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that is a fantastic place ... i covet it!

This was a post about a house and a garden and being inspired by it. I'm sure the post wasn't intended to spark diatribes about the sexual peccadilloes and slave-owning history of the house's owner...

Actually hundreds and hundreds of stores around the world ship to the US. You make it sound alien and strange ("despite the fact that Etoile Home is based in the UK"). As long as you have a credit ...

I grew up in the military and always had the most incredible houses and apartments to live in. That's officer's housing by the way—housing for enlisted personnel, as I remember, w...

That means I can afford one chair.

Good Lord, such naysayers and brown clouds! I have had one of these (not at a beach) and also know several friends who have them and use them routinely for morning showers—why not...

Only if you are attempting a wry 1970s decor or a salute to Architectural Digest ...

And who was Frank Lloyd Wright's granddaughter? The movie actress Anne Baxter!

Farrow & Ball's Off-Black: http://www.farrow-ball.com/productdetails.aspx?pid=0057OB&cid=PC&language=en-GB

Nothing beats the style of Jill Fenichell's melamine at bongenre.com ...

Would be even better if the leather straps were in a brown tone that matched the wood arms.

The pulls on the original Draper piece were large brass rings ... see them here ... http://www.1stdibs.com/furniture_item_detail...

Actually, you seem to have the real thing, a Dorothy Draper chest for Heritage House ...

Did you see the bathroom at Steven Gambrel's house in Elle Decor? It was wallpapered with pages cut from that book.

Am so over the term Hollywood Regency ... just call the chairs Louis XVI Revival and be done with it ...

Sofette? The proper word is either settee or banquette ... Sofette sounds like a new toilet tissue ...

The left version, but only after Stephane Boudin of Jansen got through with the Yellow Oval Room; Sister Parish's earlier version for the Kennedys was too uptight—the curtains in ...

You could also mirror the alcove in any number of ways, from a full seamless sheet to individual squares. Or silver-leaf the alcove. Or panel it with vertical planks lightly whitewashedâ€...

It would be pretty wonderful using them as a screen, ie setting three or five side by side to divide a larger space.

I'm so over JA. So very over. If I want his designs, I'll buy the vintage versions he so skillfully re-markets.