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.

Exhibitions, Connecticut, Museums, Art museums, Historic farms, Weir, J. Alden

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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.

Influence, Art, Interior design, Art in interior decoration

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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.

18th century AD, Country homes

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