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Architectural Digest

Author of Hollywood at Home (Architectural Digest)

201 Works 438 Members 8 Reviews

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Religious Buildings (1980) 1 copy
More Celebrity Homes (1996) 1 copy

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Birthdate
1920
Nationality
USA

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Wonderful display of beautiful English Country Houses, published during the 1980's during the time of the Treasure Houses of Great Britain exhibition in Washington DC.

The best of British designers and antiques, gardens and libraries. A classic.
 
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MissJessie | Oct 16, 2013 |
Includes the M.F.K. Fisher article "Some Other Picnics" wherein Fisher describes a picnic
that Fisher took with her daughter and Eda Lord in 1953 while they were living at Le Tholonet
outside Aix-en-Provence. Illustrated with photos.
 
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rschwed | Sep 24, 2013 |
Includes the article "Voices Of The Twentieth Century" where various writers discuss
subjects close to home. Includes an excerpt from M.F.K. Fisher's earlier Architectural
Digest article "Native Truths" from May, 1989.
 
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rschwed | Sep 24, 2013 |
Includes the M.F.K. Fisher article "One Verse Of A Song". Fisher describes the 1869 Victorian House
(called the Dear Old Lady) in St. Helena, that she bought in 1954 and lived in for many years with her
daughters. The article is illustrated with photos of the "gingerbread" detail of Fisher's former Victorian
house in St. Helena, and a 1969 drawing of the house by Judith Clancy (who did the drawings in Not
a Station but a Place for which Fisher wrote most of the text). Clancy also illustrated the dust jackets
for Fisher's book As They Were (both the U.S. and U.K. editions)
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