Photographed by Robert Fairer, Vogue, November 20161/11The stone-clad house, with its farm buildings, and original cottage serving as a utility wing.
Photographed by Robert Fairer, Vogue, November 20162/11The author’s house overlooks a verdant valley in Gloucestershire.
Photographed by François Halard, Vogue, November 20163/11Sykes (in an Oscar de la Renta dress) and her husband, Toby Rowland, surrounded by teasels and cow parsley in the couple’s wildflower garden.
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Photographed by François Halard, Vogue, November 20164/11Toby plays the piano while Tess, age six, dances on a Moroccan rug.
Photographed by François Halard, Vogue, November 20165/11The dining room, its fireplace modeled after a 17th-century piece.
Photographed by François Halard, Vogue, November 20166/11Ten-year-old Ursula, in Petit Bateau pajamas, in the farmhouse kitchen.
Photographed by François Halard, Vogue, November 20167/11William Morris “Willow Boughs” wallpaper adds to the coziness of the Arts and Crafts–inspired drawing room.
Photographed by François Halard, Vogue, November 20168/11Sykes’s Chippendale dressing table, a gift from her grandmother.
Photographed by François Halard, Vogue, November 20169/11Ursula in her four-poster bed, sourced from a local auction house.
Photographed by François Halard, Vogue, November 201610/11Toby’s study, with a sofa by George Smith and Claremont ikat-print curtains salvaged from a local manor.
Photographed by François Halard, Vogue, November 201611/11Sykes, in Erdem, and Tess have tea on the author’s Herend wedding china.
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