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F rom the funda- mentals to the simply fabulous, everything you need to know about creating a beautiful home is corralled and distilled in the new book Interior Design Master Class: 100 Lessons From America's Finest Designers on the Art of Decoration (Rizzoli, $50), which comes out this month. Think of it as the ultimate design expert's guidebook — on steroids. Inside are detailed musings from 100 of America's most accom- plished designers on topics ranging from theory, structure, restraint, and style to process and inspiration. Images with detailed captions accompany each essay. Carl Dellatore, textile designer and frequent home-magazine contributor, has pulled together a comprehensive guide that picks up where Edith Wharton's essential classic The Decoration of Houses leaves off. In the 120 years since Wharton first admonished against fusty Victorian decoration in favor of classi- cal design principles, generations of new tastemakers have emerged, ushering in the 21st century with fresh ideas and inspiration. This primer's contributors include a mix of established legends and members of the new guard, such as Steven Volpe, Vicente Wolfe, Miles Redd, Martyn Lawrence Bullard, Rose Tarlow, Brad Ford, Darryl Carter, Robert Couturier, and Charlotte Moss, as well as two top Dallas designers who made the cut: Jan Showers and Emily Summers. For an inscribed book, contact curate books@papercitymag.com by Tuesday, October 11. reading B Y R E B E C C A S H E R M A N REQUIRED Room designed by Scott Salvator in a historic New Jersey mansion Manhattan dining room designed by Amanda Nisbet Cigar room designed by Steven Sills in Upstate New York PHOTO BY CHRISTIAN GARIBALDI PHOTO BY ROGER DAVIES/TRUNK ARCHIVE PHOTO BY FRANCOIS HALLARD 78