Arizzoli-Clementel, Pierre and Hubert de Givenchy - Georges Geffroy, 1905-1971: Une Legende Du Grand Decor Francais

Paris, Editions Gourcuff-Gradenigo, 2016. Hardcover. Black and white illustrated boards with white lettering, color illustration on rear; color illustrated flyleaves; 239 pp; profuse color and bw illustrations, plans and portraits. Text in French. Publisher's description: "A key figure in the Café society of the 1950s, Geffroy was considered during his lifetime as a true oracle of the great classical decor, but a revisited classic, refined to its very essence, far from any pastiche.He had as customers and faithful a a host of great names, for whom he developed sets of supreme refinement, going so far as to choose, with an infallible and famous eye, the objects and furniture of his favorite period, the very end of the 18th century, at the greatest antique dealers of the time, to adorn in the smallest detail his compositions which included numerous silks, with a unique sense of color, thus seeking perfection." Contents include: Jeunesse et débuts -- Bals -- Marcel Rochas -- Duff et Diana Cooper -- Alexis de Redé -- Arturo Lopez-Willshaw -- Daisy Fellowes -- Gloria et Loel Guinness -- Christian Dior -- Nicole de Montesquiou -- Guillaume et Dale de Bonchamps -- Walter et et Elizinha Moreira Salles -- Georges Litman -- Pierre David-Wei11 -- Philippe et Denyse Durand-ruel -- Autres chantiers -- Charles de Beistegui -- Maurice Rheims -- Pamela Churchill -- Armand et Lydie de Pomereu -- James H. Douglas -- Palmyre Béglarian -- Alain Delon -- Mme André Ruef, née Gisèle Béghin -- Mme Descamps-Béghin -- Robert Ricci -- Edouard de Lobkowicz -- Jacques Kugel -- Le dernier grand chantier : Antenor Patino -- L'appartement de Georges Geffroy, rue de Rivoli -- Modèles, proches, suiveurs. VG (light scuffing to boards. Pages are very clean.) .

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