At long last I get part of my monthly fix of deco magazines, by this time of the month I am more than a little impatient with the assistant at the newsagents. World of Interiors May issue is finally here, they tend to be first, House & Garden are usually slower and the US mags are hit and miss. Most infuriating is missing a copy altogether, as I did last month, must start tiping the vendor.
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Note the aubergine duchess satin covered slipper chairs, that's my kinda bling |
This is another great piece by Marie-France Boyer for WOI featuring King George VI's bathrooms at the Quai d'Orsay. One each for the King and Elizabeth, Queen Consort, were specially built for their official visit to France in 1938. It is so a propos for Dubai, high glitz and glamour, wonderful kind of glitz not Lipstick Glitz as I like to call it. Of course it has probably aged very well in all the right places and yet is not dated, the true measure of good design and decoration.
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| Gold for the King |
I particularly like the part of the article about the gifts, what sumptious gifts, Saint-Louis, Lalique, and works by Dufy, Utrillo, Vuillard, not forgetting the young princesses of course: “For the princesses Elizabeth and Margaret, who had remained in England, two dolls were made, complete with outfits designed by Lanvin, Rochas, Worth, Cartier, Hermes and Vuitton”.
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| Silver for the Queen |
It is also an essential visit, the bathrooms are open to the public once a year as part of European Heritage Days, www.journeesdupatrimoine.culture.fr
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The last official bath was taken in 1973 by the then future king of Spain, Juan Carlos
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