The Unfinished Palazzo: Life, Love and Art in Venice - Couverture souple

Mackrell, Judith

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0500294437 ISBN 13 : 9780500294437

Editeur : Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2018

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

Fascinating--Choice

'Captivating, vivid and exquisitely gossipy' --Literary Review

Rip-roaringly entertaining stories of three fascinating women' --The Times

The best gallimaufry of gossip and scandal I have read in years.Lynn Barber, The Sunday Times

I gorged on the decadence and drama Daily Telegraph

Hugely entertaining --The Lady

Admirable Times Literary Supplement

An ambitious epic ... Mackrell treats her intrinsically sensational material with elegant restraint and wit. Her writing is sharp and unflinching ... A rich, exhilarating read --Sydney Morning Herald

Well researched, gloriously gossipy, a delightful, colourful story of reinvention and rebellion --The Observer

A breathtaking social portrait, peeling the glitter from privileged lives even as it fleshes out the spectacle they created. --The Washington Post

Fascinating --Lex News, France

A dazzling read--The Lady

Very clever and entertaining...[Mackrell] recounts the lives of three wildly ambitious yet vulnerable women with page-turning pace and intelligence. --The Spectator

Effortlessly evoking the spirits of three extraordinary women, [Mackrell] also captures the magical atmosphere of the house and city they each called home --Country Life

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Abandoned unfinished and left to rot on Venice s Grand Canal, il palazzo non finito was once an unloved guest among the aristocrats of Venetian architecture. Yet in the 20th century it played host to three passionate and unconventional women who would take the city by storm. The staggeringly wealthy Marchesa Luisa Casati made her new home a belle epoque aesthete s fantasy and herself a living work of art; notorious British socialite Doris Castlerosse (née Delevingne) welcomed film stars and royalty to glittering parties between the wars; and American heiress Peggy Guggenheim amassed an exquisite collection of modern art, which today draws visitors from around the world.

Each in turn used the Unfinished Palazzo as a stage on which to re-fashion her life, with a dazzling supporting cast ranging from D Annunzio and Nijinsky, through Noël Coward, Winston Churchill and Cecil Beaton, to Yoko Ono. Individually sensational and collectively remarkable, these stories of modern Venice tell us much about the ways women chose to live in the 20th century.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Thames & Hudson Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0500294437
• ISBN 13: 9780500294437
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 408