Syrie Maugham : staging glamorous interiors / Pauline C. Metcalf ; preface by Camilla Chandon.

  • Metcalf, Pauline C.
Date:
2010
  • Books

About this work

Description

Interior designer Syria Maugham created an ultra-chic world that was as unique as it was influential. Metcalf celebrates the work of this legendary British designer in the first comprehensive study of her dramatic life and meteoric career.

Publication/Creation

New York : Acanthus Press, 2010.

Physical description

299 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm.

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Contributors

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Artistic coterie -- Shops : from Syrie Ltd. to Syrie Maugham Inc. -- Syrie Maugham residences -- Interiors and associations with stars -- Noël Coward -- Mrs. Ernest Simpson and Prince of Wales -- Celia Tobin Clark -- Mona and Harrison Williams -- Stephen Tennant -- Hannah and Robert Hudson -- Grace and Harry Payne Bingham -- Evelyn Marshall Field -- Beatrice Benjamin Cartwright -- Decoration à la mode in Mayfair -- Helen and George Hay Whigham -- Teresa and Robert Sweeny -- Audrey James Field -- Rose and William Leveson Gower -- Rebecca and Israel Sieff -- Liza and Vincent Paravicini -- Dispersing American glamour -- Lila and Dewitt Wallace -- Legacy -- Projects, clients, and commissions.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    Folios
    BZP (Maugham)
    		Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9780926494077
  • 0926494074