BRIGHTER LIGHTER FRESHER
I’ve been watching The Gilded Age – billed as the new Downton Abbey – set in fin-de-siècle New York (it’s very good, particularly the costumes). The old money aristocrats are shocked at how Carrie Coon’s new money character is lavishly adding period details to her home at will, clutching their pearls at the vulgarity of her shipping in French antiques just because she can afford to. Aside from the fact I love how they all take afternoon tea so lavishly, I’ve never been happier to live now and not then. The way I’ve been decorating my own home, adding character and texture where it has been stripped out over the years, could be seen by some as just as inauthentic. We’ve researched the cornicing a house like mine would have…