Book

Metcalf, Pauline C.

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

New York : Acanthus Press, 2010.

299 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm.

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.

20th century decorators series

20th century decorators series.

Maugham, Syrie, 1879-1955 -- Themes, motives.

Interior decoration -- England -- History -- 20th century.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 382-387) and index.

Artistic coterie -- Syrie Maugham shops -- Syrie Maugham residences -- Noel Coward -- Prince of Wales and Wallace Simpson -- 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 a la mode in Mayfair -- Helen and George Hay Whigham -- Robert Sweeny -- Audrey Field -- Rose and William Leveson-Gower -- Rebecca and Israel Sieff -- Liza and Vincent Paravicini -- Dispersing American glamour -- Lila and Dewitt Wallace -- Interiors with stars -- Legacy -- Catalog of projects.

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