Maybe it's the influence of my Yorkshire-born granny but my style is decidedly English. I went to the bookstore yesterday and brought home two magazines simply for their cozy, flower-strewn editorials. I'll never be able to resist a tiny floral print layered just right or a London abode filled to the brim with textiles, paintings and bunches of hyacinth.
Annabel Astor's home as featured in House and Garden. Photographed by Simon Brown. 2nd photo via Moodboard + This is Glamorous from Lucky Magazine.
pretty green molding. so nice.
Posted by: katy | January 27, 2010 at 03:52 PM
really love the mix of formal & comfort, buttoned-up & relaxed in the room picture.
Posted by: tara g | January 27, 2010 at 03:55 PM
Me too :) Gorgeous.
Posted by: Confectionate | January 27, 2010 at 03:56 PM
Saw that bottom look from Lucky at Barnes the other day and loved it. Those flowery pants just caught my eye.
Posted by: Mary | January 27, 2010 at 04:16 PM
I'm totally with you on that, Chelsea! I grew up in an English colony and my sister and her fam live in the Somerset. I always really love when you post scenes from pretty English houses, so thanks!
Posted by: Honora | January 27, 2010 at 04:42 PM
Ah, Yorkshire ... God's own county, as they call it... and it's where I am and it IS lovely :)
Posted by: Jill | January 27, 2010 at 04:47 PM
couldn't agree with you more -- adore all things british and thought of you when first saw that lucky editorial & knew you would love it :)
xo
Posted by: {this is glamorous} | January 27, 2010 at 05:02 PM
Love Annabel Astor's living room!
Posted by: callie grayson | January 27, 2010 at 05:49 PM
someone send me that moth winged cardigan...
ASAP
Posted by: Tori | January 27, 2010 at 07:29 PM
Loving it, offto grab allmy old paintings and get clustering! I'm half yorkshire and prood - glad you're a yorkshire girl too! x
Posted by: Tammy | January 28, 2010 at 01:28 AM
i have no yorkshire-born granny, but i love english style, too. must keep an eye out for that magazine.
Posted by: cindy | January 28, 2010 at 05:15 AM
Living in England I am lucky to have this inspiration all around me, however the ultimate English House experience has to be Chatsworth House.
Posted by: Emilia | January 28, 2010 at 05:54 AM
that bottom picture is especially delightful!
I too can never resist floral prints (and if it's a floral liberty print, all the better!)
Posted by: Lindsay | January 28, 2010 at 06:13 AM
Chelsea, you must plan a visit while I'm there. It would be so fun.
Posted by: Marcey Moreno | January 28, 2010 at 10:11 AM
I often feel the same way - but about European and English design in general. Why can't Americans have such taste?
Posted by: Katherine | January 28, 2010 at 12:03 PM
Don't resist the flowers! That room wouldn't be quite as lovely without them, somehow.
Posted by: Melissa Brown | January 28, 2010 at 12:56 PM
Oh, I love the layered art over the molding, sooo classic.
Posted by: michelle | January 28, 2010 at 01:20 PM
Me too! I spent a summer in Cambridge and I'm convinced that's my real home. Also, I'm obsessed with George Eliot, Virginia Woolf, tea, and animal toparies....
Posted by: Kelly Oshiro | January 28, 2010 at 02:51 PM
Looks so lovely and cozy!! xoxo
Posted by: Melissa | January 28, 2010 at 04:23 PM
when we are old and slow and wrinkled, let's retire to a cottage in the english countryside. we'll grow roses, bake scones, putter around drinking tea, and make eyes at the handsome huntsmen who stroll through our back field looking for grouse.
deal?
Posted by: Anne @ The City Sage | January 28, 2010 at 05:19 PM
glad you are back to blogging, chelsea! keep up the english posts, they are great.
Posted by: jill | January 28, 2010 at 06:49 PM
love the outfit! those pants are delicious.
Posted by: rock my world | January 29, 2010 at 10:41 AM
the flowers look so soft
Posted by: kimberly LaMar-Damiani | January 29, 2010 at 01:17 PM
oh yes, this is so, so you!
xo
Posted by: joslyn | January 29, 2010 at 02:10 PM
English style is great. I am about to go back and help set up my old bedroom for my 6 year old sister, time to play around!
Posted by: Sundari Carmody | January 29, 2010 at 11:09 PM
Such a timeless style. I love it too.
Posted by: Tiffany | February 01, 2010 at 09:18 PM
Oh, this post made me smile:)
Posted by: Marte Marie Forsberg | February 03, 2010 at 06:33 AM