MILIEU

A Tale From Wales

“Then there’s talk of the whole Hound of the Baskervilles connection to the house, as well as something far more poignant and ironic.” —Penny Morrison

OUR FIRST IMPRESSIONS of houses we meet are just as important as those we have of people. When the interior and furnishings designer Penny Morrison and her husband, the noted art dealer, Guy Morrison, first walked into “a complete wreck” of a 1790 house in Wales, she discovered something she had always wanted in a home.

“I could see right through it from the moment we walked inside,” she says.

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