Hosted by the ICAA New England Chapter in Partnership with the Boston Design Center
Presented in partnership with the Boston Design Center as the keynote for Boston Design Center’s Spring Market 2026. Sir Peter Crane, contributor to The Enchanting Interiors of Bunny Mellon: Paintings by Snowy Campbell, will be joined by Lady Elinor Crane of the Bunny Mellon Foundation in conversation with Nancy E. Berry—editor of Northshore Home and Ocean Home and President of the ICAA New England Chapter—to explore the extraordinary aesthetic of Bunny Mellon and her enduring influence on interior design. Drawing from Campbell’s rare watercolors and Mellon’s thoughtful approach to layering art, architecture, and personal style, the discussion will examine how her refined sensibility continues to inspire designers today and shape contemporary interiors.
Talk to take place in Keynote Lounge, Suite 332. Book signing to follow in M-Geough, Suite 350.
Speakers:
SIR PETER CRANE FRS Peter Crane is President of the Oak Spring Garden Foundation in Virginia (osgf.org), an estate of Rachel Lambert Mellon that includes an exquisite garden as well as an exceptional library focused on the history of plant science, plant exploration, and the development of gardens and landscape design. He is known internationally for his work on the diversity of plant life—its origin, fossil history, current status, conservation, and use. Peter received the International Prize for Biology in December 2014 and the Darwin-Wallace Medal of the Linnean Society of London in 2024. In 2024, he also received the Garden Club of America Medal of Honor.
LADY CRANE Together with colleagues at Oak Spring, Elinor Crane has spent the past decade organizing and exploring the remaining treasures in the basements, attics, nooks, and crannies on the former estate of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon in Upperville, Virginia. In the estate’s graveyard, she discovered the extent of Mrs. Mellon’s involvement in planning the final resting place of President John F. Kennedy. This included recognizing a previously unknown sculpture designed by Tiffany & Co. jeweler Jean Schlumberger that was intended for the President’s grave but never installed. Her latest project has been cataloguing the beautiful renderings of the interiors of Mellon’s New York, Washington, DC, and Oak Spring homes painted in the 1970s by the young artist Snowy Campbell. These are now featured in a new publication by Rizzoli, The Enchanting Interiors of Bunny Mellon.
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