05 July 2014

the view from here

in the Summer of 1940 Londoners were kept on high alert by German Luftwaffe bombing raids. Citizens headed underground to safety.

Emerging from an air raid shelter built underneath the sitting room

Palmers Green, London, 1940.

photographs at the Atlantic here

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My book HOW THEY DECORATED, for Rizzoli, was published in April of 2017. I have been an interior designer for over 30 years & have an abiding passion for the original, & history. Little Augury was born on New Year's Eve 2008. It began as a way of continuing a conversation with a beloved mentor & the promise to keep just a bit of his wit & wisdom alive by sharing it whenever possible. Little Augury focuses on interior design, art, literature, fashion & social history with an eye, always looking back to the past, in hope of understanding what is authentic & what will endure & what connects us to our environment. Always listening for the footstep on the old stair-the sound of lives that walked that way.