GREAT DIXTER
The Sussex Estate is well known for its enchanting gardens, but THE WORLD OF INTERIORS has been granted rare access inside the family home, last photographed in 1910. From the family medicine cupboard to hand embroidered cushions, preserved in a house cleverly woven from a mediaeval great hall, a 16th century yeoman’s house and an Edwardian extension, the Lloyd family’s home is a romantic evocation of Englishness beyond compare and a total work of art.

DESIGN WEEK FABRICS
Entirely remodelled by Robert Adam, Osterley Park glories in intricate plasterwork and sumptuous stone floors – a suitably noble setting for the debutantes from this year’s London Design Week. Jessica Hayns and Maud Hewlings have a ball announcing the ruling classes of the furnishing world.

MINIMUS MAXIMUS
When WOI’s New York editor Carol Prisant moved to a new apartment in Manhattan, she swapped her trinkets and chintz for marble effects and monochromes. Among only a few adornments, she writes, are testaments to a life-long love of the ancient world: chairs fit for Nero, and 18th-century painting of a vestal virgin, and a bronze helmet straight out of Gladiator.

PIED À MER
In her Saint Germain bolthole awash with crayfish tallboys, seahorse dressing tables and other deep-sea décor, newlywed Nerina Rossini finds herself submerged in the salty imagination of interior designer Vincent Darré. Surreal and sexy, it’s a lover’s launch pad, ideal for dipping in and out of Paris life.

DIFFERENT STROKES
Situated on an island in the Thames, right by the starting line of the Henley Regatta, the Fishing Temple of 1771 contains one of the first examples of the Etruscan style in Britain. Architect James Wyatt conceived the elegant scheme of painted garlands, swags and medallions that, as Paul Willon reports, steered a new course for neoclassical style.

The March 2011 issue of The World of Interiors is available on newsstands now.

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