French & Scouser's madcap owners truly are the Edina and Patsy of the Brooklyn vintage world, only with amazing taste.
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—Anna Brockway, chief curator and co-founder of Chairish
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Bottega Veneta shoes, $990, (800) 845-6790. Drapes, theshadestore.com. Armchair, frenchandscouser.com.Carpet, abchome.com.
One such Renaissance woman is Liverpudlian Diane Ormrod, who moved to America in 1981 and went on to forge a successful publishing and advertising career in New York City. (...)
It's easy to fall in love with The DeWitt Oak Hill. Step through it's regal red front door to find a room painted deep blue and decorated with gilded brass mirrors, brightly upholstered winged armchairs, and a collection of vintage wooden shoe forms lining a set of red built-in bookshelves. (...)
The eclectically-styled property now on the market at 7803 State Route 81 in Durham, N.Y. was purchased in 2014 by business partners Dorothée Walliser and Diane Ormrod, founders of French & Scouser. (...)
French & Scouser's madcap owners (one Parisian, one British) met while working at tony art book publisher Assouline and truly are the Edina and Patsy of Brooklyn's vintage world, only with amazing taste! Their collection of tufted velvet seating and story inspiring portraiture brings to mind the Royal Tenenbaums.
Antique shopping, cozy rooms, creekside bonfires, and eating like a king. This is the experience at The DeWitt Oak Hill, just 135 miles from New York City in the Great Northern Catskills. (...)
If you’d like to make a weekend out of it, stay at the glamorous Dewitt Oak Hill, a beautiful boutique bed-and-breakfast set on the banks of the Catskill Creek. Dating back to 1865, owners Diane Ormrod and Dorothée Walliser spent all of last year restoring the building and filling it with antiques from their business French & Scouser, nearly all of which are for sale. (...)
They would renovate the DeWitt into a bed-and-breakfast and use it as a working showroom for their antiques and art business, French & Scouser. (The business’s name indicates its proprietors’ national origins: “French” is for Walliser, who is originally from Paris; “Scouser” is an affectionate term for people who hail from Liverpool, England, where Ormrod was born and raised). (...)
When Dorothée Walliser moved from the Marais to Manhattan she left all her antiques behind, save for one piece: an Art Deco drinks trolley. The fact this now lives in her new home in the Catskill Mountains gives some sense of the premium placed on fun at this idiosyncratic Upstate B&B. (...)