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The Fashion House- Inside the Homes of Leading Designers
By Lisa Lovatt-Smith
Hardcover
Conran Octopus Publisher
A British Vogue Alum, …
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The Fashion House- Inside the Homes of Leading Designers
By Lisa Lovatt-Smith
Hardcover
Conran Octopus Publisher
A British Vogue Alum, Ms. Lovatt-Smith knows the designers personally, allowing her to write highly personal insights, of the whys and hows of the aesthetics of their homes.
Most multi home owners, they open the doors of their favorite or most meaningful abodes.
Full of fascinating details of the source of their inspiration… in one case a Baudelaire poem, specifically a line in the poem, an invitation to a utopian, erotic land… where all is order and beauty, luxury, calm and voluptuousness… “luxe, calme et volupté.”
A different literary inspiration for a different designer, an even more romantic reference from Marcel Proust, specifically from his masterful oeuvre, “In Search of Lost Time,” set in Normandy where the house was built its rooms are named after Proust’s characters or locations… this designer fancied himself like the character Charles Swann and his partner as the Baron de Charlus… in addition to the more grand chateau, after a trip to St. Petersburg, they had their friend Jacques Grange build them a replica wooden Russian dacha, a retreat within a retreat in other words… where the windows were made of their collection of antique stained Moroccan glass panels, a blending of their most beloved aesthetics French, Russian and Moorish… and asked their other friend the famed gardener Madison Cox, surround the Dacha with birch trees. Having this smaller wonderfully unique retreat allowed them to not have to open the grand chateau, using only the dacha, where the designer liked to go to draw his next collections.
You will need to read the book to determine who is who. I say that in jest… those are only two of the many designers Ms. Lovett-Smith visited and had photographed for this little treasure of a book.
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- Dimensions
- 10ʺW × 1ʺD × 12ʺH
- Styles
- Photorealism
- Realism
- Period
- 1990s
- Country of Origin
- China
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
- Materials
- Cardboard
- Condition
- Good Condition, Original Condition Unaltered, Some Imperfections
- Color
- Red
- Condition Notes
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