Nicky haslam hunting lodge

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Tristram Jellinek lived happily with a variety of antique objects next to his television set!Perhaps better know as an actor he also run a…

In the kitchen simple cream-painted wooden cupboards are offset with fresh red-and-white checked curtains

The April issue of WSJ. Magazine hits the newsstands this Saturday, March 26, and lucky me, I've been given an exclusive preview of one of its delightful

Nicky Haslam is undoubtedly on of the most important figures - and characters - in British interior design, whose home for the past 40 years has been the Hunting Lodge in Hampshire, a legendary house, previously the home of John Fowler, which Nicky rents from The National Trust. Built for Henry VII when all the land between Winchester and Windsor was a royal forest, the Jacobean façade was added in 1620. It is rumoured that Catherine of Aragon met her first husband Prince Arthur there, and…

A consummate British bon vivant and raconteur, the celebrated interior designer and multifaceted polymath Haslam is on quite a roll: decorating homes from New Orleans to St. Petersburg, creating original fabrics and furniture and, now, releasing his first memoir.

Decorator Nicky Haslam’s new book is a treasure-trove of inspiration.

Nicky Haslam, renowned interior designer and London man-about-town, calls a 16th-century royal hunting lodge in the English countryside his home away from home—rose chintz sofas, portraits, flourishing garden and all

Nicky Haslam, renowned interior designer and London man-about-town, calls a 16th-century royal hunting lodge in the English countryside his home away from home—rose chintz sofas, portraits, flourishing garden and all

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This week Nicky Haslam's Folly de Grandeur was published. It's the story of the house in which he has lived for over thirty years, told in a prose which is never purple but ever so slightly lilac. He writes in the same distinctive, confidential tone that he

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There's something about British design that's just innately cool and elegant. Whether it's a well put together English country living room in cheery tones or a

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I recently spent the most enjoyable evening reading Nicky Haslam's newly released (as in today!) book, Nicky Haslam's Folly De Grandeur: Romance and Revival in an English Country House. As most of you are probably aware, the book profiles the Hunting Lodge, Nicky's enchanting country house that once belonged to John Fowler. Perhaps it was the allure of these two designers that had me eagerly anticipating the release of this book. Whatever the reason, the book turned out to be exactly as I…

The entry to John Fowler's Hunting Lodge. L/T painted Faux paneling and hand painted pelmet.

The design blogs have been all a twitter this week because Nicky Haslam's new book was published on 21st March. It is called "Folly de Grandeur: Romance and revival in an English country house" and can be obtained from Amazon - here is the link for the UK. I love this house and over the years have seen it featured in many magazines both as the home of the legendary decorator, John Fowler and after his death, the country home of Nicky Haslam. It was a real treat to spend a bitterly cold March…