Real LI

Long Island shows proudly in the new book "Vogue Living: Houses, Gardens, People" (Alfred A. Knopf , $75), out this month. Written by Hamish Bowles with a foreword by Calvin Klein, the book about "spectacular houses and gardens -- owned by celebrated figures in the worlds of fashion, music, art and society" opens with photos of Aerin Lauder's East Hampton Greek Revival home (which once belonged to grandmother Estee, whose 1962 Mercedes is parking out front) and of former Duchess of Marlborough, Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan's study in Southampton.

Also captured from the pages of Vogue over the past two decades is actress Isabella Rossellini's Bellport house, which appeared in the magazine in 1999. She chose the house not only because she found it "magical" but because she could walk to the Long Island Rail Road station (she doesn't drive). She worked with architect Pietro Cicognani to restore the barn on the property, which had been abandoned. "I enjoy fixing houses up," she says. "I think I enjoy the fixing up more than the living!"

Another chapter in the 400-page book features the Springs home of Carolina and Ian Irving, done in the English style. (She's style editor for Vogue Living; he's a Sotheby's auctioneer who handled the 1988 sale of Andy Warhol's collections.) The photos were taken in 2006.