Category Archives: English Country House Style

John Rosselli & Furlow Gatewood

Posted September 23, 2014. Filed in English Country House Style, Gracious Living

The names John Rosselli and Furlow Gatewood ring instantly familiar, two shining stars in the world of interior design – John with his now twenty-two-year old home decor emporium, Treillage, in New York, and Furlow basking in the current fanfare surrounding his charming compound of American Southern Gothic cottages in Georgia. But, did you know […]

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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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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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Hunt Country Style

Posted November 17, 2013. Filed in Antony Childs, C. Z. Guest, Colefax & Fowler, English Country House Style, Gil Schafer, Hunt Country Style, Kerry Joyce, Michael S. Smith, Miles Redd, Parish-Hadley, Ralph Lauren, Robert Kime, Simon Blow, Suzanne Rheinstein, The Great American House, Vincent Fourcade, Ward Denton

The time-honored tradition of the hunt is in full swing, beginning as early as September, despite a 2004 law forbidding the actual killing of foxes in the UK, where it originated in the 16th-century. For true hunt masters and their servants (fellow huntsman, not personal attendants or wait staff) it is the thrill of the […]

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Tughill House

Posted September 13, 2013. Filed in Colefax & Fowler, English Country House Style, Stanley Falconer

Tughill House, the Cotswolds cottage of the late director of Colefax & Fowler, Stanley Falconer, is the epitome of the English country-house — or country-cottage — style, with its rooms designed for comfort, function and understated luxury. Its contents recently went on the block with Christie’s earlier this month, two years after Falconer’s passing. Falconer […]

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