1st Edition Book, "Cecil Beaton at Home: An Interior Life", by Andrew Ginger, Foreword by Hugo Vickers

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Offered is a 1st edition book, "Cecil Beaton at Home: An Interior Life", by Andrew Ginger, Foreword by Hugo Vickers. … Read more Offered is a 1st edition book, "Cecil Beaton at Home: An Interior Life", by Andrew Ginger, Foreword by Hugo Vickers. An innovative biographical view of legendary designer, photographer, and artist Sir Cecil Beaton, told through the decorative interiors of his English homes and New York hotel suites. Unique from other books on Beaton, this volume illustrates his genius through the lens of his town and country interiors. A private view of the genius of Cecil Beaton, reflected through the lens of his town and country idylls, and his passion for interior design, gardening, and entertaining a circle of Bright Young Things. Hardcover, dust jacket, red cloth boards, protective cellophane book wrapper.

ISBN 10: 0847848779 / ISBN 13: 9780847848775
Publisher: Rizzoli, 2016
Trim Size: 10 x 12
Pages: 368
From Rizzoli:
A private view of the genius of Cecil Beaton, reflected through the lens of his town and country idylls, and his passion for interior design, gardening, and entertaining a circle of Bright Young Things. Cecil Beaton (1904–1980) was one of twentieth-century Britain’s Renaissance men: photographer, costume designer, set designer, playwright, creator of fashion fabrics, and writer on raffiné interiors and the personalities who inhabited them. He also happened to be a fine interior decorator. Cecil Beaton at Home focuses on two homes dear to Beaton’s heart—Ashcombe House, near the Wiltshire village of Tollard Royal, and Reddish House, located in Broad Chalke, another village in the same county—as well as London's Pelham Place and Beaton’s New York hotel suites. Simultaneously a retreat, an inspiration, a photographer’s studio, and a stage for impressive entertaining, Beaton’s country homes also fueled his passion for art, gardening, and delight in village life. Against his often-extravagant interiors, Beaton’s private life unfolds—his unique talent for self-promotion, desire for theatricality, and uncertain pursuit of love. This lavishly illustrated visual biography brings together original photographs, artworks, and possessions from his interiors to present an intimate picture of Beaton’s extraordinary life.

About The Author
Andrew Ginger is the managing director of Beaudesert Limited. Combining twenty years of experience in interiors at the highest level with a Cambridge art historical background, Ginger has also acted as designer for the growing house collection of archive document handprints for the last ten years.

Hugo Vickers is an English writer and broadcaster who has written biographies of many twentieth-century figures, including the Queen Mother, Cecil Beaton, and Vivien Leigh, and a study of Greta Garbo.

Reviews:
“Cecil Beaton at Home: An Interior Life, due this year, was conceived by Andrew Ginger as an 'interiorography' examining Beaton’s decorative enthusiasms."
—New York Times
"...although Beaton is most famous for his fashion and portrait photography, his life in and involved with homes was just as integral to his identity.'"
—Vogue
"A private tour of Cecil Beaton’s passion for interior design, gardening, and fashion. Peek into the British renaissance man’s own beloved residences."
—The Society Diaries
"The houses of a legend are given proper due in Cecil Beaton at Home."
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