Discover English Country House Style

Gather that Nancy Lancaster (born in US 1897) codified what is known as the English country-house look. She was a noted 20th-century tastemaker and the owner of Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler, an influential British decorating firm.

Martin Wood wrote a coffe table book about her: Nancy Lancaster: English Country House Style. At Google Books you can thumb through the book and her life:
http://books.google.nl/books?id=gz1xSJvbswYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Nancy+Lancaster:+English+Country+House+Style&hl=nl&ei=Ze8FTfv3MYOCOv-mpKYB&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false