The stately residence shown here embodies what
historian and philologist Mario Praz exalted, in a book
title, as The House of Life, interior decoration as lifeaffirming and enhancing project. Praz saw the interior
as autobiography of the individual who inhabits it. The
decorator adds a new layer, a new presence to this
highly personal narrative, not only interpreting the client's
material needs, but inventing solutions to their spiritual
ones.
This Virginia house is all spirit; we get a sense of owners
who live life to the fullest and do so with grace and style,
and are ably assisted in their journey by the superlative
taste of Foster and Giordano, who, like Lancaster and
de Rothschild, orchestrate color harmonies that sing.
HYLAND
