Visiting Oak Spring, the Upperville, Virginia, estate that belonged to Paul and Rachel Lambert “Bunny” Mellon, had long been on my design bucket list. The house, garden, and other buildings are some ...

When leaping over the garden wall and into the world of Bunny Mellon, start at the Basket House. A cottage-like structure on the grounds of Oak Spring, Mellon’s former home in Upperville, Virginia, ...