See inside Bunny Williams, American interior designer extraordinaire, and husband John's renovated 18th-century manor house in Connecticut
Bunny Williams, American interior designer extraordinaire, and her husband John renovated their 18th-century manor house in Connecticut over many years with Williams tackling the gardens. Those gardens now include a parterre, year-round conservatory, extensive vegetable garden, orchard, woodlands, an aviary with exotic fowl, and a rustic poolside Greek Revival-style folly. In her new book,, she admits creating this garden was not a seamless process.
Over time she has amassed a huge collection of containers. “Some of my favourites are antique lustreware pitchers and Chinese mugs. There are new pieces from one of my favourite ceramicists, Lila Francis Pottery, and from Astier de Villatte. I get the greatest pleasure from the simplicity of a beautiful branch in a tall glass vase.
“Entertaining is very easy when you are prepared. I confess that, after many years of collecting, I have three pantries filled with china, glasses, napkins, tablecloths, and silverware. What is amazing to me is that if you are enthusiastic shoppers like John and I are, you can find such interesting things in secondhand shops and at auctions.
“My stacks of vintage white damask dinner napkins have been collected over time from various sources. One thing I try to do to control my buying is to keep to a colour scheme or two, as I like to mix things together. When they’re all layered together, it not only looks fabulous, but we have enough place settings for eight or 48. I do the same with floral pieces, always combining colours and patterns that work together.
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