photos and meticulously researched text.

 
Deborah Turbeville (photos), Louis Auchincloss (text)
Newport Remembered
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1994
Signed by Louis Auchincloss
Turbeville’s remarkable, atmospheric photos of Newport’s great houses.

Jacquetta M. Haley, ed.
Pleasure Grounds: Andrew Jackson Downing and Montgomery Place
Tarrytown, NY: Sleepy Hollow Press, 1988, stated first printing.
A charming collection of writings by Downing, “America’s first professional landscape gardener,” illustrated with 14 watercolors by his collaborator Alexander Jackson Davis, all focused on Montgomery Place the Dutchess County estate of the Livingston family.

Dear Friends: I am excited to let you know that our inventory of rare, unusual and delightful books continues to grow. In addition to our well-known collection of sporting-related titles we have acquired many books about style, décor, great houses and grand people. A few titles are shown below. We will be adding titles to this section of the website continuously so do check back frequently. I invite you to visit my Pine Plains gallery to view the complete inventory of books as well as my collections of sporting art, Indian colonial and Tibetan furniture. I look forward to receiving you at the gallery, -Jeanne Chisholm, the Chisholm Gallery

Horst (photographs), Valentine Lawford (text), Diana Vreeland (foreword)
Vogue’s Book of Houses, Gardens, People
New York: the Viking Press, 1968

Sacheverell Sitwell. 
Great Palaces.
London: Spring Books/Hamlyn Publishing Group Ltd., 1969.
Beautifully designed, authoritative survey.