Anna Wintour's Bolthole

Bolthole. It made me smile. Had to look it up HERE

The October 2010 issue of World Of Interiors features Anna Wintour's bolthole. In fact her second one.

Table of contents from World Of Interiors

Okay okay. It's her second vacation home on Long Island, and here's how Anna describes the very un-Hamptons location of Shirley, Long Island in the article: "I just import the people I want…. I don't mind the town. It's white trash, of course, but I don't care".

Feedsack slipcovers, stripe rug, chintz drapes

It is a lovely place of course, very romantic looking, very comfortable, very elegant farmhouse.

The second bolthole living room
Toile (!) slipcover, seagrass rug, Brickmakers coffee table

More from Anna who wrote the article: "It was perhaps eight years ago that a neighbor's change of fortune resulted in my good luck. The property that adjoins my 1820 Long Island summerhouse (WoI March 2006) came up for sale when its owner left in a hurry. It had an 1834 farmhouse, with loads of additions and 12 poky bedrooms. It had a perplexing reception room with difficult, though grand, proportions. It had lawns that tumbled down toward a beautiful-to-the-eye, toxic-to-everything-else river. It had nearly 25 acres of difficult trees in deer-infested woods. It was, as we say at Vogue, challenging".

The same room sans toile

Rustic kitchen

Sweet, sweet bedroom
Can you see Anna sleeping here?


Another view of a bedroom
Love the return curtain rods

A view from one poky room into another one of the dozen poky rooms

Love the lantern with the worn zinc color finish

The library - the chairs look like ones from Pottery Barn
The lamp in the center of the table is a bit odd

Another view of the library

Collage of the property

Found all this good stuff on Curbed and The Awl. Just wanted to share it with you.

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