Moss also spends “me time” in the downstairs media room, where she sits on an oversize velvet club chair watching TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conferences. “Everyone knows not to disturb me when I’m in there,” she says. Making collages is an art form she compares to painting or drawing. “By nature,” she writes in Charlotte Moss Decorates, “I am a hunter, a collector, a cataloger, a stylist.” She advises her readers to dedicate a collage to each room in the house and fill it with images torn from shelter and fashion magazines, allowing the scraps to reveal a personal sensibility.
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Charlotte Moss
The chaise, surrounded by a pair of jardinières, is the sanctuary to which Charlotte escapes to read, look out into the garden and talk on the phone.
Ferns and stone elements atop an iron-based table form an intimate space
For her pampered guests, Moss
provides a splendid apartment
over the garage
Variegated boxwood “clouds” lead to the pool area
A rose arbor leads to a bench at the end of the
rose garden.
Wisteria hangs from a pergola and clouds of boxwood frame the
back terrace.
Miniature sundials, part of a small collection
Embroidered place mats and napkins from Italy, antique silver-on-oystershell salt cellars, other silver-covered shells and place cards by Cassegrain on a pullout of the linen cabinet
A table of myrtle, bay and
rosemary topiaries resides on the screened in porch. Tomorrow they may be in the foyer. “I rotate my plants around the house,” says Moss. “I get bored; I assume they do, too
Among the shelves of gardening
books are Moss’ favorites, tomes by David Hicks, Russell
Page, Beverley Nichols and Constance Spry.
The categorized china and collected objects lining the shelves in the flower room include blue and white, pewter, white ceramic, baskets, tolle and Venetian
glass.
