Renowned architect Douglas Wright fills his beautifully designed debut book with recent highlights from his stunning portfolio of new houses and renovated dwellings. Wright’s architecture, based in classical tradition and steeped in the historical continuum, has an effortless appeal that crosses styles and periods.

Wright has captured the attention of design aficionados with his breathtaking architectural spaces informed by the spirit and lessons of historical, vernacular, and modern styles for today. Each of the presented residences—from a Queen Anne–style house and a seaside Shingle-style cottage to a modern beach house, a Frank Lloyd Wright–inspired retreat, and a McKim, Mead & White city apartment—is paired with Wright’s painted and penciled sketches, along with floor plans, all of which demonstrate his facility with the history of ornament and contemporary currents. Wright frequently collaborates with the country’s most esteemed interior designers, including Bunny Williams, Cullman & Kravis, Brian J. McCarthy, and the late Amy Lau. Sophisticated yet approachable, Wright’s architecture will tour the reader through the legacy of great buildings and outstanding craftmanship reinterpreted for the contemporary sensibility.

About The Author

Douglas C. Wright Architects is a New York–based firm of architects and interior designers. Over the last fifteen years, it has designed award-winning projects in a variety of historical and contemporary styles nationwide, as well as in Europe, which have been featured in Architectural Digest, Elle Decor, Veranda, Galerie, and The Wall Street Journal. Wright’s projects have also appeared in books by Katie Ridder, Fawn Galli and Molly FitzSimons, Cullman & Kravis, and Stewart Manger, as well as in Parish-Hadley Tree of Life by Brian J. McCarthy and Bunny Williams. In 2023, the firm was honored with the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art’s McKim, Mead & White award for residential architecture. Judith Nasatir is a lifestyle editor who has cowritten many interior design, architecture, and landscape publications. Acclaimed interior designers Bunny Williams and Brian J. McCarthy were both a part of the legendary design firm Parish-Hadley.