Nancy Lancaster: Her Life, Her World, Her Art - Hardcover

Becker, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394567919 ISBN 13: 9780394567914

Publisher: Knopf, 1996

Synopsis

16 pages of illustrations, 152 b/w photographs in text

About this title

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illustrations, 152 b/w photographs in text

From Publishers Weekly:

Lancaster, who died in 1994 at the age of 93, was a decorator and designer who specialized in stately homes and their gardens. Her elegant biography?which has all the earmarks of an officially sanctioned work?is, like its subject, something of an elaborately maintained anachronism, in which meticulously described rooms are far more important than the people who inhabit them. Lancaster was born in Virginia. One of her aunts became Lady Astor, another the wife of artist Charles Dana Gibson (and a prototype of the Gibson Girl). After a brief marriage to a Marshall Field heir, she married Ronald Tree, a future Conservative member of Parliament, settled in England and turned her hand to interior decoration. After two sons and Nancy's nervous breakdown, the Tree marriage ended in divorce and she married a Colonel Lancaster, who is described as "a cad." Becker, a contributor to Interview and House Beautiful, built his uncritical bio around his subject's own chatty mini-autobiography, which runs in boldface through the book in much the same way that the words of Jesus appear in red type in some editions of the New Testament. Photos.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Knopf
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0394567919
• ISBN 13: 9780394567914
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 426