Lazy days of summer -- House Beautiful
Our summer house is in the August issue of House Beautiful.
They must have wanted a break from glamour homes when they chose our Victorian beach house in Port Townsend, Washington. It looks out over the Strait of Juan de Fuca, which is the shipping lane from the Pacific Ocean into Puget Sound, where we see a steady stream of container, cruise and military vessels going by. We spent a good part of July there, but are now back in Palo Alto and so have to settle for the pictures.
The house was decorated by Markham Roberts, a Mark Hampton protege whose client list includes the likes of Charlotte Ford, and among other things, Markham used antiques from my brother's gallery, James Sansum Inc. The magazine pics aren't online, as the mag is in the print business. If anyone has a Port Townsend connection, I would love to know about it for the next time we are up there.
Cathy Kirkman is a partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in Palo Alto, California. Her practice focuses on intellectual