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12 Design Lessons from Edith Wharton’s Home – the Mount. One my long autumn road trip, I managed to visit quite a few author residences. Edith Wharton’s home, The Mount, stuck out the most because of all the design tips I picked up while exploring the rooms. I thought I’d share some below.
31 de ene. de 2013 · Its examples of good taste are invariably the ballrooms, antechambers, staircases, and other grandiose spaces in European palaces and villas—not exactly what today’s average homeowner finds...
Wharton believed that good design in interior architecture precipitated from noble, stately homes into the homes of the lower classes. “One generation is more likely to live like the nobility of the previous generation.”
28 de jun. de 2017 · See Inside Edith Wharton's Summer Home in Newport How one family lives and entertains in the legendary house known as Land’s End. By Bettie Bearden Pardee Published: Jun 28, 2017
17 de abr. de 2020 · Important lessons from Edith Wharton’s interior decoration manual. I only recently learned that the first book Edith Wharton ever published was an interior design manual called The Decoration of Houses, with Ogden Codman Jr., the architect who designed her Newport home.
15 de jun. de 2019 · According to Edith, when it doubt, you should move your doors even if it means calling a professional to have them literally destroy your walls so that your doors can be properly placed in a symmetrical manner that also happens to provide privacy for the people inside the room.
1 de mar. de 2021 · Edith Wharton: Designing the Drawing Room brings together both aspects of Wharton’s career. It explores the rules she defined in The Decoration of Houses and their application in her own homes alongside her attention to design details in the handwritten manuscript of The Age of Innocence .
