Mr. Laws recalled going to lunch six years ago with Nancy Lancaster, the renowned British decorator.

Nancy Lancaster died in 1994 and is buried in Virginia, between her first husband and the infant daughter from her second marriage.

Claude and Nancy Lancaster divorced in 1953.

Nancy Lancaster was born on the verge of the 20th century, into a world already filled with things.

Later, I realized that what I loved more than anything was Nancy Lancaster's butter-yellow room in her London house.

Nancy Lancaster used it.

The second was Nancy Lancaster (1897-1994), an expatriate aristocrat from Virginia, who lived and worked in England most of her adult life.

Nancy Lancaster was a decorator for love, not money.

Mr. Becker concentrates instead on Nancy Lancaster's life as expressed through her work.

But Nancy Lancaster was not one to brood.