Ex Libris

<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In honor of <a href="http://www.ala.org/bbooks/bannedbooksweek" target="_blank">Banned Books Week</a>, "an annual event celebrating the freedom to read" (September 21 - 27, 2014), I share some photos of libraries. I hope they encourage a bit of reading - banned books or not - and if, like me, you are a fan of public libraries, please note that the <a href="https://twitter.com/RVA_Library/status/515863947514503168" target="_blank">Richmond Public Library</a> is accepting donations of canned goods through September 30. Donate canned goods, and the library will waive up to $10 of your late book fines. </span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR7k6-d8tULETs48H37EpkM7TX9nxKw8SC6ITHL7dr_i6GJOeuspexK53XifFojVz-RbDjuesxU3mJdkS442cKAPJbpp2q29Bo5iR78bCGe47VAK65p_YZTGITgAyBLCgB2unzE7m7vbg/s1600/item0.rendition.slideshowVertical.library-01-katherine-newman.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR7k6-d8tULETs48H37EpkM7TX9nxKw8SC6ITHL7dr_i6GJOeuspexK53XifFojVz-RbDjuesxU3mJdkS442cKAPJbpp2q29Bo5iR78bCGe47VAK65p_YZTGITgAyBLCgB2unzE7m7vbg/s1600/item0.rendition.slideshowVertical.library-01-katherine-newman.jpg" width="492" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"It 'makes vague reference to the classical Ionic order,' Katherine Newman says of the library in a postmodern Toronto house she designed with architectural designer/builder Peter Cebulak. The room’s finely carved capitals are complemented by a great number of noteworthy antiques, among them a circa 1790 satinwood worktable."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Tony Soluri.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/decor/2011-10/home-libraries-slideshow?title=1" target="_blank">Stunning Home Libraries</a>"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><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;"> (October 2011).</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_KRZaf0M2aLbsaJuPM_E2BSZTYFxHTgPwD0cZaCaJQ_Y1M5TBOeQGHPAZqx_Bue7gkPJbjmBzyE-lXOSeHe17VuDU0TlsjwyQ3Pk8gOfkKH7fkgQwJYaGlBVuurft6mAe3uc85FRjfVc/s1600/item4.rendition.slideshowVertical.arsl05_graves.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_KRZaf0M2aLbsaJuPM_E2BSZTYFxHTgPwD0cZaCaJQ_Y1M5TBOeQGHPAZqx_Bue7gkPJbjmBzyE-lXOSeHe17VuDU0TlsjwyQ3Pk8gOfkKH7fkgQwJYaGlBVuurft6mAe3uc85FRjfVc/s1600/item4.rendition.slideshowVertical.arsl05_graves.jpg" width="446" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"With the folly idea in mind, the architects gave the residence a tea room, which is octagonal in shape and situated off the second-floor library." </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Library in "De Luwte," a home in the Dutch town of Loenen, on the shore of the Vecht River. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Architecture: Michael Graves and Associates. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design: Eric Kuster. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography: Daria Scagliola and Stijn Brakkee. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/AD100/2010/michael_graves/graves_article_052008" target="_blank">Riverside Sanctuary</a>" by Mildred F. Schmertz. </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> (May 2008).</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvPzfMAXUqqIToP-gArOhM2y_k-wrdOGg_iOnja07xjIgs52FjVUq1EsimL2H3hDJHFEkh4-INWsNy9nNEPYkW_1j5RVMPqdQXokBRYhp0-OM4vKL2VaSm_mNK-odVtTqp4q8sD6Nup8w/s1600/101676934_p.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvPzfMAXUqqIToP-gArOhM2y_k-wrdOGg_iOnja07xjIgs52FjVUq1EsimL2H3hDJHFEkh4-INWsNy9nNEPYkW_1j5RVMPqdQXokBRYhp0-OM4vKL2VaSm_mNK-odVtTqp4q8sD6Nup8w/s1600/101676934_p.jpg" width="424" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"A glass roof floods the library with light."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Library of Michael Graves's home - "The Warehouse" - the rundown Princeton, New Jersey, warehouse the architect bought in 1974 and renovated in stages.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by John Bessler.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Amy Elbert</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.traditionalhome.com/design/beautiful-homes/home-architect-michael-graves?page=3" target="_blank">At Home with Architect Michael Graves</a>" produced by JoAnn McVicker.  </span><br /><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;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhymwwXFZVCMA39_nf7x2H0tRGHQj7_aBJyToZxv6WGn9yNXY_CcaBXtnkm53mZVuPTJ19VvCUE4D2HUB25o6V_9I-ujPZkAeK9HH3DIjGHaQUUm5iWXTTPqW-g5tIdRcphtVuqsDEe3Xk/s1600/item12.rendition.slideshowVertical.library-13-lubrano-ciavarra.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhymwwXFZVCMA39_nf7x2H0tRGHQj7_aBJyToZxv6WGn9yNXY_CcaBXtnkm53mZVuPTJ19VvCUE4D2HUB25o6V_9I-ujPZkAeK9HH3DIjGHaQUUm5iWXTTPqW-g5tIdRcphtVuqsDEe3Xk/s1600/item12.rendition.slideshowVertical.library-13-lubrano-ciavarra.jpg" width="492" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The double-height library has built-in bookshelves constructed of ipe, which is termite-resistant. Its stair- and catwalk-balustrade design was inspired by that of the area’s old colonial cottages. Where the shelves meet the pickled-cypress ceiling, the architects concealed an air-conditioning system and uplighting."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by Port of Call.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Architecture: Lubrano Ciavarra Design. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Steven Brooke. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/decor/archive/lubrano_article_122006" target="_blank">Tropically Integrated</a>" by Gerald Clarke.</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> (December 2006).</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5lqPcgmCiv91HfmodF-LnmO4SpGtzEdZ8AHeep9FhAqV8zhIbfxbH0lkSFJQy9TFsGczN8_Ng_voskzmaTCRj1FmBegZ8FxkxWaPR4ZV-nkZW7fd3ULQsdoao3OrIb0-fvvtt32quibo/s1600/07-hbx-cuban-mahogany-shelves-christie-1013-xln.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5lqPcgmCiv91HfmodF-LnmO4SpGtzEdZ8AHeep9FhAqV8zhIbfxbH0lkSFJQy9TFsGczN8_Ng_voskzmaTCRj1FmBegZ8FxkxWaPR4ZV-nkZW7fd3ULQsdoao3OrIb0-fvvtt32quibo/s1600/07-hbx-cuban-mahogany-shelves-christie-1013-xln.jpg" width="556" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Christie transformed a bare room into a library, outfitted with Cuban mahogany shelves salvaged from a library in Nantes. His carpenter found more Cuban mahogany to build the barrel-vault ceiling. The classical busts crowning the shelves are copies made by Lorenzani in Paris."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Home of harpsichordist and conductor William Christie.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Simon Watson.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/decorating/house-pictures/french-country-interior-design-1013#slide-7" target="_blank">A 16th-Century French Countryside Estate</a>" by Melissa Biggs Bradley.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/" target="_blank">House Beautiful</a> (October 2013).</span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZex2WrofSpfvqTsrowOFu64RSjIV0qAwD4Uktc2EMcvUnpT6ZZ-HHdL4VIoI_Ii7GTywACgbu0oxJu763oZJNaDzY3_6qUCIleZ1yl47Oo_WCEKpra4dR0TIMFgYy2cC8HHuTBBD6LCc/s1600/10-hbx-blue-velvet-tufted-sofa-whitson-0613-xln-12629122.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZex2WrofSpfvqTsrowOFu64RSjIV0qAwD4Uktc2EMcvUnpT6ZZ-HHdL4VIoI_Ii7GTywACgbu0oxJu763oZJNaDzY3_6qUCIleZ1yl47Oo_WCEKpra4dR0TIMFgYy2cC8HHuTBBD6LCc/s1600/10-hbx-blue-velvet-tufted-sofa-whitson-0613-xln-12629122.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">" 'Because the library is small, it lent itself to a rich jewel-box treatment,' Whitson says. Woodwork is painted a deep, saturated color, Farrow & Ball's Hague Blue, and the ceiling is tented with a Michael S. Smith Indian block fabric, Jasper. Upholstered in a blue Schumacher silk velvet very close to the color of the walls, the tufted U-shaped sofa — which is all one piece — is where her two teenage children watch movies. 'We call it Big Blue,' she says."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tennessee home of antiques dealer Jeannette Whitson.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by Jeannette Whitson.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Simon Watson.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/decorating/house-pictures/creating-a-new-old-house-0613#slide-11" target="_blank">A New Nashville House With an Old Soul</a>" by Barbara King.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/" target="_blank">House Beautiful</a> (June 2013).</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji9JcghAPoRbJzSwV_MVh-gGOp4rSrwvUZehfWGhRoJPtrWJUddHSv7oamf5GG9tRf0-wBqi6EwfWIiGhrhYIsd0_huK3YH7V0cjwbbZkPHIm89D_RMdjBOxZxw9Mt_TNSe9lZf3dbE1o/s1600/01-hbx-pierre-frey-dune-bergere-kedigian-1213-xln.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji9JcghAPoRbJzSwV_MVh-gGOp4rSrwvUZehfWGhRoJPtrWJUddHSv7oamf5GG9tRf0-wBqi6EwfWIiGhrhYIsd0_huK3YH7V0cjwbbZkPHIm89D_RMdjBOxZxw9Mt_TNSe9lZf3dbE1o/s1600/01-hbx-pierre-frey-dune-bergere-kedigian-1213-xln.jpg" width="556" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The library in designer Garrow Kedigian's Manhattan apartment sheds fresh light on the classics he collects, both literary and decorative. A bergère in Pierre Frey's Dune partners with a mid-20th-century inlaid desk. Custom Stark rug with the designer's hallmark Greek key pattern."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by Garrow Kedigian.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Christopher Sturman.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/decorating/house-pictures/stylish-classic-new-york-apartment-1213#slide-1" target="_blank">A Stylish Spin on a Traditional New York Apartment</a>" by Douglas Brenner.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/" target="_blank">House Beautiful</a> (December 2013).</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCOmct2-rgwoIqRZZbtedAnECZ4ZNIuDxIJ5rtaKPqV9iRGelfjqUM6vgFRo7UoSU52TIJ0C9h5ch1640QReKZ36M3cAkToSb5b8dd_4SWsfSVRu8csAOfa-IORQDJ-gbNenYrySO3bno/s1600/02-hbx-clarence-house-elletra-kedigian-curtains-kedigian-1213-xln.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCOmct2-rgwoIqRZZbtedAnECZ4ZNIuDxIJ5rtaKPqV9iRGelfjqUM6vgFRo7UoSU52TIJ0C9h5ch1640QReKZ36M3cAkToSb5b8dd_4SWsfSVRu8csAOfa-IORQDJ-gbNenYrySO3bno/s1600/02-hbx-clarence-house-elletra-kedigian-curtains-kedigian-1213-xln.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">" 'I wanted to have a library before that notion becomes extinct,' says Kedigian, 'but the shell had to feel contemporary and fun.' Solution? A vibrant custom palette in a Fine Paints of Europe Brilliant finish. Curtains of Clarence House Elettra flank a sofa in Scalamandré's Variegation herringbone. A Louis XV fauteuil (a gift from Kedigian's grandmother) retains its original blue velvet, and a neoclassical side chair is updated with Glant Liquid Leather."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by Garrow Kedigian.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Christopher Sturman.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/decorating/house-pictures/stylish-classic-new-york-apartment-1213#slide-2" target="_blank">A Stylish Spin on a Traditional New York Apartment</a>" by Douglas Brenner.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/" target="_blank">House Beautiful</a> (December 2013).</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRRplDd54-XdvxBsoVcjJs7jl_9SFYbN8r-FJ40Mo12ke2BArL89oOqTDQBanQyaSE4j0JH4t4C-NkZChIZBqzIbZZk2ujD8EfQwUfXIu3_SEkiOHeZ0wTkWJx_3nqEvshdlB99eWJDNo/s1600/08-hbx-zoffany-serenza-walls-southern-1013-xln.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRRplDd54-XdvxBsoVcjJs7jl_9SFYbN8r-FJ40Mo12ke2BArL89oOqTDQBanQyaSE4j0JH4t4C-NkZChIZBqzIbZZk2ujD8EfQwUfXIu3_SEkiOHeZ0wTkWJx_3nqEvshdlB99eWJDNo/s1600/08-hbx-zoffany-serenza-walls-southern-1013-xln.jpg" width="556" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The library is Southern's 'nod to English decorating, with vintage floral chintz.' Walls covered in Zoffany Serenza. Woodwork painted in Farrow and Ball Modern Emulsion in Wimborne White."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1860 townhouse in London's South Kensington neighborhood.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by Rob Southern.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by James Merrell.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/decorating/house-pictures/colorful-london-townhouse-1013#slide-8" target="_blank">A Bold Makeover for a 19th-Century London Townhouse</a>" by Barbara King.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/" target="_blank">House Beautiful</a> (October 2013).</span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfZdvgTM0g72CNBCS9SAZAx8KET_-_lJcZ-JZdTqpTxMnZ05elxWvt3qDZal7B2VAvYwtKvhe7K4CwQgoNoR9PZ7_6v-WnDw7QnrDqbswzcXxsmKvvan8oAnPRE4q3mQCGkrSDvhjY7DU/s1600/tim-kemp-london-townhome-1-lgn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfZdvgTM0g72CNBCS9SAZAx8KET_-_lJcZ-JZdTqpTxMnZ05elxWvt3qDZal7B2VAvYwtKvhe7K4CwQgoNoR9PZ7_6v-WnDw7QnrDqbswzcXxsmKvvan8oAnPRE4q3mQCGkrSDvhjY7DU/s1600/tim-kemp-london-townhome-1-lgn.jpg" width="512" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"In the library, the armchair is by George Smith, and the mirror above the limestone mantel is 18th-century French; the small canvas artworks are by Anna Raymond, and the collages reflected in the mirror are by Joe Tilson."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1920s London townhouse of hoteliers Tim and Kit Kemp.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior decoration by Kit Kemp.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Simon Upton.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.elledecor.com/design-decorate/a-bold-and-beautiful-townhouse#slide-1" target="_blank">A Bold and Beautiful Townhouse</a>" by Ingrid Abramovitch.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.elledecor.com/" target="_blank">Elle Decor</a> (April 2011).</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/AVvXsEhZbSQ-FLg6VzZ6kcE3Xi3p7j4uIjMz9HOzdirYnmvUjmdRlSs6xkHV1ip1n5Cd8vwgdDNDlYRR1eoB6xzmyN674SH7OPTanVC9SKEwDwtNIJ94QZ4-hwNJC4nxlB18Soc1w5WtvrAizG4/s1600/red-library-veoGuG-xlg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZbSQ-FLg6VzZ6kcE3Xi3p7j4uIjMz9HOzdirYnmvUjmdRlSs6xkHV1ip1n5Cd8vwgdDNDlYRR1eoB6xzmyN674SH7OPTanVC9SKEwDwtNIJ94QZ4-hwNJC4nxlB18Soc1w5WtvrAizG4/s1600/red-library-veoGuG-xlg.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">" 'Red libraries are best!' says designer Alessandra Branca. Walls are upholstered in wool paisley. The sofa and ottoman are Branca designs."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Thibault Jeanson.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/decorating/designer-libraries?click=main_sr#slide-20" target="_blank">Classic Library Design Ideas</a>"</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/" target="_blank">House Beautiful</a>.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-diwLuq2h8eUW-XhEFKz4FQeM9t-jwYE3xTCPvDkMPBCNfRNkWduDvlHczuQoALovbkaAioi1peCkwH0Q_CTAXqmxcH9NaDfcVgV7WcSMUcLglpW1iuvrVflvybSHNG5A4EgYSzim_M8/s1600/VER-Beverly-Field-library-de.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="414" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-diwLuq2h8eUW-XhEFKz4FQeM9t-jwYE3xTCPvDkMPBCNfRNkWduDvlHczuQoALovbkaAioi1peCkwH0Q_CTAXqmxcH9NaDfcVgV7WcSMUcLglpW1iuvrVflvybSHNG5A4EgYSzim_M8/s1600/VER-Beverly-Field-library-de.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Vivid lacquer paint in a custom mix sets off an eclectic display of books and antique porcelain. Custom sofa and slipper chairs in Clarence House fabrics. Custom armchair and ottoman in Pierre Frey fabric with Houlès fringe. Antique Oushak rug, Matt Camron Rugs and Tapestries."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Interior design by Beverly Field. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Architecture by Richardson Robertson III. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Project managed by Brad Kelly.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Max Kim-Bee. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Nancy Perot.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.veranda.com/room-decorating/glamorous-texas-home#slide-5" target="_blank">Glamorous Texas Home</a>" produced by Carolyn Englefield. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.veranda.com/" target="_blank">Veranda</a>.</span><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEzw2nGA204nzjYhC8zDWPJ0jciXc-Vh0Q0vPxsp6fS1iyPAq_S0nGp-qTUK39jsxj_u2zGcXyZxjXRc7KARPaRJyn7-w0gcUcORnd5S2bRAIAizHVcd2VkuIDvi6IhPy9opeZ4vdPF7Y/s1600/hbx-0910-klein-book-shelves-sofa10-1iobN6-xl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEzw2nGA204nzjYhC8zDWPJ0jciXc-Vh0Q0vPxsp6fS1iyPAq_S0nGp-qTUK39jsxj_u2zGcXyZxjXRc7KARPaRJyn7-w0gcUcORnd5S2bRAIAizHVcd2VkuIDvi6IhPy9opeZ4vdPF7Y/s1600/hbx-0910-klein-book-shelves-sofa10-1iobN6-xl.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The library's high-gloss brown walls play up the grid pattern of the bookshelves, derived from a design by architect Hugh Newell Jacobsen. Pillows in Ixtapa by Jacques Bouvet et Cie make a handsome, well-worn chesterfield sofa look even more comfortable and inviting."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Simon Watson.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/decorating/high-gloss-painting-0910#slide-9" target="_blank">Paint Your Home in High Gloss</a>" by Carol Prisant.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/" target="_blank">House Beautiful</a> (September 2010).</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div> <span style="text-align: center;"> </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuUDNuuqLf9gAbQeF1UoUQyuw8CFRW7DRx3VfE58kSAQXsvvJrwoP2HJSUZfXNAWJlEx3diZyQ9xUZIiLuzWjfJZscByfgXhulxeGA3QpEWDywZX4Jq9vA6HRzmv4eM79ibhhJxs0rx5o/s1600/item3.rendition.slideshowHorizontal.arsl04_libraries.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="530" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuUDNuuqLf9gAbQeF1UoUQyuw8CFRW7DRx3VfE58kSAQXsvvJrwoP2HJSUZfXNAWJlEx3diZyQ9xUZIiLuzWjfJZscByfgXhulxeGA3QpEWDywZX4Jq9vA6HRzmv4eM79ibhhJxs0rx5o/s1600/item3.rendition.slideshowHorizontal.arsl04_libraries.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"In a Bethesda, Maryland, house designed by architect Hugh Newell Jacobsen, floor to ceiling windows filter light into the library and music room. Favoring a minimalist approach to the decor, Jacobsen used a simple wood carpet on the bleached-oak floors; he created the white-oak low table." (October 2006)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Robert C. Lautman.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/architecture/2008-12/libraries_slideshow_122008" target="_blank">Libraries</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/AVvXsEijz0bB60YGZG798grD5Fax-fE8QyNo2-FCiN0TJOmDnqSw4sYhW4nDGB-bVuOJmIXoMT4dVK8MC_sHxDGeu3IRd3xqqgvM5N-0Sr3RcdoqP-y2zs27p43_OHv2W6IYGPKJMGz2Yp_izzE/s1600/item10.rendition.slideshowHorizontal.library-11-margaret-griffin-elyse-grinstein.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijz0bB60YGZG798grD5Fax-fE8QyNo2-FCiN0TJOmDnqSw4sYhW4nDGB-bVuOJmIXoMT4dVK8MC_sHxDGeu3IRd3xqqgvM5N-0Sr3RcdoqP-y2zs27p43_OHv2W6IYGPKJMGz2Yp_izzE/s1600/item10.rendition.slideshowHorizontal.library-11-margaret-griffin-elyse-grinstein.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Architect Margaret Griffin, in collaboration with architect Elyse Grinstein, renovated a home on Los Angeles’s West Side, an area that has natural creeks and groves of indigenous trees. The star tree here is a 300-year-old sycamore that shades a small spring and lush slope in back. The snug library “started out with a full brick wall facing the tree,” explains the owner, but the brick was replaced by sheets of glass to bridge the room’s connection to the outdoors."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Arthur Matthew Gray.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/decor/2011-10/home-libraries-slideshow" target="_blank">Stunning Home Libraries</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> (October 2011).</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfz1i3pRbp4Nm5WtaCxCJh_wvnlOSNF9ov9Dn5klUS0rpGhLqRck2r75uN0Cnz0jJoikNJF1DxVeoKd8MfWwPDUpl7RS47A9wLCc8UoQIzoq0VHBScg2H2vskoYeqIKppiwo7jhoYQbys/s1600/09-hbx-vintage-eames-chair-doherty-1212-lgn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfz1i3pRbp4Nm5WtaCxCJh_wvnlOSNF9ov9Dn5klUS0rpGhLqRck2r75uN0Cnz0jJoikNJF1DxVeoKd8MfWwPDUpl7RS47A9wLCc8UoQIzoq0VHBScg2H2vskoYeqIKppiwo7jhoYQbys/s1600/09-hbx-vintage-eames-chair-doherty-1212-lgn.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Bookcases cleverly mask awkward angles. Early-20th-century French lamps overhang the vintage Eames chair in its original leather."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by Alexander Doherty.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Francesco Lagnese.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/decorating/house-pictures/alexander-doherty-apartment-design-1212#slide-10" target="_blank">A Soulful Manhattan Apartment with Rich, Moody Color</a>" by Douglas Brenner.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/" target="_blank">House Beautiful</a> (December 2012).</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaubSi3wXra8eDcA_hplBWB0jUuVmgLA7scBp32qlhAd55Ep01HR6JYxZj86KH8L15kTXIOwzQuo5bcp4Y1Enfb9CaTUt0itttjRnouhYtSwKWrA3tRE2PTF_rL028cSI7cSIoQTArX9M/s1600/item3.rendition.slideshowVertical.steven-meisel-04.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaubSi3wXra8eDcA_hplBWB0jUuVmgLA7scBp32qlhAd55Ep01HR6JYxZj86KH8L15kTXIOwzQuo5bcp4Y1Enfb9CaTUt0itttjRnouhYtSwKWrA3tRE2PTF_rL028cSI7cSIoQTArX9M/s1600/item3.rendition.slideshowVertical.steven-meisel-04.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">  "A vintage William Haines stool sits in the library, next to walnut bookshelves." </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photographer Steven Meisel's 1963 George MacLean-designed house in the Trousdale Estates neighborhood in Beverly Hills. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Decorator: Brad Dunning. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Architect: Marmol Radziner and Associates.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Roger Davies.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Mayer Rus.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/celebrity-homes/2012/photographer-steven-meisel-beverly-hills-home-slideshow_slideshow_item3_4" target="_blank">Steven Meisel's Midcentury House in Los Angeles</a>" produced by Robert Rufino. </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> (October 2012).</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>

Ex Libris

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Wardrobes and Armoires

<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>It was the sort of house that you never seem to come to the end of, and it was full of unexpected places. . . . they looked into a room that was quite empty except for one big wardrobe, the sort that has a looking-glass in the door. There was nothing else in the room at all except a dead bluebottle on the window-sill.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>"Nothing there!" said Peter, and they all trooped out again - all except Lucy. She stayed behind because she thought it would be worth while trying the door of the wardrobe, even though she felt almost sure that it would be locked. To her surprise it opened quite easily . . . She immediately stepped into the wardrobe  and got in among the coats . . . </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This post is for everyone who has ever wanted to find a wardrobe that leads to a magical land. I'm still looking . . . </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvohpEf-A5UkLCIaJSDIKUM2yidochjEQbSJZ99BitDbatA3eNhLO1qm2V185sTdirmcxmIk3L5-T1XEje2LlOMRkT1QVVEs932-wKZbx0ZLF__1I7cQk0ytDZGb_iKWcHak1JNRIUjZo/s1600/GG0413_HomePlace_04.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvohpEf-A5UkLCIaJSDIKUM2yidochjEQbSJZ99BitDbatA3eNhLO1qm2V185sTdirmcxmIk3L5-T1XEje2LlOMRkT1QVVEs932-wKZbx0ZLF__1I7cQk0ytDZGb_iKWcHak1JNRIUjZo/s1600/GG0413_HomePlace_04.jpg" width="444" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"A walk-through armoire connects the master bedroom with the master bath."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">St. Joseph, Louisiana, home of Rebecca Vizard, founder of <a href="http://bviz.com/" target="_blank">B. Viz Design</a>, and her family.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Architect: Michael Carbine. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Brie Williams.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://gardenandgun.com/gallery/photos-patchwork-plantation" target="_blank">Homeplace: Patchwork Plantation</a>" by John Kessler.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.gardenandgun.com/" target="_blank">Garden and Gun</a> (June/July 2013).</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicD87vdMxE4tF8oolyMwzd_EecroS68SgiCr6l5M_bbo6cuiQVlsDgOwEs2xsZBqvfybepyWoMenNwW9D29TgrGqrukTR_EiLqdfDnvAv4oIvQ2Ia0N96QC-6HxVG5iRYc9djnDKvbDRw/s1600/charlotte-moss-1108-7_md.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicD87vdMxE4tF8oolyMwzd_EecroS68SgiCr6l5M_bbo6cuiQVlsDgOwEs2xsZBqvfybepyWoMenNwW9D29TgrGqrukTR_EiLqdfDnvAv4oIvQ2Ia0N96QC-6HxVG5iRYc9djnDKvbDRw/s1600/charlotte-moss-1108-7_md.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"In master suite, armoire, urns and side chairs from Charlotte Moss Interior Design. Phillip Jeffries wallpaper with paintings of Paris from designer's personal collection. Chair fabric by Vervain. Armoire fabric by Rogers and Goffigon."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by Charlotte Moss.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Tria Giovan.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.veranda.com/room-decorating/charlotte-moss-show-house-1208#slide-7" target="_blank">Well-Designed: Manhattan Apartment by Charlotte Moss</a>" by Catherine Lee Davis.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.veranda.com/" target="_blank">Veranda</a> (December 2008).</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/AVvXsEjTb7mfNWxGE-57E5Xi1l_640IfV8lolIQvEtnGrQchbMSJjeSWMUDQZMoJJbJlWuqpnWn0deCkSTfU3KLO1xVvqQ-oS4w67T9sTdUlgcDj1Y5wKxCOvOKpoRJITSZrS7En1KTfFMt9cZY/s1600/8-blues-mediaroom-0308-xlg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTb7mfNWxGE-57E5Xi1l_640IfV8lolIQvEtnGrQchbMSJjeSWMUDQZMoJJbJlWuqpnWn0deCkSTfU3KLO1xVvqQ-oS4w67T9sTdUlgcDj1Y5wKxCOvOKpoRJITSZrS7En1KTfFMt9cZY/s1600/8-blues-mediaroom-0308-xlg.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"In the media room, a pair of robin's egg blue armoires from Nancy Price Interior Design hold the owners' book collection. The curtains are Donghia's Omen Damask in Hemlock-Dark Brown."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jackson, Mississippi, home of Nancy and John Price.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by Nancy Price.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Eric Piasecki.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/decorating/price-blues-0308?click=main_sr#slide-3" target="_blank">A Palette of Mississippi Blues</a>" by Mimi Read.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/" target="_blank">House Beautiful</a> (March 2008).</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH8-fvb9K9_xPzUlm7eHiQPsXqk_5GJ1IuK0ljWa8-qZ-ZQ_X51CISynxRYWWJ0xa3NWW6AKPd2wLOVVnIMWsma8qFV3-0QXVHjkEtjWDQ2mfQGaaKafbeYUnDRUhl7g1IWTYqHLQssgw/s1600/hbx-bathroom-fireplace-seating-white-02-1010-de-86670172.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH8-fvb9K9_xPzUlm7eHiQPsXqk_5GJ1IuK0ljWa8-qZ-ZQ_X51CISynxRYWWJ0xa3NWW6AKPd2wLOVVnIMWsma8qFV3-0QXVHjkEtjWDQ2mfQGaaKafbeYUnDRUhl7g1IWTYqHLQssgw/s1600/hbx-bathroom-fireplace-seating-white-02-1010-de-86670172.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"A custom lattice armoire with sandblasted glass doors by Oly provides storage for linens and toiletries."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Master bath in Washington, D.C.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by Barry Dixon.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Edward Addeo.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/decorating/home-spa-ideas-1010#slide-3" target="_blank">A Relaxing and Romantic Home Spa</a>" by Melissa Feldman.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/" target="_blank">House Beautiful</a> (October 2010).</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgffubAySQVXzr_GODjZg_-8n3kZSVmwWjnIROTAnPoKDF8bZC5BTVAqcqbUqlEccALNuuFTwFx27ZXPYrd7HooSMOL4nTvEkU-oNJaSlzIq9kYsHS9RTtuhKyfZ98Tvnd-t633vtEesNQ/s1600/Homeplace-Bayou-Cottage-antique-armoire-9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgffubAySQVXzr_GODjZg_-8n3kZSVmwWjnIROTAnPoKDF8bZC5BTVAqcqbUqlEccALNuuFTwFx27ZXPYrd7HooSMOL4nTvEkU-oNJaSlzIq9kYsHS9RTtuhKyfZ98Tvnd-t633vtEesNQ/s1600/Homeplace-Bayou-Cottage-antique-armoire-9.jpg" width="408" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The first antique that [Stephen] Stirling ever purchased was this painted armoire, now used as a pantry in the family's kitchen. Originally built in the 1840s, this Creole cottage sits between a sugarcane field and Bayou Teche in Franklin, Louisiana."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Home of Stephen Stirling and his family.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Renovation by Stephen Stirling.  </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Brie Williams.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://gardenandgun.com/gallery/photos-ultimate-bayou-cottage" target="_blank">Homeplace: The Ultimate Bayou Cottage</a>" by David Thier.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.gardenandgun.com/" target="_blank">Garden and Gun</a> (June/July 2014).</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi81uYg7ncVZiGeqQPOjjb82SAwLTKOzJuJGuLeODgCbHamP68xDe44Ou4xWX_61ufS42mSkBGtZOCPklYacwqk9Ob9GU116UNjA8TqxWbGNtAAZDWt2TcrvVTFn0EaKlb4qHqYGsvF8jw/s1600/item5.rendition.slideshowVertical.nicky-haslam-new-orleans-townhouse-06-master-bedroom.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="528" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi81uYg7ncVZiGeqQPOjjb82SAwLTKOzJuJGuLeODgCbHamP68xDe44Ou4xWX_61ufS42mSkBGtZOCPklYacwqk9Ob9GU116UNjA8TqxWbGNtAAZDWt2TcrvVTFn0EaKlb4qHqYGsvF8jw/s1600/item5.rendition.slideshowVertical.nicky-haslam-new-orleans-townhouse-06-master-bedroom.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The master bedroom, lined in a pleated blue fabric by JAB Anstoetz, is highlighted by a showstopping antique Venetian headboard, which features a ruched-velvet edge. Painted-mirror doors accent the 19th-century French armoire, and the carpet is by Codimat."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">New Orleans townhouse of hoteliers Frances and Rodney Smith.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by Nicky Haslam.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Pieter Estersohn.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Liz Smith.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/decor/2014-08/nicky-haslam-rodney-smith-new-orleans-towhnhouse-slideshow_slideshow_Master-Bedroom_6" target="_blank">Bayou Blend</a>" produced by Howard Christian.</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> (August 2014).</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/AVvXsEhCeVmwiTHCqmE7uX3xQqp7Bbm5UcV0Os65eTYVqOeOHyb7YCASXjH8Wv8yivctBQ4D0dk8jgz09ZCkeXP1WJObp4qfGLaawfmQw4bl7qHep_utaRe-X2stUcGpPAdXRNm-ZX3F04GAtWE/s1600/martin-11-0809-xl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCeVmwiTHCqmE7uX3xQqp7Bbm5UcV0Os65eTYVqOeOHyb7YCASXjH8Wv8yivctBQ4D0dk8jgz09ZCkeXP1WJObp4qfGLaawfmQw4bl7qHep_utaRe-X2stUcGpPAdXRNm-ZX3F04GAtWE/s1600/martin-11-0809-xl.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"A mirrored wardrobe makes a small bedroom seem bigger."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">House in Belvedere, California.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by Erin Martin.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Luca Trovato.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/decorating/neutral-california-home?click=main_sr#slide-11" target="_blank">A Fresh and Neutral Design in California</a>" by Frances Schultz.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/" target="_blank">House Beautiful</a>.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin2VGetmbwogG8wqUNNavdZkcVnx0UW07LDOEFTn3oU8zNqZ4fCdGhuDWG3ZdHpULgKIohZsD_Qmda_O9S1RFsX-RqHpt5GMjRS-CnAw7CjD0UMW5_duvPLR58NOaUbuGyEXAXHnhnrvk/s1600/101511059_p.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin2VGetmbwogG8wqUNNavdZkcVnx0UW07LDOEFTn3oU8zNqZ4fCdGhuDWG3ZdHpULgKIohZsD_Qmda_O9S1RFsX-RqHpt5GMjRS-CnAw7CjD0UMW5_duvPLR58NOaUbuGyEXAXHnhnrvk/s1600/101511059_p.jpg" width="590" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"An armoire built into one wall provides storage without eating up floor space."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">San Francisco home of Joe and Kim Boswell.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by Julie Massucco Kleiner.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Werner Straube.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.traditionalhome.com/design/beautiful-homes/house-vibrant-color-and-light?page=10" target="_blank">House with Vibrant Color and Light</a>" written by Amy Elbert.</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><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs8UN7e22RL8XrZQ4GUm0JTSQvYS2hm0o-3a5tih4Qkq8Hf455IWj86CzTBal-LZVACN6fZ102I7bLap248CJVBDZHO7JsCWKcj7AacS9wcaG-LbsBMwReljHPzg_oDdizpXo3Zzkzh8U/s1600/12-kansas-city-dressing-room-dec0807_xlg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs8UN7e22RL8XrZQ4GUm0JTSQvYS2hm0o-3a5tih4Qkq8Hf455IWj86CzTBal-LZVACN6fZ102I7bLap248CJVBDZHO7JsCWKcj7AacS9wcaG-LbsBMwReljHPzg_oDdizpXo3Zzkzh8U/s1600/12-kansas-city-dressing-room-dec0807_xlg.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"For his dressing room, [David] Jimenez rejected built-ins in favor of a large antique armoire. The double pedestal table is a Palm Springs thrift shop find that he painted black."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1907 Kansas City home of David Jimenez.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by David Jimenez.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Jose Picayo.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/decorating/kansas-city-style-0807?click=img_sr#slide-14" target="_blank">Quintessential Kansas City</a>" by Lisa Cregan.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/" target="_blank">House Beautiful</a> (August 2007).</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/AVvXsEg5M616ADA3WtTj5aUZmVg8oCyWYpJHZxLYfZ0ltpPtNK8Do5p7O1sdXLX60hvqOegsezFROC6d8zPc1MIj2Pwu-2thzL_iMwgDoU5y42ikelBybF8ZQFICYp2r3VxZm4EgfidZCX9CxIQ/s1600/2-browns-livingroom-0308-xlg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5M616ADA3WtTj5aUZmVg8oCyWYpJHZxLYfZ0ltpPtNK8Do5p7O1sdXLX60hvqOegsezFROC6d8zPc1MIj2Pwu-2thzL_iMwgDoU5y42ikelBybF8ZQFICYp2r3VxZm4EgfidZCX9CxIQ/s1600/2-browns-livingroom-0308-xlg.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"French chairs from Williams-Sonoma Home. Cocktail table, West Elm. Biedermeier armoire."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1905 Edwardian home in San Francisco.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by Patrick Wade and David DeMattei.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Jose Picayo.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/decorating/colors/demattei-wade-browns-0308?click=img_sr#slide-3" target="_blank">Bay Area Browns</a>" by Frances Schultz.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/" target="_blank">House Beautiful</a> (March 2008).</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/AVvXsEjMtiK0APzu4rv2ZgyiCjp-2gBZAmNlbm-1zochFyKfh57-jQbhr4hWXyi9ZwL3oVPsAioOd6P2OJJzUV8KPa1hcNVH82akF5eksJmpFlQ4mffmd2bwA7ADfTX-setvgGgiQHOhobeoobs/s1600/02-hbx-antibes-chairs-1211-xln.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMtiK0APzu4rv2ZgyiCjp-2gBZAmNlbm-1zochFyKfh57-jQbhr4hWXyi9ZwL3oVPsAioOd6P2OJJzUV8KPa1hcNVH82akF5eksJmpFlQ4mffmd2bwA7ADfTX-setvgGgiQHOhobeoobs/s1600/02-hbx-antibes-chairs-1211-xln.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The living room is a chic mix of old and new, casual and formal. The neutral palette showcases an antique chinoiserie armoire and a gilt console. 'I wanted them to stand out, and everything else to be part of the background,' Sikes says. Ralph Lauren Home Antibes chairs mingle with a Billy Baldwin slipper chair from HB Home and an Ansley chair by Suzanne Kasler for <a href="http://www.hickorychair.com/" target="_blank">Hickory Chair</a>."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1920s house of Mark D. Sikes and Michael Griffin.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by <a href="http://markdsikes.com/" target="_blank">Mark D. Sikes</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Amy Neunsinger.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/decorating/house-pictures/mark-d-sikes-house?click=main_sr#slide-2" target="_blank">Mark D. Sikes's Light and Breezy West Hollywood House</a>" by David A. Keeps.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/" target="_blank">House Beautiful</a> (December 2011 - January 2012).</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWCfpXMxlglIDQBG4LSWLeW5peKjamkj42ydDVWpCjMTrC5XlWd3ifWqcaEdvakWQ_wNckV9C2pszLQICz_yRYuy2V-LBjJ521uXRkhdCAGuLfyYv3Esq51rImN76zDLKqt-YczBcS4_k/s1600/hbx0710-essentials08-de.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWCfpXMxlglIDQBG4LSWLeW5peKjamkj42ydDVWpCjMTrC5XlWd3ifWqcaEdvakWQ_wNckV9C2pszLQICz_yRYuy2V-LBjJ521uXRkhdCAGuLfyYv3Esq51rImN76zDLKqt-YczBcS4_k/s1600/hbx0710-essentials08-de.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"In a 1,400 square-foot Alabama cottage, designer Melanie Pounds designed an Ultrasuede armoire to compensate for small closets in the master bedroom."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by Melanie Pounds.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Thomas Loof.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/decorating/organizing-small-homes-0710?click=main_sr#slide-9" target="_blank">11 Things You Need to Know About Organizing in a Small Space</a>"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/" target="_blank">House Beautiful</a> (July 2010).</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/AVvXsEhjPRi4RxMniZEqzehI4ZP3yIO6J3GuimzdBKtyR9FsJ1LIsfzD1sHYwi8ieyVZekizWG3hyphenhyphenqVGghYyvZYOHYH2FpLZsErsEB8YS-HrBCsJCXjOrmePSePn7BQeVrMhswQSIuF543CxRKY/s1600/6-ah-xlg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjPRi4RxMniZEqzehI4ZP3yIO6J3GuimzdBKtyR9FsJ1LIsfzD1sHYwi8ieyVZekizWG3hyphenhyphenqVGghYyvZYOHYH2FpLZsErsEB8YS-HrBCsJCXjOrmePSePn7BQeVrMhswQSIuF543CxRKY/s1600/6-ah-xlg.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The dining room has a light blue ceiling, a favorite Hadley hue for the upper plane. The American Empire mahogany armoire is topped by a Tibetan gong. Next to them are two works on paper by Connecticut artist Mark Sciarillo, also a metalworker, who made the sculpted bronze base of the living room's coffee table. The vellum lampshade, the Eyelet gold-on-ivory wallpaper, and the chairs are all Hadley's designs."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by Albert Hadley.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Fernando Bengoechea.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/decorating/albert-hadley-designs?click=img_sr#slide-6" target="_blank">The Resume of Albert Hadley</a>"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/" target="_blank">House Beautiful</a>.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiww8hf57MyLC31ej0zP8rLHjmKnjaAL09WaKUSUt8Z47r3_kUO4ikTtMMR5dvssndcTPm7w0atkSvRVYWzpGvy4Fo2dpSpkJgfZVWj2tFrzKknlV_kiVnQTReV58vDz9AtZV8wp3iz8pA/s1600/hbx0510-marty03-dining-table-asian-chandelier-S43WKY-de.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiww8hf57MyLC31ej0zP8rLHjmKnjaAL09WaKUSUt8Z47r3_kUO4ikTtMMR5dvssndcTPm7w0atkSvRVYWzpGvy4Fo2dpSpkJgfZVWj2tFrzKknlV_kiVnQTReV58vDz9AtZV8wp3iz8pA/s1600/hbx0510-marty03-dining-table-asian-chandelier-S43WKY-de.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Leave cabinets open. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An open armoire is more interesting than a closed one. Let people into your secret world."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by Dan Marty.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Victoria Pearson.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/decorating/decorating-secrets?click=img_sr#slide-3" target="_blank">20 Decorating Secrets</a>"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/" target="_blank">House Beautiful</a>.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRKRxbCOq6U6SJDxLQb4VFB8R4UQnMmmwBYqahtAfSpVztC1ATX-yPI4yJdNWwFDQGMGjoQEoxjegO04vywhdnrO3JAWFvFq2Qhe5cpuJO7AFjQ3rXSfMI3SEQsZ4oSnRdqi6BzV_3AEE/s1600/4-hbx-chicken-wire-on-antique-amoire-0612-kitchen04-xln.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRKRxbCOq6U6SJDxLQb4VFB8R4UQnMmmwBYqahtAfSpVztC1ATX-yPI4yJdNWwFDQGMGjoQEoxjegO04vywhdnrO3JAWFvFq2Qhe5cpuJO7AFjQ3rXSfMI3SEQsZ4oSnRdqi6BzV_3AEE/s1600/4-hbx-chicken-wire-on-antique-amoire-0612-kitchen04-xln.jpg" width="556" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Designer Samantha Lyman wanted to give a new California kitchen some historic pieces like this antique armoire. It was originally only 12 inches deep inside – not big enough for large platters and big bowls. So Lyman set it into the cabinetry to give it more depth. The cabinet-maker removed the back and extended it to 26 inches inside. Then, Lyman painted the interior a darker color to conceal the difference."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by Samantha Lyman.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Lisa Romerein.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/kitchens/tips/unique-kitchen-storage-ideas?click=img_sr#slide-5" target="_blank">10 Super Clever Kitchen Storage Ideas</a>" by Sarah Yang.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/" target="_blank">House Beautiful</a>.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimJdfd2RoxxlaBuCz41z4IE3AHcxBIYkhnaEPhEXATvF5FhJzbTijP25qmscA2CWumpVAbAbLKPp4XAiECH9ufvqa6okd4mp67z-Nmc33FZhv-zkm-VuFeek_Az_9d622Y8fKBTi-ih1k/s1600/interior-design-ideas-ED07-03-lgn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimJdfd2RoxxlaBuCz41z4IE3AHcxBIYkhnaEPhEXATvF5FhJzbTijP25qmscA2CWumpVAbAbLKPp4XAiECH9ufvqa6okd4mp67z-Nmc33FZhv-zkm-VuFeek_Az_9d622Y8fKBTi-ih1k/s1600/interior-design-ideas-ED07-03-lgn.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Overhead dangles a 1950s American brass-and-crystal chandelier that looks like a giant dandelion, and one wall displays a portrait of a startlingly beautiful nun graced with a Brigitte Bardot pout. It’s artist Tony Scherman’s irreverent depiction of Catherine Millet, the author of the racy 2002 memoir The Sexual Life of Catherine M."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Apartment of Milly designer Michelle Smith and her family.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Roger Davies.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Styling by Carlos Mota.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.elledecor.com/celebrity-style/thoroughly-modern-milly#slide-3" target="_blank">Thoroughly Modern Milly</a>"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.elledecor.com/" target="_blank">Elle Decor</a>.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiorwQTSml5xL909i4o6uLQKbxp1Dufk_V4aB2Sp61DPzrjvAun7WXBT6hC97xXqf0uIfhVIVOa4pWCYClZCOCufmX-A1ADnPn0TXL0cDWIxIr3lzDPUz07QbdfcjSXcps18rMezlHqFIo/s1600/hamptons-new-york-homes-hase-ed0910-08-lgn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiorwQTSml5xL909i4o6uLQKbxp1Dufk_V4aB2Sp61DPzrjvAun7WXBT6hC97xXqf0uIfhVIVOa4pWCYClZCOCufmX-A1ADnPn0TXL0cDWIxIr3lzDPUz07QbdfcjSXcps18rMezlHqFIo/s1600/hamptons-new-york-homes-hase-ed0910-08-lgn.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The master bedroom wall covering is by Paul Montgomery, and the cocktail table and settee are by Todd Hase Furniture; the armoire and armchairs date from the Qing and Ming dynasties, respectively."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Water Mill, New York, home of Todd and Amy Hase. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Roger Davies.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.elledecor.com/design-decorate/a-hamptons-home-with-a-french-accent#slide-10" target="_blank">A Hamptons Home With a French Accent</a>" by Mitchell Owens.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.elledecor.com/" target="_blank">Elle Decor</a>.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3Rc27drTKW6wYt-vhD0Uxve-DeDtu1XsNk3gvMie0lHHoStgjlQ1ZoV_lmnPIQG96KGc8DXW8Njf7nvASTrfJ0Y1tDj_K56TlI7l7yIk1lZIppyi1FOlVR5EX6hckPU_nYBIOHDM-sqw/s1600/08-hbx-fake-armoire-door-weisman-fisher-0513-xln.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3Rc27drTKW6wYt-vhD0Uxve-DeDtu1XsNk3gvMie0lHHoStgjlQ1ZoV_lmnPIQG96KGc8DXW8Njf7nvASTrfJ0Y1tDj_K56TlI7l7yIk1lZIppyi1FOlVR5EX6hckPU_nYBIOHDM-sqw/s1600/08-hbx-fake-armoire-door-weisman-fisher-0513-xln.jpg" width="556" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"I wanted to fill a long wall in our breakfast room with tall cabinetry to store all our china and glassware. Andrew said it would turn the room into a pantry." —Jeffry Weisman, Interior Designer</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"My dream was to build a false armoire that would open to the garage and my studio. A waste of space, according to Jeffry! In the end, we built what looks like an armoire: the center panel is a secret passage with tall storage cabinets on either side. Win-win!"—Andrew Fisher, Interior Designer</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photo courtesy of Jeffry Weisman and Andrew Fisher via House Beautiful.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/decorating/home-makeovers/decorating-problems-solved-0513?click=main_sr#slide-8" target="_blank">8 Couples' Decorating Dilemmas</a>" by Julia Lewis.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/" target="_blank">House Beautiful</a> (May 2013).</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>

Wardrobes and Armoires

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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; 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