And Last but Not Least...
Copyright Lee Higham, Assistant, 1979
Photograph by James McMillan, collection of Stiles Tuttle Colwill
Photograph by James McMillan, collection of Andrew Ginger
And now, my last book review blog post for 2016. There were so many excellent books released this past fall, including Cecil Beaton at Home: An Interior Life by Andrew Ginger. To be honest, I have difficulty reading Beaton's diaries, as they contain too much vitriol for my taste. But my ambivalence towards Beaton doesn't mean that I don't find the man and his many homes intriguing. Finally, thanks to Ginger, we have a book that gathers the many photos and illustrations of Ashcombe and Reddish House, Beaton's country houses, as well his various London flats. If, like me, you seek inspiration and guidance from interiors of the past, then you will find Cecil Beaton at Home immensely engrossing.
© Fred de Cabrol, from Beautiful People of the Café Society (Flammarion, 2016).
Speaking of prominent tastemakers of the twentieth century, Baron Fred de Cabrol, the late aristocratic French decorator, remains much admired today. A figure who, along with his wife, Daisy, was present at most of last century's most acclaimed balls and gatherings, Baron de Cabrol counted the likes of Duff and Diana Cooper, Charles de Beistegui, and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor as friends. Such a glittering social life deserved documentation, but not in prosaic fashion. ...
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