Last year I found weeping putti in the Czech Republic click here…..then fighting putti in the Albany Museum upstage NY. This spring i found a wee thumbsucker on a marble plaque. I don’t know what the point of all this is…but I suppose I AM a mother in the end, and just find it all irresistible!
Much of spring was spent touring the beauties of the Hudson River Valley with the Attingham Trust…36 houses in 10 days meant I could barely breath! But a favorite (and there was more than one I confess), was Montgomery Place with its Classic Revival charms and passionate views of the Catskills. I mention it primarily because it’s open to the public and being only an hour outside of Manhattan, it is well worth a little drive with picnic basket in the boot (or the trunk I suppose but that doesn’t sound very romantic does it?)
Don’t I LOOK pleased!!
Did we all enjoy this Vanity Fair issue of ‘extraordinary’ Homes and Gardens?
And do we all think we too should hang a Braque in our ‘basket room’. Did we all remember to include a basket room in our homes?
And if you, like me, are sitting dockside and a little dopey from the sunshine…here is a little something found on facebook I actually found amusing in my salubrious summer state.
We are very excited to see two of our fabric designs from our new collection ‘Random Harvest’ featured in…
This is a stool we designed and upholstered in Shutter Stripe New-mown Green.
And this is our Grotto printed on velvet, Colette loves it so much she has covered her whole library dining room in it-pics to follow…
Launching in October but available now through:-
TURNELL & GIGON-London
Design Centre Chelsea Harbour
London SW10 0XE
Tel: +44(0)20 7259 7280 Fax: +44(0)20 7259 7283
CLAREMONT-New York
Tel 212 486 1252 Fax 212 486 1253
CLAREMONT-Los Angeles
Tel: 310 248 3841 Fax: 310 248 3842
ST LEGER AND VINEY-South Africa
http://www.stleger.co.za/contact.htm
When I was 15 I put visiting Jim Morrisons grave in Pere Lachaise cemetery on my ‘to do’ list…I did, and it didn’t disappoint. Yet I still rolled my eyes when told I was visiting Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, New York this spring….and guess what, it didn’t disappoint.
Cemeteries just ARE incredibly picturesque. I mean just take in for a minute how the bronze doors of this mausoleum have washed and stained the marble steps a patina green.
And of course finding a Twombly, is always up my alley…(he was a Vanderbilt after all)
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