On Our Bookshelves: "A Room of Her Own," With Living Spaces of Creative Women

Photography via A Room of Her Own

New from Australia-based writer and photographer Robyn Lea is A Room of Her Own: Inside the Homes and Lives of Creative Women, equal parts biography and interior design study, featuring 20 artistically inclined women around the world and their living spaces. Here’s a glimpse:

The living room in fashion designer Marta Ferri’s Milan home, with a suite of deep olive velvet Paul Sofas designed by Vincent Van Duysen.

The games room in Marta Ferri’s Milan home, with a feature wall adorned with framed vintage silverware-design drawings.

Vibrantly hued dresses on display in Marta Ferri’s Milan studio.

Artist Lisbeth McCoy in her Tribeca studio, with her work Untitled I, 2016, displayed in the foreground.

A light-filled reading corner in Lisbeth McCoy’s Tribeca studio.

The entrance of Arniano in Tuscany, where interior designer Camilla Guinness lives part-time with her daughters, has curvaceous shapes.

Camilla's daughter Amber, an accomplished chef and author of the forthcoming cookbook A House Party in Italy, prepares lunch for friends in the kitchen of Arniano.

Camilla designed much of the garden furniture at Arniano,  including these day beds dressed in bold red and white stripes.