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Joyce Evans had never been in the U.S., much less to Washington. Virginia, for a look at The Inn. With only the blueprints and Hinckley's descriptions telephoned long distance, she designed the wall paper, all hand-painted in London, and selected colors and fabrics for cushions, pillows, upholstery and drapes.
But there was a gap. What about the woodwork? "Joyce was tearing her hair out over what to do.” Patrick recalled.
Master Craftsman
While working on a house in New Orleans, the only job besides ship design that he's ever taken outside the Warrenton area. Hinckley met Malcolm Robson, a woodgrainer whose family had followed their craft in London for five generations.
The architect's clients wanted Robson. then preparing to do- the restoration at Uncle Sam's Plantation, to grain the doors of their home.
Knowing he would be in London in a few days Hinckley asked Robson where he’d worked in that city so the architect could view examples of his craft. "He told me that I just couldn't walk in and see his work in London—it was in Buckingham Palace and the House of Lords."
Later. Hinckley saw woodgraining that a friend had done by Robson in h«r D. C. apartment. He was suitably impressed. "When Joyce said that, ideally, all the woodwork at The Inn should be grained. I thought 'If only someone like Malcolm Robson was in the U.S.' and there he was'"
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