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Throwback Thursday: Mario Buatta Kips Bay Showhouse Room
Posted July 17, 2014. Filed in Anglo-American Style, English Country House Style, Mario Buatta, Uncategorized
For this Thursday’s throwback room we revisit a cozy retreat decorated by Mario Buatta for the Kips Bay Showhouse sometime in the 1970’s. In a glance we recognize his trademarks – an abundance of floral chintz, painted furniture, slipper chairs and chinoiserie. But, what of the bows, you ask? They’re there, above, painted on to […]
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The Wrightsman Rooms
“Palm Beach Fable”: that was the headline for an article written by Rosamond Bernier for the May, 1984, issue of House & Garden, featuring the famous but never-before-published rooms of Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Wrightsman. In the same month of the following year the property would be sold and its contents put on the […]
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Château Pouy-sur-Vannes
Posted July 15, 2014. Filed in Chateaux, Juan Pablo Molyneux
Maximalist interior decorator Juan Pablo Molyneux recently transformed a château in Pouy-sur-Vannes, about two hours outside Paris, for himself as an intimate respite from his harried schedule in Paris, where he lives in a 17th-century hôtel particulier. The 40,000 square foot château may not be most anyone’s idea of intimate, but Molyneux succeeded in orchestrating […]
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BAROQUE FANTASIA IN PEBBLE BEACH
In the latest issue of Architectural Digest Chilean-born interior designer Juan Pablo Molyneux conjured an exuberant confection of blue-and-white for the dining room of an old friend and client who purchased a 1920’s Spanish-Colonial-style villa sited on a dramatic bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean in tony Pebble Beach, California. This isn’t the first time we’ve […]
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The American Dream
Posted July 3, 2014. Filed in American Style: Retreats
Surfboards lined up along the garage of a Newport, Rhode Island, estate, welcome the arrival of summer and the time to take it easy. Photo by Oberto Gili. The American home is the American Dream, a reflection of our heritage – from our pioneer roots to the classic charm of our colonial past. As we […]
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Villa Tre Ville – Then and Now
Posted June 26, 2014. Filed in Mediterranean Style, Orientalism, Renzo Mongiardino, Uncategorized, Villas
The opening introduction on Villa Tre Ville’s website – the Amalfitani home of Franco Zeffirelli until 2009 – reads: At Villa Tre Ville, there has always been an atmosphere of art and culture. The property was bought around the 1920s by Mikhail Semenov, the Russian writer, who was the first to gather around him that […]
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A TALE OF TWO VILLAS
Posted June 18, 2014. Filed in Emilio Terry, Mediterranean Style, Romantic Classical Style, Tuscan Style, Villas
The Amalfi Coast may very well be my favorite destination. The winding, vertiginous coastline – defined by calcareous-dolomitic rock formations – plunges into the Tyrranean Sea, creating a dramatic landscape spotted with mountain-hugging towns and sun-kissed dwellings. The air, scented with lemon (an Amalfitani staple), Mediterranean scrub, local herbs, and the sea mix to produce […]
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Favorite Vintage Ad Friday: McGuire Furniture
Posted June 13, 2014. Filed in Favorite Vintage Ads, McGuire
Today’s “Favorite Vintage Ad Friday” features an advertisement by McGuire furniture printed in 1977. For many years McGuire advertised in House & Garden and Architectural Digest magazines on a monthly basis, setting the standard for high-quality, elegantly curated settings, and often photographed in the McGuire’s own residences and the homes of interior designers and their […]
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Throwback Thursday: François Catroux c. 1977
Posted June 12, 2014. Filed in Classic Contemporary, François Catroux
Today’s post is the second installment of Throwback Thursday featuring one of interior designer François Catroux’s early commissions for a bachelor, who had just purchased a spacious apartment in a grand and old elegant building in one of Paris’s most fashionable sections. Catroux’s new client’s apartment was well-suited to his maxim that the best of […]
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Aziyadé
You’ve been blindfolded, escorted by private car to a waiting private plane, where you’ll board with your host for an unknown destination – a surprise gift from your highly imaginative and devilish confidant. In flight you’re allowed to remove the blindfold, take in the appointments of the luxurious cabin, sip champagne and press your host […]
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SPARE SIMPLICITY IN ST. TROPEZ
Several years ago Frédéric Méchiche decided upon a 17th-century house in the Ponche district of St. Tropez as a retreat before its being published by The World of Interiors in 2005. His vision was not to reproduce, what he refers to as, the “Provençaleries” rife throughout the region – those quaint and cozy country French […]
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Favorite Vintage Ads Friday: Rose Cumming
Posted June 6, 2014. Filed in Favorite Vintage Ads
I’ve been trying to come up with something that would make it easier for me to post more frequently, especially on Friday when I’m usually out the door and hopefully off to a relaxing respite somewhere. The answer came when I was thumbing through old House and Garden magazines from the 80’s and rediscovered ads […]
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