Newport, Rhode Island - celebrated for its stunning seascapes, famous mansions, Jazz Festival, annual Flower Show and world-class sailing - provides an enviable setting for a storied way of life. From Presidents to philanthropists, it is also known for the stylish residents who have summered and socialized here. In this fabled town where privacy is a treasured asset, Living Newport showcases both the heirs of the old guard and the "new" Newport social set; tastemakers all, they have the means and the ability to live anywhere but choose this perennially-favored City by the Sea.How does private Newport entertain, decorate, party, garden, dress? In elegant settings worthy of Masterpiece Theater, social pastimes, rituals and well-earned traditions play out in lush images with Newport's exceptional old-world architecture as the centerpiece. Amusing tales and lively personal anecdotes capture the fresh twist to this distinctive lifestyle. Contents: 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. The book is full of sumptuous photography; even the inside end-papers combine with the inside cover to create a double-page image of a glorious seaside. -- Sandra Matuschka, Newport Daily News ― August 26, 2014 Newport's unique combination of old world architecture & contemporary charm are celebrated as it marks its 375th anniversary. -- SFGate.com ― August 27, 2014 Another side of Newport can be found in the pages of Bettie Bearden Pardee’s Living Newport: Houses, People, Style—sumptuous homes, garden parties, weddings set against mansions, yachting and even the City by the Sea’s Coaching Weekend. This is glamorous Newport, alive and well, beautifully photographed by Mick Hales. -- Tony Laroche ― Providence Journal, December 6, 2014 If you are buying this book as a gift, I urge you to cuddle up with a cup of tea and read this book cover to cover before wrapping. Better yet, buy two copies. You'll want to keep one for yourself to read it again and again. -- Cynthia Bogart, The Daily Basics ― December 2014 The pages are like peering through the windows of some of Newport’s most legendary homes including Oakwood, Clingstone, The Ledges and arguably the most famed, Hammersmith Farm, known as the "summer White House" during the Kennedy administration. -- Andrea E. McHugh, Newport Stylephile ― December 15, 2014 Her most recent coffee table book, Living Newport: House, People, Style, published by Glitterati, gives readers a glimpse into the fabled town where privacy is a treasured asset. -- Jessica Moseley Gordon ― The Entertaining House, June 4, 2015 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," Bearden Pardee served as the host and creative producer of the thirteen-part PBS series The Presidential Palate: Entertaining at the White House. Bearden Pardee and her husband Jonathan reside year-round in Newport.