Christie’s is putting up for auction 130 lots from the Chelsea townhouse of Countess Alexandra Tolstoy, designed by Daniel Slowik and Emma Burns from the renowned interior-design practice Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler. The former presenter of BBC Horse People, Countess Tolstoy has led a life that reads like that […]
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The countess who is auctioning off her life
Her vision of what a home should be was moulded by growing up in her parents’ farmhouse. It was, she says, ‘full of antiques, faded textiles and rugs, all with that air of scruffiness so essential to an English country house’. Meanwhile Glebe Place was a beautiful creation, layered and […]