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The paradigm writer-decorator is, of course, Edith Wharton, whose handbook on design and essay on taste, The Decoration of Houses, co-authored with architect Ogden Codman, Jr., was published in 1899, two years before Wharton purchased 113 acres in Lenox, Massachusetts and commenced building and decorating her own house, The Mount, modeled on Sir Christopher Wren's Belton House in Lincolnshire. Revolting against the ostentation of the Newport, Rhode Island mansions she was used to, Wharton "designed a house for privacy rather than show, a house for her to write in, and to entertain her small circle of close friends," which included Henry James and Bernard Berenson. Here is McClatchy's description of The Mount and Wharton's writerly reasons for its particular architectural configuration: HYLAND

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