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Author Archives: Cristopher
Chez Givenchy: Le Jonchet Revisited
Posted February 18, 2016. Filed in Chateaux, French Country Houses, French Style, Hubert de Givenchy
Like many of you my mind has been drifting to Springtime, the season when everything begins to appear dew fresh and full of promise. The greens are greener, the days longer, and the light stronger. While falling down the rabbits hole that is Pinterest I discovered photos I had never seen before of Hubert de […]
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European Élan in Dallas
Posted February 16, 2016. Filed in Axel Vervoordt, Belgian-Dutch Style, Chinoiserie, Villas & Villa Style
This is the story of a decades-long love affair and fascination with the Far East, and with the tradition of fine European antiques and objects. Long before the Belgian-Dutch look was en vogue in the states Betty Gertz, owner of antiques emporium East & Orient Company in Dallas, Texas, discovered its Old World allure while traveling […]
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Winter Gardens
Posted January 29, 2016. Filed in Axel Vervoordt, Belgian-Dutch Style, Belle Époque, Bunny Williams, Carolyne Roehm, Chateaux, Elsie de Wolfe, Garden R ooms, Gilded Age, Haynes Roberts, Henri Samuel, Interior Illustrations, Jacques Grange, Jean-Louis Deniot, Jeffrey Bilhuber, Lorenzo Castillo, Madeleine Castaing, Mario Buatta, Mark Hampton, Michael S. Smith, Miles Redd, Parish-Hadley, Pierre Bergé, Renzo Mongiardino, Richard Keith Langham, Robert Shapiro, Studio Peregalli, Valentino, Yves Saint Laurent
L’esprit du jardin d’hiver is in the air, a quest for a life-affirming sanctuary in colder climes. Russian royalty dedicated palaces to Winter, as with the sixteen-hundred room Winter Palace of the Romanov’s in St. Petersberg. Emperor Nikolai I decreed that Russian artist Eduard Gau create watercolor renderings of the Winter Palace’s interior, the Russian Empire’s […]
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The Despont Difference
Posted January 22, 2016. Filed in 1920's-1930's Style, Classical Moderne, Clubby, The Aesthetes, The Collectors, Thierry Despont
Architect and decorator Thierry Despont is finally getting his due. Or, perhaps, it’s just a case of a passionate aesthete doing his life’s work happily without much fanfare. Whatever the case, I have long admired his work but remain dismayed by lack of accessibility to his near-forty year ouvre. Even his own website has little […]
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The Men’s Room
Posted January 21, 2016. Filed in Clubby, Mark Hampton, Mens Rooms, Ralph Lauren, Thomas O'Brien, Veere Greeney
Long ago, before the Man Cave, there was the private gentlemen’s club. In the 17th-century the British male aristocracy formed private clubs in which to meet their peers to discuss business and pleasure, make connections, drink, relax, read … and, yes, escape their wives and family obligations. As the middle class became more affluent they, […]
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The Enchanting World of Las Tejas
Greetings, and Happy New Year to each of you! I have been away from writing for The Art of the Room for some time, I realize. And I apologize for not providing explanation in my last post. But, you see, at the time I had no real inkling I would step away for as long […]
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St Giles House
Posted October 27, 2015. Filed in English Country Houses
Personal events in the years of 2004 and 2005 and their memory will forever be emblazoned on the psyche of one Nick Ashley-Cooper of Dorset, England. It was in the year of 2004 that the then twenty-four year old Brit, a techno DJ and events planner living and working in New York City, learned a […]
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At Home with Angelo Donghia
“There are not very many creative designers in America, but Angelo is one of them.” — Halston While Angelo Donghia may have been interior designer to the rich and famous he was, himself, no sybarite. Rather, he was a determined and hard working professional who happened to also appreciate the value of creating attractive and […]
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Angelo Donghia Retrospective
Since I began my blog two years ago I have wanted to write a post about American interior design icon Angelo Donghia. And now, with a retrospective of his work in full swing at the New York School of Interior Design Gallery, there may never be a better time to honor one of America’s […]
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Bunny’s View
Posted September 16, 2015. Filed in American Country Houses, Bunny Williams, English Country House Style, Gracious Living, John Rosselli
As the end of summer closes in my mind wanders to the comfort inherent in the traditions of country house style. The Virginian Nancy Lancaster introduced Americans to the British tradition of shabby gentility, bringing pared down comfort to stately homes and grand gestures to shabby ones, creating comfortable, inviting and elegant rooms, be they […]
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Country Comfort
Posted September 10, 2015. Filed in English Country House Style, English Country Houses, Nicholas Haslam, Paolo Moschino, Philip Vergeylen
The spirit of autumn is on my mind but, thus far, not in the air. The countryside, with its abundance of tress, possesses the promise of changing color. It’s only a matter of time. In the meantime, the comfortably charming and stylish West Sussex country house of interior designers Paolo Moschino and Philip Vergeylen is […]
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La Malcontenta
Posted August 19, 2015. Filed in Italian Villas, Palladian-Style
The Apollonian meets the Dionysian as the classical lines of the villa La Malcontenta rise up among the willows of the river Brenta in the Veneto area of Italy. The façade, which is plastered in powdered marble called marmarino, is famed for its Ionic pronaos, or pillared portico. For several years — since 2001, to […]
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