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Forever Hicks
Posted September 17, 2014. Filed in Classic Chic, Classic Contemporary, Classical Moderne, David Hicks
Forty-nine years ago, in 1965, David Hicks decorated this apartment for an undisclosed client, referred to as “Lady X”, comprising two floors running the length of two 1830’s houses overlooking Hyde Park in London. In 2003 his son, Ashley Hicks, was alerted to its preserved state and was encouraged to view it when he was […]
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Swangrove at Badminton House
Posted September 16, 2014. Filed in English Country House Style, English Country Houses, Hunt Country Style, Robert Kime
In the last chapter of three posts featuring the houses of Badminton in Gloucestershire, England, we visit Swangrove, the Duke of Beaufort’s hunting lodge on the Badminton estate. Several years ago the Duke commissioned the venerable Robert Kime to revamp and refresh the neglected “hovel”, as the Duke referred to it, into a respite of […]
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The Cottage at Badminton
Posted September 4, 2014. Filed in Colefax & Fowler, English Country House Style, English Country Houses, Hunt Country Style, Tom Parr, Uncategorized
Today’s post is a continuation of the story of the Somerset’s at Badminton, their ancestral home in the countryside of Gloucestershire, England. In Badminton Revisited we dropped in on David Somerset, the Duke of Beaufort, and the current duchess, at the grand and imposing Badminton House, built in the reign of Charles II and later […]
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Badminton House Revisited
Posted September 2, 2014. Filed in Colefax & Fowler, English Country House Style, English Country Houses, Tom Parr
As a follow-up to the last post, Design Focus on Vivien Greenoch, I want to share more of the grandeur that is Badminton House, and the commission that Greenoch and her senior, the legendary Tom Parr, received in 1984 when the Somersets moved from Badminton Cottage to Badminton House as David Somerset succeeded the Duke […]
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Design Focus on Vivien Greenock
Posted September 1, 2014. Filed in Colefax & Fowler, English Country House Style, English Country Houses, Uncategorized
You may recognize some of the rooms featured in today’s post but most probably, like myself, until now you didn’t know the name of the designer behind the look. The name of the designer in question is Vivien Greenoch. Vivien worked at Colefax and Fowler for twenty-seven years until 2000, at which juncture she broke […]
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Favorite Vintage Ads Friday: Collier Campbell for Martex
Posted August 29, 2014. Filed in Favorite Vintage Ads, John Saladino
Today’s favorite vintage ad was produced in 1983 by Atelier Martex in collaboration with Collier Campbell to introduce their new bedding line, Kashmir. Martex employed interior designers and decorators, with never a mention of their names, to create imagined rooms layered with atmosphere to entice buyers into their secret world. They are some of the best […]
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Throwback Thursday: Charles Sévigny
Posted August 28, 2014. Filed in Charles Sévigny, Mediterranean Style
The other day I grabbed a stack of old, not yet vintage, Architectural Digests from the shelves and rediscovered this beautiful villa designed by American born Parisian interior designer Charles Sévigny. It was featured in the July/August issue of 1973 and, though I purchased this magazine from a dealer only years ago, I am struck […]
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Favorite Vintage Ads Friday: Patterson, Flynn & Martin
Posted August 22, 2014. Filed in Favorite Vintage Ads
Today’s Favorite Friday Vintage Ad features this eclectic and richly appointed room with a resist-dyed canvas floor cloth by Maya for Patterson, Flynn & Martin, shown in “China Gardens with Ribbons”, which was published in Architectural Digest in 1977. Like many of my favorite ads from that era, curated rooms settings like this one are […]
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Throwback Thursday: John Siddeley
Posted August 21, 2014. Filed in Classic Contemporary
Every once in awhile I encounter rooms I’ve never seen before or a designer whose work I’m not familiar with. But this is very rare, as I’ve been consuming interior design and decoration since I was about the age of thirteen. The bookcase in my study is chock-a-block with shelter magazines dating back to the […]
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The Last Swan’s Song: Villar Perosa
For decades people, like myself – who love beautiful houses – have mused about the interior lives at Villar Perosa, the late Gianni Agnelli’s family legacy in the hills of Piedmonte, Italy, overseen today by its chatelaine, Gianni’s widow, Marella – the last of the living “swans”, the affectionate name Truman Capote gave his gaggle […]
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A Blue-And-White Delight
Do you recall Quadrille’s stylish ad campaigns from the 1970’s and 1980’s? I don’t think there was a single one that didn’t captivate me. Aside from loving almost every pattern and colorway they design there was something personal and special about the vignettes they created for their print ads. Recently I introduced a feature on […]
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Favorite Vintage Ads Friday: McGuire Furniture Stinson Beach
Posted August 15, 2014. Filed in Favorite Vintage Ads, McGuire
Our week’s vacation in Stinson Beach is coming to an end, and I couldn’t think of a more appropriate ad campaign than this McGuire Furniture advertisement set at Elinor and John McGuire’s Stinson Beach retreat in 1992 – four years after the completion of their Joseph Esherick built cedar clad pavilion with interiors by Andrew […]
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