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March 2012 - Dallas

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to an extent. Give your manor house a fresh coat with English paint maker Farrow & Ball's new exterior paint collection. Shown here: Wimborne White No. 239 on the masonry, Fawn No. 10 on the door. To the trade at B. Berger. DOWNTON ABBEY IMAGES COURTESY 2011 CARNIVAL FILM AND TELEVISION LTD. FOR MASTERPIECE Crumbling façades are charming … The Crawleys in all their glory We're Obsessed With DOWNTON ABBEY Matthew Crawley and Lady Mary Crawley Nothing Succeeds like a dress, whether you prefer the dramatic silhouette of a dowager countess or the svelte styling of the flapper age. The gentrified world of Downton Abbey has captured our — and the world's — imaginations. Every Sunday at 8 pm, we feverishly tune into PBS to lose ourselves in the world of catty housemaids, conniving footmen, disdainful dowagers, heirs presumptive gone a stray and crumbling grand country homes in dire straits. Set during the reign of King George V and through the Great War, it's a time in which rooms were aired, fires lit and dinner served properly, no matter what scandal lurked. Christian Dior A Leg Up New York–based custom boot maker E. Vogel has made fine footwear for the horse set since 1879. We're sure Earl of Grantham would approve of these Newmarket Field Boots. Pricing, 212.925.2460; vogelboots.com. ~Seth Vaughan~ Fretting because you weren't bequeathed precious pendants from pedigreed predecessors? No one need know with options like these. Early Victorian coral and rose-cut diamond girandole pin/pendant $5,650, at pastera.com. Diamond and emerald bow pin $24,500, at tenenbaum andco.com. Lady Edith Crawley, Lady Mary Crawley, Lady Sybil Crawley God Save the Queen Marchesa Houston-based artist Hana Shoup's slightly askew take on Queen Elizabeth II's coronation portrait by Cecil Beaton, Young Queen Elizabeth, 2011, above right, retains all the dignity of the original. $600, through the artist, hanashoup.com; hanasart@gmail.com. Oscar de la Renta ahhhh … Then pick up a copy of The National Trust Manual of Housekeeping (National Trust Books, $75), a 1,000-page assemblage of instructions about how to preserve and maintain historic homes and their contents. At amazon.com. the smell of old money. HRH's Scottish residence, Balmoral, was the inspiration and namesake for this Cire Trudon candle. $85, at Barneys New York, Grange Hall. HORSE & HOUND MAGAZINE Have a Vast Collection of Ormolu Objets, but Nary a Housemaid? The scandalous domestics Tally-ho! English country life isn't complete without Horse & Hound, England's oldest equestrian magazine, founded in 1884. horseand hound.co.uk; subscriptions magazinesdirect.com. Bovey Castle Recreate the Drama of Downton Abbey for yourself with a stay at Bovey Castle, situated within Dartmoor National Park in Devon. Built in 1907, this castle acted as a convalescent home during the Great War, too. Reservations boveycastle.com. Luxe Livery is still made bespoke by the Saville Row tailors at Henry Poole. After all, half the fun of domestics is their uniforms. henrypoole.com. Ralph Lauren

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