Category Archives: Bunny Williams

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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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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A Winter’s Respite

Posted January 20, 2015. Filed in Amanda Lindroth, Andrew Raquet, Angelo Donghia, British Colonial Style, Bunny Mellon, Bunny Williams, Caribbean Style, Christian Liagre, Colefax & Fowler, Genevieve Faure, Grant White, India Hicks, John Stefanidis, Miles Redd, Nancy Lancaster, Nicholas Haslam, Oliver Mesel, Palladian-Style, Plantation Style, Tom Scheerer, Tropical Style

Following the embracing warmth and good cheer of the holiday season January can sometimes seem anticlimactic – a tad boring, if not completely gray, cold and depressing. Fresh from a winter’s week-long respite in Jamaica I feel rejuvenated, energized and positively upbeat. There is nothing like the tonic of the Caribbean’s blue skies and crystal […]

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Puttin’ On the Ritz

Posted December 23, 2014. Filed in Alex Papacrhistidis, Bill Sofield, Bunny Williams, Dorothy Draper, Eclectic Glamour, Eclectic Tradition, Haynes Roberts, Holidays, Jean-Louis Deniot, Luxe Moderne, Madcap Glamour, Mario Buatta, McMillen Inc., Michael S. Smith, Miles Redd, Modern Glamour, Moderne, Nancy Lancaster, Neo-Baroque

 Now if you’re blue and you don’t know where to go to, why don’t you go where fashion sits? Puttin’ on the Ritz Puttin’ on the Ritz, a turn of phrase coined by Irving Berlin in 1929 for the song of the same name, was a slang expression to indicate “dressing stylishly”, inspired by London’s […]

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Traditional American Comfort

Posted November 25, 2014. Filed in Anglo-American Style, Bill Sofield, Bunny Williams, David Easton, English Country House Style, Gil Schafer, Jeffrey Bilhuber, Mark Hampton, Michael S. Smith, Miles Redd, Peter Dunham, Rose Tarlow, The Great American House

When I think of American traditions and our ideas of comfort I cannot separate those ideals from those of our country’s forefathers, the British. Invariably, English style decor figures into the dreamscape of our collective imagination when we design and build our traditional edifices, whether they be Georgian-style manors, British Colonial-style plantations, Regency-style townhouses or […]

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The Allure of Orange

Posted November 10, 2013. Filed in Atelier AM, Axel Vervoordt, Billy Baldwin, Bunny Williams, Charlotte Moss, David Hicks, Erin Lauder, Gil Schafer, Henri Samuel, Jean-Phillipe Demeyer, Jeffrey Bilhuber, Mario Buatta, Markham Roberts, Miles Redd, Nancy Lancaster, Orange, Richard Keith Langham, Robert Couturier, Scott Lamb, Stephen Sills, Steven Gambrel, Suzanne Rheinstein, Thomas Britt, Tony Ingrao

Orange as a color for decorating, or sartorial considerations for that matter, doesn’t often enter my design vocabulary for whatever reason. However, autumn is my favorite of the seasons and I practically become giddy with excitement at the first sign of autumn’s golden yellows, glowing oranges, and fiery reds. The color orange radiates warmth  and […]

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Hello, Yellow!

Posted September 23, 2013. Filed in Albert Hadley, Alex Papacrhistidis, Allison Spear, Axel Vervoordt, Billy Baldwin, Bunny Williams, Carrier & Company, Christopher Maya, David Hicks, David Kleinberg, Ernest de la Torre, Jasper Conran, Jeffrey Bilhuber, Maison Jansen, Mario Buatta, Mary McDonald, Michael Taylor, Miles Redd, Nancy Lancaster, Stéphane Boudin, Stephen Sills, Steven Gambrel, Veere Greeney, Yellow Rooms

The color yellow has been getting its due lately. In just the past few months it seems to be popping optimistically from the pages of shelter magazines and design books. Perhaps it is a reflection of the times in which we live, with sights set on a brighter future, or a longing and remembrance of […]

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