Highland Fling

<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The people of Scotland are preparing to vote either to remain a part of the United Kingdom or to become a separate country. Queen Elizabeth II, who refrains from making political statements, spoke to the Scots on Sunday and urged them to "think very carefully about the future" (<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/14/scotland-independence-queen_n_5819034.html" target="_blank">Source</a>). Scotland has been a part of the United Kingdom for more than 300 years, and the British monarch and her family have strong personal ties to the country. Queen Elizabeth enjoys her summer stays at Balmoral, her Scottish estate, and Prince William and his wife Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, met while studying at the University of St. Andrews. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and his three sons were educated at Gordonstoun in Moray, Scotland. Prince Charles led efforts to save and restore Dumfries House, an 18th-century Palladian villa in Ayrshire, Scotland. Even the fictional cast of <i>Downton Abbey</i> traveled from England to Scotland at the end of Season Three to visit "Shrimpie," the Marquess of Flintshire, at Duneagle Castle, which actually is Inveraray Castle in Argyll.</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKh5YN-0MSai7estBvl9D0z-LSZU5VIOa72UQyb6dv8i7SEvnI6lZzxDNA5LZqKJC5c1RvhSFfZhVOODCo7tHq-ZzYuPx5CY1aNZ1L62PK6KPAyEwVwE5Gp04zGFQGnC7vJFwbDg4RKMo/s1600/article-2245165-166AC12A000005DC-662_634x530.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="534" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKh5YN-0MSai7estBvl9D0z-LSZU5VIOa72UQyb6dv8i7SEvnI6lZzxDNA5LZqKJC5c1RvhSFfZhVOODCo7tHq-ZzYuPx5CY1aNZ1L62PK6KPAyEwVwE5Gp04zGFQGnC7vJFwbDg4RKMo/s1600/article-2245165-166AC12A000005DC-662_634x530.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The Duke and Duchess of Argyll and their children at home at Inveraray Castle in the Scottish Highlands." Inveraray Castle is open to the public between April 1 and October 31.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"</span><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2245165/Downton-Abbey-Its-TV-event-Christmas--weve-given-sneak-preview--Scottish-aristocrats-stately-home-bagged-starring-role.html" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">McDownton! It's the TV event of Christmas... and we've been given a sneak preview - by the Scottish aristocrats whose stately home bagged a starring role</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">" by Charlotte Eagar.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/" target="_blank">Daily Mail UK</a> (December 8, 2012).</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijx1mv_A1bmXp37qpYuLWsa-r3uWgFWybawsgR-4TDDauEm4s1lJMpW6HWV6W8I8j6sdbxSibDINyuj0JWOyAqx6hzhiHTygzDchPolTO7FZCAqg1iW_Rpf8aPluuICa7lfcvpRGayeHQ/s1600/inveraray-castle-from-helicopter.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="422" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijx1mv_A1bmXp37qpYuLWsa-r3uWgFWybawsgR-4TDDauEm4s1lJMpW6HWV6W8I8j6sdbxSibDINyuj0JWOyAqx6hzhiHTygzDchPolTO7FZCAqg1iW_Rpf8aPluuICa7lfcvpRGayeHQ/s1600/inveraray-castle-from-helicopter.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Overhead view of Inveraray Castle, home of the Duke of Argyll (Chief of the Clan Campbell) and his family.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photo via the <a href="http://www.inveraray-castle.com/home.html" target="_blank">Inveraray Castle</a> website.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;">  </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi74Jfd5_JQxX2s7IMHzP51sHNMVAMwaAArq7qbcz6c4TZ1l2uJPZUmnOJxS3Wp7mMOJMsN82trnGLqrzScJbBVsmwx8O8UKye2AOiORq-vVKP6aBB-LWYu1K3xL1rqndO8kRart8tcBMI/s1600/10525800_794883570551361_6460835959614330279_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi74Jfd5_JQxX2s7IMHzP51sHNMVAMwaAArq7qbcz6c4TZ1l2uJPZUmnOJxS3Wp7mMOJMsN82trnGLqrzScJbBVsmwx8O8UKye2AOiORq-vVKP6aBB-LWYu1K3xL1rqndO8kRart8tcBMI/s1600/10525800_794883570551361_6460835959614330279_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Scottish break: New faces Shrimpie Flintshire (Peter Egan) and Susan Flintshire (Phoebe Nicholls) appear in what is the home of Lady Rose (Lily James), who was sent home in the last episode of series three after her dalliance with a married man."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2244890/Downton-Abbey-Crawley-family-head-Scottish-Highlands-Christmas-Day-special.html" target="_blank">Downton Abbey: TV's beloved upper class clan swap their English manor house for spectacular Scottish castle after filming Christmas Day special in the Highlands</a>" by Liz Thomas.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photo copyright: Carnival Films.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/" target="_blank">Daily Mail UK</a> (December 7, 2012).</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkIzWabpG4iySZQfBit5oj28PBT9ixuRrr6DZDyNJ9FbcnEEoDJotn77wJjk55htKYx-jMfXg6UzxmxVAYRSRK5M9yzE4ruNZMW8Obq5pocnweNt-qUoKlS7yfJWpF5LlxmWFS4slw9OE/s1600/10568983_794884020551316_2642860384416020778_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkIzWabpG4iySZQfBit5oj28PBT9ixuRrr6DZDyNJ9FbcnEEoDJotn77wJjk55htKYx-jMfXg6UzxmxVAYRSRK5M9yzE4ruNZMW8Obq5pocnweNt-qUoKlS7yfJWpF5LlxmWFS4slw9OE/s1600/10568983_794884020551316_2642860384416020778_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> "The shooting party: Matthew Crawley and Lord Grantham indulge their passion for shooting while visiting Duneagle Castle, home of Dowager Countess's cousin, the Marquess </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">of Flintshire."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photo copyright: Carnival Films.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2245165/Downton-Abbey-Its-TV-event-Christmas--weve-given-sneak-preview--Scottish-aristocrats-stately-home-bagged-starring-role.html" target="_blank">McDownton! It's the TV event of Christmas... and we've been given a sneak preview - by the Scottish aristocrats whose stately home bagged a starring role</a>" by Charlotte Eagar.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/" target="_blank">Daily Mail UK</a> (December 8, 2012).</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyVtFebSAliIHjHG3tG8QGm5XRPHgZw2j9Qot9w401vZz10f8WhAf5AGiENABfIC_gNxukhmOnT6WmJMiall_bqL48mf301_SjVSQHgkk2CAPx-khyphenhyphenmNHLINoBPrbpsOmHdD6JvjIhq3A/s1600/10523838_794883523884699_7692028308779267825_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyVtFebSAliIHjHG3tG8QGm5XRPHgZw2j9Qot9w401vZz10f8WhAf5AGiENABfIC_gNxukhmOnT6WmJMiall_bqL48mf301_SjVSQHgkk2CAPx-khyphenhyphenmNHLINoBPrbpsOmHdD6JvjIhq3A/s1600/10523838_794883523884699_7692028308779267825_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Inveraray Castle was the chosen location for the Downton Abbey Christmas 2012 episode. Dinner was held in the State Dining Room, sparkling with Argyll family silver and gold nefs."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photo and text via <a href="http://www.inveraray-castle.com/Downton-Abbey.html" target="_blank">Inveraray Castle</a> website.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4QVaunDmDDgnp7QxiotmDJeul0NBAi4nuv1qZitsCg6IxGOW67zIQyHlDk8UxouUu4ub4RlDiyUZmqzGYaQ4ozbMkjzsKlGk2pnlJqYGSQNxqzsOdiowBlnRK5yrT8QN6hHZgyKOm9g8/s1600/neff-with-pprtrait.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4QVaunDmDDgnp7QxiotmDJeul0NBAi4nuv1qZitsCg6IxGOW67zIQyHlDk8UxouUu4ub4RlDiyUZmqzGYaQ4ozbMkjzsKlGk2pnlJqYGSQNxqzsOdiowBlnRK5yrT8QN6hHZgyKOm9g8/s1600/neff-with-pprtrait.jpg" width="508" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Inveraray Castle was the chosen location for the Downton Abbey Christmas 2012 episode. Dinner was held in the State Dining Room, sparkling with Argyll family silver and gold nefs."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photo and text via <a href="http://www.inveraray-castle.com/Downton-Abbey.html" target="_blank">Inveraray Castle</a> website.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nef_(metalwork)" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>, a nef is "an extravagant table ornament and container used in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, made of precious metals in the shape of a ship – nef was another word for a carrack in French. If not just used for decoration, it could hold salt or spices (the latter being very expensive in the Middle Ages), or cutlery, or even napkins."</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL7N1ueBSqMQLUl-5Yooc2D9wlkA27R9iM_vd6ecX4Z9NyiiSnrNWB7CNzGp0CeAH20LnLX_yxVWVojJZzXGFa8hUkxG27sdAMJkW7ataRKRJDh8vEht9sKAMJodB8rwKAmu3d6tveMqA/s1600/article-2245165-1665C3E8000005DC-969_634x423.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL7N1ueBSqMQLUl-5Yooc2D9wlkA27R9iM_vd6ecX4Z9NyiiSnrNWB7CNzGp0CeAH20LnLX_yxVWVojJZzXGFa8hUkxG27sdAMJkW7ataRKRJDh8vEht9sKAMJodB8rwKAmu3d6tveMqA/s1600/article-2245165-1665C3E8000005DC-969_634x423.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Looking for a catch: Duneagle Castle . . . with deer stalking and fishing on the doorstep."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2245165/Downton-Abbey-Its-TV-event-Christmas--weve-given-sneak-preview--Scottish-aristocrats-stately-home-bagged-starring-role.html" target="_blank">McDownton! It's the TV event of Christmas... and we've been given a sneak preview - by the Scottish aristocrats whose stately home bagged a starring role</a>" by Charlotte Eagar.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/" target="_blank">Daily Mail UK</a> (December 8, 2012).</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz3T6g0cUqaYo6Cr8fTHHoLbZrzWQyf6NcnDcdsMPkb6A28PLGQkbhl-Ls-Bnw0adLw6MoP2UNrDd_Ux03Ec41DPUQ-SkoalOGJ4mz2vNcQUJ6k2x557_fFdCFLwH3yPUyMvcgcaKXwbg/s1600/article-2713024-0068129A00000258-447_964x701.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="464" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz3T6g0cUqaYo6Cr8fTHHoLbZrzWQyf6NcnDcdsMPkb6A28PLGQkbhl-Ls-Bnw0adLw6MoP2UNrDd_Ux03Ec41DPUQ-SkoalOGJ4mz2vNcQUJ6k2x557_fFdCFLwH3yPUyMvcgcaKXwbg/s1600/article-2713024-0068129A00000258-447_964x701.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Summer holidays at Balmoral involve plenty of country walks, as this photo of the Queen, Prince Andrew, Prince Edward and Prince Philip reveals."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Balmoral, the Scottish castle privately owned by Queen Elizabeth, who spends much of her summer there. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2713024/A-sneak-peek-inside-Queens-holiday-photo-album.html" target="_blank">Family barbecues, picnics on the lawn and corgis galore: As the Queen begins her summer break at Balmoral, a peek inside her holiday photo album</a>" by Ruth Styles.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/" target="_blank">Daily Mail UK</a> (August 1, 2014).</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbiRRBF4-_tBiUc_DyRFpx77ugrQ0NYAMWrJzPPG-_6ox2JFCshB5XqRLOBZHP_qr9eRpcboY2Uvs5IPznGDeXq5s4dSBy5aCnIaiD28zEar0aOz39ue0BR1FZOPL2Ktn4z_zFHOQeA5Q/s1600/102195589_w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="392" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbiRRBF4-_tBiUc_DyRFpx77ugrQ0NYAMWrJzPPG-_6ox2JFCshB5XqRLOBZHP_qr9eRpcboY2Uvs5IPznGDeXq5s4dSBy5aCnIaiD28zEar0aOz39ue0BR1FZOPL2Ktn4z_zFHOQeA5Q/s1600/102195589_w.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Ruins of St. Andrews Castle overlook Castle Beach."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Dominic Blackmore.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Candace Ord Manroe.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.traditionalhome.com/lifestyle/travel/st-andrews-around-town?page=0%2C0" target="_blank">St. Andrews Around Town</a>" produced by Krissa Rossbund and Mick Schnepf.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.traditionalhome.com/" target="_blank">Traditional Home</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMuUCkNdgMtnPJPJnv2M-r6-SzZqPiu6EFtCrpienMjAIPtyVRbLRKxGQerSEC3hLti5yjqsUPcZw_oAafCgKvN46_RKUS1NfhPSZLwMpieXJEvv-jwrTKoID-vKujWGY1b83NjUQe8Ik/s1600/Travel-guide-scotland-Edinburgh-ed2011-01-lgn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMuUCkNdgMtnPJPJnv2M-r6-SzZqPiu6EFtCrpienMjAIPtyVRbLRKxGQerSEC3hLti5yjqsUPcZw_oAafCgKvN46_RKUS1NfhPSZLwMpieXJEvv-jwrTKoID-vKujWGY1b83NjUQe8Ik/s1600/Travel-guide-scotland-Edinburgh-ed2011-01-lgn.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Edinburgh Castle.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography: Nick Dryhurst/PCL/Super Stock/Corbis.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.elledecor.com/culture/elle-decor-goes-to-glasgow-and-edinburgh#slide-1" target="_blank">Elle Decor Goes to Glasgow and Edinburgh</a>" by Ian Phillips.</span><br /><a href="http://www.elledecor.com/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Elle Decor</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> (February/March 2011).</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br /><div><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicbxLe-bXychqsU7rfb0KG3ELelBzKk7CLzEDrQZ3gGOO5l41lerKRDuhPEbYYSrYUw2FCLxcyzcP7jg7FelXP9mSJDGHgC28ELImabWPDAl3N7GX_bJ4k4WslqcG5Ze4ZEq2r77FfStc/s1600/Travel-guide-scotland-Edinburgh-ed2011-12-lgn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicbxLe-bXychqsU7rfb0KG3ELelBzKk7CLzEDrQZ3gGOO5l41lerKRDuhPEbYYSrYUw2FCLxcyzcP7jg7FelXP9mSJDGHgC28ELImabWPDAl3N7GX_bJ4k4WslqcG5Ze4ZEq2r77FfStc/s1600/Travel-guide-scotland-Edinburgh-ed2011-12-lgn.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Edinburgh's skyline.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by David Robertson/Alamy.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.elledecor.com/culture/elle-decor-goes-to-glasgow-and-edinburgh#slide-11" target="_blank">Elle Decor Goes to Glasgow and Edinburgh</a>" by Ian Phillips.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.elledecor.com/" target="_blank">Elle Decor</a> (February/March 2011).</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt15C7yc_BTmVhbdjsydNqOxc2MpB-ME3ggPGxwS00sdy6exorwnrQbOoMLs5l87aKzkk4Zv-WfyOsriZbliqZsVcNtJIrGJuKy3En8FJqCnFGO0l7qezI2R8QkGsE3dMac7YIbY1unHM/s1600/Travel-guide-scotland-Edinburgh-ed2011-04-lgn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt15C7yc_BTmVhbdjsydNqOxc2MpB-ME3ggPGxwS00sdy6exorwnrQbOoMLs5l87aKzkk4Zv-WfyOsriZbliqZsVcNtJIrGJuKy3En8FJqCnFGO0l7qezI2R8QkGsE3dMac7YIbY1unHM/s1600/Travel-guide-scotland-Edinburgh-ed2011-04-lgn.jpg" width="512" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"A parade during the annual Edinburgh Festivals."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Steven Vidler/Eurasia Press/Corbis.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.elledecor.com/culture/elle-decor-goes-to-glasgow-and-edinburgh#slide-4" target="_blank">Elle Decor Goes to Glasgow and Edinburgh</a>" by Ian Phillips.</span><br /><a href="http://www.elledecor.com/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Elle Decor</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> (February/March 2011).</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF_rFSA84ilMmfljkMboBiqObwHRXrduo8vXWgwK9jexoBjD-L_wC10ee1-ZVByBZGqqYLerqxX0tVSfxH_C_yERiw0xbZyTdnyVK_zKHez9p81U9PHxafKraIjUuD0b4jQnnVYTykaTE/s1600/11well-lasnet-custom1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="506" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF_rFSA84ilMmfljkMboBiqObwHRXrduo8vXWgwK9jexoBjD-L_wC10ee1-ZVByBZGqqYLerqxX0tVSfxH_C_yERiw0xbZyTdnyVK_zKHez9p81U9PHxafKraIjUuD0b4jQnnVYTykaTE/s1600/11well-lasnet-custom1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Family Portrait. From left: Stella Tennant, Iris (with bunny), Cecily, Marcel, Jasmine, David Lasnet and Quill, their black lab, on the family’s 1740s Scottish estate. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Alexis Armanet.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/09/married-with-children/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=1&" target="_blank">Married With Children</a>" by Gaby Wood.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/pages/t-magazine/" target="_blank">T Magazine</a> (September 9, 2011).</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc4bThrFj625mAgiziW6m3eetPCxWGhV_drBtmJgnsrKiZy1h2Gfs0FEQzVDTw3W2UWRm576FvDNlKghpC7euWexh4NiO5R7tAwT2RZuybIoxTzNOwWGpTiGyV0bHZP0WLZhOYkAJeaBY/s1600/11well-lasnet-custom2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="516" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc4bThrFj625mAgiziW6m3eetPCxWGhV_drBtmJgnsrKiZy1h2Gfs0FEQzVDTw3W2UWRm576FvDNlKghpC7euWexh4NiO5R7tAwT2RZuybIoxTzNOwWGpTiGyV0bHZP0WLZhOYkAJeaBY/s1600/11well-lasnet-custom2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 15.3999996185303px;"> "Iris jumps on the trampoline as father and Dervish, the family’s whippet, look on."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">18th-century Scottish home of model Stella Tennant, husband David Lasnet, and their children.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Alexis Armanet.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/09/married-with-children/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=1&" target="_blank">Married With Children</a>" by Gaby Wood.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/pages/t-magazine/" target="_blank">T Magazine</a> (September 9, 2011).</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpO4zo5dwrhCWbOfU08kUpqY1jJ3-JSEliWGrdvDpUH6BKA-FXpTqt7F6xfiYZ-fKsWJf9lKfD1sWL62agARhA21gjhRsFQaNAjcTm0ZjmR2MaUpnRWiHmfNkuaQb39m6LsXsZO4i9_9Y/s1600/1601244_10154505823475526_4900305997919169736_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpO4zo5dwrhCWbOfU08kUpqY1jJ3-JSEliWGrdvDpUH6BKA-FXpTqt7F6xfiYZ-fKsWJf9lKfD1sWL62agARhA21gjhRsFQaNAjcTm0ZjmR2MaUpnRWiHmfNkuaQb39m6LsXsZO4i9_9Y/s1600/1601244_10154505823475526_4900305997919169736_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the hills above Loch Ness.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photo via <a href="https://www.facebook.com/destinationlochness/photos/pb.314201755525.-2207520000.1410966140./10154505823475526/?type=3&theater" target="_blank">Visit Loch Ness</a> Facebook page.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-YPAkCkyQPOALINirPBFQcN6H8dsw3DJsFEPaqNUwcWofoo8rB6Adjo_wq1vZ5T0UPK6-E8sJ-HOSYKawcUQ0JtBFJKxKOkPd0wIoONoKBO1ZkhumgiIyATOSG2cSDzFerOPdbwXI2KQ/s1600/001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-YPAkCkyQPOALINirPBFQcN6H8dsw3DJsFEPaqNUwcWofoo8rB6Adjo_wq1vZ5T0UPK6-E8sJ-HOSYKawcUQ0JtBFJKxKOkPd0wIoONoKBO1ZkhumgiIyATOSG2cSDzFerOPdbwXI2KQ/s1600/001.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fourth grade photo of me (on left) before Scottish dancing program at my school.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dumfries House in Ayrshire, Scotland, was featured in <i>Architectural Digest</i> in April 2008 and again in February 2012. Here is the estate as it appeared in 2008:</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcM5eYRB6HBrIRE6OQXUEfSxM61Dt_8o1nP50Qcb3mVgmZ_lZLKD0V4d75NkB8yQVOqRge2Pf_tHZjyOx8iqW1h_OBzqYlwRiSW7pWfa-8E138vaA4otQtmj5wb2KAes6mlQscfPlQVzs/s1600/item0.rendition.slideshowHorizontal.hosl01_dumfries.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcM5eYRB6HBrIRE6OQXUEfSxM61Dt_8o1nP50Qcb3mVgmZ_lZLKD0V4d75NkB8yQVOqRge2Pf_tHZjyOx8iqW1h_OBzqYlwRiSW7pWfa-8E138vaA4otQtmj5wb2KAes6mlQscfPlQVzs/s1600/item0.rendition.slideshowHorizontal.hosl01_dumfries.jpg" width="640" /></a>"<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dumfries House, in Ayrshire, Scotland, was built by John, Robert and James Adam for the fifth Earl of Dumfries between 1754 and 1760. 'It was such a rare example of a house with the majority of its original furniture still in place,' notes Prince Charles, whose last-minute intervention saved the estate and its contents from being sold."</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Derry Moore.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Gerald Clarke.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/decor/2008-04/dumfries_slideshow" target="_blank">Saving Dumfries</a>"</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/" target="_blank">Architectural Digest</a> (April 2008).</span></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTRKJ2ebyh4kKuBKi5svxuXNMyYQInFNCY9xG4yFKGvilt-aX5rdzBrCg0QILM2r24Wh1cWxt2p5tjqoxHaocGROZSpihYYbYOxh3SyxoSVmjgX9t7b5L86xnvMscEp1a5vLxd3P5oHJ0/s1600/item1.rendition.slideshowHorizontal.hosl02_dumfries.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="530" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTRKJ2ebyh4kKuBKi5svxuXNMyYQInFNCY9xG4yFKGvilt-aX5rdzBrCg0QILM2r24Wh1cWxt2p5tjqoxHaocGROZSpihYYbYOxh3SyxoSVmjgX9t7b5L86xnvMscEp1a5vLxd3P5oHJ0/s1600/item1.rendition.slideshowHorizontal.hosl02_dumfries.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The entrance hall of Dumfries House in Ayrshire, Scotland, which was built by John, Robert and James Adam for the fifth Earl of Dumfries between 1754 and 1760.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Derry Moore.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Gerald Clarke.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/decor/2008-04/dumfries_slideshow_slideshow_item1_2" target="_blank">Saving Dumfries</a>"</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/" target="_blank">Architectural Digest</a> (April 2008).</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlYlw4xltnyDvaXdefcBigKUKCRdgaduciqt-rx0RE5L_u4XhdSruHiHWaEEFuwADY7r-yRz70GnTQCHG9gJC3XAY6lqw8WG1_XaAgcxIykW-qzcTtkbRbg_jChJU5dRdGDY5bZ7VRKno/s1600/item2.rendition.slideshowHorizontal.hosl03_dumfries.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="530" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlYlw4xltnyDvaXdefcBigKUKCRdgaduciqt-rx0RE5L_u4XhdSruHiHWaEEFuwADY7r-yRz70GnTQCHG9gJC3XAY6lqw8WG1_XaAgcxIykW-qzcTtkbRbg_jChJU5dRdGDY5bZ7VRKno/s1600/item2.rendition.slideshowHorizontal.hosl03_dumfries.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> "Although local craftsmen contributed to furnishing the house, the main public rooms were outfitted with pieces made by Thomas Chippendale. Part of the drawing room suite finds a temporary home in the dining room. Giltwood girandoles flank a portrait of the fifth Earl of Dumfries by Thomas Hudson."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dumfries House in Ayrshire, Scotland.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Derry Moore.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Gerald Clarke.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/decor/2008-04/dumfries_slideshow_slideshow_item2_3" target="_blank">Saving Dumfries</a>"</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/" target="_blank">Architectural Digest</a> (April 2008).</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7OnVtfvu6vlW2WTyVfTJ5MY4ON1DgpepccW-7te37plNnWjCxrim9p61NhSY4IGIq_WeDU5YxPMfSwySwgyWoU0B08hSSsdlByAWiPGYr_xUQLmIrgHwmgDmwwhTHG23gxinoYTg615w/s1600/item3.rendition.slideshowHorizontal.hosl04_dumfries.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="530" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7OnVtfvu6vlW2WTyVfTJ5MY4ON1DgpepccW-7te37plNnWjCxrim9p61NhSY4IGIq_WeDU5YxPMfSwySwgyWoU0B08hSSsdlByAWiPGYr_xUQLmIrgHwmgDmwwhTHG23gxinoYTg615w/s1600/item3.rendition.slideshowHorizontal.hosl04_dumfries.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The monumental rosewood bookcase in the white drawing room epitomizes Chippendale’s style."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dumfries House in Ayrshire, Scotland.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Derry Moore.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Gerald Clarke.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/decor/2008-04/dumfries_slideshow_slideshow_item3_4" target="_blank">Saving Dumfries</a>"</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/" target="_blank">Architectural Digest</a> (April 2008).</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHb2_RoYS0a8j_OgpiGj4-EyfrqRQEl53HgqVqIgVCKYC19TSsLQl9sFQapRT0pSINNSkKxZkst5SDkWgwc9vvZ7EYOwcHPei1TNRVN5ENVxrP1vkA7jHlWSW-oFj1a4oCx6eQ-f0Uavo/s1600/item4.rendition.slideshowVertical.hosl05_dumfries.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHb2_RoYS0a8j_OgpiGj4-EyfrqRQEl53HgqVqIgVCKYC19TSsLQl9sFQapRT0pSINNSkKxZkst5SDkWgwc9vvZ7EYOwcHPei1TNRVN5ENVxrP1vkA7jHlWSW-oFj1a4oCx6eQ-f0Uavo/s1600/item4.rendition.slideshowVertical.hosl05_dumfries.jpg" width="488" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> "An arched corridor is part of an 1890s extension, involving the east and west wings, that was designed by architect Robert Weir Schultz."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dumfries House in Ayrshire, Scotland</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Derry Moore.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Gerald Clarke.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/decor/2008-04/dumfries_slideshow_slideshow_item4_5" target="_blank">Saving Dumfries</a>"</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/" target="_blank">Architectural Digest</a> (April 2008).</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1Zs85H4h4ORl-xheWBA3Vunlm_KfFrF9KNYoeZ5-y5ojcO8NpRZIg9oQq_NdQIxwz4rbaIFAfVQzjxsfJPXgPD54TexXviQw3ufo4vm0gj75n8quxLE3aue3WGvW5907KYRQdi469DAI/s1600/item5.rendition.slideshowVertical.hosl06_dumfries.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1Zs85H4h4ORl-xheWBA3Vunlm_KfFrF9KNYoeZ5-y5ojcO8NpRZIg9oQq_NdQIxwz4rbaIFAfVQzjxsfJPXgPD54TexXviQw3ufo4vm0gj75n8quxLE3aue3WGvW5907KYRQdi469DAI/s1600/item5.rendition.slideshowVertical.hosl06_dumfries.jpg" width="410" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"One of a pair of chinoiserie mirrors delivered by Chippendale in 1759."</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dumfries House in Ayrshire, Scotland.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Derry Moore.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Gerald Clarke.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/decor/2008-04/dumfries_slideshow_slideshow_item5_6" target="_blank">Saving Dumfries</a>"</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/" target="_blank">Architectural Digest</a> (April 2008).</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3LI_7YFcTSBbDk9X00N32yJwoILvPnX8Zfh20IRZj1jehs2ZZKtMsjM_jmIphbLukkfFFLokUOfws3usxpha5CfPuqfeJHycl6nwziw2H_DlOHLXNpTaEtI4WleUHb3HKbuHijanN6Tk/s1600/item6.rendition.slideshowHorizontal.hosl07_dumfries.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="530" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3LI_7YFcTSBbDk9X00N32yJwoILvPnX8Zfh20IRZj1jehs2ZZKtMsjM_jmIphbLukkfFFLokUOfws3usxpha5CfPuqfeJHycl6nwziw2H_DlOHLXNpTaEtI4WleUHb3HKbuHijanN6Tk/s1600/item6.rendition.slideshowHorizontal.hosl07_dumfries.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> "A trompe l’oeil panel by Jacob de Wit hangs above the north drawing room’s mantel. Schultz added delft tiles to some of the fireplaces to improve the draw."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dumfries House in Ayrshire, Scotland.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Derry Moore.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Gerald Clarke.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/decor/2008-04/dumfries_slideshow_slideshow_item6_7" target="_blank">Saving Dumfries</a>"</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/" target="_blank">Architectural Digest</a> (April 2008).</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQRRvpLhWcVJ4Kxue24qLijH5Rly1x4B23ZBmAi3KOXtFGsxPQtvkBDmcJoLvy5e2-Tmfgrm6UdW_7V1Z-axECn5Nhyphenhyphen8UvY99b2Sj8C49V1wLic66cpui5poOQvMxqTalma4UoRje4C3o/s1600/item7.rendition.slideshowHorizontal.hosl08_dumfries.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="412" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQRRvpLhWcVJ4Kxue24qLijH5Rly1x4B23ZBmAi3KOXtFGsxPQtvkBDmcJoLvy5e2-Tmfgrm6UdW_7V1Z-axECn5Nhyphenhyphen8UvY99b2Sj8C49V1wLic66cpui5poOQvMxqTalma4UoRje4C3o/s1600/item7.rendition.slideshowHorizontal.hosl08_dumfries.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Alexander Peter supplied no fewer than eight beds for Dumfries. A Chippendale mirror frames a Savonnerie panel by Thomas Moore."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dumfries House in Ayrshire, Scotland.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Derry Moore.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Gerald Clarke.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/decor/2008-04/dumfries_slideshow_slideshow_item7_8" target="_blank">Saving Dumfries</a>"</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/" target="_blank">Architectural Digest</a> (April 2008).</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgObAfPNAslkIX54T6g-E82-dakrXhJGA-X9c3apkk8hXqEdVrFTnQYxuIu-_IGfMyP7YDopZFsOEt3b7F75wwCZ80k32JpXqXjLL2DY7Z2pdnSFOh19nyDLry0tBMPnY_cRvi4O2NTsqU/s1600/item8.rendition.slideshowVertical.hosl09_dumfries.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgObAfPNAslkIX54T6g-E82-dakrXhJGA-X9c3apkk8hXqEdVrFTnQYxuIu-_IGfMyP7YDopZFsOEt3b7F75wwCZ80k32JpXqXjLL2DY7Z2pdnSFOh19nyDLry0tBMPnY_cRvi4O2NTsqU/s1600/item8.rendition.slideshowVertical.hosl09_dumfries.jpg" width="458" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"One of Peter’s carved and gilded cornices is directly based on an earlier Chippendale pattern."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dumfries House in Ayrshire, Scotland.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Derry Moore.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Gerald Clarke.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/decor/2008-04/dumfries_slideshow_slideshow_item8_9" target="_blank">Saving Dumfries</a>"</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/" target="_blank">Architectural Digest</a> (April 2008).</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqOfCtlhAL1-FrC1MqBfa-0EPzar_lLvhFe6H1V9b9xpIzy2gv1JhLSHCfs3Qm8fClsmMZLyKhlCDN6hEqSwjwWvNm7GGjdC05YwHt7mNHsEvH_S7xtoSqqZmf1iu2CV61CsxL2uADZPA/s1600/item9.rendition.slideshowVertical.hosl10_dumfries.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqOfCtlhAL1-FrC1MqBfa-0EPzar_lLvhFe6H1V9b9xpIzy2gv1JhLSHCfs3Qm8fClsmMZLyKhlCDN6hEqSwjwWvNm7GGjdC05YwHt7mNHsEvH_S7xtoSqqZmf1iu2CV61CsxL2uADZPA/s1600/item9.rendition.slideshowVertical.hosl10_dumfries.jpg" width="436" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The State Bed was the most expensive piece of the commission. Chippendale added its design to the 1762 edition of his book, </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker’s Director</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">."</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br /><div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dumfries House in Ayrshire, Scotland.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Derry Moore.</span></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Gerald Clarke.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/decor/2008-04/dumfries_slideshow_slideshow_item9_10" target="_blank">Saving Dumfries</a>"</span><br /><a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Architectural Digest</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> (April 2008).</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The following photos of Dumfries House appeared in the February 2012 edition of <i>Architectural Digest</i>:</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSujO6k2Zms25xufg_2RYs2LkONPJ8fBBCsnBidNn1X6xojIhxbvN93mF-Jn9x7GvvzDKZfptGKagrrTupu0cL3D1a9vsiQ5yx9x3qnhs13pDDIbCiesX2Yij4UTdHd9dFQS8Um-vFEDw/s1600/item0.rendition.slideshowVertical.dumfries-house-01-prince-charles.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSujO6k2Zms25xufg_2RYs2LkONPJ8fBBCsnBidNn1X6xojIhxbvN93mF-Jn9x7GvvzDKZfptGKagrrTupu0cL3D1a9vsiQ5yx9x3qnhs13pDDIbCiesX2Yij4UTdHd9dFQS8Um-vFEDw/s1600/item0.rendition.slideshowVertical.dumfries-house-01-prince-charles.jpg" width="492" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Prince Charles (known as the Duke of Rothesay when in Scotland) stands at the entrance to the Tapestry Room of Dumfries House, which was preserved for posterity through his efforts."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dumfries House in Ayrshire, Scotland.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Derry Moore.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by James Reginato.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/decor/2012-02/prince-charles-dumfries-house-scotland-slideshow" target="_blank">Restoration Drama</a>" produced by James Reginato and Robert Rufino.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/" target="_blank">Architectural Digest</a> (February 2012).</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxo2Bpsd90a4AmRcfHdryZTMjJKyVFA9YZY2le_dMMdzW3IYBCs9Mn-745VdblfS4icMH2ShO-h5__jjxKSVIyqC3mp9tOp_u4avFotHr3mkVUy36DKiY_4HjWz6PwosPrDOpf3alL9tc/s1600/item1.rendition.slideshowHorizontal.dumfries-house-02-exterior.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxo2Bpsd90a4AmRcfHdryZTMjJKyVFA9YZY2le_dMMdzW3IYBCs9Mn-745VdblfS4icMH2ShO-h5__jjxKSVIyqC3mp9tOp_u4avFotHr3mkVUy36DKiY_4HjWz6PwosPrDOpf3alL9tc/s1600/item1.rendition.slideshowHorizontal.dumfries-house-02-exterior.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Designed by the brothers Adam and furnished by cabinetmaker Thomas Chippendale, Dumfries House is considered the most gloriously intact 18th-century house in Scotland."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dumfries House in Ayrshire, Scotland.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Derry Moore.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by James Reginato.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/decor/2012-02/prince-charles-dumfries-house-scotland-slideshow_slideshow_item1_2" target="_blank">Restoration Drama</a>" produced by James Reginato and Robert Rufino.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/" target="_blank">Architectural Digest</a> (February 2012).</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXJpU_u8mWfigYmRBctORciSSWtkcL_0-AjPItsOF1kZgr8AnWYwAuhP87dNHSjyl2hMjqo7ycEulCj2Vdf-In8EYn2E0kHvf1JqI9fDWGeF4lC4oqakBh7M4N7xWEQlPePrIf2a3kDLk/s1600/item3.rendition.slideshowVertical.dumfries-house-03-entrance-hall.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXJpU_u8mWfigYmRBctORciSSWtkcL_0-AjPItsOF1kZgr8AnWYwAuhP87dNHSjyl2hMjqo7ycEulCj2Vdf-In8EYn2E0kHvf1JqI9fDWGeF4lC4oqakBh7M4N7xWEQlPePrIf2a3kDLk/s1600/item3.rendition.slideshowVertical.dumfries-house-03-entrance-hall.jpg" width="492" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"A painting by Jacob de Heusch is displayed in the entrance hall, and the trio of hall chairs is from a set of eight by Alexander Peter. The frieze alternates Order of the Thistle stars with the mythical wyvern, a Crichton family crest."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dumfries House in Ayrshire, Scotland.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Derry Moore.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by James Reginato.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/decor/2012-02/prince-charles-dumfries-house-scotland-slideshow_slideshow_item3_4" target="_blank">Restoration Drama</a>" produced by James Reginato and Robert Rufino.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/" target="_blank">Architectural Digest</a> (February 2012).</span><br /><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjibYdUp-Q72eAxBr-iNBxFITvrPiC4ixd1s8iLtVxQPmFxXq1ZLBLLbjtfxjCofQAPUGICyEV4RHGN4ce3GxF-qc7zQHU_aIxNsBbAQjK-0pdS016yoC4MY3u2FSnHCliMCXM3HwjW5YE/s1600/item5.rendition.slideshowHorizontal.dumfries-house-04-blue-drawing-room.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjibYdUp-Q72eAxBr-iNBxFITvrPiC4ixd1s8iLtVxQPmFxXq1ZLBLLbjtfxjCofQAPUGICyEV4RHGN4ce3GxF-qc7zQHU_aIxNsBbAQjK-0pdS016yoC4MY3u2FSnHCliMCXM3HwjW5YE/s1600/item5.rendition.slideshowHorizontal.dumfries-house-04-blue-drawing-room.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Upholstered in a custom-woven silk damask and positioned on a mid-18th-century Axminster carpet, the mahogany chairs and settee in the Blue Drawing Room were supplied by Chippendale in 1759; he also created the rare rosewood breakfront bookcase. The Murano-glass chandelier is original to Dumfries House, and the portraits are on loan from a private collector."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dumfries House in Ayrshire, Scotland.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Derry Moore.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by James Reginato.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/decor/2012-02/prince-charles-dumfries-house-scotland-slideshow_slideshow_item5_6" target="_blank">Restoration Drama</a>" produced by James Reginato and Robert Rufino.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/" target="_blank">Architectural Digest</a> (February 2012).</span><br /><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipELFqVOZQDXG5Zb4XMhOT81WmgHXFID2yJcQAXCOU4eFuxRnziFyqRAp648nBrSh5v9zKAoFTNQuC0h3fWEfBcZiECi_MPXDJDwxnWj8S5UY9iqM_2CwOdlwksYiYqalgmvbnBTUxu08/s1600/item6.rendition.slideshowHorizontal.dumfries-house-05-family-parlor.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipELFqVOZQDXG5Zb4XMhOT81WmgHXFID2yJcQAXCOU4eFuxRnziFyqRAp648nBrSh5v9zKAoFTNQuC0h3fWEfBcZiECi_MPXDJDwxnWj8S5UY9iqM_2CwOdlwksYiYqalgmvbnBTUxu08/s1600/item6.rendition.slideshowHorizontal.dumfries-house-05-family-parlor.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"In addition to Chippendale elbow chairs and card tables, the Family Parlor includes a camelback sofa by Peter and a harpsichord by Jacob Kirkman."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dumfries House in Ayrshire, Scotland.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Derry Moore.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by James Reginato.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/decor/2012-02/prince-charles-dumfries-house-scotland-slideshow_slideshow_item6_7" target="_blank">Restoration Drama</a>" produced by James Reginato and Robert Rufino.</span><br /><a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Architectural Digest</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> (February 2012).</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br /><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQaLN4-lisuNKPIMiplcX0hfELMNRwprdi-IBU5_2_n0D0MGHepXqd5IxfyskSbF7uyK9edvgmPdzZoKU__sKLc7peMBWKitD4GnWwAOfnDrZxYyrKXT4BqsRvO4n_cwSFQJiOPcE5xIQ/s1600/item7.rendition.slideshowVertical.dumfries-house-06-dining-room.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQaLN4-lisuNKPIMiplcX0hfELMNRwprdi-IBU5_2_n0D0MGHepXqd5IxfyskSbF7uyK9edvgmPdzZoKU__sKLc7peMBWKitD4GnWwAOfnDrZxYyrKXT4BqsRvO4n_cwSFQJiOPcE5xIQ/s1600/item7.rendition.slideshowVertical.dumfries-house-06-dining-room.jpg" width="492" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Emblems of the harvest are carved into the paneling of the Pink Dining Room; the painting is by Venetian artist Jacopo Bassano, and the curtains are ornamented with antique tassels and trim."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dumfries House in Ayrshire, Scotland.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Derry Moore.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by James Reginato.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/decor/2012-02/prince-charles-dumfries-house-scotland-slideshow_slideshow_item7_8" target="_blank">Restoration Drama</a>" produced by James Reginato and Robert Rufino.</span><br /><a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Architectural Digest</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> (February 2012).</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br /><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg34eRzx9xvyPuBx2aP2qkI4XwfpXTOljoNKG8knHR7FIJdxUR2z6ybf_CIqvxkN1V0EKZk1bxDpXp3FtEumkHn7wFLOFLsvJ38TYonXFhhZEgFmDDKNt6vKlay2vbQhiVqgR5nDS20rHc/s1600/item8.rendition.slideshowVertical.dumfries-house-08-gallery.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg34eRzx9xvyPuBx2aP2qkI4XwfpXTOljoNKG8knHR7FIJdxUR2z6ybf_CIqvxkN1V0EKZk1bxDpXp3FtEumkHn7wFLOFLsvJ38TYonXFhhZEgFmDDKNt6vKlay2vbQhiVqgR5nDS20rHc/s1600/item8.rendition.slideshowVertical.dumfries-house-08-gallery.jpg" width="492" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Portraits fill the walls of a skylit gallery, which contains cockpen chairs (possibly by Chippendale) as well as Louis XVI–style gilt-wood armchairs by R. Whytock and Co.; traditional rush matting is scattered with small rugs."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dumfries House in Ayrshire, Scotland.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Derry Moore.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by James Reginato.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/decor/2012-02/prince-charles-dumfries-house-scotland-slideshow_slideshow_item8_9" target="_blank">Restoration Drama</a>" produced by James Reginato and Robert Rufino.</span><br /><a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Architectural Digest</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> (February 2012).</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br /><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAZH4Epb5CX2RDfAVbGXHzU_k4wJtdSUne8XxX4JTL4QdInPStNlq0b9nT0jNkU3w5vk5TC-BiJTbunGsc99gtf2-k3DuhA9ZuICF5cLPRj22Ukl0eZ9pA3UEpZDkuCE3PSEOPp1hARXk/s1600/item10.rendition.slideshowHorizontal.dumfries-house-07-tapestry-room.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAZH4Epb5CX2RDfAVbGXHzU_k4wJtdSUne8XxX4JTL4QdInPStNlq0b9nT0jNkU3w5vk5TC-BiJTbunGsc99gtf2-k3DuhA9ZuICF5cLPRj22Ukl0eZ9pA3UEpZDkuCE3PSEOPp1hARXk/s1600/item10.rendition.slideshowHorizontal.dumfries-house-07-tapestry-room.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The Tapestry Room, completed in 1908 by architect Robert Weir Schultz and paneled in bleached American walnut, was designed to house four circa-1700 Gobelins weavings presented by Louis XIV to an ancestor of the seventh Marquess of Bute, former owner of Dumfries House."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dumfries House in Ayrshire, Scotland.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Derry Moore.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by James Reginato.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/decor/2012-02/prince-charles-dumfries-house-scotland-slideshow_slideshow_item10_11" target="_blank">Restoration Drama</a>" produced by James Reginato and Robert Rufino.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/" target="_blank">Architectural Digest</a> (February 2012).</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXpd1cWBakxt_8oODc9MqXM-AV5exIs8tW4tLeOAdLSSO4pTdYQ3fLm_tXsaEApeRn7nsJYQrqaGa-BF57dgOkhv9X61B32vhLskPo4A3tbWN39FLteEc0aGLNILkwqjdTb8rvbh7m5j8/s1600/item11.rendition.slideshowVertical.dumfries-house-09-study.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXpd1cWBakxt_8oODc9MqXM-AV5exIs8tW4tLeOAdLSSO4pTdYQ3fLm_tXsaEApeRn7nsJYQrqaGa-BF57dgOkhv9X61B32vhLskPo4A3tbWN39FLteEc0aGLNILkwqjdTb8rvbh7m5j8/s1600/item11.rendition.slideshowVertical.dumfries-house-09-study.jpg" width="492" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Peter armchairs and a 1759 Chippendale library table are among the furnishings placed in Lord Dumfries’s Study; it was originally a dressing room."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dumfries House in Ayrshire, Scotland.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Derry Moore.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by James Reginato.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/decor/2012-02/prince-charles-dumfries-house-scotland-slideshow_slideshow_item11_12" target="_blank">Restoration Drama</a>" produced by James Reginato and Robert Rufino.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/" target="_blank">Architectural Digest</a> (February 2012).</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2Y6W2xtZ6xs-yAQDVNVZH6CA8aCDnXrO1FfQM2VRAl60MUirGYFOnCGtWer-ZhQrOSkNDbX_a0Re1nmaihvZP3gV2hY2jVgjTrNFCfLgE7e7BNhXY-W2yavzB8QJLjXMy9VguXUN_sK4/s1600/item12.rendition.slideshowHorizontal.dumfries-house-10-sitting-room.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2Y6W2xtZ6xs-yAQDVNVZH6CA8aCDnXrO1FfQM2VRAl60MUirGYFOnCGtWer-ZhQrOSkNDbX_a0Re1nmaihvZP3gV2hY2jVgjTrNFCfLgE7e7BNhXY-W2yavzB8QJLjXMy9VguXUN_sK4/s1600/item12.rendition.slideshowHorizontal.dumfries-house-10-sitting-room.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"A Christopher Moore printed linen, based on an 18th-century document, is used in this south-facing sitting room, which was decorated for the use of the Prince of Wales; the gilt-wood pier glass was made by Mathie in 1759, and the walls are painted with Farrow and Ball’s Vert de Terre."</span><br /><div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dumfries House in Ayrshire, Scotland.</span></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Derry Moore.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by James Reginato.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/decor/2012-02/prince-charles-dumfries-house-scotland-slideshow_slideshow_item12_13" target="_blank">Restoration Drama</a>" produced by James Reginato and Robert Rufino.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/" target="_blank">Architectural Digest</a> (February 2012).</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXZubOR2IrWoj295tkj50Twr1K9iDuIIatnchiZ0eGZnofZ0v-PET2ChhUbuv_aXT6J_-p8x02sPng79S7e7vkPqBZQW-uOfv8MqpgWwhntJxEDYjbZqoTq-S0JZjImtF5N5wKZ1LE-L4/s1600/item14.rendition.slideshowHorizontal.dumfries-house-12-family-bedroom.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXZubOR2IrWoj295tkj50Twr1K9iDuIIatnchiZ0eGZnofZ0v-PET2ChhUbuv_aXT6J_-p8x02sPng79S7e7vkPqBZQW-uOfv8MqpgWwhntJxEDYjbZqoTq-S0JZjImtF5N5wKZ1LE-L4/s1600/item14.rendition.slideshowHorizontal.dumfries-house-12-family-bedroom.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"A team of 20 artisans restored the Chippendale four-post bed in the Family Bedroom; brilliant blue silk damask covers even the canopy’s cresting. Above the fireplace is a gilt-wood overmantel, also by Chippendale; Alexander Peter designed the bedside cupboards as well as the chair and stool, which retain their 18th-century floral tapestry covers."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dumfries House in Ayrshire, Scotland.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Derry Moore.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by James Reginato.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/decor/2012-02/prince-charles-dumfries-house-scotland-slideshow_slideshow_item14_15" target="_blank">Restoration Drama</a>" produced by James Reginato and Robert Rufino.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/" target="_blank">Architectural Digest</a> (February 2012).</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxYmkKEMpJEVhpX9-vmm-XE_zQ26itHyvD8chmm-IgH-wnS47VcDhpMdSOY27pqfjhtbxAZQNMo_QNPVkKAdQkyeRlta2mWkuFkYxzplk-cllqbeSJ4068hSCn7yYQwNCzAyXiH09cwO8/s1600/item15.rendition.slideshowVertical.dumfries-house-13-bedroom.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxYmkKEMpJEVhpX9-vmm-XE_zQ26itHyvD8chmm-IgH-wnS47VcDhpMdSOY27pqfjhtbxAZQNMo_QNPVkKAdQkyeRlta2mWkuFkYxzplk-cllqbeSJ4068hSCn7yYQwNCzAyXiH09cwO8/s1600/item15.rendition.slideshowVertical.dumfries-house-13-bedroom.jpg" width="492" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"A gilt-wood four-post bed hung with a Jean Monro chintz from Clarence House dominates a bedroom."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dumfries House in Ayrshire, Scotland.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Derry Moore.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by James Reginato.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/decor/2012-02/prince-charles-dumfries-house-scotland-slideshow_slideshow_item15_16" target="_blank">Restoration Drama</a>" produced by James Reginato and Robert Rufino.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/" target="_blank">Architectural Digest</a> (February 2012).</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoctBj4XPwFjRAd8cs9maY9gu5VnUmhAzRKDQfNpALKln35KfQ1biSUv6JDzVc1upd8raRf0hDtt-mmtKP4MiH5wNM3r6qPfHT7tJ0hYaPlm-O9GcNfMXffFt-8ihLQLskWCKMCtjB1TM/s1600/item16.rendition.slideshowHorizontal.dumfries-house-17.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoctBj4XPwFjRAd8cs9maY9gu5VnUmhAzRKDQfNpALKln35KfQ1biSUv6JDzVc1upd8raRf0hDtt-mmtKP4MiH5wNM3r6qPfHT7tJ0hYaPlm-O9GcNfMXffFt-8ihLQLskWCKMCtjB1TM/s1600/item16.rendition.slideshowHorizontal.dumfries-house-17.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The same Jean Monro chintz is used throughout the room."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dumfries House in Ayrshire, Scotland.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Derry Moore.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by James Reginato.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/decor/2012-02/prince-charles-dumfries-house-scotland-slideshow_slideshow_item16_17" target="_blank">Restoration Drama</a>" produced by James Reginato and Robert Rufino.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/" target="_blank">Architectural Digest</a> (February 2012).</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHmuQi7Cu7jid_uVFjaJ7SGvu3eOkPLFUQEqsr-pDD2w6K0rOIKl9XeCNjmbHYE66Ax-n4NmZrZdmu53H5zw6WtbsdNfgvVW7Up6c-EU1PwXSMV0M9ywTqGI3mtFy6Y7L9ImC7uHOx_oc/s1600/item19.rendition.slideshowHorizontal.dumfries-house-20.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHmuQi7Cu7jid_uVFjaJ7SGvu3eOkPLFUQEqsr-pDD2w6K0rOIKl9XeCNjmbHYE66Ax-n4NmZrZdmu53H5zw6WtbsdNfgvVW7Up6c-EU1PwXSMV0M9ywTqGI3mtFy6Y7L9ImC7uHOx_oc/s1600/item19.rendition.slideshowHorizontal.dumfries-house-20.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The original main approach to Dumfries House brought visitors over the Adam Bridge, which spans the River Lugar."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dumfries House in Ayrshire, Scotland.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Derry Moore.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by James Reginato.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/decor/2012-02/prince-charles-dumfries-house-scotland-slideshow_slideshow_item19_20" target="_blank">Restoration Drama</a>" produced by James Reginato and Robert Rufino.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/" target="_blank">Architectural Digest</a> (February 2012).</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi35WkY2oSRDaLYh2NoFcKwq6LYfwDRqfk8wiSCBv_Rnop4RuiaEoj3lek6PXdkGvT9D_7WKTY9hX88oy-EOeXW0LAKUR90Fm4hleOTsSteO5eM31Owdyvm2ngucmBwAm9pP9XUl71L4gc/s1600/item20.rendition.slideshowHorizontal.dumfries-house-21.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi35WkY2oSRDaLYh2NoFcKwq6LYfwDRqfk8wiSCBv_Rnop4RuiaEoj3lek6PXdkGvT9D_7WKTY9hX88oy-EOeXW0LAKUR90Fm4hleOTsSteO5eM31Owdyvm2ngucmBwAm9pP9XUl71L4gc/s1600/item20.rendition.slideshowHorizontal.dumfries-house-21.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The River Lugar.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Derry Moore.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by James Reginato.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/decor/2012-02/prince-charles-dumfries-house-scotland-slideshow_slideshow_item20_21" target="_blank">Restoration Drama</a>" produced by James Reginato and Robert Rufino.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/" target="_blank">Architectural Digest</a> (February 2012).</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCiHaIQQxKYbJg_y8Sy1FH_R_O7AySV9judyMFKuNcXCCXnX_Gjc_GX5FonI4rNgbEhtWHPTzUsmI5hhJnMqi7jBLUWkJnjvwAuBAOXCSTC5MeYZ9bncfnScxSnXsYfckob2xR-0rWRA8/s1600/292560_10152860212690526_747994107_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCiHaIQQxKYbJg_y8Sy1FH_R_O7AySV9judyMFKuNcXCCXnX_Gjc_GX5FonI4rNgbEhtWHPTzUsmI5hhJnMqi7jBLUWkJnjvwAuBAOXCSTC5MeYZ9bncfnScxSnXsYfckob2xR-0rWRA8/s1600/292560_10152860212690526_747994107_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photo via Facebook page of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/destinationlochness/photos/pb.314201755525.-2207520000.1410966446./10152860212690526/?type=3&theater" target="_blank">Visit Loch Ness</a>.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>

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Downton Abbey

<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I found the following photos while watching Season Four, Episode One of <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/downtonabbey/" target="_blank">Downton Abbey</a> and thought I would share . . . </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg56y74zCJ-JJRWaVs4oRU5GoicWr6WwiqJ4ruE3W5a3KMdGb_bhUYCTEZIY0oC4jqKKLYQsJFridQdquTxlV0BEHKka_20lyT7dWp_rk6i5WGgpC_UBo6CoymNAccP9aEEY1Ln1oi0T4eR/s1600/item0.rendition.slideshowVertical.downton-abbey-highclere-castle-01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg56y74zCJ-JJRWaVs4oRU5GoicWr6WwiqJ4ruE3W5a3KMdGb_bhUYCTEZIY0oC4jqKKLYQsJFridQdquTxlV0BEHKka_20lyT7dWp_rk6i5WGgpC_UBo6CoymNAccP9aEEY1Ln1oi0T4eR/s1600/item0.rendition.slideshowVertical.downton-abbey-highclere-castle-01.jpg" width="594" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"A pair of canephorae decorate the gateposts of <a href="http://www.highclerecastle.co.uk/" target="_blank">Highclere Castle</a>, in Hampshire [now the setting of <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/downtonabbey/" target="_blank">PBS's hit show <i>Downton Abbey</i></a>], and suggest the dark splendor of treasures within. Home of the earls of Carnarvon, and built during the last century in fashionable Gothic Revival style . . . "</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Derry Moore.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Elizabeth Dickson.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/decor/2012-03/highclere-castle-downton-abbey-slideshow" target="_blank">Historic Houses: The Splendors of Highclere Castle</a>"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/" target="_blank">Architectural Digest</a> (January - February 1979).</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjypiX94syKfDNGUKp9SEfWv-Hh1pX3XXh9iPmzP_Bd7PsK_77UatNWynz0BqAxkEsS9zfywgcPnmR4YCGRtfqggknMWX-_xW2jh2ipliOfuMHppjbj1ggZDLn4J93Fj5ON7KkCOqu9Kymq/s1600/item1.rendition.slideshowVertical.downton-abbey-highclere-castle-02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjypiX94syKfDNGUKp9SEfWv-Hh1pX3XXh9iPmzP_Bd7PsK_77UatNWynz0BqAxkEsS9zfywgcPnmR4YCGRtfqggknMWX-_xW2jh2ipliOfuMHppjbj1ggZDLn4J93Fj5ON7KkCOqu9Kymq/s1600/item1.rendition.slideshowVertical.downton-abbey-highclere-castle-02.jpg" width="594" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Pointed arches, decorated with small marble columns, give the entrance hall a feeling of mysterious beauty. An ornate Sarabend rug, placed on a geometric parquet marble floor, produces a richly complex pattern."</span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;">Photography by Derry Moore.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Elizabeth Dickson.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/decor/2012-03/highclere-castle-downton-abbey-slideshow_slideshow_undefined_2" target="_blank">Historic Houses: The Splendors of Highclere Castle</a>"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/" target="_blank">Architectural Digest</a> (January - February 1979).</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_9n-2T-wvCo0p_orwdj9diczZ_XXL-yPaUZDWu0rWKXIlsoG_qab-pvcXOKYxgBo5c9GrVaOySMFeVIv_3PDuNVE6OJavnX3GCo96G-4crQD1NwRcGltSeNP3HQ7EIbqCLqpPSeSLqi5K/s1600/item2.rendition.slideshowVertical.downton-abbey-highclere-castle-03.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_9n-2T-wvCo0p_orwdj9diczZ_XXL-yPaUZDWu0rWKXIlsoG_qab-pvcXOKYxgBo5c9GrVaOySMFeVIv_3PDuNVE6OJavnX3GCo96G-4crQD1NwRcGltSeNP3HQ7EIbqCLqpPSeSLqi5K/s1600/item2.rendition.slideshowVertical.downton-abbey-highclere-castle-03.jpg" width="594" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The living room is seen through a series of arches, and is open to the grandly proportioned central space." </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Derry Moore.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Elizabeth Dickson.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/decor/2012-03/highclere-castle-downton-abbey-slideshow_slideshow_undefined_3" target="_blank">Historic Houses: The Splendors of Highclere Castle</a>"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/" target="_blank">Architectural Digest</a> (January - February 1979).</span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYMuUOzS_CD2RFyM5SWfMrjSp848pbMHxN85008FEuLsbNxEa4ha2m3pesSXv-A_EuZe908DBEKk_HXfJKrv376E55PYvYGZJr_yP6S5ImKikdSaqzuDzHS7mwGWhGPASueLJM6BpLN-OM/s1600/item3.rendition.slideshowVertical.downton-abbey-highclere-castle-04.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYMuUOzS_CD2RFyM5SWfMrjSp848pbMHxN85008FEuLsbNxEa4ha2m3pesSXv-A_EuZe908DBEKk_HXfJKrv376E55PYvYGZJr_yP6S5ImKikdSaqzuDzHS7mwGWhGPASueLJM6BpLN-OM/s1600/item3.rendition.slideshowVertical.downton-abbey-highclere-castle-04.jpg" width="594" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Van Dyck's monumental equestrian portrait of King Charles I dominates the dining room; other 17th-century portraits are predominately English. The table is scaled for intimacy; appointed with Hepplewhite chairs, it rests on a Caucasian rug."</span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Derry Moore.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Elizabeth Dickson.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/decor/2012-03/highclere-castle-downton-abbey-slideshow_slideshow_undefined_4" target="_blank">Historic Houses: The Splendors of Highclere Castle</a>"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/" target="_blank">Architectural Digest</a> (January - February 1979).</span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP_u4MiOvrikjU3yOLbheUa4yg2C_uRCZlssnr8vpirb1Nxg4i-ikZljI_vje9UryBaMblLF_VVqrVrG3usm3h8AWazZB_QWQwzF-nubV6sVqi8fOrVi_YAuNuSQ2TV87n_MC2uXyb0flY/s1600/item4.rendition.slideshowVertical.downton-abbey-highclere-castle-05.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP_u4MiOvrikjU3yOLbheUa4yg2C_uRCZlssnr8vpirb1Nxg4i-ikZljI_vje9UryBaMblLF_VVqrVrG3usm3h8AWazZB_QWQwzF-nubV6sVqi8fOrVi_YAuNuSQ2TV87n_MC2uXyb0flY/s1600/item4.rendition.slideshowVertical.downton-abbey-highclere-castle-05.jpg" width="594" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Tall gilded columns serve to divide the long axis of the library. The rich tones of the coffered wood ceiling and Caucasian rugs give the room a warm Victorian feeling. On the far wall, a massive double-pediment bookcase is filled with old books, their fine leather bindings creating an additional pattern."</span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Derry Moore.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Elizabeth Dickson.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/decor/2012-03/highclere-castle-downton-abbey-slideshow_slideshow_undefined_5" target="_blank">Historic Houses: The Splendors of Highclere Castle</a>"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/" target="_blank">Architectural Digest</a> (January - February 1979).</span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjajxvH3HBzsk-tkJC48BdVOT5H2rKjAPcjCxFX1R1hhgHyzicQWygxAhYeo98QPguCWwezCPHwDI7Q_nEB8uvDSd0TToKtvhxJTgAVmArBt0swv21dRkeZxQkFoJpD4DME8vtIB27wXSPK/s1600/item5.rendition.slideshowVertical.downton-abbey-highclere-castle-06.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjajxvH3HBzsk-tkJC48BdVOT5H2rKjAPcjCxFX1R1hhgHyzicQWygxAhYeo98QPguCWwezCPHwDI7Q_nEB8uvDSd0TToKtvhxJTgAVmArBt0swv21dRkeZxQkFoJpD4DME8vtIB27wXSPK/s1600/item5.rendition.slideshowVertical.downton-abbey-highclere-castle-06.jpg" width="594" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Exotic forms of griffons decorate a Regency armchair that attends a Regency mahogany and bronze writing desk. A Louis XVI bronze and ormolu candelabrum on a pedestal illuminates antique volumes in a parcel-gilt walnut bookcase." </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Derry Moore.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Elizabeth Dickson.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/decor/2012-03/highclere-castle-downton-abbey-slideshow_slideshow_undefined_6" target="_blank">Historic Houses: The Splendors of Highclere Castle</a>"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/" target="_blank">Architectural Digest</a> (January - February 1979).</span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtuABB6wyERR0J2wOM_aq5SM90hUk7KD7D8Y9RsqiiDXabEVHBmkLUMQbKlE4s2wakAOE17QAeBYCD9ZPz0Oq_sROl6ckPf9_RmqJEQdwJYaKLLc9bU5LSfa3hvdGTSnb_1kSDJBrpdpm-/s1600/item6.rendition.slideshowVertical.downton-abbey-highclere-castle-07.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtuABB6wyERR0J2wOM_aq5SM90hUk7KD7D8Y9RsqiiDXabEVHBmkLUMQbKlE4s2wakAOE17QAeBYCD9ZPz0Oq_sROl6ckPf9_RmqJEQdwJYaKLLc9bU5LSfa3hvdGTSnb_1kSDJBrpdpm-/s1600/item6.rendition.slideshowVertical.downton-abbey-highclere-castle-07.jpg" width="594" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Romantic and serene, Heaven's Gate is a 19th-century folly built atop a grassy mound in the castle's extensive private parklands."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Derry Moore.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Elizabeth Dickson.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/decor/2012-03/highclere-castle-downton-abbey-slideshow_slideshow_item6_7" target="_blank">Historic Houses: The Splendors of Highclere Castle</a>"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/" target="_blank">Architectural Digest</a> (January - February 1979).</span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTJNa5ueIjT2gpHORr1Mejn50BEP43Lm7hBDckNCEFo08XKqDU_UY1-kkeNHSCy77agWzpchnJsSHO0YlruMPvUnEbA5Uttq3uKQkX2bpk9KU0hrrg7qujAUPICRyC60YGTooTj9whTnEW/s1600/42a5f5d2ffb1e944e94f9f163d6e1c99.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTJNa5ueIjT2gpHORr1Mejn50BEP43Lm7hBDckNCEFo08XKqDU_UY1-kkeNHSCy77agWzpchnJsSHO0YlruMPvUnEbA5Uttq3uKQkX2bpk9KU0hrrg7qujAUPICRyC60YGTooTj9whTnEW/s1600/42a5f5d2ffb1e944e94f9f163d6e1c99.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.ralphlauren.com/home/index.jsp?ab=Geo_iUS_rUS_dUS" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Ralph Lauren</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">held a private fashion show at</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><a href="http://www.highclerecastle.co.uk/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Highclere Castle</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">where the TV series</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/downtonabbey/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Downton Abbey</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">is filmed.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Chris Allerton courtesy of Ralph Lauren.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.pinterest.com/pin/253116441529078897/" target="_blank">Photo via Ralph Lauren's Downton Abbey Pinterest board</a>.</span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGSk6W8iD096xglWm_eORBcFjhLysCnHKfYuillc5HLqjnRWYkjJ1lbuBWKa1I7p25c5euIv-XqFY0oo7qnmkyZC2ltFkhvoC-2YRSGOE84hHFT7xF9vR3yXuaha7_6NAO4kXvJyMav1Lv/s1600/9000976a682d65a6841fa80e8cdd9ea9.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.pinterest.com/pin/554013191632235101/" target="_blank">Photo via Pinterest board of Downton Abbey</a>. </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC420rmzeyJugxnjLECIDGN4NbOZV1zcgadKPdj2xKtUYeE8OQnBO8mL1yu_FqDSmykuv9LhPnOzMejfdsQ3Hb71PGFqoYj0HNCfJlDTWeIWogoucwDOkCZJgUtUgiu0dY2XwvNgvkMXTm/s1600/item0.rendition.slideshowHorizontal.downton-abbey-design-sets-01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="404" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC420rmzeyJugxnjLECIDGN4NbOZV1zcgadKPdj2xKtUYeE8OQnBO8mL1yu_FqDSmykuv9LhPnOzMejfdsQ3Hb71PGFqoYj0HNCfJlDTWeIWogoucwDOkCZJgUtUgiu0dY2XwvNgvkMXTm/s1600/item0.rendition.slideshowHorizontal.downton-abbey-design-sets-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Actor Hugh Bonneville, who plays the Earl of Grantham, is pictured here in <a href="http://www.highclerecastle.co.uk/" target="_blank">Highclere</a>'s drawing room, leaning against a mantlepiece lined with early Victorian porcelain urns."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photo via Architectural Digest courtesy Carnival Film and Television Limited 2011 for MASTERPIECE.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Cathy Whitlock.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/ad/set-design/2012/downton-abbey-design-sets-slideshow" target="_blank">On the Set of PBS's Downton Abbey</a>"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/" target="_blank">Architectural Digest</a>.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBVyEpJatTap7uAblXXg366fVJFGeJ1EH1wgShrchv_w00cTlrqfQFrwNQsBNPFuHmJ1sRPTic5i71WsayoUamunwbKQEplZy1Xa3qNBr59c352UCMuY-ta85B8KhaIcNxl55cq5GBaKjN/s1600/db9a7c47528d2974d7cb9728204389e9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBVyEpJatTap7uAblXXg366fVJFGeJ1EH1wgShrchv_w00cTlrqfQFrwNQsBNPFuHmJ1sRPTic5i71WsayoUamunwbKQEplZy1Xa3qNBr59c352UCMuY-ta85B8KhaIcNxl55cq5GBaKjN/s1600/db9a7c47528d2974d7cb9728204389e9.jpg" width="520" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Of Sybil's shocking new outfit, [Julian] Fellowes explains, 'no woman of her class, before Poiret's harem look, had ever been seen in trousers.' "</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/downtonabbey/season2_world_style.html" target="_blank">Photo via PBS</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/downtonabbey/season2_world_style.html" target="_blank">The World of Downton Abbey: Styles From Formal Dining to the Front</a>.</span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNL19Fxhnnd6z2hvMm0skPNbk7I_p60kCTOaeo-oL1VKHXsvNnl_nSHwDJjsIr0q-TcxJVII56oFDa5c6Ty5dWzK13b-XKBM5lelQDqoamWW4CfQozjRHdS6d_3FrfWD1Vywx-FA-5ddCU/s1600/157cd86f7395d804a8fe88315f869e63.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNL19Fxhnnd6z2hvMm0skPNbk7I_p60kCTOaeo-oL1VKHXsvNnl_nSHwDJjsIr0q-TcxJVII56oFDa5c6Ty5dWzK13b-XKBM5lelQDqoamWW4CfQozjRHdS6d_3FrfWD1Vywx-FA-5ddCU/s1600/157cd86f7395d804a8fe88315f869e63.jpg" width="520" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lady Mary's "red dress is made from a turn-of-the-century Spanish evening dress."</span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/downtonabbey/season2_world_style.html" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Photo via PBS</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/downtonabbey/season2_world_style.html" target="_blank">The World of Downton Abbey: Styles From Formal Dining to the Front</a>.</span> </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfYFtHZ1wFz7Otr4_MjoRB9QfaK5WHpwCx3QoMRasUBP1hHxeio0C-RzmnRZ1w6AhAh07LShGv12JXr3RHJ2kgXHA8e9IdjbTEIIxoa2_X_s4ozkA3LX-pjGt1JfpGJdhsghITrEqbnSJ1/s1600/0bb7087e86ebcc7060a2147295ddc2e7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfYFtHZ1wFz7Otr4_MjoRB9QfaK5WHpwCx3QoMRasUBP1hHxeio0C-RzmnRZ1w6AhAh07LShGv12JXr3RHJ2kgXHA8e9IdjbTEIIxoa2_X_s4ozkA3LX-pjGt1JfpGJdhsghITrEqbnSJ1/s1600/0bb7087e86ebcc7060a2147295ddc2e7.jpg" width="520" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"[Julian] Fellowes describes how Edwardian period footmen were a true measure of status, hired for their good looks and height, with the taller footmen earning a higher salary. 'The real showpieces of the house were the footmen. Their uniforms would be provided by the house at great expense; when the men were offered the job, they would be told to go to the tailors to be fitted for the livery, trimmed with the family's crested buttons, and the cost would be charged to the family's account.' "</span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/downtonabbey/season2_world_style.html" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Photo via PBS</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/downtonabbey/season2_world_style.html" target="_blank">The World of Downton Abbey: Styles From Formal Dining to the Front</a>.</span> </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGuVsGA9zjYBD6AUotimdAGhkqM0K3RUvctHqUN4HPIXDoifsJ1Cmcy1EFJeUR6bSFDgRDHypdssApKs1hT_oKkHff8Vav4KlPFILvNi0Wnl3IAKex1DnmMtOC0zK0Io9ZyH5dF5TfXhgJ/s1600/555c8d4b11b0a4657ab0e8b88066cf97.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGuVsGA9zjYBD6AUotimdAGhkqM0K3RUvctHqUN4HPIXDoifsJ1Cmcy1EFJeUR6bSFDgRDHypdssApKs1hT_oKkHff8Vav4KlPFILvNi0Wnl3IAKex1DnmMtOC0zK0Io9ZyH5dF5TfXhgJ/s1600/555c8d4b11b0a4657ab0e8b88066cf97.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.pinterest.com/pin/554013191632197938/" target="_blank">Photo via Pinterest board of Downton Abbey</a>.</span> </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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I found the following photos while watching Season Four, Episode One of Downton Abbey and thought I would share . . .  "A pair of cane...

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