As a Christmas present to you all I have scanned the auction catalogue for Cecil Beaton’s Reddish House, held on the 9th-10th June 1980....

George Wolfe Plank, born 1883 in Pennsylvania, was an American artist illustrator, chiefly remembered for his long-term association with...

Georges Lepape, born 26 June 1887, was a French poster artist, illustrator, and fashion designer. Lepape’s work incorporates orientalist...

Dennis Severs came to Spitalfields in 1979 and bought a derelict house saved by the Spitalfields Trust. He reconfigured it to tell the...

Romain de Tirtoff, born 23 November 1892, was a Russian-born French artist and designer known by the pseudonym Erté, from the French...

In Novembers livres du Mois I recap all of the photographers that I have written about over the last two years and my favourite books of...

Jeeves and Wooster is a British comedy-drama television series adapted by Clive Exton from P. G. Wodehouse's "Jeeves" stories. Set in the...

At the end of September, with my usual companion in tow, I made a visit to Buscot Park, a late 18th-century house set in enchanting...

Alfred Stieglitz, born January 1, 1864, was an American photographer and modern art promoter who was instrumental over his 50-year career...

Edward Jean Steichen, born March 27, 1879, was a Luxembourgish American photographer, painter, and curator, renowned as one of the most...