She comes from one of the great American families–the Butlers–who have had a long and celebrated history in business, exploration, and philanthropy, not to mention their central role in the establishment of polo in the United States and founding the Oak Brook Polo Club over 100 years ago.
Her memoir, Jorie: The Extraordinary Life of Jorie Butler Kent, Visionary and Philanthropist is the story of family and its traditions, of cinematic adventure, of a deep abiding love for nature. Jorie has succeeded in whatever she set her mind to. To name but a few of her achievements: she was a champion equestrian as well as one of the first women to run a championship polo team, a fixture of society from New York to Palm Beach, and an award-winning pioneer of environmentally conscious tourism and conservation in Kenya.
With her business, the world-renowned luxury travel company Abercrombie & Kent, built with Geoffrey Kent, and her charity, Friends of Conservation, bringing her to places as diverse as the plains of the Masai-Mara and the uplands of Papua New-Guinea, Jorie has changed the lives of thousands of people.
Lavishly illustrated and containing stories that include everything from coaching the future King Charles III in polo to birdwatching in central Africa with George Plimpton, Jorie: The Extraordinary Life of Jorie Butler Kent, Visionary and Philanthropist allows the reader to delve into the story of a truly unparalleled life.
Hardcover
336 Pages
9.5" x 12.125"
ISBN: 978-1-938461-55-2
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POINTED LEAF PRESS BRAND: Founded in 2002 by Suzanne Slesin. As a publisher of high quality, photography-driven monographs on personalities (some well-known, some undiscovered) from the worlds of design, architecture, and fashion, we have made it our goal to create books that stand out, both for their unique content and matchless design quality. A book from Pointed Leaf Press is a book like none other. They are visual biographies that envelop and expound—open any of our titles and become immersed in a world re-created on page in extraordinary depth and detail. Intensely researched and illuminated by new photography, each monograph instantly establishes itself as the subject’s authoritative source-book. Informative and always visually engaging, Pointed Leaf Press books are direct links to the ideas, processes, and stories of the designers you love. Each book is a wonderful gift and a great addition to a personal library.
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Suzanne Slesin, Publisher and Editorial Director of Pointed Leaf Press, majored in the History of Art at Wellesley College and graduated from the Courtauld Institute of London University with a MA in the History of Art. She has been involved in the field of home design as an international journalist since the 1970s.
Slesin has been Managing Editor of Industrial Design magazine, Director of Communications and Advertising Manager at Knoll, an editor and writer at New York and Esquire magazines, and for 17 years, was an editor and reporter for the Home Section of The New York Times.
In 1995, she became the Design Editor of the relaunched House & Garden, then Editor-in-Chief of HomeStyle, and in 2003, the Editor of O at Home, an Oprah magazine. Slesin has co-authored over 20 books on design beginning with High-Tech: The Industrial Style and Source Book for the Home (with Joan Kron in 1978) and was the co-author, starting in 1982, of the innovative and trendsetting Style Books that included French Style, English Style, Caribbean Style, and Japanese Style, all published by Clarkson Potter, a division of Random House.
In 2002, Slesin founded Pointed Leaf Press to publish high quality, photography-driven monographs based on personalities in the worlds of interior design, architecture, art, photography, gardens, and fashion, and collecting. The company’s first publication was Over the Top: Helena Rubinstein, Extraordinary Style, Beauty, Art, Fashion, and Design, an illustrated biography based on archival materials, which she researched and wrote, mining her connection as the cosmetics tycoon’s step-granddaughter. Slesin is a member of the Design and Acquisitions Committee at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, NY and is a member of the board of LongHouse Reserve, in East Hampton, NY.
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Frederico Farina has been the creative director of Pointed Leaf Press since 2012. Previously, he was a VP creative director at Ann Taylor and Ann Taylor LOFT, the VP creative director at the advertising agency of FCB New York, as well as the director of visual communications at Cole Haan. Other fashion clients in his past include Abercrombie & Fitch, Giorgio Armani, D&G, Bottega Veneta, and Versace.
Farina began his career designing for various magazines, including Metropolitan Home, TopModel, and Mirabella.