AN AESTHETE'S LAMENT (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
"You can be as grand as you like [when decorating] provided you know when to play things down." So said Geoffrey Bennison (1921-1984), the British interior decorator and antiques dealer, who preferred to emboss linen velvet rather than silk velvet, because the result looked "matte and unnew."
AN AESTHETE'S LAMENT (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
One doesn't hear the name Geoffrey Bennison bandied about much today. But in the 1960s, '70s, and early '80s the British interior decorator (1921-1984) was one of the world's undisputed tastemakers, with an august list of aficionados who had fallen deeply under the spell of his richly layered, antiquarian, traditional rooms and romantic fabrics such as Roses linen, shown above—heiress...
