Bunny mellon

A new coffee-table book, The Gardens of Bunny Mellon, takes readers behind the gates to learn more about Mellon’s deeply rooted love of gardening.

Born to great privilege, the American heiress and art collector, nonetheless worked timelessly to create breathtaking gardens and interiors of soulful simplicity

“nothing should be noticed” bunny mellon 1969

Sotheby’s is planning to auction a trove that once belonged to Rachel Lambert Mellon, the matriarch of a family whose holdings rivaled some of America’s most well-known dynasties.

This stunning private island property was a site for the renowned designer and horticulturalist's garden design experiments.

Born to great privilege, the American heiress and art collector, nonetheless worked timelessly to create breathtaking gardens and interiors of soulful simplicity

The rare set of photographs, which were taken at Listerine heiress Rachel 'Bunny' Mellon's Cape Cod estate, includes an image of a then-44-year-old JFK enjoying a swim in the bay.

Born to great privilege, the American heiress and art collector, nonetheless worked timelessly to create breathtaking gardens and interiors of soulful simplicity

January 13, 2019Nothing should be noticed. . . . Nothing should stand out,” Rachel Lambert “Bunny” Mellon (aka Mrs. Paul Mellon) famously told a New York Times reporter in 1969 as she surveyed her garden at Oak Spring, the Mellons’ 2,000-acre estate in Virginia hunt country. She would come to be defined by this dictum […]

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