Tasteful friends, Marina Rust's house in the countryside near Charlottesville, Virginia

Who is Marina Rust?

Marina Rust is the maternal granddaughter of Marshall Field III, grandson of the Chicago-based department chain fortune. Her mother, Fiona Field Kay, worked for the US Health and Human Services program Head Start, providing early education and nutrition to children of low-income families, while her father, David E. Rust, was curator of French painting at National Gallery of Art in Washington. Her parents divorced when she was 18 months old, where she lived for a while with her mother in a trailer in Mississippi, then a commune in Oregon, before her father won a custody battle to raise her in his home in Georgetown ‘in a bedroom with pink roses on the wallpaper, done by Mark Hampton’. Marina went on to study at various private schools on the East Coast, graduating at Duke University and went on to write a book loosely based on her family before becoming a contributing writer to US Vogue, and an established Manhattan socialite with a personal style that embodies that classic New England lifestyle.

With an apartment in Manhattan and a summer house in Maine, Marina and her investment banker husband bought a Virginian property to escape to outside Charlottesville, featured in US Vogue last year.

Thank you OP!

I love her cats!

Beautiful

About how much would something like this go for? I’m carefully trying to plan out my retirement slash NYC escape.

R5 if you read the article it says they bought it for $1.5m

Either the article is wrong or Marina, in her typical low key way, didn’t want to seem too grand about the price.

Per the original listing it sold for about $4.2m and it’s likely she spent at least another million renovating and decorating.

Love, love, LOVE Marina and her husband. Two of the nicest people you could ever meet and both of them are super progressive Democrats.

R5 I’m a deplorable I don’t read lol. Sorry what year was that? Ok I’ll read it before you all bash me.

And yes that’s absolutely true r8! The whole family is lovely.

Perfection. I can’t find fault with a single thing.

[quote]and both of them are super progressive Democrats.

Until section 8 housing goes up across the street.

R12 like you would be any different. If people are voting for and supporting people who want to pass favorable laws that’s all that should matter. We don’t have to slam “liberal elites” who want to live nicely. At least they don’t vote for people who want to fuck the country.

R13 They're super progressive until things disrupt their elitist world.

Marina and her family “walk the walk” as well as “talk the talk”. For much of her early childhood, she lived in a trailer in Mississippi with her super rich heiress mother Fiona Field who was teaching disadvantaged black school kids as part of a late 1960s and early 1970s Head Start program. Marina’s grandparents had similar political leanings and gave away more than 80% of their fortune while alive.

R12 and R15 are ill informed and bitter.

^^^^ R12 and R14

She's stunning. The epitome of patrician.

Her pussy is adorable. Anyone who gives a nice home to cats is A+. Especially if she's petting the cat while I skull fuck her hot husband.

Perfection. Her husband is a doll to boot !

I'm in love, OP.

So chic!

Her mom really was a pistol and remained an activist after leaving Head Start in Mississippi. Per a NYTimes article:

“At the time of her death, Fiona Fields was married to her fourth husband, Jean Kay, who served time in prison for trying to hijack a plane at Orly Airport in 1971, saying he wanted it to carry medical supplies to refugees in Bangladesh.”

Trumpsters like r14 condemn liberals for being "elitist" while supporting a president who has been filthy rich his whole life

I know many will say her husband Ian Connor is just another AWG Of the type that DL Is prone to fawn over, but he really does have handsome, rugged good looks.

I like everything except this kind of busy mural. It's too much, IMO. This is a maximalist situation, though, and I know some love it.

I think that mural might be original to the house when it was built in the early 1800s and so was probably kept for historical value.

Whoops! Never mind... per original listing photos from R7 the dining room was painted and so Marina definitely added the mural after she bought the house.

Perhaps in person it’s not as overwhelming as the R25 photo suggests... it does seem to be a large room with very high ceilings and so able to handle something that grandiose.

The article says they painted over the mural in the entry and added a landscape mural in the dining room.

I would hunt, de-mask, and kill everyone’s aunties for the mural in the dining room.

Decorno (RIP) rule: puddly tablecloths hide the bigger dildo collection.

There is one brick in that wall outside the house that I simply HATE so I’m sorry I’m not going to be able to join in the love fest!

Love everything except that green and gray/white piece of modern art thats in two of the pics further down, it really looks out of place (probably cos its kinda.... hideous) The murals on the other hand are fantastic. And, R3 the cats

Husband is pretty hot too

That is probably a 20s's or 30's mural.

The mirrors and chandeliers are hideous. If you are going to go with naïve landscapes for your wallpaper, you can't mess around with baroque inspired antiques.

Here’s another blogger who posted about this house. Many of the photographs are the same as the article from OP’s blogger link, but there are few different ones including some adorable dog, cat, pony, and horse photos and also towards the bottom some shots of the very cute guest house.

This is probably my favorite room. Would love to have dinner in there.

I like the simple shape of the pool as well.

[quote]Guest House, Caretaker’s cottage, Chapel, Dairy, Smokehouse, 2 barns, shop and office.

All of which adds up to less one mall.

I used to read her articles in Vogue. She's one of the few socialites I'd actually like to know.

I want her Maine summer home. (Sorry, can't find a quick link to the Vogue feature of some years ago.)

As to her politics: I also used to read her Vogue articles, and while, her mother gave up everything, she chose the sorority girl-easy Vogue job-marry an investment banker-socialite luxury life.

R39, yeah she went the rich girl route, but she's still a serious Democrat, so I can work with that.

She’s also always had the worst posture, even when she was in her 20s and 30s. But oh well, can’t win them all.

Other than the hideous mural in the one room, it is spectacular in all ways. Landscape, house, balance, form, interiors. Breathtakingly beautiful.

J'Adore.

love it

I've puked so many times after seeing this I'm no in the ER with tubes in my arms and a monitor beeping to the side of me.

The doctors were confused until I sputtered "phone" and they saw the post and pics of this twee, smug, heartless cuntpose. They and the staff agreed she should be locked inside in that disgusting blue "gown" and the place burned to the ground. With any luck those brooches she has scattered on the rag will melt into her skin.

The countryside is lovely. The building is okay. It is her offensively self-satisfied, stupid and in authentic persona that haunts the place. Also, the photographer/tyrant who placed the pussies in various spots needs to be stood behind a horse and told to poke it in the ass.

What is wrong with Frauen like R44? Have they no eyes, sense or taste beyond a craving for sugar.

Those murals.

God. Have throw up again.

I've seen the house from the outside (I live in the same county just 3 miles away), but the home is even nicer inside. They have done a wonderful job with the house and the property.

I'll keep my eyes out for them in the local stores.

I think the murals are awesome. R45 is obviously low-bred.