A house in Maine
(Book)

"The interior design of this sensuous New England seaside property--by decorating legend Nina Campbell--explores a myriad of themes: the evolution of a home, the importance of place, and the creation of a setting where all visitors, family and friends, will feel at home. The interiors of the many buildings on this pleasure property are given the Campbell treatment with vibrant palettes, sumptuous fabrics, fine antiques, and a contemporary cleanness of line. Constructed at the turn of the last century, the core of the main house is a simple cottage built among spruce trees and ferns that overlooked a secluded bay on the New England coast. The pioneering couple had no idea that they were creating a legacy that would become central to the lives of future generations of their family, who would come to the estate with its surrounding one hundred acres to experience respite from busy lives in the city. The main house evolved from that summer cottage to a larger Federal-style manse--whose recent renovations were overseen by New York architects Ferguson & Shamamian-on a property with outlets for indoor and outdoor bliss. Campbell is familiar with creating backdrops for entertaining--she had previously designed Annabel's, the private members' club in London established in the 1960s that was popular with the Rolling Stones, Diana Ross, and Ella Fitzgerald--and she set out to create multiple options. With a dedicated party villa, bowling alley, pool house, and tennis pavilion as well as accommodations for family and friends, this oasis would establish the house and outbuildings as a place for fun and relaxation for generations to come-under the spreading branches of the sycamore that offered shade to the original house and garden"--,Publisher's description.