penelope rowlands

I’ve contributed articles and essays on cultural subjects to numerous publications and Web sites, among them The New York Times, Vogue, The Daily Beast, The International Herald Tribune, Town and Country, Metropolis, and the Columbia Journalism Review. I’m a former contributing writer to Architectural Digest and have also worked as a critic, reviewing art for Art + Auction and ARTnews and books for the The Wall Street Journal, The San Francisco Chronicle, and other publications.

The books I've written are listed (in reverse chronological order) in the column on the right, beginning with the forthcoming Paris Was Ours. (Click on the titles for more detailed descriptions, as well as ordering information.)

The one just below it, A Dash of Daring: Carmel Snow and her Life in Fashion, Art, and Letters, the biography of the legendary editor-in-chief of Harper’s Bazaar, was published by Atria Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, in hardcover in 2005, in paperback three years later, and in an E-book edition in 2010.

I'm also the author of three illustrated books -- the last ones on the list -- all published by Chronicle Books: Jean Prouvé: Visionary Humanist; Eileen Gray: Modern Alchemist (both 2002); and Weekend Houses (2000).