Nancy Lancaster: Her Life, Her Work, Her Art

"Mr. Becker's approach to her work succeeds wonderfully. He has a fine sense of her decorating gifts: 'Nancy's true passion really lay in the actual houses themselves," he observes perceptively. "Decoration . . . was the outpouring of that passion, not the passion itself. Decoration was a way of embracing a house, of making it hers.' He concludes that this passion reflected the one love of her life, Mirador. "Nothing else has ever been as important," she said. "I'm not really interested in England or America, only in Virginia and Mirador. They're my roots and my soul.” - The New York Times