Title: Nancy Lancaster : English country house style /
Authors: Wood, Martin A., 1959-
Publisher: Frances Lincoln,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Lancaster, Nancy,; Lancaster, Nancy, Influence.; Interior decorators.; Country homes England.; Country homes Virginia Albemarle Co.; Interior decoration England History.; Gardens England Design History.
Abstract: "In this book Martin Wood explores Nancy Lancaster's contribution to the arts of interior decoration and garden design by carefully analysing her own houses and gardens - large and small - and her work for Colefax and Fowler, the decorating business she bought from Sibyl Colefax in 1944. He also chronicles her remarkable life: her three very different marriages ('I was always better at picking butlers and husbands'); her dynamic design partnership with John Fowler; her interactions with friends and guests including her aunt Nancy Astor, Duff and Lady Diana Cooper, the Duchess of Devonshire (then Deborah Mitford), David Niven, Anthony Eden and - in the darkest days of the Second World War - Winston Churchill."