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"Inspiration : Insider Secrets of the AD100\nArtworks, designs, books, and materials that exhilarate and inform\n\"Any architect would probably say that for inspiration and revivification of body and soul, you can't beat Peter Zumthor's Hotel Therme Vals in Switzerland.\"\n\nPhoto: Luke White/Axiom/Zuma Press\n\"Furniture made by the French architect Jean-Charles Moreux is as fresh today as when he was working in the 1930s and '40s.\"\n\nA circa-1940 limed-oak extension dining table attributed to Moreux. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd. 2012\n\"Bruce Gregga's stripped-down, squared-off, very spare house in Los Angeles\u2014which was featured in Designers' Own Homes [The Knapp Press], an AD book from the 1980s\u2014 is so hello-I'm-moving-in.\"\n\nA pier-table vignette in the residence. Photo: Charles S. White/Cond\u00E9 Nast Archive\n\"Sissinghurst Castle is known for its gardens, but I'm really in love with its Long Library, which is 17 feet wide and 120 feet long. Filled with light and oak and fireplaces, it has everything you need to make a house feel like home.\"\n\nPhoto: National Trust Images\n\"I've just rekindled my fascination with Walter Gay, an American expat artist of the early 20th century who specialized in paintings of interiors. They were interpretations of a space, not exact reproductions, which is intriguing to me. I look to Gay, John Singer Sargent, and Winslow Homer as springboards for creativity.\"\n\nWalter Gay, La Commode, after 1906, Private Collection, Brooklyn. Photo courtesy of the Frick Art &amp;amp; Historical Center, Pittsburgh\n\"Lord Norman Foster's Millennium Bridge in London has always been a marvel to me.\"\n\nPhoto courtesy of Foster + Partners\n\"I'm building a home for myself in upstate New York, so I'm very into gardens and garden books, especially Rick Darke's The American Woodland Garden[Timber Press, 2002].\"\n\nPhoto courtesy of Timber Press\n\"Danish designer Poul Kj\u00E6rholm's PK24 chaise longue resembles a drawn line, quick and beautiful. That swoop has a dynamic, free-form quality.\"\n\nPhoto courtesy of Fritz Hansen\n\"I love the sensual nature of bronze\u2014the material is incredibly beautiful and also has enormous strength. The fact that it will likely outlive most of us is very powerful.\"\n\nMarino in his New York office, surrounded by favorite photographs and bronzes. Photo: Michael Mundy\n\"Nothing compares to experiencing firsthand Oscar Niemeyer's buildings in Brasilia; Le Corbusier's Notre Dame du Haut in Ronchamp, France; Alvar Aalto's Paimio Sanatorium in Finland; or Michelangelo's Piazza del Campidoglio in Rome.\"\n\nNiemeyer's National Congress of Brazil. Photo: Andrew Moore/Cond\u00E9 Nast Archive\n\"I love John Singer Sargent's watercolors, and if I ever resort to a life of crime, it will involve stealing one from the Brooklyn Museum or the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Of my own watercolors, out of a dozen attempts I must be content with the one or two that I'm not disgusted with.\"\n\nA Marc Appleton watercolor. Photo courtesy of Appleton &amp;amp; Assoc. Architects\n\"The vertical stripes of Gene Davis's Washington Color School paintings inspired me to design my signature egg-crate bookcases. I use them to create a wall of color.\"\n\nPhoto: Richard Mandelkorn/Cond\u00E9 Nast Archive\n\"Architect Piero Portaluppi's Villa Necchi Campiglio is the exquisite embodiment of 1930s Milanese elegance\u2014and the primary setting of the 2010 movie I Am Love.\"\n\nPhoto: Giovanni Mereghetti/Alamy\n\"One of my favorite books is The Inspiration of the Past [Viking, 1985], which was written by British architectural historian John Cornforth. It deconstructs and demystifies the decorating process with important examples of interiors by Colefax and Fowler. This book was a bible for me early on\u2014and remains so today.\"\n\nPhoto courtesy of Viking Press\n\"Beauport is the most glorious house museum in America\u2014a decorator's dream.\"\n\nThe Gloucester, Massachusetts home's Golden Step Dining Room. Photo courtesy of Historic New England"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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