Vogue’s Hamish Bowles Trades New York City for the Bucolic Countryside Inline

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    Yours truly with garden roses from Princess Alexandra of Greece and Nicolas Mirzayantz’s lush Bellport garden.

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    The boardwalk on Bellport’s very own municipal beach on Fire Island.

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    Jumping for joy on Bellport’s Fire Island beach with beach buoy.

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    The Bellport wisteria pergola of Jay Johnson and Tom Cashin.

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    A view across the gardens created by Miranda Brooks in New Preston, Connecticut.

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    A table in New Preston set for lunch with a wall of potted ferns as the perfect backdrop.

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    Deeda Blair attacks the lobster salad.

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    Deeda Blair’s cherished black petunias.

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    Dinner setting in New Preston.

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    Breakfast setting on a glorious black-on-white chintz.

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    Decorator Robert Couturier’s delightful octagonal library.

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    Robert Couturier and Deeda Blair on a landscape tour.

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    The formal box parterres chez Robert Couturier and Jeffrey Morgan.

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    Pleached hornbeam hedges frame the wilderness beyond.

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    Another view of the Couturier-Morgan plantings.

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    A view to the octagonal library pavilion designed by Robert Couturier in his lakeside Connecticut manse.

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    Couturier and Morgan’s formal dining room–cum-orangery, with curtains embroidered by Lesage.

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    A crewel work canopy bed at the renovated 17th- century farmhouse on their estate.

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    Leatherwork flowers and fruit frame an antique mirror.