I have coveted this book ever since it appeared on my friend Ben Pentreath's blog, and finally, now, I have my own, my very own copy. Anyway here is my selection from this lovely book - not an easy task not only due of the sheer quality of the photography alone but because I could happily spend quality time in any one of the homes illustrated. However there are, obviously, some I prefer to others. In fact Mary Gilliatt's selection is incredibly diverse, disparate even. (A notable omission, I've just realized, is John Fowler.) What, however, does hold them together is a common thread of eclecticism - a sort of portmanteau of styles and artifacts that is witty and clever and urbane and for her that is the English Style. It displays the innate conservatism of English taste and it's rejection of High International Modernism. Or a least a deeply ambiguous attitude to it. It is also in the last analysis humane.
For those discerning few who read both this blog and Ben's I hope this isn't too repetitious a post.
For those discerning few who read both this blog and Ben's I hope this isn't too repetitious a post.
The Chelsea home of Robin & Lucienne Day
The weekend cottage, in Suffolk, of Terence and Caroline Conran
The London home of architect Mr Nicholas Johnston
In the home of architect Mr Roger Dyer
The London flat of Mr & Mrs Peter Hall
The London flat of Mr John Vaughan, critic and photographer
The flat of design consultant Kathleen Darby
In the London flat of Mr Klein Lichtenstein
The Oxfordshire home of Mr David & Lady Pamela Hicks
The London flat of Miss Anne Trahearne
The dining room in the Kensington Palace apartment of HRH Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon
The bedroom of Professor & Mrs Fleming, Zoffany House, London
The London drawing room of Mr Hardy Amies
Bedroom by Jon Bannenberg
Daneway House, Gloucestershire
Stratton Park, Hampshire, designed by Billy McCarty
The London house of Mr David & Lady Pamela Hicks
A London flat designed by Billy McCarty
The Hampstead flat of Mr Leslie Waddington
In the home of architect Mr Roger Dyer
The London flat of Mr & Mrs Peter Hall
The London flat of Mr John Vaughan, critic and photographer
The flat of design consultant Kathleen Darby
In the London flat of Mr Klein Lichtenstein
The Oxfordshire home of Mr David & Lady Pamela Hicks
The London flat of Miss Anne Trahearne
The dining room in the Kensington Palace apartment of HRH Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon
The bedroom of Professor & Mrs Fleming, Zoffany House, London
The London drawing room of Mr Hardy Amies
Bedroom by Jon Bannenberg
Daneway House, Gloucestershire
Stratton Park, Hampshire, designed by Billy McCarty
The London house of Mr David & Lady Pamela Hicks
A London flat designed by Billy McCarty
The Hampstead flat of Mr Leslie Waddington
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