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You know I love a house museum, Gentle Readers. So on our recent trip to Jackson, MS, I was eager to tour the home of the celebrated writer and photographer Eudora Welty (1909-2001). (If you don’t know who Eudora Welty is, allow me to introduce you. Start small with one of her short stories, such …
I first visited the Greenbrier in 2023, but when a friend asked me about Dorothy Draper last week, I decided I had to bring back this blog post! It’s ridiculous that I hadn’t been there before 2023, Gentle Readers. The Greenbrier resort in West Virginia. (This picture is from their website. There were no tulips …
Imagine you live in a row house in 1790s London, Gentle Readers. (Actually, it was several connected row houses by the 1820s, but that’s beside the point.) Imagine that it is lit by oil lamps and candles. Further imagine that you are the collector of fine and interesting art and objects that you would like …
Catalonian architect Antoni Gaudì was one strange dude, Gentle Readers. I hadn’t been to Barcelona before our recent vacation, so I’d never seen Gaudì’s architecture in person. It’s unusual, to say the least. We visited Casa Batllò, which is an apartment building, and, of course, Sagrada Familia, which has the dubious distinction of being the …
If you’re reading this blog, Gentle Readers, chances are you know a thing or two about Frank Lloyd Wright and his Prairie School architecture. The horizontality, the echoing of nature via earthy colors, and Wright’s penchant for designing of interior furnishings as well as the house itself. So this post isn’t a Frank Lloyd Wright …
