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JUST RELEASED:

Syrie Maugham: Staging Glamorous Interiors by Pauline, C. Metcalf, a historian, author, lecturer and restoration consultant.

Syrie Maugham recounts the dramatic life and career of this international trendsetter.  The book draws upon extensive research on both sides of the Atlantic, from the drawing rooms of Mayfair’s aristocratic and artistic elite, to the homes of New York and Chicago’s industrial scions and Hollywood starlets. Since the 1932 publication of her famously “all-white room,” Syrie Maugham’s signature style remains a constant inspiration to designers, and her life an ongoing fascination.  Metcalf’s richly illustrated text presents the most comprehensive study to date on Maugham and her innovative blend of traditional forms with moderne design.  The book includes a never-before-published essay by Camilla Chandon, Syrie Maugham’s granddaughter.

 

Ms. Metcalf has a master’s degree in historic preservation from Columbia University and has written and lectured widely on architecture, interiors, and collecting, particularly on influential women in these spheres.  Her essay on the partnership of David Adler and his sister, Frances Elkins, appears in David Adler, Architect: The Elements of Style (Yale University Press, 2002).  Metcalf's expertise on author and tastemaker Edith Wharton has been instrumental in the restoration of The Mount, the writer’s Lenox Massachusetts home and helped inform a major exhibition and accompanying book on the designer whose career Wharton helped launch, Ogden Codman and the Decoration of Houses (David R. Godine, 1988).

 

“(Syrie Maugham)... makes the point that no pedestal was too high for the woman who popularized the all-white room, an icily moderne cocktail of mirrored screens and fireplaces, geometrically sculptured carpets, shagreen tables, satin slipcovers, towering plaster lamps in the form of palm trees and velvet velvet! lampshades.
Metcalf's... research and command of detail is dazzling...” —Christopher Petkanas, T-magazine

 

"Traditional goes Moderne in Syrie Maugham: Staging Glamorous Interiors, an essential book filled with excellent research and photography about Syrie’s profound influence on taste in decoration and furniture on both sides of the Atlantic." — Richard Guy Wilson

 

For more information and to preview the book, go to www.acanthuspress.com.  Available through Baker & Taylor,  Coutts Library Services, Michael Shamansky, YBP, and Worldwide Books.

 

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