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Author
Publisher
Abrams
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Wendy Goodman has discovered and published stories on an astonishing array of private houses, notable for their character, personality, and flair, in her 30 years of design hunting. In 'May I Come In?' she visits more than 75 that capture and express their owners' spirit and passions. In this pantheon, imagination and originality hold sway: Artists and eccentrics are the equals of aristocrats and the mandarins of design, and every room has a story...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
From the acclaimed author of Stuffed: an intimate, richly illustrated memoir that juxtaposes two fascinating lives -- the iconoclastic designer Elsa Schiaparelli and the author's own mother, Audrey Morgen Volk, an upper-middle-class New Yorker -- to explore how a girl fashions herself into a woman.
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
As a young woman, Kate Betts nursed a dream of striking out on her own in a faraway place and becoming a glamorous foreign correspondent. After college-and not without trepidation-she took off for Paris, renting a room in the apartment of a young BCBG (bon chic, bon genre) family and throwing herself into the local culture. She was determined to master French slang, style, and savoir faire, and to find a job that would give her a reason to stay. ...
Author
Publisher
Vendome
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Dior and His Decorators is the first work on the two interior designers most closely associated with Christian Dior. Like the unabashedly luxurious fashions of Dior's New Look, which debuted in 1947, the interior designs of Victor Grandpierre and Georges Geffroy infused a war-weary world with a sumptuous new aesthetic-a melding of the refined traditions of the past with a wholly modern sense of elegance. Author Maureen Footer recounts the lives and...
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