AD PRO - See Inside AD's February Issue—in 1987!

“A house is for living in, not looking at,” says Annabel Nichols, who, with her director husband Mike Nichols, moved into their Manhattan brownstone after numerous false starts. So many, in fact, that Annabel, a novelist and writer of nonfiction, chronicled the experience in the February 1987 issue of AD.

A woman who keeps things in perspective, she had become apprehensive about hiring a designer after several told her the brownstone's problems were all but insoluble. When Rendell Fernandez arrived, “he was polite and thoughtful as opposed to hard-sell and disparaging,” as one or two earlier recommended designers had been, she recalls.

See the results of the four-year renovation in “A Tale of Two Brownstones,” one of many delightful projects featured this month in AD—in 1987!

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It took four years of extensive renovation to convert two adjoining New York brownstones into one house for director Mike Nichols and wife, Annabel.

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After businessman and collector David Murdock acquired the Bel-Air estate built by architect James Dolena, Gabriele Murdock supervised its redecoration.

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Overlooking the Indian Ocean near Perth is the house of vintage-car collector Peter Briggs and his wife, Robin, with interiors by Roman designer Annalaura Angeletti.

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A landmark beaux-arts townhouse, built circa 1900 by architect Robert D. Kohn, offers interiors designed by Keith Irvine for resident James B. Rogers, Jr., who “wanted to live in a place with the feeling of a London men’s club.”

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