Designers Abroad, Michele Keith's follow-up to her highly successful book Designers Here and There, features twenty-two vacation homes of today's top interior designers, exquisitely captured in over 200 lush color photographs. For some, vacation homes offer an opportunity to escape from the office, to shut off, to wind down. For decorators, however, vacation homes mean just the opposite―they provide the opportunity to bring work home as they roam the globe, honing their design sensibilities and expanding collections of treasures. Designers Abroad takes the reader on a tour of the world, from Sri Lanka to South Africa to Sweden, by peeking into the gorgeously appointed homes of renowned interior designers. In lively and dynamic text, Michele Keith explores how they incorporate the distinct and native character a foreign land into their second homes, all the while expressing personal style. Embracing new cultures’ climates, architectural traditions, and indigenous art, fabrics, and furniture, each designer creates a space at once comfortable and glamorous, a place of solace and inspiration. Designers Abroad offers inside peeks into residences ranging from a chic studio in Paris to a house perched on windswept cliffs in Nova Scotia, from a beachside abode nestled among boulders in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, to a former monastery outside Rome dating back to the fifteenth century. Each project is accompanied by the story of how its design was conceived and executed, and how the attributes of each country inspired its owners―including Lars Bolander, Alessandra Branca, Clodagh, Timothy Corrigan, Mica Ertegun, Fisher Weisman, Juan Pablo Molyneux, Juan Montoya, and Cortney and Robert Novogratz, among others. Designers Abroad demonstrates how these designers incorporate their passion for travel into their own interiors, and thus inspires readers to add a touch of the exotic to their own homes. “Take a virtual world tour and explore more than 20 gorgeous vacation homes owned by leading designers including Alessandra Branca, Timothy Corrigan, and Juan Montoya. See how these design icons were influenced and inspired by other cultures.” Amy Elbert, Traditional Home "Boarding now! Michele Keith's new book Designers Abroad is a first-class plane ticket on an international holidaywith top designers, chronicling the tastemakers' second (or third...or fourth) home from Lars Bolander's farmhouse on a Swedish island to Clodagh's County Cork cow shed. You'll feel like you're there, but it's even better than being a houseguest: no hostess present required." New York Observer Home Magazine "Amazon's editors selected this title as a Best Book of the Month in crafts, hobbies & home." "This book is filled with the overwhelming feeling of sun and relaxation... gloriously designed homes.... Grab a cup of tea, along with this book, find a sunny corner and dream yourself away on vacation." —Raina Kattelson, A Stylist's Life "Seeing what designers have done for their own houses is always interesting; seeing what they have done for their private getaways can be even more so as done here."-- Stanley Abercrombie, Interior Design "It's not just wealth, taste and insider knowledge that distinguish the vacation homes of renowned interior designers from the rest. Whereas most people's vacation homes offer an escape from work, for decorators they provide just the opposite -- an opportunity to bring work home in a meaningful way, with room for experimentation. The results appear in "Designers Abroad" featuring 22 vacation homes around the globe." -- Dawn Klingensmith, San Diego Union-Times "Just off the presses in April, author Michele Keith's Designers Abroad takes you on an intimate tour of the chic vacation homes of the world'ls top decorators."-- HudsonMOD "Ever wondered how the pros do it? Designers Abroad, by renowned author Michele Keith, gives an intimate look into 22 vacation homes of top interior designers around the world. From beach-side abodes and mountain retreats, to a former monastery outside of Rome. Owners profiled include Lars Bolander, Alessandra Branca and Fisher Weisman. -- ALTO: Design for Living "The book, 'Designers Abroad - Inside the Vacation Homes of Top Decorators,' is an incredible amalgamation of some of the world's top interior designers and architects as never compiled before. This book delves into the secret lives of the personal vacation homes of Hall of Fame Interior Designers revealing their secret styles and tastes of how they like to live when relaxing specifically in their own holiday retreats overseas." - EcoManta "An interior designer's vacation home is much more than a relaxing place to get away; it's a space to display their craft, artistic vision and design sensibility. In the new book, Designers Abroad, author Michele Keith takes readers on a journey around the world--from Sri Lanka to South Africa--inside the vacation homes of America's top decorators." - Lindsay Silberma