This week’s featured interior designer is Isle of Man–born Anthony P. Browne, who got his start in the early ’80s, at the height of the United States’ love affair with all things British. Glazed chintz was de rigueur and the English country look was all the rage. Influenced by John Fowler, Browne learned the old-fashioned way: on the job, without any professional training or apprenticeships. Some of his clients included Andrew Lloyd Webber and Oprah Winfrey, the latter of which hired him to decorate three of her homes.
“And only then after a zigzag career path that took him from driving a Bentley for hire to dressing windows at Christian Dior to running a restaurant to managing tours for the Bee Gees to serving as managing director and the dashing public face of Starcraft, a London dry-cleaning service that specializes in the preservation of extravagant custom-made curtains.” —Architectural Digest
