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Nancy Lancaster : ウィキペディア英語版 | Nancy Lancaster
Nancy Lancaster (9 September 1897 – 19 August 1994) was a 20th-century tastemaker and the owner of Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler, an influential British decorating firm that codified what is known as the English country-house look.〔Nancy Lancaster: English Country House Style, by Martin Wood, Frances Lincoln Ltd, London 2005.〕 ==Biography== She was born Nancy Keene Perkins as the elder daughter of Thomas Moncure Perkins, a Virginia cotton broker, and his wife Elizabeth Langhorne. Her birthplace was Mirador, the estate farm of her maternal grandfather Chiswell Langhorne, in Greenwood, near Charlottesville, Virginia. She was brought up in Richmond, Virginia and New York City. Nancy Lancaster had four maternal aunts, of whom the most notable were Lady Nancy Astor, a British politician, and Irene Gibson, the wife of artist Charles Dana Gibson, who popularized the Gibson Girl. Her cousin Joyce Grenfell was a celebrated British monologuist and actress.
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