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Rachel Lambert " Bunny " Mellon (August 9, 1910 – March 17, 2014) was an American horticulturalist, gardener, philanthropist, and art collector. She designed and planted a number of significant gardens, including the White House Rose Garden, and assembled one of the largest collections of rare horticultural books.
Mar 17, 2014 · RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Rachel “Bunny” Mellon, a wealthy arts and fashion patron, friend of first lady Jacqueline Kennedy and political benefactor who funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars to former presidential candidate John Edwards that was used to hide his mistress, died Monday. She was 103.
Dec 8, 2016 · Bunny Mellon, the late American heiress and art collector, worked to create breathtaking gardens and houses with interiors of soulful simplicity
Sep 20, 2018 · Step Inside Bunny Mellon's Glorious Gardens. The designer—mastermind behind iconic projects at the White House and Versailles—is the subject of a stunning new book. By Kathleen Quigley....
Jun 12, 2014 · Bunny Mellon, who died this spring at age 103, was notoriously private, shunning the press and spending most of the last 12 years at her Virginia farm. I was long familiar with Mellon as...
Sep 7, 2020 · Although said in reference to her approach to garden design, this oft-repeated quote epitomizes the restrained refinement and desire to avoid the spotlight that defined the long life of heiress, horticulturist, art collector, and philanthropist Rachel “Bunny” Mellon.
Mar 18, 2014 · Rachel “Bunny” Mellon, a philanthropist, art patron and self-taught horticulturalist whose generous support of presidential candidate John Edwards drew her into the political scandal that ended...
Jul 24, 2023 · Philanthropist, stylemaker, and renowned gardener Rachel Lambert “Bunny” Mellon was not formally trained as a horticulturist or landscape designer. However, her natural curiosity, exquisite taste, and disciplined practice, made her much sought after by anyone who wanted a gorgeous garden much like the ones she created on her estates ...
May 15, 2017 · With a laser eye, witty intelligence, and nimble hands, Rachel Lambert Mellon, known as “Bunny,” fostered her life as an art form.
Mar 18, 2014 · Born into wealth and married to men with banking, oil and steel empires, Mrs. Mellon, who was known as Bunny, had houses in New York and Washington, apartments in Paris and country seats on...
Feb 28, 2014 · For someone who preferred to shun the limelight, Rachel “Bunny” Mellon, who died on March 17th at age 103, was a significant, if somewhat mysterious presence in the world of style, rarely quoted...
Nov 19, 2014 · A dinner party at Sotheby’s provided a preview of furniture, jewelry and other objects from the estate of the philanthropist Rachel Lambert Mellon, known as Bunny, who died in March.
Sep 22, 2017 · While Jacqueline Kennedy and her dear friend Bunny Mellon were redecorating the White House, President John F. Kennedy came to Bunny with a request: transform the view from the Oval Office into a...
Nov 15, 2022 · Bunny Mellon, née Rachel Lowe Lambert, was not just a social figure. She was also a great landscape and interior designer at the intersection of history and style.
Nov 14, 2022 · The Life and Times of Bunny Mellon. In this impressive portrait of Bunny Mellon, Mac Griswold, who knew the landscape architect and designer personally, makes the argument that Mellon aspired to create an “American pastoral” for the 20th century, rooted in the promise of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss.
Meryl Gordon’s newest biography is on the life of Bunny Mellon, the style icon and American aristocrat who designed the White House Rose Garden for her close friend Jacqueline Kennedy.
Mar 18, 2014 · (Reuters) - Rachel "Bunny" Mellon, the aristocratic philanthropist and a close friend of Jacqueline Kennedy who provided money used to conceal 2008 U.S. presidential candidate John...
Mar 18, 2014 · RICHMOND, Virginia (AP) — Rachel “Bunny” Mellon, a wealthy arts and fashion patron, friend of first lady Jacqueline Kennedy and political benefactor who funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars to former presidential candidate John Edwards that was used to hide his mistress, died Monday.
Jul 30, 2010 · Like her late billionaire husband, Paul, Rachel “Bunny” Lambert Mellon has always put a premium on privacy, even as some of the world’s most public people—including John and Jacqueline Kennedy,...
Oct 20, 2020 · When you think of gardening greats, Bunny Mellon is probably one of the first (if not the first) people who comes to mind, and rightfully so! She famously transformed the White House Rose...
May 31, 2014 · After reading the feature from AD’s June issue about style icon, garden designer, and heiress Bunny Mellon (1910–2014), see our gallery of additional photographs of her timeless gardens and ...
Mar 18, 2014 · The title could have also been solely and justifiably worn by their matriarch Rachel Lambert Mellon, known better by her childhood nickname Bunny, who died March 17, 2014 at 103 at her...
Mar 17, 2014 · RICHMOND, Va. - Rachel "Bunny" Mellon, a wealthy arts and fashion patron, friend of first lady Jacqueline Kennedy and political benefactor who funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars to...
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