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Feb 5, 20202 min read
Edith Olivier - Muses & The Beau Monde
Edith Olivier, born 31 December 1872, was an English writer. She was also noted for acting as hostess to a circle of well-known writers,...
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Lilium
Feb 2, 20201 min read
Brideshead Revisited - Picture Palace
Brideshead Revisited is without a doubt my favourite British television series, based upon the book 'Brideshead Revisited, The Sacred &...
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Lilium
Jan 29, 20206 min read
Rex Whistler - Muses & The Beau Monde
"Jade green jerseys and scarves (I hope you don't mind) and bright magenta..." Reginald John "Rex" Whistler was a British artist,...
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Lilium
Jan 26, 20202 min read
The Wallace Collection - Enchanting Havens
I first discovered The Wallace Collection in the instagram feed of fellow aesthete, the tailor Fabio Trombini. Like me, Stephen Tennant...
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Lilium
Jan 22, 20206 min read
Stephen Tennant - Muses & The Beau Monde
"Stephen Tennant is the most sparkling talker who ever comes to my house, and perhaps the most amusing." "Stephen Tennant was the most...
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Lilium
Jan 19, 20201 min read
Love, Cecil - Picture Palace
Whenever I feel lacking in inspiration, I watch Love, Cecil and it sends me into an inspired panic, for Cecil had achieved so much by my...
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Lilium
Jan 15, 20202 min read
Cecil Beaton - Muses & The Beau Monde
Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton CBE, born 14 January 1904, was an English fashion, portrait and war photographer, diarist, painter, and...
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Lilium
Jan 12, 20202 min read
Cab Calloway - Record Repertoire
"Everybody came.....everybody came to the cotton club." I, like I'm sure many other younger generations, first saw Cab Calloway in the...
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Lilium
Jan 8, 20204 min read
John Betjeman - Muses & The Beau Monde
Sir John Betjeman CBE, born in London on 28 August 1906, was an English poet, writer, and broadcaster who described himself in Who's Who...
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Lilium
Jan 5, 20205 min read
Tredegar House - Enchanting Havens
Described as the grandest and most exuberant country house in Monmouthshire.
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