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"Remembering Oprah's interior designer, Anthony P. Browne\nRemembering the fascinating life and brilliant work of the interior decorator whose clients included Andrew Lloyd Webber and Oprah Winfrey\nAnthony P. Browne seated at a Louis XVI\u2013style bureau plat in client Josephine Abercrombie's Houston apartment, which he renovated in Georgian style with architects Eubanks/Bohnn Assoc. (February 1994)\nBrowne decorated the drawing room of Oprah Winfrey's Indiana farmhouse with pumpkin-color walls and lively stripes and plaids. Over the mantel hangs Winfrey's most treasured painting\u2014To the Highest Bidder, a 1904 painting of slaves by artist Harry Roseland. (April 2003)\nAnother view of Winfrey's Indiana drawing room. The carpet and plaid fabrics are from Colefax and Fowler. (April 2003)\nThe comfortable Anglo-American charms of this paneled Maryland living room inspired Winfrey to hire Browne to decorate her houses in Indiana, Illinois, and California. The sofa and throw pillows are clad in Colefax and Fowler's Old Rose chintz. (May 1987)\n\"I tried to create what takes generations to achieve\u2014the appearance of comfort and that \u2018inherited look,' \" Browne said of his decor for Josephine Abercrombie's living room at Pin Oak Farm, in Versailles, Kentucky. (October 1989)\nFor Abercrombie's Kentucky mansion, Browne painted the entrance-hall ceiling with a tortoiseshell finish and hung the walls with equestrian portraits that reference Abercrombie's thoroughbred stables. (October 1989)\nFurnished with Hepplewhite wheel-back chairs, Abercrombie's dining room in Kentucky is surmounted by an Adam-style ceiling painted in Jordan-almond pastels. The house's architect was British neoclassicist Quinlan Terry. (October 1989)\nBrowne decorated the living room of an 1815 house in Washington, D.C., with raspberry-striped walls, a profusion of printed and woven fabrics, and a flowered Napol\u00E9on III carpet from F. J. Hakimian. (February 1993)\nA pale-pink ceiling crowns a Browne-designed master bedroom in a Washington, D.C., house. An Anders Gisson painting hangs between windows curtained in a floral fabric; the chaise longue is by Browne. (February 1993)\nIn one of Browne's residences in Washington, D.C.\u2014an apartment in a 19th-century Georgetown mansion\u2014ticking-stripe wallpaper, Gothic Revival\u2013style details, and Colefax and Fowler's classic Fuchsia chintz give the living room an English\u2013country-house air. A painted tortoiseshell finish dramatizes the ceiling, and the double portrait is by 19th-century artist Sir John Watson Gordon. (March 1989)\nInspired by India, where Browne's great-grandfather lived during the Raj period, the designer hung his dining room windows with curry-color curtains. The heirloom chairs once stood in Westport House in Ireland, Browne's ancestral estate. (March 1989)\nBrowne shaded his veranda with festoon curtains inspired by ones he had seen in Venice, Italy. (March 1989)\nBucolic American and European landscapes and flowered chintz by Colefax and Fowler set a country-house tone in a Houston living room for heiress Josephine Abercrombie. (February 1994)\nFor clients in Washington, D.C., Browne created a beflowered dining room with a Colefax and Fowler fabric and exotic botanical pictures. The sterling-silver flatware is by Tiffany &amp;amp; Co. (March 1992)\nTo create a cozy spot for reading in one of his client's houses in Washington, D.C., Browne tucked a sofa and Sheraton-style armchairs into the bay window of a living room. (October 1993)\nBrowne's final residence was a renovated 19th-century carriage house in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. (September 2002)\nThe living room of Browne's carriage house was decorated with green-and-white-striped walls and matching curtains; the white-stained floor is scattered with flokati rugs. Above the mantel is an Antonella Garofalo painting, and Bennison fabrics cover the chair, sofa, ottomans, and pillows. (September 2002)\nAnother view of Browne's living room in the Georgetown carriage house. The settee at left is a Swedish antique, and the curtains are made of a Cowtan &amp;amp; Tout striped fabric. (September 2002)\nUsing a conservatory by Amedga Machin, Browne transformed the carriage house's dining room into a mock greenhouse lined with mirrors and illuminated by a skylight. The 19th-century chairs bear Browne's family crest. (September 2002)\nBrowne in his Washington, D.C., living room; the Gothic Revival chair was copied from a set owned by the British decorator John Fowler. (September 2002)"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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