Nancy Lancaster : English country house style / Martin Wood.

Main entry:

Wood, Martin A., 1959-

Title & Author:

Nancy Lancaster : English country house style / Martin Wood.

Publication:

London : Frances Lincoln, 2005.

Description:

200 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-195) and index.
Always a Virginian 6 -- Where the Orange Blossoms Grow: Mirador 14 -- Following the Hunt: Kelmarsh Hall 30 -- When the Moon Was High: Ditchley Park 54 -- The Birth of a Brand: Colefax and Fowler 106 -- Halcyon Days: Haseley Court 124 -- Full Circle: The Coach House 168.

Summary:

"In this book Martin Wood explores Nancy Lancaster's contribution to the arts of interior decoration and garden design by carefully analysing her own houses and gardens - large and small - and her work for Colefax and Fowler, the decorating business she bought from Sibyl Colefax in 1944. He also chronicles her remarkable life: her three very different marriages ('I was always better at picking butlers and husbands'); her dynamic design partnership with John Fowler; her interactions with friends and guests including her aunt Nancy Astor, Duff and Lady Diana Cooper, the Duchess of Devonshire (then Deborah Mitford), David Niven, Anthony Eden and - in the darkest days of the Second World War - Winston Churchill."
"The story is illustrated by a collection of images of Nancy, her houses, her gardens and her friends, by celebrated artists and photographers of the era, including John Singer Sargent, John Lavery, Alexandre Serebriakoff, Cecil Beaton and Horst P. Horst."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0711224293 (cased)
9780711224292 (cased)

Subject:

Lancaster, Nancy, -1994 Influence.
Lancaster, Nancy, m. 1994 Influence.
Lancaster, Nancy, -1994
Gardens England Design History.
Country homes England Design and construction.
Interior decoration England History.
Jardins Angleterre Design Histoire.
Maisons de campagne Angleterre Conception et construction.
Décoration intérieure Angleterre Histoire.
Interior decoration.
Country homes Design and construction.
Gardens Design.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
England.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 244656
Call No.: BIB 174325
Status: Available

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