Albert Hadley: The Story of America's Preeminent Interior Designer

Here, in his own words, is the first complete look at the career of Albert Hadley, legendary interior designer and icon of twentieth century taste. An illustrated celebration of more than half a century of stunning interiors work, the book explores Hadley's personal and professional influences, tracing the path of a career that brought him into contact with all of the major figures in twentieth century design: first as a student and then a professor at Parsons School of Design, where he became a close friend of Billy Baldwin and was by turn a student, friend, and colleague of Van Day Truex; to his years working with Eleanor Brown at McMillen, Inc.; to his influential partnership, Parish Hadley, with the venerable Sister Parish; to his current work as the head of Albert Hadley, Inc. Exploring Hadley's design philosophy and process in great detail, the book spans Hadley's career, covering the rooms that made design history, from the magnificent Rosedown Plantation to the Kennedy White House to Mrs. Brooke Astor's library, as well as Hadley's own homes and the evolution of his personal style of the years.
Enriched with dozens of new and archival images, as well as Hadley's acclaimed sketches and a catalogue raisonne listing every major article and book written about Hadley's work, Albert Hadley is the definitive, exclusive look at one of the most brilliant designers this country has ever seen.

Adam Lewis is the author of Van Day Truex, a biography of the great style icon of the late twentieth century.