Beaverbrook Hotel is a late-nineteenth-century mansion set in the Surrey Hills, the quintessential British Country Estate. Decorator Susie Atkinson was tasked with designing something essentially British and romantic, "current but not trendy, comfortable and completely individual" (House & Garden). It is something she achieved brilliantly with tufted velvet and (Bowood) florals, dusky pink walls, cane chairs and Louise Bourgeois gallery walls...
WE’RE MORE THAN a bit obsessed with Copenhagen-based LVMH Prize finalist Cecilie Bahnsen. Evidence of the designer’s time spent working for Erdem and John Galliano can be seen in her own collections, which are works of art, blending couture craftsmanship and voluminous, sculptural silhouettes, as well as the minimalist aesthetic of her Danish heritage.
Located on the site of a former estate known as Red Maples, on four acres near the ocean in Southampton, New York sits the pink stucco country manor (named Hollyhock) belonging to New York commercial real-estate broker Mary Ann Tighe and her husband, Dr. David Hidalgo.
DESPITE MY OBVIOUS and rather renown girly-ness, one thing people do not know about me is that (every once in a while) I do enjoy watching the odd sporting event. At first it may have begun with actively taking an interest in the things that P loves (football to Brits or soccer to North Americans), but has morphed into something else altogether.
Architectural historian and interior decorator Edward Bulmer's red-bricked Queen Anne house in Herefordshire is a study in charm with its walls of turquoise, sea green and pink, a Chippendale carved mahogany four-poster bed here, eighteenth-century painted Chinese wallpaper there, silk sari curtains and carefully thought after details...
David Kennedy usually powers his techno project, Pearson Sound, with funky, polyrhythmic percussion. However, his last release, 2017’s Robin Chasing Butterflies EP, found him at his most weightless and exacting—the murky “Eels” featured little more ...
THERE IS A LINE in Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast that says, “When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest”, and that is how we're feeling at this very moment, after a walk in the palm-tree laden jardins ...
Dar Sinclair is the name of English model Jacquetta Wheeler's villa in Tangier, Morocco. Built by her great-grandfather, the architect Jack Sinclair, in 1926, Wheeler inherited the home with her younger sister, Charlotte, when their mother passed away suddenly in 2016. Their mother had inherited the place herself, when she was 19, and was in the midst of extensive renovations when she died ...
EVERY SO OFTEN, and especially in between the changing of the seasons, we take stalk of what's been having in fashion for the past few months to get a sense of what's to come in the next few months, gathering our favourite style inspiration looks along the way.
IT’S A TRADITION here at TIG that every year, around this time, we post a festive slideshow that encapsulates the romance of the holiday season (see last year’s here).