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| Title | : | Nancy Lancaster: Her Life, Her World, Her Art |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.59 (878 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0394567919 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 426 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-21 |
| Language | : | English |
olderandwiser said Will the Real Nancy Lancaster Please Stand Up. This is well written and gives a glimpse into the lives of the very wealthy and privileged in the early and mid twentieth century. Nancy Lancaster is quoted in boldface throughout the text, and it is fascinating to read her own thoughts.This book provides a very flattering portrait of Nancy. A Customer said I couldn't put it down!. Robert Becker's richly detailed look at the British and American "upper crust," and his entertaining account of their private world and its decline, reminded me of an episode of "Masterpiece Theater" or the book "Brideshead Revisited." While I thought the renderings of Nancy Lancaster's dec. First Rate Biography of Nancy Lancaster Robert Becker has written a fascinating book on the life of Nancy Lancaster which I have just read in the summer of 2000. It is even more timely with the new biography of Sister Parrish just out this summer. Becker is an extremely good story teller, with a fine ability to capture the life a
16 pages of illustrations, 152 b/w photographs in text
Her elegant biography?which has all the earmarks of an officially sanctioned work?is, like its subject, something of an elaborately maintained anachronism, in which meticulously described rooms are far more important than the people who inhabit them. Lancaster was born in Virginia. After a brief marriage to a Marshall Field heir, she married Ronald Tree, a future Conservative member of Parliament, settled in England and turned her hand to interior decoration. . From Publishers Weekly Lancaster, who died in 1994 at the age of 93, was a decorator and designer who specialized in stately homes and their gardens. Photos. One of her aunts became Lady Astor, another the wife of artist Charles Dana Gibson (and a prototype of the Gibson Girl). Copyright 1996 Reed Busines
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