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Doing up The Mount: a team of talented designers was turned loose on Edith Wharton's legendary home. What would the author of The Decoration of Houses have thought? Come for an exclusive first look.

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From: Victoria
Date: 20021101
Author:Calvert, Catherine

THE MOUNT STANDS ON ITS HILL, GLEAMING white amid the green, elegant yet unassuming. It doesn't look like the place for a revolution. And yet, when Edith Wharton built it five years after she wrote The Decoration of Houses and launched her writing career, her precepts of simplicity, proportion and fitting details were radical--and fulfilled beautifully on this Berkshire hilltop. Once she wrote, "a woman's nature is like a great house full of rooms," and in these light-filled spaces full of calm classicism, she expressed her wish for harmony, peace and seclusion. Mornings, she ...

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