Impressions of a house
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The Connecticut farmhouse and land of artist J. Alden Weir has been preserved as a National Historic Site. Traded for in 1882 with a painting and $10, the farm is now the first historic site designated foran artist. Weir's works are displayed in the farm, which has been maintained ashe painted it.
Publication Name: House & Garden
Subject: Home and garden
ISSN: 1087-9528
Year: 1992
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True wit: decorator and dealer John Oetgen plays with history and fantasy in his Atlanta house
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Interior decorator and antiques dealer John Oetgen decorated his Ansley Park, GA, house using a mixture of styles from 18th century classicism to 20th century modernism. The overall impression is French, symbolic and dramatic, showing the strong influence of French harlequin art.
Publication Name: House & Garden
Subject: Home and garden
ISSN: 1087-9528
Year: 1992
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Autobiography of a house
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English fictionist Peter Ackroyd moved to his North Devon country house to escape London's stifling sense of history. There he gets involved in a different past as he gets to know about the former occupants of his 18th-century manor.
Publication Name: House & Garden
Subject: Home and garden
ISSN: 1087-9528
Year: 1992
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