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Feb 146 min read
William Haines - Muses & the Beau Monde
Charles William Haines, born 2 January 1900, was an American actor and interior designer. Haines was born in Staunton, Virginia, the...
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Jan 242 min read
Martin Battersby - Muses & the Beau Monde
George Martin Battersby, born 12 February 1914, was a British trompe-l'œil artist and theatrical set decorator who became an expert on...
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Lilium
Nov 1, 20238 min read
Doris Zinkeisen - Muses & the Beau Monde
Doris Clare Zinkeisen, born 31 July 1897, was a Scottish theatrical stage and costume designer, painter, commercial artist, and writer....
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Lilium
Aug 9, 20236 min read
Ernest Thesiger - Muses & the Beau Monde
Ernest Frederic Graham Thesiger, CBE, born 15 January 1879, was an English stage and film actor. He is noted for his performance as...
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Aug 2, 20234 min read
Lionel Wendt - Gifted Gallery
Lionel George Henricus Wendt, born 3 December 1900, was a pianist, photographer, filmmaker and critic from Sri Lanka. He was the leader...
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Jul 5, 20233 min read
Christian William Miller - Muses & the Beau Monde
Christian William Miller, born William Henry Miller; 7 August 1921, was an American artist and model whose contemporaries qualified as...
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Mar 15, 20236 min read
Denton Welch - Muses & the Beau Monde
Maurice Denton Welch, born 29 March 1915, was a British writer and painter, admired for his vivid prose and precise descriptions. Welch...
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Dec 14, 20223 min read
Jacques Fath - Muses & the Beau Monde
Jacques Fath, born 6 September 1912 in Maisons-Laffitte, France, was a French fashion designer who was considered one of the three...
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Lilium
Nov 30, 20223 min read
Maharaja Yeshwant Rao Holkar II - Muses & the Beau Monde
Maharajadhiraj Raj Rajeshwar Sawai Shri Sir Yeshwant Rao II Holkar XIV Bahadur, born 6 September 1908 in Indore, was the Maharaja of...
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Oct 26, 20226 min read
Nicolas de Gunzburg - Muses and the Beau Monde
Nicolas Louis Alexandre de Gunzburg, born 12 December 1904, also known as Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg, was a French-born magazine editor...
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Lilium
Aug 3, 20226 min read
Brian Stonehouse - Muses & the Beau Monde
Brian Julian Warry Stonehouse MBE, born 29 August 1918, was an English painter and Special Operations Executive agent during World War...
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Mar 16, 20223 min read
Alastair - Muses & the Beau Monde
Hans Henning Otto Harry Baron von Voigt, best known by his nickname Alastair, was a German artist, composer, dancer, mime, poet, singer...
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Lilium
Oct 6, 20211 min read
Mariano Fortuny - Muses & the Beau Monde
Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo, born 11 May 1871, was a Spanish fashion designer based in Venice, who opened his couture house in 1906. He is...
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Lilium
Sep 29, 20212 min read
The Night Climbers of Cambridge
The Night Climbers of Cambridge were a group of students who climbed the colleges and town buildings of Cambridge, England, in the 1930s....
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Aug 4, 20213 min read
Gertrude Jekyll - Muses & the Beau Monde
Gertrude Jekyll VMH, born 29 November 1843, was a British horticulturist, garden designer, craftswoman, photographer, writer and artist....
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Jul 21, 20213 min read
Paul Swan - Muses & the Beau Monde
Paul Spencer Swan, born June 5, 1883, was an American painter, sculptor, dancer, poet and actor. Once billed as "the most beautiful man...
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Lilium
Jun 30, 20214 min read
Luisa Casati - Muses & the Beau Monde
Luisa, Marchesa Casati Stampa di Soncino, born Luisa Adele Rosa Maria Amman; 23 January 1881, was an Italian heiress, muse, and patroness...
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Lilium
Jun 20, 20211 min read
The Ballets Russes - Muses & the Beau Monde
The Ballets Russes was an itinerant ballet company based in Paris that performed between 1909 and 1929 throughout Europe and on tours to...
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Jun 13, 20219 min read
Lee Miller - Muses & the Beau Monde
Elizabeth "Lee" Miller, Lady Penrose, born April 23, 1907, was an American photographer and photojournalist. Miller was born in...
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May 26, 20212 min read
Edythe Baker - Muses & the Beau Monde
Edythe A. Baker, born August 25, 1899, was an American jazz pianist. For a more detailed account of her life then read the article on...
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