Henri Samuel : Master Of The French Interior

French designer Henri Samuel (1904-1996) believed that a successful interior was one in which an observer never suspected that a decorator had been involved.

During his career, Samuel created environments for his jet-set clientele-Doris Duke, Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, Susan and John Gutfreund, Valentino Garavani, and multiple Rothschilds and Vanderbilts. Such was his expertise that museums such as Versailles and the Metropolitan Museum of Art consulted him on the installation of period rooms.

This book presents some of Samuel's interiors, beginning with his first job assisting Stéphane Boudin of Jansen in the 1920s through postwar Paris society and into the go-go '80s.