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We had a fabulous evening learning about King Charles III’s love of architecture and his impact on the architectural landscape during last night’s @esuneworleans event with Clive Aslet.

Thank you for having us!

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Two views of Westbury, captured in the pages of Old Westbury Gardens: Days of Grace on Long Island, out today from @triglyphbooks.

From the sweeping approach to Westbury House, deliberately concealed to heighten the drama, to the South Allée in April, where linden trees leaf out and dogwood blooms above the formal hemlock hedges, these photographs offer a glimpse of the beauty and design that have defined the estate for generations.

The book is officially released today! And if you’re joining us tonight for the special conversation moderated by Thammanoune Kannalikham of @kannalikham_designs, you can purchase your copy at the event and have it signed by author Clive Aslet @cliveaslet and photographer Dylan Thomas @dylan_location.

Haven’t purchased your ticket yet? Don’t delay! Join us tonight for this special evening and use the link in our bio to get your tickets now.

#oldwestburygardens #booklaunch #longisland #longislandhistory #event

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Somewhere between the changing leaves and the stories held within the Gardens, October feels like the right time for a book about a historic Long Island landmark.

Tomorrow, "Old Westbury Gardens: Days of Grace on Long Island" from @triglyphbooks officially arrives, offering a new look at the history, architecture, gardens, and people that shaped this remarkable place.

From page 218-219: "Atlas carries the weight of the world in the Boxwood Garden," surrounded by the brilliant colors of autumn.

Join us tomorrow evening, October 6, at 6pm for the book launch event with authors Clive Aslet @cliveaslet and Dylan Thomas @dylan_location, moderated by Thammanoune Kannalikham @kannalikham_designs. The evening will include a conversation with the authors, sparkling wine and light hors d’oeuvres, and a book signing.

📅 October 6 | 6pm

Tickets are available now at link in bio!

#oldwestburygardens #longisland #booklaunch #history #event

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LOOK CLOSER. 👀

Pages 102–103 of Old Westbury Gardens: Days of Grace on Long Island take us inside the Dining Room of Westbury House, where dark paneling and Georgian portraits create a richly atmospheric setting designed for evening entertaining.

The room itself has an interesting history: in 1927, the paneling was brought from Henry and Annie Phipps’ former home at 1063 Fifth Avenue and adapted by architect George Crawley to fit its new setting at Old Westbury.

And now, you can get closer to it than ever before.

Ticketholders for our Secrets of the Service Wing tour can walk through the Dining Room as part of this behind-the-scenes experience, offering a closer look at a room that has rarely been accessible to visitors in this way.

Want to know more about the stories behind the rooms, objects, and people of Old Westbury Gardens? Join us October 6 at 6 p.m. for the launch of "Old Westbury Gardens: Days of Grace on Long Island," featuring a conversation with award-winning writer and editor Clive Aslet @cliveaslet celebrated international photographer Dylan Thomas @dylan_location, moderated by noted interior designer Thammanoune Kannalikham @kannalikham_designs.

Get tickets at the links in our bio!

"Old Westbury Gardens: Days of Grace on Long Island" is published by @triglyphbooks.

#oldwestburygardens #longisland #booklaunch #history #event

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Pages 58–59 of the soon-to-be-published "Old Westbury Gardens: Days of Grace on Long Island" feature the “Drawing Room Mantlepiece,” carved from wood and installed in the Red Ballroom, with the walls shown hung in damask.

It’s one of the many architectural details—and stories—explored in this beautiful new book from @triglyphbooks

Join us October 6 at 6pm for the book launch and a special conversation with authors Clive Aslet @cliveaslet and Dylan Thomas @dylan_location, and moderated by Thammanoune Kannalikham @kannalikham_designs. The evening will include sparkling wine, light hors d’oeuvres, conversation, and a book signing. Copies of the book will also be available for purchase.

Come celebrate the launch and hear the stories behind the Gardens from the people who helped bring them to life on the page.

Link in bio for more info & tickets.

#oldwestburygardens #booklaunch #LongIslandHistory #Phipps #LongIsland

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I’m delighted to say that I’ll be speaking on Old Westbury Gardens, Long Island, as part of the seminar series mounted by the Ax:on Johnson Centre for the Study of Classical Architecture at Downing College, Cambridge, on NOVEMBER 27 at 12pm. This will present research that I did for Old Westbury Gardens: Days of Grace on Long Island in the context of the American country house. Old Westbury Gardens is in some ways as English as it could possibly be, having been commissioned by an Anglophile, Jay Phipps, from an English connoisseur, George Crawley, as a home for his English bride Dita Grace. In other ways, it is a representative example of the movement to build sumptuous country homes that was a phenomenon of the early years of the 20th century in the US – hundreds were built on Long Island alone. Old Westbury, however, is remarkable for having survived complete with its gardens, art, furniture and archive intact.

The seminar will be livestreamed – check the CSCA website for details after term has started on October 1.

Old Westbury Gardens: Days of Grace on Long Island will be published by Triglyph Books on October 6. It is available for preorder from the Triglyph website, price £50.

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Join us on October 6 as we welcome the Friends of Old Westbury Gardens @friendsofowg, celebrated international photographer Dylan Thomas @dylan_location, and award-winning editor and writer Clive Aslet @cliveaslet for an engaging conversation about the creative process behind their newest publication, Old Westbury Gardens: Days of Grace (@triglyphbooks, 2026).

Moderated by noted interior designer Thammanoune Kannalikham @kannalikham_designs, the discussion will explore the stories, research, and visual imagination that shaped this richly illustrated tribute to one of Long Island’s most beloved estates.

Old Westbury Gardens: Days of Grace brings the house and its history vividly to life through archival images and lush contemporary photography. The book honors the legacy of the estate Jay Phipps built to woo his English love, Dita Grace, after promising to recreate the world of elegance, gardens, and dogs she had known in Sussex. She said “Yes”—and the rest is Old Westbury Gardens.

Pictured:
1. A drive sweeps to the entrance front. To maintain the drama, the full extent is partially hidden by
shrubs and trees.
2. Roses, lupins, and peonies crowd this border in the Walled Garden. Beyond the fountain is the
East Gate.
3. The South Allée in April. The linden trees come into leaf and dogwood blooms above the neatly
trimmed forms of the hemlock hedges.
All images from Old Westbury Gardens: Days of Grace. Courtesy of Triglyph Books.

#oldwestbury #longisland #traditionalgardens #traditionallandscapes #historicgardens

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Before Old Westbury Gardens, there were the Phippses—and a life of travel, art, architecture, and extraordinary experiences.

In 1894, Henry Phipps and his wife Annie traveled to the Alhambra in southern Spain, where they posed in Moorish dress amid the palace’s remarkable interiors.

This photograph appears on page 28 of Old Westbury Gardens: Days of Grace on Long Island, offering just one glimpse into the fascinating history of the Phipps family and the Gardens. 📖

Old Westbury Gardens: Days of Grace on Long Island by Clive Aslet @cliveaslet and Dylan Thomas @dylan_location is published by @triglyphbooks and will be released on October 6. 📚

🚨You can meet the authors at a special book signing event and conversation on the 6th. Get more information and tickets at the link in our bio.

Mark your calendar—we can’t wait for you to see this. It truly is one for your library.

#OldWestburyGardens #DaysOfGraceOnLongIsland #LongIslandHistory #PhippsFamily #LongIsland

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It’s back again: Barking for BTRC, the Brain Tumor Research Campaign Dog Show on Parsons Green, SW6

Dead chuffed to be invited by my inspiring friend @flyingbarn @btrccharity to judge Most Handsome Dog, Scruffiest in Show and, of course, the all-important Looks Most Like Owner category ….

And thank you @triglyphbooks for giving a lovely copy of ‘Top Dogs’ to the prize table 🐾

If you can’t make it on Saturday, you can enter the online photo competition at btrc-charity.org with categories Best Action Shot, Funniest Dog Moment and Dog & Owner Best Friend Photo

All the fun of the fayre, for a very, very good cause …

Saturday 19 September | 10.30am–5pm Parsons Green, SW6

#BarkingForBTRC #DogShow #BrainTumourResearch #BTRC #cockerspanielpuppy

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A closer look at Old Westbury Gardens.

This hand-blocked wallpaper in the Blue Guest Room, highlighted in the soon-to-be-published "Old Westbury Gardens: Days of Grace on Long Island," features a pattern inspired by traditional Chinese design motifs. Like the wallpaper in the Chippendale Bedroom and dressing room, its date remains unknown.

Discover more of the Gardens’ history in this beautifully illustrated new book, published by Triglyph Books. @triglyphbooks

📖 Book launch: October 6

Join author Clive Aslet @cliveaslet and photographer Dylan Thomas @dylan_location for a special conversation about their new book. The conversation will be moderated by noted interior designer Thammanoune Kannalikham @kannalikham_designs. The book will be available for purchase.

Learn more and reserve your place. Link in bio.

#oldwestburygardens #booklaunch #LongIslandHistory #longisland

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One of the stars of ‘Old Westbury Gardens: Days of Grace on Long Island’, available for preorder from Triglyph Books, is the sculptor Derwent Wood. Wood was in his late thirties when the house was built in 1906 and at the height of his powers.

A true artist, Wood was half American. He had been brought up in an atmosphere of art by his deeply religious parents, who joined the Plymouth Brethren— indeed art was, according to one obituary, his one passion. Several of his works are in American collections, including a bust of Henry James, now in the Boston Public Library. During the First World War, he used his sensitivity as a modeller to help repair the facial disfigurements of soldiers during the First World War, After the War, his memorial to the Machine Gun Corps - a figure of David = became famous from its position on Hyde Park Corner, axially aligned with Park Lane. It was also controversial, due to the inscription from the Book of Samuel: „Saul has slain his thousands but David his tens of thousands.“

At Old Westbury Gardens, Wood modelled everything from the doorknob on the front door to the Michelangelesque fireplace in the front hall. His name even appears on a pair silver wall sconces in the library, and dining room mantlepiece. Wood’s contribution is complemented by numerous other works of fine craftsmanship throughout the house, a tribute to the superb skills available to house makers on both sides of the Atlantic at the beginning of the 20“ century...

📸 @dylan_location

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When Jay Phipps built Old Westbury Gardens on Long Island in 1906, he wanted it to be as English as possible to suit his own taste and that of his English bride, Dita. The designs were made by George Crawley, an old family friend who had already worked on the Phipps house on Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, for Jay’s parents. Crawley was not, though, a trained architect but a connoisseur. The tale is told in ‘Old Westbury Gardens: Days of Grace’ on Long Island, which will be published by Triglyph Books on October 6.

The son of a railroad contractor, Crawley had been to both Eton and Harrow, followed by Trinity College, Cambridge, where his aesthetic sensibilities blossomed. The portrait painter Oswald Birley – another Trinity man although 16 years Crawley’s junior – described him as impulsive, generous, extravagant, living very much for the moment. Having tried various commercial ventures without much success, his association with the Phipps family gave him the break into the world of design that he needed. In 1910 Consuel Vanderbilt, separated from her husband the Duke of Marlborough, employed him to make Crowhurst Manor in Surrey even more lyrically medieval than it had originally been – a home that could hardly have been more different from Blenheim.

Not only did Crawley, the consummate Englishman, bring his innate cultural knowledge to bear on the architecture of Old Westsbury Gardens but he chose craftsmen – mostly English – who were the best of their kind. Based in Cheltenham, the craftsman and contractor H. H. Martyn claimed that his men could equal the incomparable 17th-century virtuoso of fruitwood carving Grinling Gibbons. Everything was of the best.

In 1919 Crawley succeeded in buying a set of gates from Combermere Abbey in Shropshire and made by the greatest of English blacksmiths Robert Bakewell about 1730. They are now the entrance to Old Westbury Gardens, where, in Crawley’s words, they look “extremely handsome and dignified, & quite unique”.

📸 @dylan_location

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