This undated photo provided by The Monacelli Press shows a photograph of a New York apartment featured in the book "Classical Principles for Modern Design: Lessons From Edith Wharton and Ogden ...

ALBANY, N.Y. — While Edith Wharton is well known for her fiction, little scholarly work has been done on her contributions to landscape design and the gardens she created at The Mount, her estate in ...

Edith Wharton, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author famous for novels set in the late 19th century, also wrote an influential book on interior design, long considered a sort of bible of American decorating ...