An hour north of Dublin, among the sort of emerald scenery that inspired Johnny Cash to write his ode to Ireland, Forty Shades of Green, is Ardbraccan House \u2014 a handsome, 18th-century limestone mansion originally constructed as the seat for the local Lord Bishop of Meath.<\/p>\n
The 23,000-square-foot residence was built to striking Palladian designs laid out by two of the most celebrated Georgian architects, James Wyatt and Richard Castle (also known as Richard Cassels). It features a three-storey over basement, 11-bedroom main house, which is anchored to the ancient landscape by a pair of sweeping wings: a physical manifestation of Ardbraccan\u2019s warm embrace.<\/p>\n
\u2018It\u2019s massive, but you could be there on your own and feel so happy,\u2019 explains Serena Williams-Ellis, an interior designer who has overseen the home\u2019s renovation not once, but twice. \u2018It\u2019s really a house that smiles at you.\u2019 From 1 to 15 April 2026, Christie\u2019s will offer more than 80 lots from Ardbraccan House<\/a> \u2014 ranging from equestrian paintings to Irish furniture, Dutch ceramics and Persian carpets \u2014 as part of the Collections series of auctions<\/a> in Paris, London and New York.<\/p>\n \u2018My hope is that every lot will be cherished in its new home, just as it has been in ours,\u2019 says Williams-Ellis. \u2018We are merely custodians \u2014 eventually, these works move on, finding new surroundings and becoming part of new stories.\u2019 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An hour north of Dublin, among the sort of emerald scenery that inspired Johnny Cash to write his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[792,178256,64784,178261,146,178260,85,5453,178257,178259,46,442,1886,5368,178258],"class_list":{"0":"post-370545","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-antiques","9":"tag-ardbraccan-house","10":"tag-christies-auction","11":"tag-dutch-ceramics","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-equestrian-paintings","14":"tag-il","15":"tag-interior-design","16":"tag-irish-country-house","17":"tag-irish-furniture","18":"tag-israel","19":"tag-london","20":"tag-new-york","21":"tag-paris","22":"tag-serena-williams-ellis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}