Deans Court, Dorset, England

Name: Ali & William Hanham
Location: Deans Court, Dorset, England
Size: 18 acres & many, many rooms
Years lived in: 5 years recently and since 1548 before that

It is not an everyday occurrence that we get to tour someone's ancestral home, you know the kind which has been "in the family" for over 450 years, the building of which is even older. This past week I spent part of an afternoon hearing this family's story, taking pictures and wishing I had all day to spend here. This is a refreshingly real home in an ongoing state of renovation. This is not really even a home that you "own", it's more of a home that is much older than anyone around and that you can only "take care of" before passing it on.

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Read and look to the pictures, very interesting story

Harlequin

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Fascinating Photos of Famous Writers at Home

Mark Twain at home, 1903. [via]

Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas in their apartment at 27 rue de Fleurus, Paris, 1922.

Agatha Christie reading and walking in Greenway, her English summer home.

F. Scott, Zelda, and Scottie Fitzgerald at Lands End, their home in Sands Point, NY, on Long Island Sound. [via]

Henry Miller in his home library in Big Sur. [via]

Vladimir and Vera Nabokov, working at home. [via]

Truman Capote in his Brooklyn Heights apartment, 1958.

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Annemoon van Steen

 

Freelance illustrator and designer annemoon van steen thanks to a peek into the home of joyce de lange. Anemoon works from her home in Utrecht where she’s lived for three years now. when she first moved in it was hardly inhabitable, so it’s lovely to see the transformation and the way her vintage style has emerged. for more from annemoon you can check out her blog here. {thanks, annemoon!} -anne

 

 

 

 

 

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