antiques

House Beautiful: A Country Dream

Sharing today a stunning home renovation by Neumann Lewis Buchanan Architects in Talbot County, Maryland. This historical farm was brought back to life in a magnificent manner, simply love it!   ESTABLISHED in the late 17th century, Lombardy is a 252-acre farm with extensive frontage on the Miles River in Talbot County, Maryland.  Over a […]

Simply, wonderful. Hepburn House

    More wonderful photos to share today from the “Hepburn House” located in Tunbridge Wells, UK. Looking at this fabulous manor makes me realize how much I adore white interiors. These interiors are not just plain, white walls… they are divine.  The architectural details, the moldings, the open spaces — it all comes together […]

Stunning Southern Home

  Inside Tara Shaw’s Breathtaking—and Very European—New Orleans Home   Tara Shaw has stayed true to her native Louisiana, long ago becoming one of New Orleans’s leading lights in design, but she just can’t stay away from Europe. During the past 25 years she’s taken countless Continental jaunts in search of treasures for her antiques and interior design businesses and […]

House Beautiful : Accent AQUA BLUE HUE

Open Armchair Louis XVI     This Louis XVI open armchair has carved and molded frame with inset rosettes above the legs, gold painted gilt, and velvet upholstery. from Paris. chairish.com       Today, a plethora of “Aqua Blue”… and a few more of it’s hues, in home, art and interior design.   I […]

House of CHARM

Inside Artist Frank Faulkner’s Magical 18th-Century Home   via:One Kings Lane     The artist and interior designer Frank Faulkner has bought and lived in so many houses in New York’s Columbia County, he has been called both “architecturally promiscuous” and “a shelter slut”—information he shares with a smile. In true Don Juan fashion, he […]

House Beautiful: Southern Elegance

A Designer’s Historic Southern Escape   via: One Kings Lane   Beneath a magnificent ginkgo stands a Greek Revival home surrounded by mowed grass, hedged boxwoods, and a limestone wall separating it from a neighborhood of Victorians just beyond. Fast asleep on its gated drive are Gertrude and Lily, two yellow Labradors who, if prompted, rush […]

The Elegant Home

Armchairs by Jacob-Desmalter Lounge,  Apartment of the Empress  Palace of Compiègne (in Imperial Palace of Compiègne) instagram Plenty of “Elegant” home, art and interior inspiration today, enjoy. Gracie Pre- war colonial Charles Hilton Architects The Beach at Petit-Dalles (also known as On the Beach) Berthe Morisot – 1873 Fireplace detail via:imintheleaves Berthe Morisot 1841 – […]

Charming Country Estate: Faringdon House

A fabulous, country manor in England to share today.  The home: “Faringdon House” is filled with history, antiques, and vintage charm.   The front door to the house with a sign requesting that all hats be removed.   Faringdon House   Oxfordshire, England     A building that is curious in character: an arcaded villa in the […]