Jed Johnson Opulent Restraint Interiors. Edited by Temo Callahan and Tom Cashin. New York: Rizzoli International Publication, Inc., fourth printing hardcover with dust jacket, 2008. 223 pp. A look at the fascinating career of the acclaimed interior designer whose life was cut short in 1996 by the disastrous explosion of TWA Flight 800. It includes Johnson's humble beginnings in Minnesota, his life in the culturally changing times of the late sixties and seventies in New York, his importance in Andy Warhol's life, and his rise to the highest echelons in the rarified world of design and decoration. It tells of his shy humility, generous spirit and quiet grace in spite of his success and acclaim. NPT Books, a division of N.P. Trent Antiques, has a large collection of used and out of print books on art, architecture, decoration and antiques with a focus on 1st editions, signed and limited editions.
