Comfort is the essential element of a successful interior and the hallmark of the Parish-Hadley style. In the book Sister Parish Design – On Decorating, Libby Cameron, Sister’s last protégé, and Susan B.Carter, Sister’s granddaughter, explore this aspect and much more in a series of conversations with leading decorators. I find this book not only a very […] Read more…
Faringdon House
On April 12th the eclectic contents of the iconic Faringdon House will be auctioned at Christie’s. The walls (and objects) of this Country House have witnessed Lord Berner’s eccentric parties attended by luminaries like Salvador Dalí, Elsa Schiaparelli, Cecil Beaton, Aldous Huxley or Nancy Mitford. Lord Berners playing the piano at Faringdon, circa 1930s […] Read more…
Finca Pascualete
Aline Griffith was born in New York in 1923. She was working as a model in Manhattan when she was recruited by the Office of Strategic Services and sent to Spain to work as a spy. It was in Madrid that she met Luis de Figueroa y Pérez de Guzmán el Bueno, the count of Quintanilla […] Read more…