Since the announcement that Bunny Mellon’s former house in NYC has gone on the market for $49 million, with some of its original interiors intact, it’s been whizzing around the internet, and is also in the most recent issue of World of Interiors.
I remembered that Vanity Fair had published a number of pictures of her garden rooms in her Virginia house, so I scared them up for you to oooh and aaah over. I know I am reveling in their perfection.
The greenhouse in the garden of Bunny Mellon’s Oak Spring estate, in Upperville, Virginia, which features trompe l’oeil murals by Fernand Renard.
More detail
An arbor of pleached Mary Potter crab-apple trees leads to the garden entrance.
The arbor as seen from the greenhouse. Notice more trompe 'l’oeil painting on either side of the doors.
Mellon’s vegetable garden.
A teahouse with reflecting pool.
Mellon’s basket house (!), with a painting by Georges Braque.
Rachel (Bunny) Lambert Mellon, photographed by Henri Cartier-Bresson in her Oak Spring garden, 1962.
The accompanying article is really worth reading, as she had just turned 100 and was involved in a rather large scandal. Here’s the full article.
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