IF YOU TEND TOWARD ENVY, steer clear of Celerie Kemble. The New York-based decorator is beautiful. She designs beautiful interiors. She manages color—even challenging hues like mustard—with the ...

THE reminiscences which Mrs. Kemble has been giving to the world, under two or three different titles, form one of the largest contributions made during the last few years to biographic literature.

Naturally, Mrs. Kemble’s return to Philadelphia, in 1874, stirred memories and associations of an experience which, in a life like hers, actually formed but a single chapter, and which during the busy ...

In her new book, Black and White (and a Bit in Between): Timeless Interiors, Dramatic Accents and Stylish Collections ($50, Clarkson Potter, available Tuesday), Palm Beach-based interior designer ...

Their own private civil war would foreshadow the country's. Fanny Kemble was an abolitionist; her husband Pierce Butler was a slaveholder. With such diametrically opposed views, it's no wonder that ...