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South Bay Accent - Apr/May 2017

FILOLI CELEBRATES A CENTURY OF GILDED Garden in RACHAEL OLMSTEAD; MAKEUP BY DANIELLE PIRSLIN 44 South Bay Accent GRANDEUR WITH A NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AT THE HELM s you gaze across the meadow at Filoli’s renowned Woodside estate—the stately Willis Polk-designed mansion towering behind you and a vast, green, windswept vista before you—it’s easy to picture yourself as Elizabeth Bennett, Jane Austen’s heroine in “Pride and Prejudice,” awed by the expansive beauty of Mr. Darcy’s magnificent home Pemberley. Or perhaps the Earl of Grantham, strolling through the lavish sitting rooms “Downton Abbey.” Or, for 80s pop culture fans, Blake Carrington surveying his “Dynasty” mansion. BY MARY ELLEN HUNT FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY BY RACHAEL OLMSTEAD


South Bay Accent - Apr/May 2017
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