Here is a photo of my favorite space at the Southport Rooms with A View last weekend . The room is by Libby Cameron, a Parish-Hadley alum. I forgot my camera but luckily I found these photos at StacyStyle blog - click on the link and you can see photos of all the spaces.

The walls were covered in framed drawings by Albert Hadley.

The book shelf on the right held some terrific titles,

including one book I never heard of:

A Decorators Notebook by Derek Patmore

published in 1952

Patmore "intended it to be a decorating primer for the masses" or

rather an English version of Dorothy Draper,

"but more erudite" as stated in the 1st edition comment on Nick Harvill's Libraries

This would be just the book to find at Baltimore's Book Thing.

click here to see all Meg's (of Pigtown Design fame) finds

at the Book Thing

The walls were covered in simple black and white patterned paper

with a touch of red in the grosgrain red ribbon trim at the

ceiling and wall edges.

Then there were other charming details like

the old Maxwell House tin coffee can with paint brushes,

a well worn hooked rug,

and there were lots of

wise old owls.

Marisa Marcantonio, author of the terrific blog, Stylebeat, and former style editor of House Beautiful and O at home, wrote a wonderful

post on Albert Hadley's Rooms with a View,

the miniature showhouse in Southport, Connecticut.

Mr Hadley, founder of Rooms with a View and honorary chairman each year, is retiring this year, and closing his design firm, so I urge you, as does Marisa,

to visit Rooms with a View this week.

November 4, 5, and 6.

The vignettes will be wonderful, given the star line-up of designers.

And don't forget to visit the marketplace boutiques;

I was a marketplace vendor many years ago and loved it.

And to top it all off, Rooms with a View is located in beautiful

Southport, Connecticut.

You will have such a delightful time at the show

and wandering around the village.

While you are there, you must visit the Fairfield Women's Exchange,

a short walk away, where you will find a lovely assortment of gifts,

everything from beautiful hand knit baby sweaters and hats,

to handsome, well constructed wooden toys,

to objects for the house

and antiques.

And mrr design's wonderful pictures frames and memento boards.