Web watch: Dining room at Monticello

1. The Peak of Chic

Musings on a stylish life is what Jennifer Boles is all about on this site.

She lists Interior Decorating Legends as one of her interests, as well as Table Settings.

So be warned, click on and expect to see everything from a David Hicks-designed room in Yorkshire, with red tweed curtains, red leather chairs and a fuchsia silk cloth adorning the table to the Paris apartment of Rambert Rigaud.

Plus she gives a recipe for a dry martini that includes London dry gin, 1 or 2 drops Noilly Prat, Chambery, or Lillet dry vermouth, Lemon peel or olives. Now excuse me, I have to go Google some stuff.

* thepeakofchic.blogspot.ie/

2. The Devoted Classicist

Architect John Tackett is into restoration. Big time.

Very detailed stuff on here but it’s compelling, like learning history through paint jobs.

He talks so passionately about things like the colour of the walls in the dining room at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s gaff, that you can’t help but be charmed. Thanks to this site, I now know that Jefferson was a entertaining sort, and loved a good old party.

So he had the dining room painted chrome yellow in 1815, as it was fierce stylish at the time.

Whoever sits next to me at the next dinner party is going to be blown away, that’s all I have to say.

* tdclassicist.blogspot.ie/