Monthly Archives: April 2015

A Venetian Vision

Posted April 22, 2015. Filed in Eclectic Tradition, Interior Illustrations, Palazzi, Venetian Style

The last remaining vestige of Isabella Stewart Gardner’s Venetian vision for the music room at her Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts, palazzo-style mansion is this oil painting by Martin Mower painted in the late 1890’s. Destroyed at the turn-of-the-20th-century, Mower’s romantic paean to Gardner’s Venetian decorative tradition paints a dreamlike world where 18t-century carved gilt chairs […]

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Prince Charles’ Trematon Castle For Lease

Posted April 21, 2015. Filed in English Country House Style, English Country Houses, Uncategorized

In case you are wondering, I haven’t entered into the arena of real estate nor do I have any agenda from which I may benefit by promoting the sale of one of Prince Charles’ properties, in this case Trematon Castle. No, not in the least, any more so than would The World of Interiors, which featured […]

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Château Fourcas-Hosten: A Return to Glory

Posted April 16, 2015. Filed in Chateaux, Coorengel & Calvagrac, Directoire Style, French Country Houses, Louis XVI-Style

Château Fourcas-Hosten is a dream of a wine estate with a fairy-tale ending. Located in the Listrac appellation in the Médoc region of Bordeaux, it was conceived by Jean-Baptiste Hosten, a lawyer, in the 18th-century, its 116 acres planted with grapevines for as far as the eye could see. It was eventually ceded to the […]

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Mediterranean Blues

Posted April 8, 2015. Filed in Cy Twombly, Italian Villas, Mediterranean Style, Neoclassical, Nicola del Roscio, Uncategorized

The villa of Nicola del Roscio in the ancient fishing village of Gaeta, in the Lazio region of Italy, is quite possibly one of the most enchanting Italian villas I’ve laid my eyes on. My favorite – one I greatly admire and look to for endless inspiration – is the late Cy Twombly’s palazzo apartment […]

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A Southampton Cottage, Now and Then

Posted April 1, 2015. Filed in Chinoiserie, Continental, Cottages, Happy Preppy Chic, Ronald Grimaldi

Two visions – same house – now and then. You may likely recognize the woman welcoming us at her home. She is fashion designer Lorry Newhouse, and her Southampton cottage was featured in the April issue of Elle Decor. The second photo reveals a bit more of the same entrance, long before the front door […]

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