Classic House-Windy Hill: Ken Tate Architect (The Classic House)
by Graves Nelson, Ken Tate
Category: Architecture

The great estates of the world have frequently been shaped by larger-than-life designers for clients who, themselves, are remarkable personalities. Windy Hill is no exception. Architect Ken Tate was already on the shortlist of preeminent classicists, when Nancy Imes, dynamic matriarch of a banking and media family, asked him to design her new home. Designer Charme Tate's work was appearing regularly in the magazines. Landscape architect Rene Fransen was at work on projects from the glitterati, on the Cote d'Azur and the Hamptons. Client and designers alike were accustomed to defying the status quo in their quest for perfection. As the book reveals, the synthesis of these four astute minds would produce a self-contained world of singular loveliness. In Windy Hill, Graves Nelson, long an eminence grise within the Tates design realm, throws open the estate's great iron gates, and beckons us to enter. Through the eyes of world-class photographers and illustrators, we are privileged to view the private compound of a family whose tastes are erudite and far-ranging.