Mary Gilliatt's Fabulous Food and Friends
Mary Gilliatt's Fabulous Food and Friends

Author: Mary Gilliatt

Publisher: Grub Street Publishers

Published: 2009-03-09

Total Pages: 462

ISBN-13: 1844688704

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A memoir of glamorous 1960s London—with bonus dinner party recipes. In this book, famed interior designer Mary Gilliatt recounts some of the dinner parties she enjoyed with her husband, who was the best man at Princess Margaret’s wedding. The political, royal, publishing, and entertainment worlds collided at these elegant tables, and Gilliatt shares reminiscences of Peggy Guggenheim, Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Marlene Dietrich, Arthur Koestler, Oliver Sacks, and many more. In addition, she includes some of the recipes used—a mixture of the indulgent and the doable—so you can create some memorable dinner parties of your own.

Dictionary of Architecture and Interior Design
Dictionary of Architecture and Interior Design

Author: Mary Gilliatt

Publisher: Pan

Published: 2012-10-01

Total Pages: 699

ISBN-13: 1743340672

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An easy-to-use, one-stop reference guide for architectural and interior design. Part dictionary, part reference book, Mary Gilliatt's Dictionary of Architecture and Design is a single comprehensive source of information that will help you navigate all decisions related to home decor. Whether you are a home owner, an amateur restorer or decorator, a professional, a realtor, a student, or a do-it-yourselfer, this book will make every job go smoother. Over 2000 Entries and 250 line drawings logically organised into 12 useful subject areas: Architects, Designers, and Decorators Architectural, Building, and Decorating Terms Colors, Paints, Varnishes, and Decorative Finishes Fabric and Wallpaper Flooring Furniture and Upholstery Glass and Ceramics Lighting Oriental and Other Rugs Styles and Movements Windows and Window Treatments Woods for Furniture and Floors

History of Christmas Food and Feasts
History of Christmas Food and Feasts

Author: Claire Hopley

Publisher: Grub Street Publishers

Published: 2009-10-05

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 1783408022

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A celebration of Yuletide food through the centuries. This mouthwatering book celebrates classic Christmas stories and their food and feasts. Each chapter covers a different era and the important foodie tales of time, including Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Jane Austen’s festive celebrations, and Christmas with Dickens. Claire Hopley rediscovers the joys of literary Christmases and the meals enjoyed by classic characters, including Harry Potter’s Christmas at Hogwarts with its impressive display of food, his first-ever feast after years of being neglected, and the Grinch’s failed attempt to ruin Christmas by stealing the Who-pudding in Dr. Suess’s children’s tale How the Grinch Stole Christmas. With 40 must-try Christmas recipes, including a pork pie inspired by the one Pip gave to Magwitch in Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations, a Christmas Pudding recipe like those described in Anthony Trollope’s Orley Farm, as well as a turkey curry based on Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones’s Diary, this book is the perfect gift for people who love Christmas, its traditions, and its foods, as well as a must-buy book for foodie booklovers who want to know more about Christmas feasts in their favorite tales.

Mary Gilliatt's Interior Design Course
Mary Gilliatt's Interior Design Course

Author: Mary Gilliatt

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9781840914436

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Structured as a complete course in interior design, internationally acclaimed interior designer Mary Gilliatt explains the principles of successful design through a series of easy-to-follow sections. The book is divided into 2 main sections - The Basics and The Specifics. The first looks at planning principles and the main elements of good design: lighting, colour, texture and pattern, and scale and balance. The Specifics, takes the reader through each element of the room - walls, windows, floors and furnishings - and discusses the different approaches available for each.

Arthur Jeffress
Arthur Jeffress

Author: Gill Hedley

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2020-04-02

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 1838602836

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Arthur Jeffress was an art dealer and collector from a Virginian family who bequeathed his “subversive little collection” (Derek Hill) to Tate and Southampton City Art Gallery on his suicide in 1961. That suicide, a result of his expulsion from Venice, has been the subject of speculation in many memoirs. Gill Hedley's biography of Jeffress has benefited from access to many hundreds of unpublished letters written between Jeffress and Robert Melville, who ran Jeffress' own gallery from 1955-1961. The letters were written largely while Jeffress was in Venice and reveal a vivid picture of the London gallery world as well as frank details of artists, collectors and the definitive story of his suicide. Previously unpublished research reveals new information about the lives of Jeffress' lover John Deakin, his business partner Erica Brausen, the French photographer André Ostier and Henry Clifford, and the way in which all of them influenced Jeffress' first steps as a collector from the 1930s onwards.

The Mary Gilliatt Book of Color
The Mary Gilliatt Book of Color

Author: Mary Gilliatt

Publisher: Little Brown

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9780316313797

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A comprehensive reference for using color in home decorating consists of chapters on specific colors and covers the many ways in which each color can be used throughout the house

Hello, I Must Be Going
Hello, I Must Be Going

Author: Charlotte Chandler

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-12-11

Total Pages: 1114

ISBN-13: 1471105857

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When Groucho Marx was well into his eighties, Charlotte Chandler approached him about writing a profile of him for a magazine. Groucho invited Charlotte to meet and that meeting grew into a friendship that lasted until Groucho's death in August 1977. Groucho was surrounded by a group of friends - some old timers like George Burns and Jack Benny - some younger comedians, like Woody Allen, who revered Groucho. Charlotte was present for most of these meetings and these conversations form the basis of HELLO, I MUST BE GOING. Some are hilarious, some are poignant, all of them are fascinating. If you ever wondered what it was like to spend some time with Groucho Marx, one of the wittiest men ever, this is your book.

Decorating (4 Issues)
Decorating (4 Issues)

Author:

Publisher: Meredith Publishing

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 9785552535538

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Decorating provides readers with ideas and inspiration on how to add flair and personality to every room in their home. Editors comb through the latest design and color trends and offer readers inspiring and creative tips for all types of decorating projects.