71. Instead of regulation closets, the rooms have capacious antique armoires, just like a British country house would. 72. It was designed, on the model of English country houses, by the Irish-born James Hoban, who spent his early career in Charleston, S.C. 73. It takes place in an English country house in which the seemingly parallel worlds of the downstairs staff and the upstairs aristocrats somehow collide. 74. It would be a big house, a country house with a yard and plenty of room for the families each of them hoped to have. 75. James personally conceived of the interiors for his country house, Monkton, in Surrey, England. 76. Kimball writes nostalgically about the yellow farmhouse he visited as a boy in Vermont, near the country house he now owns with his wife and four children. 77. Liberal academics flock to his country house in Westchester County, N.Y., to discuss social policy. 78. Many country houses are open to the public for more than just visiting as museums. 79. Many of the artists in this show also endeared themselves to people of substance who liked to have them around in big country houses for month after month. 80. Mario Buatta would open the program in front of his version of an English country house. |