One Man's Folly: The Exceptional Houses of Furlow Gatewood Book

Some properties are not designed so much as accumulated — each structure added when the moment was right, each room a record of long and particular taste. Furlow Gatewood’s compound in Americus, Georgia is that kind of place, and One Man’s Folly is the rare book that manages to document it without diminishing it. Bunny Williams, who contributed the foreword, has long understood that Gatewood’s eye is not learned but constitutive — the result of a life spent looking.

Book Details

• 224 pages
• 9.3 × 0.99 × 12.2 inches
• Text by Julia Reed; foreword by Bunny Williams
• Published by Rizzoli

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Close friend Bunny Williams writes about the lessons she has learned from this master of discernment. Gatewood's seductive and hospitable Arcadian oasis, with its exquisite and timeless design, will have an enduring impact on the design community.

• 224 pages with tons of color photos
• 9.3 x 0.99 x 12.2 inches
• English text
• Published by Rizzoli

Writer Julia Reed was a contributing editor to Garden & Gun and has authored several books. Bunny Williams is an acclaimed designer and author. Lifestyle photographer Paul Costello's work appears in many publications. Rodney Collins is a regional architectural photographer.

• “You will want to move into the incredibly charming home of Furlow Gatewood. With evocative text by follower southerner Julia Reed, there are few more irresistible volumes around…staying true to one’s vision never looked so good.” –Quintessence
• “European elan and southern charm define a Georgia cottage. Plants don’t normally have enchanting Gothic houses designed for them, nor do peacocks. But both certainly are treated to this service in Furlow Gatewood’s universe—an unlikely compound of five houses and an array of outbuildings…” –Veranda
• “One Man’s Folly is a fascinating look at how the nonagenarian had deployed his vast trove…the rooms are held together by Gatewood’s masterful approach to texture, color, and scale, and by his abiding principle that he only buys what he loves.” –Elle Décor

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