Joshua Greene

A photography lifer, it wouldn't be a Stretch to say Joshua Greene was born with a camera in his hand. The son of legendary 20th Century Celebrity and Fashion photographer Milton H. Greene, Joshua started printing for his father as a teenager. By age thirteen, he was working in the darkroom at his father's New York studio and eventually became the Studio Manager focusing on print, editing and post-production work. Trained in beauty and fashion, Joshua was invited to work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art with Diana Vreeland in the Costume Institute. The outcomes of their collaboration were the Vanity Fair and Hopsberg catalogs in addition to a book on the Institute's collection entitled "Fabulous Fashion. "Joshua followed his heart photographing people, home furnishings and particularly food. From 1976-1986, he shot The Fashion collections in New York, London, Paris and Milan and did streets in St Tropez. He continued to work for many editorial and service publications and has been published in Vogue, House & Garden, Elle Decor, Victoria, House Beautiful, People In Style, Australian Vogue, Vogue Living and Vogue Entertaining Guide. During the same period of time he produced the first four of Lee Bailey's cookbooks entitled "Country Weekends", "City Foods", "Country Desserts" and "Good Parties. "Food stylist Kevin Crafts collaborated with Joshua on a newer, less stuffy, more casual cookbook entitled, "Desperate Measures", which was extremely well received and also did very well in the marketplace. Well-known decorator, designer and editor Mary Emmerling 'Queen of Country' united with Joshua on a 'Tour de Force' producing seven books in five years on the following titles: "American Country Gardens", "American Holiday Notebook", "American Country Flag Book", "At Home in the Country Cookbook", "American Country Cottages", "Mary Emmerling Decorating Details" and "Mary Emmerling's New Country Collecting". Joshua and the architect DiDi Allen both shared a fondness for Latin food and people and most of all Cuba.

In 1993, they did a small but well-received paperback entitled "Cars of Cuba". Sheila Chefetz, with years of experience as a consultant for retailers and manufacturers in the fashion business, left New York City to follow her heart. Moving to Great Barrington, Massachusetts - the foothills to the Berkshires, she was able to focus on antiques, her true love and passion.

She opened Country Dining Room, a small boutique-style retail store specializing in antiques for the table, which in turn became the name of the first book she did with Joshua in 1993.

"Antiques for the Table" became an instant classic in the field of decorative arts so in 1999, they collaborated again to release the sequel "Modern Antiques for the Table.