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The architect pays homage to 1930s style when creating the grand and glamorous home on the Mediterranean coast
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The architect pays homage to 1930s style when creating the grand and glamorous home on the Mediterranean coast
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Discover AD100 firm Paolo Moschino for Nicholas Haslam Ltd.’s decorating philosophy in a new book
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Nicky Haslam is an in-demand author, incisive lecturer, nascent nightclub singer, daring video artist and artful biographer and writer. He has been an interior designer of note for four decades—and there is not a thing about chic English country style that he does not know. John Fowler, eat your heart out. Now he has a lively, witty, and inspiring new book—and everyone who loves ultra-relaxed English country interiors (the kind that look as if dogs sleep on the sofas and chairs and floor, all day)…with great charm, comfort and happiness. Nicholas Haslam has been and continues to be a fixture—a handsome one—of the London social and decorating and antiques worlds since he left Eaton. Even today, at the handsome age of 73, he is in and out of the gossip pages, attending parties too divine to mention, writing books, dropping names, setting trends, and inspiring his clients and friends with his bons mots. Now he has published ‘Nicky Haslam’s Folly de Grandeur: Romance and Revival in an English Country House’, with superb photography by Simon Upton. Rizzoli published his book in the US. It’s the best new book on authentic, relaxed and charming English country style. Nicky Haslam spends weekends in an exquisite Tudor hunting lodge. Its petite dimensions are decorated with deft and unerring style. “The rooms you see in this book are a culmination of a lifetime’s passion for refinement and embellishment. And the house’s soul doesn’t seem to object to the hodgepodge,” notes Haslam. The book covers five centuries of the house, living with its history, as well as the traditional garden, the furnishings, the comfort, versatility and ease of every corner. Ever page and each image is a design lesson—from vignettes showing how to make sofas comfortable, to creating tableaux, classical elements, hallways, evening cocktails (his bar is inspiring), and entertaining with panache. It’s clear that Haslam is wildly in love with this 1720 house. He is seduced by its quirky Jacobean façade, pleached yews, espaliered apple trees, topiaries, chintzes, and the miniature scale of the interiors. Nicholas Haslam offers floor plans and diagrams, and splashes the pages with delcious images of the house through the seasons, and details of the conservatory, picnics, lunches, menus, and his prescriptions for orderly chaos. There are ‘hand-held’ detailed images of his year’s of collecting, endearing flea market finds, treasures from boot sales, and lots of what he calls ‘soft furnishings’ meaning pillow designs, simple upholstery, curtains, chair backs, improvised lampshades and acres of slipcovers. Who is Nicky Haslam? Nicky wrote ‘Redeeming Features’, a witty memoir, and now pens features for T magazine (New York Times) edited by the brilliant Deborah Needleman, as well as Vanity Fair, and UK House & Garden. He’s insightful, outspoken, highly erudite, and just a bit naughty. Refreshing! With Rizzoli’s publication of his new book, Nicky is out and about in Toronto and New York and London, signing with purple ink, greeting great long-time friends like Carolina and Reinaldo Herrera, and earning plaudits and irony in all the London papers. Readers will get more out of the book—which is in essence the most elegant ‘how to’ book—if they get to know him more. I’ve selected a kind of a Nicky Haslam Anthology for your entertainment and erudition. Here are two recent profiles on Nicky that I love. They have his same droll tone and knowing style. This first one originally ran in the Daily Mail. It’s a very English insider’s view of Nicholas Haslam and ‘his crowd’: “There can't be a gay icon of the last century that he failed to meet. He revived Mae West's career by running snaps of the old gal in Show Magazine, when he was art director. He met Dietrich, photographed Zsa Zsa Gabor, watched Dorothy Parker get drunk, and saw Greta Garbo try - and fail - to dodge the train fare to Salisbury. Joan Crawford took him as her date to the premiere of Cleopatra. And at lunch at a friend's house: 'I was astonished to find that the woman with wildly mascaraed eyes, rather loose teeth, and a flamboyant purple satin turban ... was Gloria Swanson.' Nicky knew Mick Jagger when he was a builder; hired the sculptor and artist Anish Kapoor when he was an art student; had his hair cut by Vidal Sassoon himself; befriended the weird little illustrator who turned into Andy Warhol; happened to have as a downstairs neighbor a little-known comic called Woody Allen. (He complimented Allen on being a quiet neighbor. 'I only play Marcel Marceau records,' Allen said.) When London was first Swinging in the Sixties, Haslam was there - hanging out with photographer David Bailey and model Jean Shrimpton. When New York was in its Sixties pomp, Haslam was there, introducing 'the English look', art-directing Vogue under Diana Vreeland, discovering photographer Diane Arbus, yattering with Truman Capote. When the canyons above LA were the place to be, Haslam was there, too. --Sam Leith in the Daily Mail (UK) Nov 19 2009 when ‘Redeeming Features’ was published. Nicky on Nicky From The Observer, London UK, by Stuart Husband, Nov 7 2003. My personal style? Either thrift shop, Topman, or Anderson & Sheppard. Most people dress appallingly, but if you go to Topman on a Friday lunchtime, the boys just look astonishing. I don't smoke. I gave up 10 years ago. But I love the smell. So I light up and just wave the smoke up my nose. My hard and fast rule of decorating is: Always listen to the room. It speaks to you. I'll take hypnotism over therapy. I adore being hypnotized – I went to Paul McKenna to stop smoking. With the best hypnotists, you don't even know you've been under. As far as therapy goes, I'm so dopey I don't think I'm complicated enough to make it worth the analyst's while. Some Recent Haslam Hits: Now—in addition to singing (well, speaking lyrics in a dusty voice with orchestral accompaniment) in louche boites and nightclubs, Nicky Haslam is a very in-demand writer, profiler, and commentator. He writes with compassion and a little bite—and one of his best pieces was a recent essay on Lee Radziwill. It was the divine editor, Deborah Needleman who chose him to write this piece, and here is one of my favorite passages—Haslam at his best. LEE RADZIWILL PROFILE IN T MAGAZINE, NEW YORK TIMES (find the whole story in the www.nytimes.com archive. Typical quote: “The haunting voice and the almost ethereal figure are Lee Radziwill’s, and they have been a lifelong part of her enduring identity. But those characteristics are not nearly the whole picture. I am confronted by a subtly strong presence and personality, part wreathed in the glamour of the past, part intensely modern in outlook and awareness. Not for her any all-too-easy reminiscences of “those days.” She is, quite clearly, herself.” --Nicholas Haslam, T magazine, New York Times in a superb cover story on Lee Radziwill, which includes an extraordinary video interview with Radziwill by Sofia Coppola. Must view! Must read! And of course there is his recent best-selling biography, ‘Redeeming Features A Memoir’ (Knopf 2009). CREDITS: All images from FOLLY DE GRANDEUR (RIZZOLI) used with permission from Rizzoli. www.rizzoliusa.com For more information on Nicholas Haslam and his blog and design firm, www.nh-design.co.uk
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From the moment he left Eton, Nicky Haslam was the life of the party, a dazzling young charmer who enchanted the good and the great—Joan Crawford, the Rolling Stones, Cecil Beaton, Bill Blass, etc., etc.—ushering in Swinging 60s London, introducing Andy Warhol to New York society, and seducing Hollywood stars of both sexes. As Haslam publishes a memoir, at 68, and settles into his face-lift, our author hangs out with the interior designer and man-about-town to discover what lies beneath the high-style whirl.
Nicky Haslam, renowned interior designer and London man-about-town, calls a 16th-century royal hunting lodge in the English countryside his home away from home—rose chintz sofas, portraits, flourishing garden and all
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The architect pays homage to 1930s style when creating the grand and glamorous home on the Mediterranean coast
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South of France Guest House. Undertaken by the Nicholas Haslam Design Studio for a very important client, this early 20th Century, formerly the local rectory, is situated in the most picturesque locations a stone throw from the seafront in the South of France. From the façade which is that of fairly ordinary south of France village house, you enter the property and are immediately surprised by a supremely grand entrance hall. There were no architectural features, so it was a complete remodel internally. The Design Studio was privileged to work with the client’s own extraordinary art collection and even employed prominent Belgian paneling specialists to frame a selection of paintings. The client commissioned a ceramic artist from New York to produce a bespoke dining table – the end result is an incredible and spectacular table base that is made up of individual ceramic pieces to look like a pile of rocks.
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The architect pays homage to 1930s style when creating the grand and glamorous home on the Mediterranean coast
South of France Guest House. Undertaken by the Nicholas Haslam Design Studio for a very important client, this early 20th Century, formerly the local rectory, is situated in the most picturesque locations a stone throw from the seafront in the South of France. From the façade which is that of fairly ordinary south of France village house, you enter the property and are immediately surprised by a supremely grand entrance hall. There were no architectural features, so it was a complete remodel internally. The Design Studio was privileged to work with the client’s own extraordinary art collection and even employed prominent Belgian paneling specialists to frame a selection of paintings. The client commissioned a ceramic artist from New York to produce a bespoke dining table – the end result is an incredible and spectacular table base that is made up of individual ceramic pieces to look like a pile of rocks.
Nicky Haslam is an in-demand author, incisive lecturer, nascent nightclub singer, daring video artist and artful biographer and writer. He has been an interior designer of note for four decades—and there is not a thing about chic English country style that he does not know. John Fowler, eat your heart out. Now he has a lively, witty, and inspiring new book—and everyone who loves ultra-relaxed English country interiors (the kind that look as if dogs sleep on the sofas and chairs and floor, all day)…with great charm, comfort and happiness. Nicholas Haslam has been and continues to be a fixture—a handsome one—of the London social and decorating and antiques worlds since he left Eaton. Even today, at the handsome age of 73, he is in and out of the gossip pages, attending parties too divine to mention, writing books, dropping names, setting trends, and inspiring his clients and friends with his bons mots. Now he has published ‘Nicky Haslam’s Folly de Grandeur: Romance and Revival in an English Country House’, with superb photography by Simon Upton. Rizzoli published his book in the US. It’s the best new book on authentic, relaxed and charming English country style. Nicky Haslam spends weekends in an exquisite Tudor hunting lodge. Its petite dimensions are decorated with deft and unerring style. “The rooms you see in this book are a culmination of a lifetime’s passion for refinement and embellishment. And the house’s soul doesn’t seem to object to the hodgepodge,” notes Haslam. The book covers five centuries of the house, living with its history, as well as the traditional garden, the furnishings, the comfort, versatility and ease of every corner. Ever page and each image is a design lesson—from vignettes showing how to make sofas comfortable, to creating tableaux, classical elements, hallways, evening cocktails (his bar is inspiring), and entertaining with panache. It’s clear that Haslam is wildly in love with this 1720 house. He is seduced by its quirky Jacobean façade, pleached yews, espaliered apple trees, topiaries, chintzes, and the miniature scale of the interiors. Nicholas Haslam offers floor plans and diagrams, and splashes the pages with delcious images of the house through the seasons, and details of the conservatory, picnics, lunches, menus, and his prescriptions for orderly chaos. There are ‘hand-held’ detailed images of his year’s of collecting, endearing flea market finds, treasures from boot sales, and lots of what he calls ‘soft furnishings’ meaning pillow designs, simple upholstery, curtains, chair backs, improvised lampshades and acres of slipcovers. Who is Nicky Haslam? Nicky wrote ‘Redeeming Features’, a witty memoir, and now pens features for T magazine (New York Times) edited by the brilliant Deborah Needleman, as well as Vanity Fair, and UK House & Garden. He’s insightful, outspoken, highly erudite, and just a bit naughty. Refreshing! With Rizzoli’s publication of his new book, Nicky is out and about in Toronto and New York and London, signing with purple ink, greeting great long-time friends like Carolina and Reinaldo Herrera, and earning plaudits and irony in all the London papers. Readers will get more out of the book—which is in essence the most elegant ‘how to’ book—if they get to know him more. I’ve selected a kind of a Nicky Haslam Anthology for your entertainment and erudition. Here are two recent profiles on Nicky that I love. They have his same droll tone and knowing style. This first one originally ran in the Daily Mail. It’s a very English insider’s view of Nicholas Haslam and ‘his crowd’: “There can't be a gay icon of the last century that he failed to meet. He revived Mae West's career by running snaps of the old gal in Show Magazine, when he was art director. He met Dietrich, photographed Zsa Zsa Gabor, watched Dorothy Parker get drunk, and saw Greta Garbo try - and fail - to dodge the train fare to Salisbury. Joan Crawford took him as her date to the premiere of Cleopatra. And at lunch at a friend's house: 'I was astonished to find that the woman with wildly mascaraed eyes, rather loose teeth, and a flamboyant purple satin turban ... was Gloria Swanson.' Nicky knew Mick Jagger when he was a builder; hired the sculptor and artist Anish Kapoor when he was an art student; had his hair cut by Vidal Sassoon himself; befriended the weird little illustrator who turned into Andy Warhol; happened to have as a downstairs neighbor a little-known comic called Woody Allen. (He complimented Allen on being a quiet neighbor. 'I only play Marcel Marceau records,' Allen said.) When London was first Swinging in the Sixties, Haslam was there - hanging out with photographer David Bailey and model Jean Shrimpton. When New York was in its Sixties pomp, Haslam was there, introducing 'the English look', art-directing Vogue under Diana Vreeland, discovering photographer Diane Arbus, yattering with Truman Capote. When the canyons above LA were the place to be, Haslam was there, too. --Sam Leith in the Daily Mail (UK) Nov 19 2009 when ‘Redeeming Features’ was published. Nicky on Nicky From The Observer, London UK, by Stuart Husband, Nov 7 2003. My personal style? Either thrift shop, Topman, or Anderson & Sheppard. Most people dress appallingly, but if you go to Topman on a Friday lunchtime, the boys just look astonishing. I don't smoke. I gave up 10 years ago. But I love the smell. So I light up and just wave the smoke up my nose. My hard and fast rule of decorating is: Always listen to the room. It speaks to you. I'll take hypnotism over therapy. I adore being hypnotized – I went to Paul McKenna to stop smoking. With the best hypnotists, you don't even know you've been under. As far as therapy goes, I'm so dopey I don't think I'm complicated enough to make it worth the analyst's while. Some Recent Haslam Hits: Now—in addition to singing (well, speaking lyrics in a dusty voice with orchestral accompaniment) in louche boites and nightclubs, Nicky Haslam is a very in-demand writer, profiler, and commentator. He writes with compassion and a little bite—and one of his best pieces was a recent essay on Lee Radziwill. It was the divine editor, Deborah Needleman who chose him to write this piece, and here is one of my favorite passages—Haslam at his best. LEE RADZIWILL PROFILE IN T MAGAZINE, NEW YORK TIMES (find the whole story in the www.nytimes.com archive. Typical quote: “The haunting voice and the almost ethereal figure are Lee Radziwill’s, and they have been a lifelong part of her enduring identity. But those characteristics are not nearly the whole picture. I am confronted by a subtly strong presence and personality, part wreathed in the glamour of the past, part intensely modern in outlook and awareness. Not for her any all-too-easy reminiscences of “those days.” She is, quite clearly, herself.” --Nicholas Haslam, T magazine, New York Times in a superb cover story on Lee Radziwill, which includes an extraordinary video interview with Radziwill by Sofia Coppola. Must view! Must read! And of course there is his recent best-selling biography, ‘Redeeming Features A Memoir’ (Knopf 2009). CREDITS: All images from FOLLY DE GRANDEUR (RIZZOLI) used with permission from Rizzoli. www.rizzoliusa.com For more information on Nicholas Haslam and his blog and design firm, www.nh-design.co.uk
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Editor at Large Liz Elliot spent time with Nicky in London and at home in Hampshire, and understands how he has become one of the most important figures - and characters - in British interior design
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The architect pays homage to 1930s style when creating the grand and glamorous home on the Mediterranean coast
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Editor at Large Liz Elliot spent time with Nicky in London and at home in Hampshire, and understands how he has become one of the most important figures - and characters - in British interior design
North London House - Woronzow. One of the largest private residences built in Central London over the last ten years, the Nicholas Haslam Design Studio meticulously designed and installed every aspect of the truly opulent interiors of this truly magnificent property.
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North London House - Woronzow. One of the largest private residences built in Central London over the last ten years, the Nicholas Haslam Design Studio meticulously designed and installed every aspect of the truly opulent interiors of this truly magnificent property.
