Source of all Gorgeous Images following are from: CAROL HICKS BOLTON Facebook Page and Where Women Create 2012 Publication
Source: The Amazing Photography of Anny Lorys FIONA AND TWIG
If there is any one Stylist & Designer that has Consistently Influenced me over many years and I've Greatly Admired it would have to be the Iconic Carol Hicks Bolton. In fact my oldest Clippings on my Inspiration Boards and Books have been of Carol's Work... the Rooms I'd MOST Love to Live in because it captures the very Essence of what I Love the Aesthetic of most and Replicate in this Old House would be the ones that Carol has Designed and Styled. Everything always has a sense of History, Age, a Story and Resourcefulness about it, like a Carefully Curated Environment that Appears Effortless, but which you know is definitely NOT! It takes Great Skill and Work to make something look this way, as if it just happened over the coarse of many, many years of being Loved and Lived in... Time Worn to Perfection and nothing wasted or contrived.
So it was with Great Excitement that I saw Carol coming to the forefront again in Print... she has sadly not had the Exposure in Books and Magazines that I always felt she should have... I certainly would have bought anything and everything that had her Creative Touch profiled and showcased! And I rushed right out when I knew that one of my Fav Publications, "Where Women Create" had Carol Featured as one of the Iconic and most Influential Stylists & Designers amid it's pages!!! I was also over the Moon to see that Carol and her Family had opened a new exciting Shop and Design Studio "CAROL HICKS BOLTON ANTIQUITES & LABORATOIRE DE DESIGN" !
I had been so sad when her previous Iconic Shop "Homestead" had closed since I never made it down there, though it was certainly on my 'Bucket List' for a very long time. I completely understood that putting Family first and moving to another level and Vision precipitated the changes... but I was still saddened nonetheless since I could only have Imagined how Wonderful and what a Dream come True visiting the Shop would have been and the Memories, Inspiration and Images it would have Imparted during a Visit. Now the New Vision is in place it has moved to the very top of my 'Bucket List' and is right up there with visiting Bora Bora! *Winks*
And I want to Thank Blog Friends such as the very Talented Gals, Anne Lorys of FIONA AND TWIG Blog and Binky Morgan of BINKY LA FAYE Blog for always being on the cutting edge of bringing us anything Carol is Revealing here in the Land Of Blog!!! I look forward to each and every installment of the Coverage of Carol's Amazing Work that you each Photograph and Blog about!!!
*ALL BEAUTIFUL IMAGES WERE SOURCED FROM CAROL HICKS BOLTON's FACEBOOK LINK OR ANNE LORYS BLOG... be sure to click on their Links to take you to their Amazing Online Sources to see even more Eye Candy that will take your Breath away!!!*
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