ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST recently featured the country home of Leslie Fremar, and the A-frame living room with its dramatic stone fireplace and cosy country kitchen were the things that first caught our eye. Fremar, a fashion stylist who counts Charlize Theron, Julianne Moore, and Jennifer Connelly as clients, decided to take on the decor of the 18th-century Katonah, New York farmhouse herself.
If you think of the English countryside, two artists come to mind who, between them, painted some of the most famous English landscape scenes ever put on canvas. It is probably no coincidence that both of them—Thomas Gainsborough and John Constable—came from the same county of Suffolk in the east of England and both were entranced by its rural beauty.
Our Fashion Editor, Victoria, recently remarked that SPAIN really suits me, and after pausing to think about it, realised that she was absolutely right. After living here for a year now, I think the country has seeped into my being — the perpetually SUNNY days, the oranges on the trees in the wintertime and these astonishingly blue Mediterranean skies — all of it has become a part of me, something that will forever be intrinsically intertwined into the fabric of our lives.
