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Article: Not such a folly after all.(designer Veere Grenney's English home)(Brief Article)
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- House Beautiful
- Article date:
- February 1, 1998
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A small jewel of an 18th-century fishing lodge/teahouse in East Anglia has become the weekend retreat of designer Were Grenney
A famous duchess said it for every aristocratic European family saddled with houses that are too cumbersome when she told Veere Grenney, "You've got what we all want: one big room. Unfortunately, I've got fifty."
Would the mistress of one of England's most splendid stately homes really trade it for the Temple of the Four Seasons? Set in the lush East Anglican countryside that Constable was drawn to paint, Grenney's ocher, washed 18th-century Palladian folly outdoes itself with its own quarter, mile-long canal. The rectangle of water ...