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Treasures belonging to King Charles' personal decorator who died last year - including 16th century Holbein rug and Indian Mughal carpet - are going under the hammer for £1.5m

Each room of the late Robert Kime's London flat is an Aladdin's cave of incredible pieces, with important works of art sitting alongside intriguing historical items and beautiful furniture.

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Dreweatts appointed to sell collection of interior decorator and collector Robert Kime

a href= http://www.dreweatts.com target= _blank Dreweatts /a auction house announced that it has been entrusted to sell the personal collection of

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Faringdon set to honour visitors Freddie Mercury and Slade

The historic market town is looking to recognise the Queen frontman and the 1970's English rock band who once visited

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Faringdon set to honour visitors Freddie Mercury and Slade

The historic market town is looking to recognise the Queen frontman and the 1970's English rock band who once visited

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Faringdon set to honour visitors Freddie Mercury and Slade

The historic market town is looking to recognise the Queen frontman and the 1970's English rock band who once visited

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The Mitfords in pictures: parties, politics and the real Pursuit of Love

The Mitfords in pictures: parties, politics and the real Pursuit of Love
Meet the stranger-than-fiction family behind the BBC drama, who kept horses on the staircase and Nazis in the closet
17 May 2021 • 6:57am
When The Pursuit of Love came out in 1945, Evelyn Waugh noted in his diary: “Nancy has written a novel full of exquisite detail of Mitford family life”. Nancy Mitford never found a muse to match her own family. Even later, when she came to write historical biography, starting with her acclaimed Madame de Pompadour, she couldn’t help turning it into a breed of memoir: “I do love it... They were all exactly like ONE,” she wrote in a letter.

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ALISON BOSHOFF: The bonkers baron whose life was a pursuit of hedonism

The bonkers baron whose life was a pursuit of hedonism: He inspired the wildest character in the BBC's new drama, but from dyed doves and dogs in pearls to riotous parties, Lord Berners was even barmier, writes ALISON BOSHOFF
The 14th Baron of Berners was a true bon vivant of the early 20th century who entertained everyone from Salvador Dali to Evelyn Waugh
He made such an impression on Nancy Mitford that she based Lord Merlin, the outrageous aesthete in her 1945 novel The Pursuit Of Love on him
Berners adored pranks and practical jokes, and once even placed an advertisement in The Times newspaper offering two elephants for sale

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The homes and interiors of the Mitford sisters

Dean Hearne
In a parallel world, the aristocratic Mitford sisters might have set up a highly profitable decorating business. Exhibit A is the transformation of Chatsworth by the late Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, née Deborah Mitford, from a dark, unlived-in temporary school - the state rooms became dormitories during the Second World War - into one of the finest country houses in England, where simple clay pots of geraniums enlivened rooms furnished with antique treasures. Exhibit B is the trailer for Emily Mortimer’s upcoming BBC adaptation of Nancy Mitford’s 1945 novel
The Pursuit of Love, with a line-up of stars including Lily James, Dominic West and Andrew Scott - and a wealth of covetable interiors, from a gilt-drenched, mirrored drawing room to a gold-tiled Art Deco bathroom.

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Nancy Mitford on the home of the real 'Lord Merlin'

"This article is a tribute to an artist, musician, wit and kindly host."
When Mr. Wood of Bath built Faringdon House, about the middle of the 18th century, his customer was Poet Laureate Pye (generally supposed to have been the worst poet laureate England has ever had and described as eminently respectable in everything but his poetry' by Lord Byron who, of course, knew all about respectability). Pye ordered the house to be built, and Pye paid the bill, established himself there, wrote reams of dreary long-forgotten verse in praise of his master George III, and brought up his dreary long-forgotten children beneath its roof. But I believe that Mr. Wood, gifted with second sight, saw 200 years beyond the laureate and built it specially for Lord Berners, its late occupant. For those who were lucky enough to be friends of the lord and therefore visitors to his house, he being the most hospitable of men, found it impossible to think of one without the other; so much of a piece, both standing four-square on English soil, but both formed in all their essential proportions by European classicism.

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