![]() It was a decade that brought Nancy a change of husbands and names, from Tree to Lancaster, and a new business with a challenging colleague. In the 1940’s, Ronnie Tree suggested that Nancy, his soon to be former wife-but still great friend-buy Colefax & Fowler. Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler, 39 Brook Street. She re-named the firm Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler. In 1939, the demands of Lady Colfax’ business became so great that she brought into her company the talented interior designer John Fowler-a man with great artistic skills, as well as taste and a sense of history. In 1930-after losing money in the Wall Street crash of the year before-she began decorating for friends who ranged from British royalty through the aristocracy and upper classes to celebrities at the Charles Chaplin and Cole Porter level. Sibyl Colefax was well connected and had great style. No Rich Living series of the 20 th century would be complete without a discussion of Colefax & Fowler. ![]() Now on to the great 20 th century English interior design firm that had come into the Tree realm in the 1940’s. The sleek black and white marble floors of her entrance gallery would remain long after Marietta’s departure. The four-bedroom cooperative in the 1927 Rosario Candela-designed showplace would be his New York base-and Marietta’s-for the remainder of their respective lives.įrom that time on, every night she spent in New York, until her 1991 death at 74, Marietta’s view of the 59 th Bridge from her One Sutton Place South windows projected late 1930’s Hollywood’s fantasy of how the rich live in New York. When Ronnie Tree sold the house at 123 East 79th Street, he replaced it with a handsome maisonette at One Sutton Place South. But we’ll get to that later in this final segment of our A Rich Life: The Trees series. Yes, the above is Nancy Lancaster’s fabulously famous Yellow Room at 22 Avery Row in London. ![]() Possibly the 20 th century’s most universally admired room ![]()
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