Billy Baldwin Remembers (SIGNED).
Baldwin, Billy.
Place Published: New York:
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,
Date Published: 1974.
Description: 4to - over 9" - 12" tall. Stated FIRST EDITION, SECOND PRINTING (B C D E). SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON HALF-TITLE PAGE. 232 pages with index filled with numerous color and black & white photos. The books is in NEAR FINE condition with very light fding to cloth board edges. The dust jacket is in NEAR FINE condition with some minor wear. NOT price-clipped. JMVintage specializes in books, magazines, and treasures related to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor....and other curious people. Dust jacket reads: "A resplendent memoir by the dean of decorators of his more than forty years of creating beautiful things for fascinating people. Billy Baldwin writes intimately of Greta Garbo, Cole Porter, Mary Wells, Gilbert and Kitty Miller, Mrs. William Paley, Diana Vreeland, the two Jackies (Kennedy and Onassis), and others of his famous clients. He gives us as well an irresistible account of the dark side of decorating-the impossible clients-in stories that are wickedly funny, not least because of Baldwin's perpetual astonishment in the face of the absurd (the Broadway producer who wants a sofa covered in a "material I've never seenÖ.ideally, one that has never ever been made," or the playwright who orders him to buy false book spines to fill her bookcases. Through these pages teeming with invaluable decorating hints, the reader can trace the development of the theories that have made Baldwin the most sought after, admired, and imitated decorator on two continents. But the greatest pleasure will be in getting to know Billy Baldwin himself: his love for beauty, his nearly superhuman tolerance of idiosyncrasy, and his gentle, accepting humor. Billy Baldwin Remembers is as delicious to look at as it is to read: more than 100 photographs in color and black and white illustrate Baldwin's decorating landmarks, innovations, and just mere triumphs."
Edition: First editionBinding: Hard Cover
Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj
ISBN: 0151120706
Book Id: 13499
Price: $275.00
