Niall Hobbhouse, Hadspen in it's previous clothing.

I've been back to look at all of these images after a posting by An Aesthete's Lament, who posted a wonderful picture of Antoine Potier, circa 1790.   The question / statement was the amazing freshness of an interior (exterior to be strict) depicted two hundred years ago & how still we use and remain fascinated by the exotic; something I am entirely subject to.   As were, evidently, Blackmer & Hobhouse.   However, Blackmer is sadly no longer with us though pieces from his house do periodically pop up on the market & Hobhouse seems to have de-cluttered; the contents of Hadspen (Somerset) were sold through Christies last year.

Will I de-clutter.....ever?   I get closer and closer with each day. 

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Guest bedroom in the Athens Apartment.

I have only posted three of the pictures as the scanner drives me loopy but they each make me smile each time I look at them and as I only usually look at them in the May 1983 issue of World of Interiors, it's a fairly rare occurrence - basically I do not want to grow tired of the pleasure it gives me to flick open that particular issue!

Harry Blackmer, Athens continued