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Lakeview House, Palm Beach
Lakeview House, Palm Beach, Florida.Photo: Cleveland Public Library.The Devoted Classicist has been enthralled with a twentieth century neo-classical residence known as Lakeview House in Palm Beach...
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Mongiardino for Princess Firyal, London
A proposal for the two long walls of the grand salonof the London house of Princess Firyal of Jordan fromROOMSCAPESThe genius of decorator Renzo Mongiardino, 1916 to 1998, was rooted in his early...
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Mark Hampton at Home in Southampton
Mark Hampton on the awning-covered terraceof his Southampton, Long Island home.Photo by Durston Saylor for Architectural Digest.The recent post about Lakeview House, Palm Beach mentioned that one of...
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Never Plain Jayne
The cottage is seen from the added porchof the main house as furnished by Thomas Jayne.Photo by Pieter Estershohn.Decorator Thomas Jayne approached a project for a young couple with an 18th century...
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Michael Taylor for Nan Kempner
The Manhattan living room of Nan and Thomas Kempneras it appeared in the mid 1980s.Photo by Derry Moore for Architectural Digest.California interior designer Michael Taylor, born Earnest Charles Taylor...
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Designers' Favorite Things
Juan Pablo MolyneuxPhoto by John Lei."Selecting The One Object They Could Not Live Without" is the subtitle of the article in the September, 1996, issue of Architectural Digest. Whether it was truly...
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Duncan Phyfe Comes To Memphis
A very fine pair of Federal period,carved mahogany side chairs,attributed to Duncan Phyfe, circa 1815.Lot 509, Sale NO8959, Sotheby's New York.Not Mr. Phyfe, himself -- the remarkably successful New...
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New Orleans Lady
Julia Reedon the porch of her First Street housein New Orleans, Louisiana.Photo: online.wsj.comJulia Reed, one of the South's most celebrated contemporary writers, bought a circa 1847 Greek Revival...
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Pilgrimage to Holly Springs
Walter Place, Holly Springs, Mississippi.Spires Boling, architect.Photo by John J. Tackett, The Devoted Classicist blog.Just down the road, about 45 miles from downtown Memphis, there is a town that...
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Baguès
A design for a wall lightfor Chanel, 1940.Image: 1stDibs.My friend and sometimes collaborator Hector Alexander recently snagged a drop-dead low table during the opening minutes of an estate sale that...
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Mr. Selfridge Had An Interest In Architecture
Actor Jeremy Piven as Harry Gordon Selfridge.From the PBS television series "Masterpiece Classics".Image: list.co.ukFans of British period dramas are currently enjoying the PBS series Mr. Selfridge...
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The Paris Apartment of Antiquarian Akko van Acker
Bavarian painted terra-cotta and carved wood deer heads decorate an alcove in the Dining Room of the Paris apartment of Akko van Acker. An 18th-century painted wall covering provides a beautiful...
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Scorpios: Sold
An era came to an end a few weeks ago for the private island of Scorpios (or Skorpios), the former retreat of Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis. His grand-daughter Athina Onassis Roussel, who...
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480 Park Avenue: Before and After
The Entrance Hall of an apartment at480 Park Avenue, New York City,after improvements by John Tackett Designand furnishings by Bunny Williams.During my tenure at Parish-Hadley during the 1980s, there...
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Palacio de Liria: The Madrid Residence Of The Duchess Of Alba
The garden view of Palacio de Liria,also known as Liria Palace, Madrid, Spain.Photo by Ricardo Labougle via World of Interiors.Catetana Fitz-James Stuart was born at Palacio de Liria, the family palace...
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Same House, Same Owners, Different Decorators
The renovated Greenwich, Connecticut home of Allison and Warren Kanders as it appeared in Architectural Digest, 2001.In 1997, Warren Kanders bought a handsome Colonial Revival house in Greenwich,...
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Eltham Palace, London
Eltham Palace, London.Image via Flickr.One of the Great Houses of London that, sadly, The Devoted Classicist has never visited is Eltham Palace. Although essentially an Art Deco mansion, the Great...
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Katharine Graham, Georgetown
A late Edo period Japanese screen is mountedflat on the damask-covered wall above a George IIstyle side table flanked by Irish armchairs in theEntrance Hall of Katharine Graham's home in the Georgetown...
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Where The Southern Cross The Yellow Dog
"Where The Southern Cross The Yellow Dog"by Carroll Cloar, 1965.Casein tempera on Masonite.Memphis Brooks Museum of Art.Image copyright estate of Carroll Cloar.It is the 'Summer of Cloar' in Memphis...
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Andalusia, Historic Courtyard Apartments
A view of the central courtyard at Andalusia,the West Hollywood apartment building.Photo by John Vaughan for Architectural Digest.A number of Spanish Revival courtyard apartment buildings were built in...
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