Inside a Fairy-Tale Virginia Estate

A mural by John Owen in a guest room library.

Another mural above the fireplace in the library.

Beatrix Ost’s collections, art.

Beatrix Ost.

Beatrix Ost’s collections, art.

A custom table by Michele Oka Doner in the Great Hall.

Ost found the antique chairs for the salon in New York City.

The treeless “tree house” at Estouteville.

A sitting room with Ost’s German pewter collection.

The kitchen.

Wax candle busts in the Great Hall. “When they flicker,” Ost says, “their heads look eerily alive.”

The breathtaking swimming pool.

The gate from the pool to the house.

The driveway leading away from the house.