Inside Out

As a tastemaker and owner of decorating firm Colefax & Fowler, Nancy Lancaster carried her English country house style into her gardens, making the ordinary into something extraordinary.

CHARLOTTE MOSS

It has been said that Nancy Lancaster’s favorite things were gardens, houses, and husbands—in that order. A nonconformist originally from Virginia, Lancaster was known for her sharp wit and down-to-earth approach. She never forgot her roots as she shook up the decorating establishment in England with her insistence on pure, old-fashioned Southern comfort. In Vogue’s Book of Houses, Gardens, People, English diplomat and writer Valentine Lawford said, “Anyone so authentically English and authentically American could only be a Virginian.” With a great passion for houses and gardens, Lancaster made sure that one lured you to the other through the design and location. She never viewed herself as a decorator—in fact she called herself a “percolator of ideas”—yet some of the finest rooms in England resulted from her keen eye and…

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