From Architectural Digest and Abrams comes Private Views: Inside the World's Greatest Homes—a natural expression of AD's role as the international magazine of design. Our field of focus in putting this volume together was nothing less than the entire world.

But how to choose from the best?

For Private Views, as with our magazine, it is a matter of a variety of tastes and locations, the element of discovery, the subtle and sometimes indefinable relationship a home has with its surroundings and, as always, style. Continued...