Nancy Lancaster English Country House Style

E-324: Frances Lincoln. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2005. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Published by Frances Lincoln, London, UK. 2005. 144 pgs . 200 pages. Illustrated. Third Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. "In this book Martin Wood explores Nancy Lancaster's contribution to the arts of interior decoration and garden design by carefully analysing her own houses and gardens - large and small - and her work for Colefax and Fowler, the decorating business she bought from Sibyl Colefax in 1944. He also chronicles her remarkable life: her three very different marriages ('I was always better at picking butlers and husbands') ; her dynamic design partnership with John Fowler; her interactions with friends and guests including her aunt Nancy Astor, Duff and Lady Diana Cooper, the Duchess of Devonshire (then Deborah Mitford) , David Niven, Anthony Eden and - in the darkest days of the Second World War - Winston Churchill." EB; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 208 pages .