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3 days ago · But Syrie Maugham did serious work. She is usually remembered for her obsession with white and her love of stripped furniture, though neither taste was greatly in evidence in her three known works on the Grosvenor estate—interiors at No. 48 Upper Grosvenor Street for the Whighams (1935), at Israel Sieff's flat in the new Brook House (1935 ...
5 days ago · Until 1978 the house was occupied by the Whighams' daughter Margaret (Duchess of Argyll) and contained furniture and fittings designed for it by Syrie Maugham. A screen, and two bathroom lamp fittings are now in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
5 days ago · It is said that Syrie Maugham also decorated rooms here for the same client. In 1957 the house was taken over by the Grosvenor Office as an extension to their premises at No. 66 Brook Street and No. 53 Davies Street. The upper floors were from 1958 to 1964 occupied as a flat by Colonel Robert Grosvenor, later fifth Duke of Westminster.
4 days ago · Without delving into Maugham’s notions on love, Forbes India’s 15th anniversary is an opportunity to celebrate change—of which there’s been plenty ever since the journey began in 2009.
5 days ago · This, effectively, is the plot. Apparently inspired by a briefly mentioned anecdote in Somerset Maugham’s 1930 travel diary The Gentleman in the Parlor, in which the writer recalled an encounter ...
4 days ago · Last week we went to the Ute Mt Birding Festival in Cortez, Colorado to celebrate our 40th wedding anniversary, which was on May 12. It was our 4th time going to this bird fest, but the last time was 2019, so we were overdue for this favorite road trip.
5 days ago · In Grand Tour, he plays with time and geography, mixing modern documentary footage with echoes of mid-twentieth-century Hollywood and the Westerners-abroad fictions of writers like Joseph Conrad...
