Sister Parish: American Style
In place of the prissy Regency Revival, she offered a relaxed old-money look, part opulent, part hand-me-down. Chippendale mirrors and Aubusson rugs were undercut by patchwork quilts and crocheted throws, and personalised by flashes of garish colour and painted floors. Above all, as Martin Wood shows, it was the approachability of her rooms - 'comfortable for forty, comfortable for four' - that saw her ferocious peke hold sway for so long. World of Interiors