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Sales Rank: 46600
Category: Book
Author: Martin Wood
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
Studio: Frances Lincoln
Manufacturer: Frances Lincoln
Label: Frances Lincoln
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Frances Lincoln Ed
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 208
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.7
Dimensions (in): 11.3 x 9.4 x 1.3
ISBN: 0711224293
Dewey Decimal Number: 712
EAN: 9780711224292
ASIN: 0711224293
Publication Date: September 16, 2005
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The doyenne of interior decorators December 17, 2005
22 out of 22 found this review helpful
An American who typified the essential British taste: quite a laugh! But true....Did you love Country House Style ? Yes you do... then this book is a must for you. The interior design schemes of Nancy Lancaster (1897-1994) is known as 'The Country House Style'. She was a noted 20th-century tastemaker and the owner of Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler, the influential British decorating firm that codified what is known as the English country-house look.
The three times married Nancy was born a Keene Perkins at her maternal grandfather's farm, Mirador, in Greenwood, near Charlottesville, Virginia, and brought up in Richmond and New York City, she was the elder daughter of Thomas Moncure Perkins, a Virginia cotton broker, and his wife, Elizabeth Langhorne. Nancy Lancaster was also a niece of Nancy Astor, the British politician, and of Irene Gibson, the wife of the Gibson Girl artist Charles Dana Gibson.
Rich and well connected in the upper crusts of society she created her homes in this wonderful country house style.
This marvelous books tells you the story of her life and her creative work. Houses and gardens, style, taste a world gone. read this book slowly, let it sink in. Every page is worthwhile doing this. I just love the country house style: in a rapidly changing times it represents a timeless, elegant, but relaxed and unchanging look. I just loved the book, the fotos, the descriptions and stories. I am positive that you will enjow this book!!!!
The doyenne of interior decorators December 16, 2005
42 out of 44 found this review helpful
An American who typified the essential British taste: quite a laugh! But true...Did you love Country House Style ? Yes you do... then this book is a must for you. The interior design schemes of Nancy Lancaster (1897-1994) is known as 'The Country House Style'. She was a noted 20th-century tastemaker and the owner of Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler, the influential British decorating firm that codified what is known as the English country-house look.
The three times married Nancy was born a Keene Perkins at her maternal grandfather's farm, Mirador, in Greenwood, near Charlottesville, Virginia, and brought up in Richmond and New York City, she was the elder daughter of Thomas Moncure Perkins, a Virginia cotton broker, and his wife, Elizabeth Langhorne. Nancy Lancaster was also a niece of Nancy Astor, the British politician, and of Irene Gibson, the wife of the Gibson Girl artist Charles Dana Gibson. Rich and well connected in the upper crusts of society she created her homes in this wonderful country house style.
This marvelous books tells you the story of her life and her creative work. Houses and gardens, style, taste a world gone. read this book slowly, let it sink in. Every page is worthwhile doing this. I just love the country house style: in a rapidly changing times it represents a timeless, elegant, but relaxed and unchanging look. I just loved the book, the fotos, the descriptions and stories. I am positive that you will enjow this book!!!!
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