Category Archives: Craig Wright

A Man and His Houses, Part II

Posted February 26, 2015. Filed in Craig Wright, David Hicks, Leonard Stanley, Palladian-Style, Pleasure Pavilions, The Classicists, Villas & Villa Style, Wright Ludington

For many years I was under the impression that Wright Ludington’s villas Hesperides and October Hill were one and the same. I actually discovered Ludington’s final Montecito residence, October Hill, first in a 1983 issue of House & Garden. It wasn’t until I happened upon posts written years later by The Blue Remembered Hills on […]

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ROMANCING THE TABLE

Posted February 13, 2014. Filed in Alidad, Andrew F. Tauber, Axel Vervoordt, Bruno de Caumont, Craig Wright, David Hicks, Dining Rooms, Fisher-Wiseman, François Catroux, Geoffrey Bennison, Hubert de Givenchy, Kalef Alaton, Manuel Canovas, Miles Redd, Nicholas Haslam, Thomas Britt

Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day. Have you booked that enviable cozy banquette set into a discreet niche in your city’s most romantic restaurant? If not, sorry Charlie, you’re too late! At this point in time you will be lucky to score a booth at Applebee’s, which in all directness won’t score the points you’re aiming for. […]

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