Bettie Bearden Pardee is the author of Private Newport, At Home and in the Garden. An accomplished hostess and active community leader, her home, Parterre, provides the ideal setting for carrying on Newport's tradition of gracious living. Chair of many events that are staples of the social season, including the Newport Flower Show, she is additionally the author of two books on entertaining. A former contributing editor to Bon Appetit, where she produced Entertaining with Style, Pardee was also host and creative producer of the thirteen-part PBS series The Presidential Palate: Entertaining at the White House. Photographer Mick Hales has worked with leading architects, designers, and editors to publish over 35 books featuring interiors, gardens, flower arranging and food. He is a regular contributor to magazines and has photographed for over 40 throughout the world.

Spring: Opening the Garden for the Season; Wm. K. Vanderbilt's Firehouse; Neoclassical Reinterpreted; Preamble to a Wedding. Summer: Return to Camelot; Calling on Good Friends; An Enticing Day on the Bay; Sea Views at Seaweed; Mr. Fleming's Follies. Autumn: Commodore James's Aloha Landing; On the Rocks at Price's Neck; The Twin Pleasures of Elm Court; Romantic Oakwood; Re-Visiting McKim, Mead & White. Winter: The Library at Ocean View; A Writer's Lair; Christmas by Design.