SIDE NOTES

A NEW BEAUTY

Published in June, The Well-Dressed Window is a breathtakingly beautiful book— whether or not your interest is drapery. Window dressings are presented through photos of 40 rooms at Winterthur, Henry Francis du Pont’s family home that became a premier decorative-arts museum. The historical revival rooms are stunning; the window dressings, based on scholarship but created in the 1930s–50s, became classics. Drink it in: the woodwork, colors, furniture, textiles. Published by Monacelli Press, through your bookseller. Very different and as notable: Harley MKee’s classic 1973 book on historic masonry has been reissued by the Association for Preservation Technology International. It remains the indispensable reference. Order Introduction to Early American Masonry at apti.org