‘With the strength of a typhoon,’ the British photographer Cecil Beaton (who took the portrait, above) wrote, ‘[Syrie] blew all colour before her... turning the world white.’ It is true that Syrie’s ...

If you are strong enough not to be moved by dolphin console tables and rococo plasterwork, Syrie Maugham is probably nothing more to you than the wife of the sulfurous literary lion W. Somerset ...

Any woman who lives in the shadow of a powerful man and chafes at the fact that her own accomplishments, as impressive as they may be, will never measure up to his will relish the story of Syrie ...

Artistic coterie -- Syrie Maugham shops -- Syrie Maugham residences -- Noel Coward -- Prince of Wales and Wallace Simpson -- Celia Tobin Clark -- Mona and Harrison Williams -- Stephen Tennant -- ...

Betty Blake poses on a Maison Jansen bench that belonged to her mother. Her friends call her “Boop.” As in Betty. Which couldn’t be more droll. Because while art maven Betty Blake, even at 90, does ...

With friend, Paul Freud, we took a golf car at the entrance of Chelsea Bridge Road to drive to the 9th edition of Masterpiece at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, the ultimate glitzy meeting place colliding ...

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