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Bunny Mellon’s private gallery in Virginia springs back to life as an exuberantly decorated home by Redd Kaihoi.
Bunny Mellon: Style and Substance Tuesday, April 26, 6 to 8 pm at The Sarofim House Bunny Mellon, one of the most unintentionally influential women of
A treasure trove of Bunny Mellon’s garden design philosophy and advice from her personal archive. Garden Secrets of Bunny Mellon is for anyone who has enjoyed time spent in a garden, from aspiring garden makers to those who manage large estates. This collection is comprised of extracts from Bunny’s own writings and garden notes, as well as photographs and drawings from her archive. Chapters are organized by Atmosphere (sky, horizon, shadows), Climate, Light, Space, Shape, Maintenance, and more―readers will feel as if Bunny Mellon has come alongside as a gardening guide and friend. Bunny Mellon was of the affluent class and mingled along with her husband, Paul Mellon, in the circles of the East Coast gentry of the Kennedy and Reagan eras. But Mrs. Mellon, as she was respectfully called by those professional gardeners who worked with her most, wasn’t snooty about social position or afraid to get her hands dirty in the rich soil of her family’s Virginia farm. Beyond this, Bunny Mellon was known nationally and internationally as a style icon of her time, enjoying friendships with Givenchy, the Kennedys, and the like. Her personal passion was for design, and that was exhibited in her fashion and her garden. A late acquaintance, Linda Holden learned that Bunny wanted to write a gardening book but never found the time. Searching the family’s archive after Mrs. Mellon’s death, the editors―whom all shared personal relationships with Bunny―discovered a trove of photographs, illustrations, and writings and have now turned it into the how-to gardening book Bunny had hoped to write.
Among the great affluent class in Virginia, few have intrigued us more than the late billionaire philanthropist Paul Mellon and his wife Rachel “Bunny” Lambert Mellon.
If you are as committed a garden aficionado as I am, Oak Spring garden is a mecca on your short list of stops. Last month, on April 19th, I had…
A new coffee-table book, The Gardens of Bunny Mellon, takes readers behind the gates to learn more about Mellon’s deeply rooted love of gardening.
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Photographer Jonathan Becker gains rare access to Rachel “Bunny” Lambert Mellon’s exquisite Virginia estate.
Bunny Mellon: Style and Substance Tuesday, April 26, 6 to 8 pm at The Sarofim House Bunny Mellon, one of the most unintentionally influential women of
Photographer Jonathan Becker gains rare access to Rachel “Bunny” Lambert Mellon’s exquisite Virginia estate.
The designer Bunny Mellon—mastermind behind iconic projects at the White House and Versailles—is the subject of a stunning new book
Take a look inside the private estate of the late horticulturist and philanthropist in Upperville, Virginia.
Born to great privilege, the American heiress and art collector, nonetheless worked timelessly to create breathtaking gardens and interiors of soulful simplicity
Bunny Lambert Mellon’s trompe l'oeil potting shed in Upperville, Virginia, 31 May 2010 Photographed by Jonathan Becker Contemporary 28" x 28.5" Archival Pigment Print Edition Nº 2 of 9 Certificate of Origin Signed and titled by the photographer in edition and emboss-stamped in the margin Applicable providence, printing and edition notes along with copyright stamp on verso Strictly Archival Print, processed at the photographer's studio on 100% cotton rag paper and varnished to further increase longevity/resilience, tested @ 250 years equivalent UV exposure Print cost includes wrapping/packing/crating for shipment in double-tubing. ______ An archival pigment print of this photograph (28" x 28" / 2010.021.II - 1/9) hung in a solo exhibition of Jonathan Becker's work entitled “A Fashionable Mind" from September 2015 to January 2016 at the André Leon Talley Gallery, SCAD Museum of Art (Savannah College of Art and Design). The same archival pigment print of this photograph (28" x 28" / 2010.021.II - 1/9) hung in a solo exhibition of Jonathan Becker's work entitled 'A Fashionable Mind' from January to April 2016 at the SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion and Film in Atlanta (Savannah College of Art and Design). The same archival pigment print of this photograph (28" x 28” / 2010.021.II - 1/9) hung at the Royal Academy in Madrid (Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando) in a solo exhibition of Jonathan Becker's work entitled ‘Vanity & Time’ from November 2016 to January 2017. ______ Jonathan Becker (Steven Kasher Gallery bio by Mark Rozzo) Literate flair, acute visual intuition, love of mischief and spontaneity, and global wanderlust: These are among the hallmarks of the work of Jonathan Becker, whose photography spans four decades and includes iconic portraits (often for Vanity Fair) of a multiplicity of subjects, including Robert Mapplethorpe, Martha Graham, Madonna, Elia Kazan, Prince Charles, Eudora Welty, André Leon Talley, Ai Weiwei, Diana Vreeland and Jack Kevorkian. Becker - whose work was first published in Andy Warhol’s Interview in 1973 - was born in 1954 and raised in New York City. In the mid-1970s, he moved for a year to Paris, where he was mentored by his hero, Brassaï. Upon return to New York, Becker drove a cab, toting his camera and parking to complete magazine assignments. A 1981 exhibition of Becker’s work at New York’s Rentschler Gallery included a series of arresting images of patrons taken inside the kitchen at Elaine’s, the storied hangout on New York’s Upper East Side. This exhibition, curated by art director Bea Feitler brought Becker to the attention of Frank Zachary, editor-in-chief of Town & Country. Zachary invited Becker to work for the magazine, where the young photographer further developed his passion for journalistic portraiture alongside Slim Aarons, who, after Brassaï, became Becker’s guiding light. Becker was then enlisted by Bea Feitler to contribute portraits to the prototype of Vanity Fair’s 1983 re-launch. His participation led to a highly prolific association with the magazine as Contributing Photographer, continuing to this day. Becker has also contributed portraits and reportage to The New Yorker, Vogue, W, The Paris Review, amongst truly most major publications. In complement to his editorial work, Becker has accepted a limited number of private and family portrait commissions each year, some accompanied by privately published books, and in the course of his three-years-long project for the Rockefeller Foundation, Becker documented its vast array of philanthropic grant recipients on four continents abroad. Six trade books comprised entirely of Becker’s photographs have been published including Bright Young Things (Assouline, 2000); Bright Young Things London (Assouline, 2002); Studios by the Sea: Artists of Long Island’s East End in collaboration with Bob Colacello (Abrams, 2002) and a monograph, Jonathan Becker: 30 Years at Vanity Fair (Assouline, 2012). A Fashionable Mind catalogues Becker’s 2015-2016 retrospective exhibition at the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), curated by André Leon Talley. Becker was subsequently awarded an honorary doctorate by SCAD. The Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid presented a retrospective of Becker’s work in 2016-2017 entitled Vanity and Time. It focused on large prints of Spanish subjects including the Duchess of Alba and King Juan-Carlos, which the museum then acquired in a modern complement to the Academy's permanent collection of Goyas. Becker’s prints reside in many public and private collections including at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.
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After reading the feature from AD’s June issue about style icon, garden designer, and heiress Bunny Mellon (1910–2014), see our gallery of additional photographs of her timeless gardens and interiors
Photographer Jonathan Becker gains rare access to Rachel “Bunny” Lambert Mellon’s exquisite Virginia estate.
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I often stroll past Bunny Mellon’s Upper East Side townhouse en route to Central Park. It’s a stunning home at 125 East 70th Street and consumes more than 11,000 square feet. I’ve always admired the upper patio and its latticework visible from the street below. Banking heir Paul Mellon and his horticulturist wife Bunny (fun […]
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If you are as committed a garden aficionado as I am, Oak Spring garden is a mecca on your short list of stops. Last month, on April 19th, I had…
Take a look inside the private estate of the late horticulturist and philanthropist in Upperville, Virginia.
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If you loved the recent Bunny Mellon biography as much as I did (SO good!), then you won’t want to miss the latest book about the American icon, The Gardens of Bunny Mellon. Penned by Linda Jane Holden with gorgeous images shot by Roger Foley, the coffee table book would make the perfect holiday gift […]
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A look at the life and properties of art patron, gardener, and philanthropist, Rachel "Bunny" Lambert Mellon...
Bunny Mellon: Style and Substance Tuesday, April 26, 6 to 8 pm at The Sarofim House Bunny Mellon, one of the most unintentionally influential women of
Born to great privilege, the American heiress and art collector, nonetheless worked timelessly to create breathtaking gardens and interiors of soulful simplicity
I am sure you know, Cristóbal Balenciaga did the complete wardrobe of Madame Bunny Mellon until he retired and Hubert de Givenchy took over - Mrs. Mellon even had her own atelier in Maison Givenchy. "She was very shy, very timid. I never thought she would order any clothes from me. But the next collection, we sent off sketches and samples and she ordered a lot of clothes." Givenchy Givenchy even made her gardening hats - which is really the ne plus extra in chic don't you think... "I made hats in denim, and jean, and cotton. Because Bunny bought in quantity. And sometimes I would say to her, 'Bunny why do you need so many?' And she'd say, 'Because I might lose it.'" Givenchy So, as I was reading and looking through the catalogs last night, I saw a photo of Mrs. Mellon that I had not seen before and fell in love with how chic and classic she looked in this particular photo: I was very fortunate to have bought a couple of Mrs. Mellon's Balenciaga's a few years ago for RARE vintage and you can see them here and here. xo, Juliana
Take a look inside the private estate of the late horticulturist and philanthropist in Upperville, Virginia.
