Category Archives: Palladian-Style

The Enchanting World of Las Tejas

Posted January 7, 2016. Filed in John Saladino, Mediterranean Style, Palladian-Style

Greetings, and Happy New Year to each of you! I have been away from writing for The Art of the Room for some time, I realize. And I apologize for not providing explanation in my last post. But, you see, at the time I had no real inkling I would step away for as long […]

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La Malcontenta

Posted August 19, 2015. Filed in Italian Villas, Palladian-Style

The Apollonian meets the Dionysian as the classical lines of the villa La Malcontenta rise up among the willows of the river Brenta in the Veneto area of Italy. The façade, which is plastered in powdered marble called marmarino, is famed for its Ionic pronaos, or pillared portico. For several years — since 2001, to […]

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The Temple of the Four Seasons

Posted June 17, 2015. Filed in Danile Marot, David Hicks, English Country House Style, English Country Houses, Follies & Pavilions, Neo-Palladian, Palladian-Style, Van Day Truex, Veere Greeney

It is believed that The Temple of the Four Seasons, also referred to as The Temple in Stoke-by-Nayland, was built by architect Robert Taylor sometime around 1750 after he returned to England from his studies in Rome. Resembling his Asgill house, The Temple represents the influence of Italy on the development of his architectural vernacular, […]

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A Man and His Houses, Part III

Posted February 27, 2015. Filed in Palladian-Style, Pleasure Pavilions, Villas, Villas & Villa Style, Wright Ludington

“October Hill” was collector and art patron Wright Ludington’s third and final home in Montecito. After moving to California in 1915 to attend the Tatcher School in Ojai he would make Montecito, California, his home, eventually inheriting his father’s Spanish-Colonial-style villa in 1926 at the age of 27, which he renamed Val Verde (see A […]

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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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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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Oscar de la Renta: Punta Cana, c1990’s – 2014

Posted November 11, 2014. Filed in British Colonial Style, Caribbean Style, Oscar de la Renta, Palladian-Style, Tropical Style

Over thirty years ago Oscar de la Renta developed the sleepy town of Casa de Campo, his homeland in the Dominican Republic, into a luxurious resort where he entertained the jet set at his retreat Casa de Madera (the Wood House – see my post Oscar de la Renta: Casa de Campo c1970’s). The development’s […]

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