As editor at Rizzoli International Publications from 2000 through 2024, it was Douglas’s great privilege to edit more than two hundred deeply illustrated and thoughtfully composed books. Over the course of his tenure, he collaborated with a diverse array of profoundly creative individuals, so many at the very pinnacles of their respective professions. Writers, architects, landscape architects, interior designers, movie actors, film producers, graphic designers, historians, photographers, librarians, museum curators, academics, and artists of many kinds. Organizations with which he worked include such esteemed institutions as The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Fallingwater/The Western Pennsylvania Conservancy, The Guggenheim Museum, The Art Institute of Chicago, The United Nations, The Chicago Architecture Foundation, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the Institute of Classical Architecture and Art, Portland Japanese Garden, the California Art Club, the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Furthermore/The J.M. Kaplan Fund, and others.

With an emphasis on architecture, his work ranged across a variety of related (and sometimes not so related) fields, including landscape architecture, interior design, photography, fine arts, gardens, cartography, cultural history, urban planning, and design history. Below is a representative selection of titles from this period on which it was his honor to play a role.