Three top interior designers—Trudy Dujardin, Gary McBournie, and Barbara Ostrom—introduce sustainability, painterly color, and extravagant showhouse style into the traditional mix

• Comfort Zone: Creating the Eco-Elegant Interior, by Trudy Dujardin | Trudy Dujardin, ASID, LEED AP +ID + C, presents her work as one of the country’s most accomplished interior designers with the signature passion and commitment that made her a pioneer in the sustainable design movement. Dujardin’s fresh approach to interior design emphasizes beautiful, comfortable rooms that reflect thoughtful consideration to healthful materials and the world outside our doors.

• Living Color: A Designer Works Magic with Traditional Interiors, by Gary McBournie | Interior designer Gary McBournie develops each interior with a color palette that matches its surrounding exterior, splashing cool and restful hues for a cottage in New England, shades of lime and papaya in the tropics, and warm sunset tones for a ski house in Montana. Living Color is a must-have for anyone looking to be tickled pink by gorgeous, 21st-century renditions of the comfortably chic American home.

• Curtain Up! Thirty Years of Spectacular Showhouse Rooms, by Barbara Ostrom; Preface by Mario Buatta | A glossy compendium rooms created for the most prestigious designer showhousesin New York, New Jersey, and the Hamptons highlights the imaginative, over-the-top creations of one of the nation’s leading residential designers. It also displays her process from start to finish, as she transforms a gutted, sometimes crumbling, room into a whimsical showcase for unexpected details and imaginative touches that elevate the spirit.