The multi-talented Forquet, who worked with Balenciaga and went on to dress Sophia Loren and Diana Vreeland in the 1960s and '70s, was also a decorator, collector, and garden designer.
The author of 'Wittgenstein's Poker' traces the influential circle (Neurath, Carnap, Wittgenstein, Popper) whom the Austrian fascists and Nazis saw as such a threat.
A biography of the sculptor Stephen Tomlin, a man of devastating attractions on the fringes of the Bloomsbury Group who seems to have gone to bed with most of the people he met and then dran... read more
She was B-J's muse for the last 25 years of his life, but, unlike most of the other Pre-Raphaelite women, she survived into a self-determining life and was friendly with Wilde, Einstein, Asq... read more
Indiscreet, independent, and funny, Swire roams from Budleigh Salterton to state banquets at Buckingham Palace... As the daughter of Sir John Nott and wife of a former Chairman of the Conser... read more
Beautiful, large-format book containing the eight 'livres d'artiste' that Matisse created while living in Vichy France. Includes his illustrations for Baudelaire's 'Les fleurs du mal', Malla... read more