An Aesthete's Lament
10 February 2011

Well Said: Sir Nikolaus Pevsner

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"A bicycle shed is a building; Lincoln Cathedral is a piece of architecture. Nearly everything that encloses space on a scale suff...
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09 February 2011

The Other Lanvin

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Soprano, pianist, patron of the arts, and heiress to the Lanvin fashion fortune founded by her mother, Marie-Blanche de Polignac is shown ...
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08 February 2011

Well Said: Marie-Hélène de Rothschild

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Baroness Guy de Rothschild (née Baroness Marie-Hélène Naïla Stéphanie Josina van Zuylen van Nyevelt) at a movie premiere in 1973, in the c...
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07 February 2011

Well Spent: Highgrove Shop Boot Rack

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Given the copious amounts of snow we are experiencing in our picturesque corner of the world, this handsome boot rack would be welcome nea...
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06 February 2011

Well Said: Mildred the Maid

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"You got your dishes, you got your home." So said actress Nancy Walker (1922—1992) in her role as the idiosyncratic maid, Mild...
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05 February 2011

Get Inspired: A Perfect Porch

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The town my family and I call home most of the week is graced with all manner of charming houses. A walk down almost any of its tree-lined ...
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